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Neural networks have emerged as a powerful tool for solving complex tasks across various domains, but their increasing size and computational requirements have posed significant challenges in deploying them on resource-constrained devices.…

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Neural network pruning has shown to be an effective technique for reducing the network size, trading desirable properties like generalization and robustness to adversarial attacks for higher sparsity. Recent work has claimed that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Giorgio Piras , Maura Pintor , Ambra Demontis , Battista Biggio

Deep Neural nets (NNs) with millions of parameters are at the heart of many state-of-the-art computer vision systems today. However, recent works have shown that much smaller models can achieve similar levels of performance. In this work,…

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Structured pruning is a popular method for compressing a neural network: given a large trained network, one alternates between removing channel connections and fine-tuning; reducing the overall width of the network. However, the efficacy of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-10 Elliot J. Crowley , Jack Turner , Amos Storkey , Michael O'Boyle

Pruning of deep neural networks has been an effective technique for reducing model size while preserving most of the performance of dense networks, crucial for deploying models on memory and power-constrained devices. While recent sparse…

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Pruning the weights of randomly initialized neural networks plays an important role in the context of lottery ticket hypothesis. Ramanujan et al. (2020) empirically showed that only pruning the weights can achieve remarkable performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Daiki Chijiwa , Shin'ya Yamaguchi , Yasutoshi Ida , Kenji Umakoshi , Tomohiro Inoue

Neural network compression has gained increasing attention in recent years, particularly in computer vision applications, where the need for model reduction is crucial for overcoming deployment constraints. Pruning is a widely used…

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State-of-the-art deep learning models have a parameter count that reaches into the billions. Training, storing and transferring such models is energy and time consuming, thus costly. A big part of these costs is caused by training the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Paul Wimmer , Jens Mehnert , Alexandru Paul Condurache

Slimmable Neural Networks (S-Net) is a novel network which enabled to select one of the predefined proportions of channels (sub-network) dynamically depending on the current computational resource availability. The accuracy of each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Hideaki Kuratsu , Atsuyoshi Nakamura

Modern Machine learning techniques take advantage of the exponentially rising calculation power in new generation processor units. Thus, the number of parameters which are trained to resolve complex tasks was highly increased over the last…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Richard C. Gerum , André Erpenbeck , Patrick Krauss , Achim Schilling

Weight pruning is among the most popular approaches for compressing deep convolutional neural networks. Recent work suggests that in a randomly initialized deep neural network, there exist sparse subnetworks that achieve performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Vinay Kumar Verma , Nikhil Mehta , Shijing Si , Ricardo Henao , Lawrence Carin

Convolutional neural networks have shown tremendous performance capabilities in computer vision tasks, but their excessive amounts of weight storage and arithmetic operations prevent them from being adopted in embedded environments. One of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Hyeong-Ju Kang

A number of recent approaches have been proposed for pruning neural network parameters at initialization with the goal of reducing the size and computational burden of models while minimally affecting their training dynamics and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Thomas Gebhart , Udit Saxena , Paul Schrater

Network pruning is a commonly used measure to alleviate the storage and computational burden of deep neural networks. However, the fundamental limit of network pruning is still lacking. To close the gap, in this work we'll take a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-20 Qiaozhe Zhang , Ruijie Zhang , Jun Sun , Yingzhuang Liu

The sheer size of modern neural networks makes model serving a serious computational challenge. A popular class of compression techniques overcomes this challenge by pruning or sparsifying the weights of pretrained networks. While useful,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Riade Benbaki , Wenyu Chen , Xiang Meng , Hussein Hazimeh , Natalia Ponomareva , Zhe Zhao , Rahul Mazumder

As deep neural networks are growing in size and being increasingly deployed to more resource-limited devices, there has been a recent surge of interest in network pruning methods, which aim to remove less important weights or activations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Minyoung Song , Jaehong Yoon , Eunho Yang , Sung Ju Hwang

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

Structured pruning compresses neural networks by reducing channels (filters) for fast inference and low footprint at run-time. To restore accuracy after pruning, fine-tuning is usually applied to pruned networks. However, too few remaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Yu Qian , Jian Cao , Xiaoshuang Li , Jie Zhang , Hufei Li , Jue Chen

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