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The demand for efficient processing of deep neural networks (DNNs) on embedded devices is a significant challenge limiting their deployment. Exploiting sparsity in the network's feature maps is one of the ways to reduce its inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Matteo Grimaldi , Darshan C. Ganji , Ivan Lazarevich , Sudhakar Sah

The success of DNN pruning has led to the development of energy-efficient inference accelerators that support pruned models with sparse weight and activation tensors. Because the memory layouts and dataflows in these architectures are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Dingqing Yang , Amin Ghasemazar , Xiaowei Ren , Maximilian Golub , Guy Lemieux , Mieszko Lis

Artificial neural networks open up unprecedented machine learning capabilities at the cost of ever growing computational requirements. Sparsifying the parameters, often achieved through weight pruning, has been identified as a powerful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Rishav Mukherji , Mark Schöne , Khaleelulla Khan Nazeer , Christian Mayr , Anand Subramoney

Quantization and pruning are core techniques used to reduce the inference costs of deep neural networks. State-of-the-art quantization techniques are currently applied to both the weights and activations; however, pruning is most often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Xinyu Zhang , Ian Colbert , Ken Kreutz-Delgado , Srinjoy Das

Deep neural networks (DNNs) frequently contain far more weights, represented at a higher precision, than are required for the specific task which they are trained to perform. Consequently, they can often be compressed using techniques such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Vinu Joseph , Saurav Muralidharan , Animesh Garg , Michael Garland , Ganesh Gopalakrishnan

Network pruning is aimed at imposing sparsity in a neural network architecture by increasing the portion of zero-valued weights for reducing its size regarding energy-efficiency consideration and increasing evaluation speed. In most of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Amirsina Torfi , Rouzbeh A. Shirvani , Sobhan Soleymani , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

As deep neural networks are growing in size and being increasingly deployed to more resource-limited devices, there has been a recent surge of interest in network pruning methods, which aim to remove less important weights or activations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Minyoung Song , Jaehong Yoon , Eunho Yang , Sung Ju Hwang

We rigorously evaluate three state-of-the-art techniques for inducing sparsity in deep neural networks on two large-scale learning tasks: Transformer trained on WMT 2014 English-to-German, and ResNet-50 trained on ImageNet. Across thousands…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Trevor Gale , Erich Elsen , Sara Hooker

Early-exit deep neural networks enable adaptive inference by terminating computation when sufficient confidence is achieved, reducing cost for edge AI accelerators in resource-constrained settings. Existing methods, however, rely on…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Parth Patne , Mahdi Taheri , Christian Herglotz , Maksim Jenihhin , Milos Krstic , Michael Hübner

Recent advancements have scaled neural networks to unprecedented sizes, achieving remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks. However, deploying these large-scale models on resource-constrained devices poses significant challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Mostafa Hussien , Mahmoud Afifi , Kim Khoa Nguyen , Mohamed Cheriet

Weight pruning has been widely acknowledged as a straightforward and effective method to eliminate redundancy in Deep Neural Networks (DNN), thereby achieving acceleration on various platforms. However, most of the pruning techniques are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Xiaolong Ma , Wei Niu , Tianyun Zhang , Sijia Liu , Sheng Lin , Hongjia Li , Xiang Chen , Jian Tang , Kaisheng Ma , Bin Ren , Yanzhi Wang

Deep neural networks have been applied in many applications exhibiting extraordinary abilities in the field of computer vision. However, complex network architectures challenge efficient real-time deployment and require significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Tailin Liang , John Glossner , Lei Wang , Shaobo Shi , Xiaotong Zhang

Wireless sensor networks are often designed to perform two tasks: sensing a physical field and transmitting the data to end-users. A crucial aspect of the design of a WSN is the minimization of the overall energy consumption. Previous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-07 Zichong Chen , Juri Ranieri , Runwei Zhang , Martin Vetterli

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved significant advances in a wide range of applications. However, their deployment on resource-constrained devices remains a challenge due to the large number of layers and parameters, which result in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Sara Makenali , Babak Rokh , Ali Azarpeyvand

To address the large model size and intensive computation requirement of deep neural networks (DNNs), weight pruning techniques have been proposed and generally fall into two categories, i.e., static regularization-based pruning and dynamic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Tianyun Zhang , Xiaolong Ma , Zheng Zhan , Shanglin Zhou , Minghai Qin , Fei Sun , Yen-Kuang Chen , Caiwen Ding , Makan Fardad , Yanzhi Wang

Weight averaging is a widely used technique for accelerating training and improving the generalization of deep neural networks (DNNs). While existing approaches like stochastic weight averaging (SWA) rely on pre-set weighting schemes, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Tao Li , Zhehao Huang , Yingwen Wu , Zhengbao He , Qinghua Tao , Xiaolin Huang , Chih-Jen Lin

The emergence of deep and large-scale spiking neural networks (SNNs) exhibiting high performance across diverse complex datasets has led to a need for compressing network models due to the presence of a significant number of redundant…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yaxin Li , Qi Xu , Jiangrong Shen , Hongming Xu , Long Chen , Gang Pan

Dropout is commonly used to help reduce overfitting in deep neural networks. Sparsity is a potentially important property of neural networks, but is not explicitly controlled by Dropout-based regularization. In this work, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Najeeb Khan , Ian Stavness

With increasing data and model complexities, the time required to train neural networks has become prohibitively large. To address the exponential rise in training time, users are turning to data parallel neural networks (DPNN) to utilize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Daniel Coquelin , Charlotte Debus , Markus Götz , Fabrice von der Lehr , James Kahn , Martin Siggel , Achim Streit

Recent advancements in on-device training for deep neural networks have underscored the critical need for efficient activation compression to overcome the memory constraints of mobile and edge devices. As activations dominate memory usage…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Renyuan Liu , Yuyang Leng , Kaiyan Liu , Shaohan Hu , Chun-Fu , Chen , Peijun Zhao , Heechul Yun , Shuochao Yao