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Deep neural network (DNN) model compression for efficient on-device inference is becoming increasingly important to reduce memory requirements and keep user data on-device. To this end, we propose a novel differentiable k-means clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Minsik Cho , Keivan A. Vahid , Saurabh Adya , Mohammad Rastegari

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

Compressing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has received ever-increasing research focus. However, most existing CNN compression methods do not interpret their inherent structures to distinguish the implicit redundancy. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Yuchao Li , Shaohui Lin , Baochang Zhang , Jianzhuang Liu , David Doermann , Yongjian Wu , Feiyue Huang , Rongrong Ji

Deep Learning models have become the dominant approach in several areas due to their high performance. Unfortunately, the size and hence computational requirements of operating such models can be considerably high. Therefore, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Abdullah Salama , Oleksiy Ostapenko , Tassilo Klein , Moin Nabi

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are the third generation of neural networks and can explore both rate and temporal coding for energy-efficient event-driven computation. However, the decision accuracy of existing SNN designs is contingent…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Changqing Xu , Wenrui Zhang , Yu Liu , Peng Li

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a form of deep learning that enable a wide range of machine learning applications on graph-structured data. The learning of GNNs, however, is known to pose challenges for memory-constrained devices such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Jeroen Bollen , Jasper Steegmans , Jan Van den Bussche , Stijn Vansummeren

This paper presents a set of full-resolution lossy image compression methods based on neural networks. Each of the architectures we describe can provide variable compression rates during deployment without requiring retraining of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-10 George Toderici , Damien Vincent , Nick Johnston , Sung Jin Hwang , David Minnen , Joel Shor , Michele Covell

Deploying trained convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to mobile devices is a challenging task because of the simultaneous requirements of the deployed model to be fast, lightweight and accurate. Designing and training a CNN architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Ramit Pahwa , Manoj Ghuhan Arivazhagan , Ankur Garg , Siddarth Krishnamoorthy , Rohit Saxena , Sunav Choudhary

Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) are a popular choice for modeling temporal and sequential tasks and achieve many state-of-the-art performance on various complex problems. However, most of the state-of-the-art RNNs have millions of parameters…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Andros Tjandra , Sakriani Sakti , Satoshi Nakamura

In recent years, great progress has been made in a variety of application domains thanks to the development of increasingly deeper neural networks. Unfortunately, the huge number of units of these networks makes them expensive both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Jose M. Alvarez , Mathieu Salzmann

Model compression is an essential technique for deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on power and memory-constrained resources. However, existing model-compression methods often rely on human expertise and focus on parameters' local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Sixing Yu , Arya Mazaheri , Ali Jannesari

It is shown that neural networks (NNs) achieve excellent performances in image compression and reconstruction. However, there are still many shortcomings in the practical application, which eventually lead to the loss of neural network…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Zhiqing Lu , Zhaoxia Yin , Bin Luo

Channel pruning and tensor decomposition have received extensive attention in convolutional neural network compression. However, these two techniques are traditionally deployed in an isolated manner, leading to significant accuracy drop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Yuchao Li , Shaohui Lin , Jianzhuang Liu , Qixiang Ye , Mengdi Wang , Fei Chao , Fan Yang , Jincheng Ma , Qi Tian , Rongrong Ji

Despite all the impressive advances of recurrent neural networks, sequential data is still in need of better modelling. Truncated backpropagation through time (TBPTT), the learning algorithm most widely used in practice, suffers from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Asier Mujika , Florian Meier , Angelika Steger

This work investigates how using reduced precision data in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) affects network accuracy during classification. More specifically, this study considers networks where each layer may use different precision…

Recurrent neural networks are a powerful tool for modeling sequential data, but the dependence of each timestep's computation on the previous timestep's output limits parallelism and makes RNNs unwieldy for very long sequences. We introduce…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-22 James Bradbury , Stephen Merity , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

Despite their high accuracy, complex neural networks demand significant computational resources, posing challenges for deployment on resource constrained devices such as mobile phones and embedded systems. Compression algorithms have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ali Aghababaei-Harandi , Massih-Reza Amini

Low-rank approximation is an effective model compression technique to not only reduce parameter storage requirements, but to also reduce computations. For convolutional neural networks (CNNs), however, well-known low-rank approximation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Dongsoo Lee , Se Jung Kwon , Byeongwook Kim , Gu-Yeon Wei

Tensor decomposition is one of the fundamental technique for model compression of deep convolution neural networks owing to its ability to reveal the latent relations among complex structures. However, most existing methods compress the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Bo-Shiuan Chu , Che-Rung Lee

Structured matrices, such as those derived from Kronecker products (KP), are effective at compressing neural networks, but can lead to unacceptable accuracy loss when applied to large models. In this paper, we propose the notion of doping…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Urmish Thakker , Paul N. Whatmough , Zhigang Liu , Matthew Mattina , Jesse Beu