English
Related papers

Related papers: Separable Layers Enable Structured Efficient Linea…

200 papers

We present techniques for speeding up the test-time evaluation of large convolutional networks, designed for object recognition tasks. These models deliver impressive accuracy but each image evaluation requires millions of floating point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Remi Denton , Wojciech Zaremba , Joan Bruna , Yann LeCun , Rob Fergus

In this work, we tackle model efficiency by exploiting redundancy in the \textit{implicit structure} of the building blocks of convolutional neural networks. We start our analysis by introducing a general definition of Composite Kernel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Yash Bhalgat , Yizhe Zhang , Jamie Lin , Fatih Porikli

Semantic Segmentation using deep convolutional neural network pose more complex challenge for any GPU intensive task. As it has to compute million of parameters, it results to huge memory consumption. Moreover, extracting finer features and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Sharif Amit Kamran , Ali Shihab Sabbir

We derive a relationship between network representation in energy-efficient neuromorphic architectures and block Toplitz convolutional matrices. Inspired by this connection, we develop deep convolutional networks using a family of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Rathinakumar Appuswamy , Tapan Nayak , John Arthur , Steven Esser , Paul Merolla , Jeffrey Mckinstry , Timothy Melano , Myron Flickner , Dharmendra Modha

Resource-efficient convolution neural networks enable not only the intelligence on edge devices but also opportunities in system-level optimization such as scheduling. In this work, we aim to improve the performance of resource-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Ting-Wu Chin , Cha Zhang , Diana Marculescu

As deep neural networks are increasingly used in applications suited for low-power devices, a fundamental dilemma becomes apparent: the trend is to grow models to absorb increasing data that gives rise to memory intensive; however low-power…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Weiyu Guo , Jiabin Ma , Liang Wang , Yongzhen Huang

Deep convolutional neural networks achieve remarkable visual recognition performance, at the cost of high computational complexity. In this paper, we have a new design of efficient convolutional layers based on three schemes. The 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Min Wang , Baoyuan Liu , Hassan Foroosh

In this paper, we propose a new convolutional layer called Depthwise-STFT Separable layer that can serve as an alternative to the standard depthwise separable convolutional layer. The construction of the proposed layer is inspired by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Sudhakar Kumawat , Shanmuganathan Raman

In this paper, we aim at automatically searching an efficient network architecture for dense image prediction. Particularly, we follow the encoder-decoder style and focus on designing a connectivity structure for the decoder. To achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Huikai Wu , Junge Zhang , Kaiqi Huang

Dense linear layers are a dominant source of computational and parametric cost in modern machine learning models, despite their quadratic complexity and often being misaligned with the compositional structure of learned representations. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Peter Farag

Many machine learning applications use latent variable models to explain structure in data, whereby visible variables (= coordinates of the given datapoint) are explained as a probabilistic function of some hidden variables. Finding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Sanjeev Arora , Rong Ge , Tengyu Ma , Andrej Risteski

Conventional wisdom states that deep linear neural networks benefit from expressiveness and optimization advantages over a single linear layer. This paper suggests that, in practice, the training process of deep linear fully-connected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Oriel BenShmuel

Learned data models based on sparsity are widely used in signal processing and imaging applications. A variety of methods for learning synthesis dictionaries, sparsifying transforms, etc., have been proposed in recent years, often imposing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Saiprasad Ravishankar , Brendt Wohlberg

Depthwise separable convolutions reduce the number of parameters and computation used in convolutional operations while increasing representational efficiency. They have been shown to be successful in image classification models, both in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Lukasz Kaiser , Aidan N. Gomez , Francois Chollet

Despite their impressive performance, contemporary neural networks often lack structural safeguards that promote stable learning and interpretable behavior. In this work, we introduce a reformulation of layer-level transformations that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Saleh Nikooroo , Thomas Engel

Layer-wise learning, as an alternative to global back-propagation, is easy to interpret, analyze, and it is memory efficient. Recent studies demonstrate that layer-wise learning can achieve state-of-the-art performance in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Wenchi Ma , Miao Yu , Kaidong Li , Guanghui Wang

Averaging neural network parameters is an intuitive method for fusing the knowledge of two independent models. It is most prominently used in federated learning. If models are averaged at the end of training, this can only lead to a good…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Linara Adilova , Maksym Andriushchenko , Michael Kamp , Asja Fischer , Martin Jaggi

Deep learning and convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) have been successfully applied to most relevant tasks in the computer vision community. However, these networks are computationally demanding and not suitable for embedded devices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-20 Jose Alvarez , Lars Petersson

Dynamic convolution enhances model capacity by adaptively combining multiple kernels, yet faces critical trade-offs: prior works either (1) incur significant parameter overhead by scaling kernel numbers linearly, (2) compromise inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Haiduo Huang , Yadong Zhang , Yinghui Xu , Pengju Ren

Large Transformer models yield impressive results on many tasks, but are expensive to train, or even fine-tune, and so slow at decoding that their use and study becomes out of reach. We address this problem by leveraging sparsity. We study…