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Attributing the output of a neural network to the contribution of given input elements is a way of shedding light on the black-box nature of neural networks. Due to the complexity of current network architectures, current gradient-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Ashkan Khakzar , Soroosh Baselizadeh , Saurabh Khanduja , Christian Rupprecht , Seong Tae Kim , Nassir Navab

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks have achieved state of the art performance across various computer vision tasks, however their practical deployment is limited by computational and memory overhead. This paper introduces Differential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Iftekhar Haider Chowdhury , Zaed Ikbal Syed , Ahmed Faizul Haque Dhrubo , Mohammad Abdul Qayum

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have a large number of parameters and take significantly large hardware resources to compute, so edge devices struggle to run high-level networks. This paper proposes a novel method to reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Athul Shibu , Abhishek Kumar , Heechul Jung , Dong-Gyu Lee

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) based solutions have achieved state-of-the-art performances for many computer vision tasks, including classification and super-resolution of images. Usually the success of these methods comes with a cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Yawei Li , Shuhang Gu , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Insect flight is a strongly nonlinear and actuated dynamical system. As such, strategies for understanding its control have typically relied on either model-based methods or linearizations thereof. Here we develop a framework that combines…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-11 Olivia Zahn , Jorge Bustamante , Callin Switzer , Thomas Daniel , J. Nathan Kutz

Filter pruning has been widely used for compressing convolutional neural networks to reduce computation costs during the deployment stage. Recent studies have shown that filter pruning techniques can achieve lossless compression of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Rizhao Cai , Haoliang Li , Alex Kot

Since the convolutional neural networks are often trained with redundant parameters, it is possible to reduce redundant kernels or filters to obtain a compact network without dropping the classification accuracy. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Kakeru Mitsuno , Takio Kurita

While CNNs naturally lend themselves to densely sampled data, and sophisticated implementations are available, they lack the ability to efficiently process sparse data. In this work we introduce a suite of tools that exploit sparsity in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Timo Hackel , Mikhail Usvyatsov , Silvano Galliani , Jan D. Wegner , Konrad Schindler

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) has achieved significant success in computer vision field. However, the high computational cost of the deep complex models prevents the deployment on edge devices with limited memory and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Huiyuan Zhuo , Xuelin Qian , Yanwei Fu , Heng Yang , Xiangyang Xue

A typical deep neural network (DNN) has a large number of trainable parameters. Choosing a network with proper capacity is challenging and generally a larger network with excessive capacity is trained. Pruning is an established approach to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Hojjat Salehinejad , Shahrokh Valaee

Explainability is a key component in many applications involving deep neural networks (DNNs). However, current explanation methods for DNNs commonly leave it to the human observer to distinguish relevant explanations from spurious noise.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Paulo Yanez Sarmiento , Simon Witzke , Nadja Klein , Bernhard Y. Renard

Neural networks (NNs) are making a large impact both on research and industry. Nevertheless, as NNs' accuracy increases, it is followed by an expansion in their size, required number of compute operations and energy consumption. Increase in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Martin Ferianc , Anush Sankaran , Olivier Mastropietro , Ehsan Saboori , Quentin Cappart

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are commonplace in high-performing solutions to many real-world problems, such as audio classification. CNNs have many parameters and filters, with some having a larger impact on the performance than…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-08 James A King , Arshdeep Singh , Mark D. Plumbley

While convolutional neural networks (CNN) have achieved impressive performance on various classification/recognition tasks, they typically consist of a massive number of parameters. This results in significant memory requirement as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Pravendra Singh , Vinay Kumar Verma , Piyush Rai , Vinay P. Namboodiri

Computer-assisted treatment has emerged as a viable application of medical imaging, owing to the efficacy of deep learning models. Real-time inference speed remains a key requirement for such applications to help medical personnel. Even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Suman Sapkota , Pranav Poudel , Sudarshan Regmi , Bibek Panthi , Binod Bhattarai

Sparsity helps reduce the computational complexity of deep neural networks by skipping zeros. Taking advantage of sparsity is listed as a high priority in next generation DNN accelerators such as TPU. The structure of sparsity, i.e., the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Huizi Mao , Song Han , Jeff Pool , Wenshuo Li , Xingyu Liu , Yu Wang , William J. Dally

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are hard to deploy on edge devices due to its high computation and storage complexities. As a common practice for model compression, network pruning consists of two major categories: unstructured and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Yuchuan Tian , Hanting Chen , Tianyu Guo , Chao Xu , Yunhe Wang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in object detection tasks, but their increasing complexity poses significant challenges for deployment on resource-constrained platforms. While model compression techniques such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Abhinav Shukla , Nachiket Tapas

Neural network pruning techniques can substantially reduce the computational cost of applying convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Common pruning methods determine which convolutional filters to remove by ranking the filters individually,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Richard Schoonhoven , Allard A. Hendriksen , Daniël M. Pelt , K. Joost Batenburg

Channel pruning is an important family of methods to speed up deep model's inference. Previous filter pruning algorithms regard channel pruning and model fine-tuning as two independent steps. This paper argues that combining them into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Jian-Hao Luo , Jianxin Wu