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We propose a new formulation for pruning convolutional kernels in neural networks to enable efficient inference. We interleave greedy criteria-based pruning with fine-tuning by backpropagation - a computationally efficient procedure that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Pavlo Molchanov , Stephen Tyree , Tero Karras , Timo Aila , Jan Kautz

State-of-the-art neural networks are getting deeper and wider. While their performance increases with the increasing number of layers and neurons, it is crucial to design an efficient deep architecture in order to reduce computational and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-13 Hengyuan Hu , Rui Peng , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

The human brain is capable of learning tasks sequentially mostly without forgetting. However, deep neural networks (DNNs) suffer from catastrophic forgetting when learning one task after another. We address this challenge considering a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Aleksandr Dekhovich , David M. J. Tax , Marcel H. F. Sluiter , Miguel A. Bessa

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on hardware is facing excessive computation cost due to the massive number of parameters. A typical training pipeline to mitigate over-parameterization is to pre-define a DNN structure first with redundant…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Xiaocong Du , Zheng Li , Yufei Ma , Yu Cao

Deep learning recommendation systems at scale have provided remarkable gains through increasing model capacity (i.e. wider and deeper neural networks), but it comes at significant training cost and infrastructure cost. Model pruning is an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Xiaocong Du , Bhargav Bhushanam , Jiecao Yu , Dhruv Choudhary , Tianxiang Gao , Sherman Wong , Louis Feng , Jongsoo Park , Yu Cao , Arun Kejariwal

Purpose: We propose a novel method for continual learning based on the increasing depth of neural networks. This work explores whether extending neural network depth may be beneficial in a life-long learning setting. Methods: We propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Jędrzej Kozal , Michał Woźniak

Deep neural networks have achieved impressive performance in many applications but their large number of parameters lead to significant computational and storage overheads. Several recent works attempt to mitigate these overheads by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Vikash Sehwag , Shiqi Wang , Prateek Mittal , Suman Jana

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are often trained on the premise that the complete training data set is provided ahead of time. However, in real-world scenarios, data often arrive in chunks over time. This leads to important considerations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Vijaya Raghavan T. Ramkumar , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are effective in solving many real-world problems. Larger DNN models usually exhibit better quality (e.g., accuracy) but their excessive computation results in long inference time. Model sparsification can reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Xiaolong Ma , Minghai Qin , Fei Sun , Zejiang Hou , Kun Yuan , Yi Xu , Yanzhi Wang , Yen-Kuang Chen , Rong Jin , Yuan Xie

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are usually over-parameterized to increase the likelihood of getting adequate initial weights by random initialization. Consequently, trained DNNs have many redundancies which can be pruned from the model to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Lukas Enderich , Fabian Timm , Wolfram Burgard

This paper introduces Growing Networks with Autonomous Pruning (GNAP) for image classification. Unlike traditional convolutional neural networks, GNAP change their size, as well as the number of parameters they are using, during training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Charles De Lambilly , Stefan Duffner

Deep learning harnesses massive parallel floating-point processing to train and evaluate large neural networks. Trends indicate that deeper and larger neural networks with an increasing number of parameters achieve higher accuracy than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Brad Larson , Bishal Upadhyaya , Luke McDermott , Siddha Ganju

Iterative magnitude pruning methods (IMPs), proven to be successful in reducing the number of insignificant nodes in over-parameterized deep neural networks (DNNs), have been getting an enormous amount of attention with the rapid deployment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Soheil Gharatappeh , Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh

Deep neural networks (DNNs) deliver outstanding performance, but their complexity often prohibits deployment in resource-constrained settings. Comprehensive structured pruning frameworks based on parameter dependency analysis reduce model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ganesh Sundaram , Jonas Ulmen , Daniel Görges

In this paper, we propose a novel meta learning approach for automatic channel pruning of very deep neural networks. We first train a PruningNet, a kind of meta network, which is able to generate weight parameters for any pruned structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Zechun Liu , Haoyuan Mu , Xiangyu Zhang , Zichao Guo , Xin Yang , Tim Kwang-Ting Cheng , Jian Sun

Artificial neural network pruning is a method in which artificial neural network sizes can be reduced while attempting to preserve the predicting capabilities of the network. This is done to make the model smaller or faster during inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Alexandre Broggi , Nathaniel Bastian , Lance Fiondella , Gokhan Kul

Weight pruning of deep neural networks (DNNs) has been proposed to satisfy the limited storage and computing capability of mobile edge devices. However, previous pruning methods mainly focus on reducing the model size and/or improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yifan Gong , Zheng Zhan , Zhengang Li , Wei Niu , Xiaolong Ma , Wenhao Wang , Bin Ren , Caiwen Ding , Xue Lin , Xiaolin Xu , Yanzhi Wang

This paper presents an efficient technique to prune deep and/or wide convolutional neural network models by eliminating redundant features (or filters). Previous studies have shown that over-sized deep neural network models tend to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Babajide O. Ayinde , Jacek M. Zurada

Pruning of deep neural networks has been an effective technique for reducing model size while preserving most of the performance of dense networks, crucial for deploying models on memory and power-constrained devices. While recent sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Andy Li , Aiden Durrant , Milan Markovic , Tianjin Huang , Souvik Kundu , Tianlong Chen , Lu Yin , Georgios Leontidis

Previous work showed empirically that large neural networks can be significantly reduced in size while preserving their accuracy. Model compression became a central research topic, as it is crucial for deployment of neural networks on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Ben Mussay , Margarita Osadchy , Vladimir Braverman , Samson Zhou , Dan Feldman