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Pruning methods have shown to be effective at reducing the size of deep neural networks while keeping accuracy almost intact. Among the most effective methods are those that prune a network while training it with a sparsity prior loss and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Carl Lemaire , Andrew Achkar , Pierre-Marc Jodoin

We introduce and analyze a new technique for model reduction for deep neural networks. While large networks are theoretically capable of learning arbitrarily complex models, overfitting and model redundancy negatively affects the prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Alireza Aghasi , Afshin Abdi , Nam Nguyen , Justin Romberg

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

While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) excel at learning complex latent-space representations, their over-parameterization can lead to overfitting and reduced performance, particularly with limited data. This, alongside their high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Manish Sharma , Jamison Heard , Eli Saber , Panos P. Markopoulos

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are widely used by engineers to solve difficult problems that require predictive modeling from data. However, these models are often massive, with millions or billions of parameters, and require substantial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Federico Formica , Andrea Rota , Aurora Francesca Zanenga , Andrea Bombarda , Mark Lawford , Lionel C. Briand , Claudio Menghi

Model pruning seeks to induce sparsity in a deep neural network's various connection matrices, thereby reducing the number of nonzero-valued parameters in the model. Recent reports (Han et al., 2015; Narang et al., 2017) prune deep networks…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-15 Michael Zhu , Suyog Gupta

Pruning is a compression method which aims to improve the efficiency of neural networks by reducing their number of parameters while maintaining a good performance, thus enhancing the performance-to-cost ratio in nontrivial ways. Of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Hugo Tessier , Ghouti Boukli Hacene , Vincent Gripon

Pruning the parameters and structure of neural networks reduces the computational complexity, energy consumption, and latency during inference. Recently, a novel underlying mechanism for successful deep learning (DL) was presented based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yarden Tzach , Yuval Meir , Ronit D. Gross , Ofek Tevet , Ella Koresh , Ido Kanter

Filter pruning is one of the most effective ways to accelerate and compress convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In this work, we propose a global filter pruning algorithm called Gate Decorator, which transforms a vanilla CNN module by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Zhonghui You , Kun Yan , Jinmian Ye , Meng Ma , Ping Wang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are state-of-the-art in numerous computer vision tasks such as object classification and detection. However, the large amount of parameters they contain leads to a high computational complexity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Ghouthi Boukli Hacene , Vincent Gripon , Matthieu Arzel , Nicolas Farrugia , Yoshua Bengio

In this paper, we propose a novel layer-adaptive weight-pruning approach for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) that addresses the challenge of optimizing the output distortion minimization while adhering to a target pruning ratio constraint. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Kaixin Xu , Zhe Wang , Xue Geng , Jie Lin , Min Wu , Xiaoli Li , Weisi Lin

The unmatched ability of Deep Neural Networks in capturing complex patterns in large and noisy datasets is often associated with their large hypothesis space, and consequently to the vast amount of parameters that characterize model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Enrico Ballini , Luca Muscarnera , Alessio Fumagalli , Anna Scotti , Francesco Regazzoni

In recent years, deep neural networks have known a wide success in various application domains. However, they require important computational and memory resources, which severely hinders their deployment, notably on mobile devices or for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Nathan Hubens , Matei Mancas , Bernard Gosselin , Marius Preda , Titus Zaharia

Using smart wearable devices to monitor patients electrocardiogram (ECG) for real-time detection of arrhythmias can significantly improve healthcare outcomes. Convolutional neural network (CNN) based deep learning has been used successfully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Xiaolin Li , Rajesh Panicker , Barry Cardiff , Deepu John

As deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly deployed on edge devices, optimizing models for constrained computational resources is critical. Existing auto-pruning methods face challenges due to the diversity of DNN models, various…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Lixian Jing , Jianpeng Qi , Junyu Dong , Yanwei Yu

Neural networks have achieved remarkable performance in various application domains. Nevertheless, a large number of weights in pre-trained deep neural networks prohibit them from being deployed on smartphones and embedded systems. It is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Shibo Yao , Dantong Yu , Ioannis Koutis

This paper presents a survey of methods for pruning deep neural networks. It begins by categorising over 150 studies based on the underlying approach used and then focuses on three categories: methods that use magnitude based pruning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Sunil Vadera , Salem Ameen

State-of-the-art convolutional neural networks (CNNs) used in vision applications have large models with numerous weights. Training these models is very compute- and memory-resource intensive. Much research has been done on pruning or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Sangkug Lym , Esha Choukse , Siavash Zangeneh , Wei Wen , Sujay Sanghavi , Mattan Erez

This paper is focused on the improvement the efficiency of the sparse convolutional neural networks (CNNs) layers on graphic processing units (GPU). The Nvidia deep neural network (cuDnn) library provides the most effective implementation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Marcin Pietroń , Dominik Żurek

Network pruning has been the driving force for the acceleration of neural networks and the alleviation of model storage/transmission burden. With the advent of AutoML and neural architecture search (NAS), pruning has become topical with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Yawei Li , Shuhang Gu , Kai Zhang , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte