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Neural network pruning is a popular model compression method which can significantly reduce the computing cost with negligible loss of accuracy. Recently, filters are often pruned directly by designing proper criteria or using auxiliary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Haopu Shang , Jia-Liang Wu , Wenjing Hong , Chao Qian

Recent advances in pruning of neural networks have made it possible to remove a large number of filters or weights without any perceptible drop in accuracy. The number of parameters and that of FLOPs are usually the reported metrics to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Sara Elkerdawy , Mostafa Elhoushi , Abhineet Singh , Hong Zhang , Nilanjan Ray

Model compression techniques allow to significantly reduce the computational cost associated with data processing by deep neural networks with only a minor decrease in average accuracy. Simultaneously, reducing the model size may have a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Sebastian Cygert , Andrzej Czyżewski

In this work, we propose a simple but effective channel pruning framework called Progressive Channel Pruning (PCP) to accelerate Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). In contrast to the existing channel pruning methods that prune channels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jinyang Guo , Weichen Zhang , Wanli Ouyang , Dong Xu

Neural network pruning is a fruitful area of research with surging interest in high sparsity regimes. Benchmarking in this domain heavily relies on faithful representation of the sparsity of subnetworks, which has been traditionally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Artem Vysogorets , Julia Kempe

Most neural network pruning methods, such as filter-level and layer-level prunings, prune the network model along one dimension (depth, width, or resolution) solely to meet a computational budget. However, such a pruning policy often leads…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Wenxiao Wang , Minghao Chen , Shuai Zhao , Long Chen , Jinming Hu , Haifeng Liu , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He , Wei Liu

Existing methods of pruning deep neural networks focus on removing unnecessary parameters of the trained network and fine tuning the model afterwards to find a good solution that recovers the initial performance of the trained model. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Abdolghani Ebrahimi , Diego Klabjan

Popular network pruning algorithms reduce redundant information by optimizing hand-crafted models, and may cause suboptimal performance and long time in selecting filters. We innovatively introduce adaptive exemplar filters to simplify the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Mingbao Lin , Rongrong Ji , Shaojie Li , Yan Wang , Yongjian Wu , Feiyue Huang , Qixiang Ye

In order to deploy deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on resource-limited devices, many model pruning methods for filters and weights have been developed, while only a few to layer pruning. However, compared with filter pruning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Pengtao Xu , Jian Cao , Fanhua Shang , Wenyu Sun , Pu Li

Deep Neural Network (DNN) is powerful but computationally expensive and memory intensive, thus impeding its practical usage on resource-constrained front-end devices. DNN pruning is an approach for deep model compression, which aims at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Xiaohan Ding , Guiguang Ding , Xiangxin Zhou , Yuchen Guo , Jungong Han , Ji Liu

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

Modern deep neural network models are large and computationally intensive. One typical solution to this issue is model pruning. However, most current pruning algorithms depend on hand crafted rules or domain expertise. To overcome this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Baopu Li , Yanwen Fan , Zhihong Pan , Gang Zhang

The excellent performance of deep neural networks is usually accompanied by a large number of parameters and computations, which have limited their usage on the resource-limited edge devices. To address this issue, abundant methods such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Muzhou Yu , Linfeng Zhang , Kaisheng Ma

Deep convolution neural network has achieved great success in many artificial intelligence applications. However, its enormous model size and massive computation cost have become the main obstacle for deployment of such powerful algorithm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Zhezhi He , Boqing Gong , Deliang Fan

Pruning is a widely used technique for reducing the size of deep neural networks while maintaining their performance. However, such a technique, despite being able to massively compress deep models, is hardly able to remove entire layers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Zhu Liao , Victor Quétu , Van-Tam Nguyen , Enzo Tartaglione

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains, but their performance can be severely degraded by noisy or corrupted training data. Conventional noise mitigation methods often rely on explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Deliang Jin , Gang Chen , Shuo Feng , Yufeng Ling , Haoran Zhu

Deep learning has become a ubiquitous technology to improve machine intelligence. However, most of the existing deep models are structurally very complex, making them difficult to be deployed on the mobile platforms with limited…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Yiwen Guo , Anbang Yao , Yurong Chen

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

Layer pruning has emerged as a potent approach to remove redundant layers in the pre-trained network on the purpose of reducing network size and improve computational efficiency. However, existing layer pruning methods mostly overlook the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Yuqi Li , Yao Lu , Junhao Dong , Zeyu Dong , Chuanguang Yang , Xin Yin , Yihao Chen , Jianping Gou , Yingli Tian , Tingwen Huang

We propose a novel Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) compression algorithm based on coreset representations of filters. We exploit the redundancies extant in the space of CNN weights and neuronal activations (across samples) in order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Abhimanyu Dubey , Moitreya Chatterjee , Narendra Ahuja