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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

Convolutional neural network (CNN) is a class of artificial neural networks widely used in computer vision tasks. Most CNNs achieve excellent performance by stacking certain types of basic units. In addition to increasing the depth and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Junyi An , Fengshan Liu , Jian Zhao , Furao Shen

In this paper, we present MicroNet, which is an efficient convolutional neural network using extremely low computational cost (e.g. 6 MFLOPs on ImageNet classification). Such a low cost network is highly desired on edge devices, yet usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Yunsheng Li , Yinpeng Chen , Xiyang Dai , Dongdong Chen , Mengchen Liu , Lu Yuan , Zicheng Liu , Lei Zhang , Nuno Vasconcelos

This paper considers a convolutional neural network transformation that reduces computation complexity and thus speedups neural network processing. Usage of convolutional neural networks (CNN) is the standard approach to image recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Elena Limonova , Alexander Sheshkus , Dmitry Nikolaev

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved great success due to the powerful feature learning ability of convolution layers. Specifically, the standard convolution traverses the input images/features using a sliding window scheme to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Yong Guo , Yaofo Chen , Mingkui Tan , Kui Jia , Jian Chen , Jingdong Wang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have become the dominant neural network architecture for solving many state-of-the-art (SOA) visual processing tasks. Even though Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) are most often used in training and…

Model pruning has become a useful technique that improves the computational efficiency of deep learning, making it possible to deploy solutions in resource-limited scenarios. A widely-used practice in relevant work assumes that a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Jianbo Ye , Xin Lu , Zhe Lin , James Z. Wang

Generally, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) process data on a regular grid, e.g. data generated by ordinary cameras. Designing CNNs for sparse and irregularly spaced input data is still an open research problem with numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Abdelrahman Eldesokey , Michael Felsberg , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) increase depth by stacking convolutional layers, and deeper network models perform better in image recognition. Empirical research shows that simply stacking convolutional layers does not make the network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Rui-Yang Ju , Jen-Shiun Chiang , Chih-Chia Chen , Yu-Shian Lin

This paper aims at addressing the problem of substantial performance degradation at extremely low computational cost (e.g. 5M FLOPs on ImageNet classification). We found that two factors, sparse connectivity and dynamic activation function,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Yunsheng Li , Yinpeng Chen , Xiyang Dai , Dongdong Chen , Mengchen Liu , Lu Yuan , Zicheng Liu , Lei Zhang , Nuno Vasconcelos

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been used in many machine learning fields. In practical applications, the computational cost of convolutional neural networks is often high with the deepening of the network and the growth of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Shiqing Fan , Liu Liying , Ye Luo

Convolutional neural network (CNN) is an important deep learning method. The convolution operation takes a large proportion of the total execution time for CNN. Feature maps for convolution operation are usually sparse. Multiplications and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Weizhi Xu , Yintai Sun , fhengyu Fan , Hui Yu , Xin Fu

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are crucial in various applications, but their deployment on resource-constrained edge devices poses challenges. This study presents the Sum-of-Products (SOP) units for convolution, which utilize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Muhammad Sohail Ibrahim , Muhammad Usman , Jeong-A Lee

We explore a key architectural aspect of deep convolutional neural networks: the pattern of internal skip connections used to aggregate outputs of earlier layers for consumption by deeper layers. Such aggregation is critical to facilitate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Ligeng Zhu , Ruizhi Deng , Michael Maire , Zhiwei Deng , Greg Mori , Ping Tan

The concept of compressing deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is essential to use limited computation, power, and memory resources on embedded devices. However, existing methods achieve this objective at the cost of a drop in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Waqar Ahmed , Andrea Zunino , Pietro Morerio , Vittorio Murino

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have recently become a favored technique for image denoising due to its adaptive learning ability, especially with a deep configuration. However, their efficacy is inherently limited owing to their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-03 Junaid Malik , Serkan Kiranyaz , Moncef Gabbouj

This paper proposes a deep Convolutional Neural Network(CNN) with strong generalization ability for structural topology optimization. The architecture of the neural network is made up of encoding and decoding parts, which provide down- and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Yiquan Zhang , Bo Peng , Xiaoyi Zhou , Cheng Xiang , Dalei Wang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are being applied to an increasing number of problems and fields due to their superior performance in classification and regression tasks. Since two of the key operations that CNNs implement are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Fernando Gama , Geert Leus , Antonio G. Marques , Alejandro Ribeiro

Structured pruning is a commonly used convolutional neural network (CNN) compression approach. Pruning rate setting is a fundamental problem in structured pruning. Most existing works introduce too many additional learnable parameters to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Pucheng Zhai , Kailing Guo , Fang Liu , Xiaofen Xing , Xiangmin Xu

To apply deep CNNs to mobile terminals and portable devices, many scholars have recently worked on the compressing and accelerating deep convolutional neural networks. Based on this, we propose a novel uniform channel pruning (UCP) method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Jingfei Chang , Yang Lu , Ping Xue , Xing Wei , Zhen Wei