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With the successful application of deep learning in communications systems, deep neural networks are becoming the preferred method for signal classification. Although these models yield impressive results, they often come with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yao Lu , Yutao Zhu , Yuqi Li , Dongwei Xu , Yun Lin , Qi Xuan , Xiaoniu Yang

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

Traditional channel-wise pruning methods by reducing network channels struggle to effectively prune efficient CNN models with depth-wise convolutional layers and certain efficient modules, such as popular inverted residual blocks. Prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Ji Liu , Dehua Tang , Yuanxian Huang , Li Zhang , Xiaocheng Zeng , Dong Li , Mingjie Lu , Jinzhang Peng , Yu Wang , Fan Jiang , Lu Tian , Ashish Sirasao

A well-trained Convolutional Neural Network can easily be pruned without significant loss of performance. This is because of unnecessary overlap in the features captured by the network's filters. Innovations in network architecture such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Aaditya Prakash , James Storer , Dinei Florencio , Cha Zhang

Model pruning has gained traction as a promising defense strategy against backdoor attacks in deep learning. However, existing pruning-based approaches often fall short in accurately identifying and removing the specific parameters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Kealan Dunnett , Reza Arablouei , Dimity Miller , Volkan Dedeoglu , Raja Jurdak

We present a provable, sampling-based approach for generating compact Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) by identifying and removing redundant filters from an over-parameterized network. Our algorithm uses a small batch of input data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Lucas Liebenwein , Cenk Baykal , Harry Lang , Dan Feldman , Daniela Rus

Pruning is a core technique for compressing neural networks to improve computational efficiency. This process is typically approached in two ways: one-shot pruning, which involves a single pass of training and pruning, and iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Mikołaj Janusz , Tomasz Wojnar , Yawei Li , Luca Benini , Kamil Adamczewski

When approaching a novel visual recognition problem in a specialized image domain, a common strategy is to start with a pre-trained deep neural network and fine-tune it to the specialized domain. If the target domain covers a smaller visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Frederick Tung , Srikanth Muralidharan , Greg Mori

We develop a fast, tractable technique called Net-Trim for simplifying a trained neural network. The method is a convex post-processing module, which prunes (sparsifies) a trained network layer by layer, while preserving the internal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Alireza Aghasi , Afshin Abdi , Justin Romberg

The unmatched ability of Deep Neural Networks in capturing complex patterns in large and noisy datasets is often associated with their large hypothesis space, and consequently to the vast amount of parameters that characterize model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Enrico Ballini , Luca Muscarnera , Alessio Fumagalli , Anna Scotti , Francesco Regazzoni

Currently, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) are used to solve all kinds of problems in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence due to their learning and adaptation capabilities. However, most successful DCNN…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Francisco Erivaldo Fernandes Junior , Gary G. Yen

Biological membranes are one of the most basic structures and regions of interest in cell biology. In the study of membranes, segment extraction is a well-known and difficult problem because of impeding noise, directional and thickness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Joris Roels , Jonas De Vylder , Jan Aelterman , Yvan Saeys , Wilfried Philips

Pruning is a compression method which aims to improve the efficiency of neural networks by reducing their number of parameters while maintaining a good performance, thus enhancing the performance-to-cost ratio in nontrivial ways. Of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Hugo Tessier , Ghouti Boukli Hacene , Vincent Gripon

Model pruning seeks to induce sparsity in a deep neural network's various connection matrices, thereby reducing the number of nonzero-valued parameters in the model. Recent reports (Han et al., 2015; Narang et al., 2017) prune deep networks…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-15 Michael Zhu , Suyog Gupta

To solve ever more complex problems, Deep Neural Networks are scaled to billions of parameters, leading to huge computational costs. An effective approach to reduce computational requirements and increase efficiency is to prune unnecessary…

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) especially deep convolutional networks are very popular these days and have been proved to successfully offer quite reliable solutions to many vision problems. However, the use of deep neural networks is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Yangzi Guo , Yiyuan She , Adrian Barbu

Existing high-performance deep learning models require very intensive computing. For this reason, it is difficult to embed a deep learning model into a system with limited resources. In this paper, we propose the novel idea of the network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Dae-Woong Jeong , Jaehun Kim , Youngseok Kim , Tae-Ho Kim , Myungsu Chae

Although multi-task deep neural network (DNN) models have computation and storage benefits over individual single-task DNN models, they can be further optimized via model compression. Numerous structured pruning methods are already…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Siddhant Garg , Lijun Zhang , Hui Guan

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

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are a class of neural networks used in sequential tasks. However, in general, RNNs have a large number of parameters and involve enormous computational costs by repeating the recurrent structures in many…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-25 Takashi Furuya , Kazuma Suetake , Koichi Taniguchi , Hiroyuki Kusumoto , Ryuji Saiin , Tomohiro Daimon