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The training of deep neural networks is inherently a nonconvex optimization problem, yet standard approaches such as stochastic gradient descent (SGD) require simultaneous updates to all parameters, often leading to unstable convergence and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Chengcheng Yan , Jiawei Xu , Zheng Peng , Qingsong Wang

Training and inference in deep neural networks (DNNs) has, due to a steady increase in architectural complexity and data set size, lead to the development of strategies for reducing time and space requirements of DNN training and inference,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Lorenz Kummer

The training phases of Deep neural network~(DNN) consumes enormous processing time and energy. Compression techniques utilizing the sparsity of DNNs can effectively accelerate the inference phase of DNNs. However, it can be hardly used in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Zhuoran Song , Ru Wang , Dongyu Ru , Hongru Huang , Zhenghao Peng , Jing Ke , Xiaoyao Liang , Li Jiang

Plasticity loss, a critical challenge in neural network training, limits a model's ability to adapt to new tasks or shifts in data distribution. This paper introduces AID (Activation by Interval-wise Dropout), a novel method inspired by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Sangyeon Park , Isaac Han , Seungwon Oh , Kyung-Joong Kim

Deep neural networks are strongly over-parameterized, often containing far more weights than required for their task. Although such redundancy can aid optimization, it leads to inefficient deployment and high computational cost, motivating…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-18 Diego Pesce , Yang-Hui He , Guido Caldarelli

Pruning neural networks before training has received increasing interest due to its potential to reduce training time and memory. One popular method is to prune the connections based on a certain metric, but it is not entirely clear what…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Yite Wang , Dawei Li , Ruoyu Sun

Dataset pruning aims to construct a coreset capable of achieving performance comparable to the original, full dataset. Most existing dataset pruning methods rely on snapshot-based criteria to identify representative samples, often resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Xin Zhang , Jiawei Du , Yunsong Li , Weiying Xie , Joey Tianyi Zhou

The recent paradigm shift to large-scale foundation models has brought about a new era for deep learning that, while has found great success in practice, has also been plagued by prohibitively expensive costs in terms of high memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Stephen Zhang , Vardan Papyan

Deep Neural Network (DNN) trained by the gradient descent method is known to be vulnerable to maliciously perturbed adversarial input, aka. adversarial attack. As one of the countermeasures against adversarial attack, increasing the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Adnan Siraj Rakin , Zhezhi He , Li Yang , Yanzhi Wang , Liqiang Wang , Deliang Fan

Human activity recognition (HAR) using drone-mounted cameras has attracted considerable interest from the computer vision research community in recent years. A robust and efficient HAR system has a pivotal role in fields like video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Santosh Kumar Yadav , Achleshwar Luthra , Esha Pahwa , Kamlesh Tiwari , Heena Rathore , Hari Mohan Pandey , Peter Corcoran

We propose a novel method for training a neural network for image classification to reduce input data dynamically, in order to reduce the costs of training a neural network model. As Deep Learning tasks become more popular, their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Dominic Sanderson , Tatiana Kalgonova

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) directly on edge devices has attracted increasing attention, as it offers promising solutions to challenges such as domain adaptation and privacy preservation. However, conventional DNN training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Boran Zhao , Hetian Liu , Zihang Yuan , Li Zhu , Fan Yang , Lina Xie Tian Xia , Wenzhe Zhao , Pengju Ren

While variational dropout approaches have been shown to be effective for network sparsification, they are still suboptimal in the sense that they set the dropout rate for each neuron without consideration of the input data. With such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-05 Juho Lee , Saehoon Kim , Jaehong Yoon , Hae Beom Lee , Eunho Yang , Sung Ju Hwang

Unstructured pruning reduces the memory footprint in deep neural networks (DNNs). Recently, researchers proposed different types of structural pruning intending to reduce also the computation complexity. In this work, we first suggest a new…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Itay Hubara , Brian Chmiel , Moshe Island , Ron Banner , Seffi Naor , Daniel Soudry

Structured pruning is a well-established technique for compressing neural networks, making it suitable for deployment in resource-limited edge devices. This paper presents an efficient Loss-Aware Automatic Selection of Structured Pruning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Deepak Ghimire , Kilho Lee , Seong-heum Kim

The training of sparse neural networks is becoming an increasingly important tool for reducing the computational footprint of models at training and evaluation, as well enabling the effective scaling up of models. Whereas much work over the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-07 Jonathan Schwarz , Siddhant M. Jayakumar , Razvan Pascanu , Peter E. Latham , Yee Whye Teh

Transformer architecture search (TAS) aims to automatically discover efficient vision transformers (ViTs), reducing the need for manual design. Existing TAS methods typically train an over-parameterized network (i.e., a supernet) that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Hyunju Lee , Youngmin Oh , Jeimin Jeon , Donghyeon Baek , Bumsub Ham

Neural network pruning reduces the computational cost of an over-parameterized network to improve its efficiency. Popular methods vary from $\ell_1$-norm sparsification to Neural Architecture Search (NAS). In this work, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Yonathan Aflalo , Asaf Noy , Ming Lin , Itamar Friedman , Lihi Zelnik

In this work we study biological neural networks from an algorithmic perspective, focusing on understanding tradeoffs between computation time and network complexity. Our goal is to abstract real neural networks in a way that, while not…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Nancy Lynch , Cameron Musco , Merav Parter

Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) has recently emerged as an effective technique for improving DNN robustness to input variations. However, its interplay with the compactness requirements of on-device DNN deployments remains less explored.…

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