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When approaching a novel visual recognition problem in a specialized image domain, a common strategy is to start with a pre-trained deep neural network and fine-tune it to the specialized domain. If the target domain covers a smaller visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Frederick Tung , Srikanth Muralidharan , Greg Mori

Debiasing language models from unwanted behaviors in Natural Language Understanding tasks is a topic with rapidly increasing interest in the NLP community. Spurious statistical correlations in the data allow models to perform shortcuts and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Johannes Mario Meissner , Saku Sugawara , Akiko Aizawa

Network pruning is one of the most dominant methods for reducing the heavy inference cost of deep neural networks. Existing methods often iteratively prune networks to attain high compression ratio without incurring significant loss in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Duong H. Le , Trung-Nhan Vo , Nam Thoai

The deployment of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) on resource constrained platforms such as mobile devices and embedded systems has been greatly hindered by their high implementation cost, and thus motivated a lot research interest in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Boyu Zhang , Azadeh Davoodi , Yu Hen Hu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) offer significant flexibility and robust performance. This makes them ideal for building not only system models but also advanced neural network controllers (NNCs). However, their high complexity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Ganesh Sundaram , Jonas Ulmen , Amjad Haider , Daniel Görges

Existing high-performance deep learning models require very intensive computing. For this reason, it is difficult to embed a deep learning model into a system with limited resources. In this paper, we propose the novel idea of the network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Dae-Woong Jeong , Jaehun Kim , Youngseok Kim , Tae-Ho Kim , Myungsu Chae

Filter pruning simultaneously accelerates the computation and reduces the memory overhead of CNNs, which can be effectively applied to edge devices and cloud services. In this paper, we propose a novel Knowledge-driven Differential Filter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Shaohui Lin , Wenxuan Huang , Jiao Xie , Baochang Zhang , Yunhang Shen , Zhou Yu , Jungong Han , David Doermann

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved significant advances in a wide range of applications. However, their deployment on resource-constrained devices remains a challenge due to the large number of layers and parameters, which result in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Sara Makenali , Babak Rokh , Ali Azarpeyvand

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

We propose a simple and easy to implement neural network compression algorithm that achieves results competitive with more complicated state-of-the-art methods. The key idea is to modify the original optimization problem by adding K…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-15 Yibo Yang , Nicholas Ruozzi , Vibhav Gogate

Channel pruning is one of the predominant approaches for accelerating deep neural networks. Most existing pruning methods either train from scratch with a sparsity inducing term such as group lasso, or prune redundant channels in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Ashish Khetan , Zohar Karnin

In recent years, many neural network models have been proposed for pattern classification, function approximation and regression problems. This paper presents an approach for classifying patterns from simplified NNs. Although the predictive…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-09-28 S. M. Kamruzzaman , Ahmed Ryadh Hasan

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

Deep Neural Networks have been used in a wide variety of applications with significant success. However, their highly complex nature owing to comprising millions of parameters has lead to problems during deployment in pipelines with low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Elvis Johnson , Xiaochen Tang , Sriramacharyulu Samudrala

Channel Pruning has been long studied to compress CNNs, which significantly reduces the overall computation. Prior works implement channel pruning in an unexplainable manner, which tends to reduce the final classification errors while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Yuxin Zhang , Mingbao Lin , Chia-Wen Lin , Jie Chen , Feiyue Huang , Yongjian Wu , Yonghong Tian , Rongrong Ji

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Baptiste Bauvin , Loïc Baret , Ola Ahmad

Deep convolutional neural networks are shown to be overkill with high parametric and computational redundancy in many application scenarios, and an increasing number of works have explored model pruning to obtain lightweight and efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Wenzheng Hu , Zhengping Che , Ning Liu , Mingyang Li , Jian Tang , Changshui Zhang , Jianqiang Wang

We develop a fast, tractable technique called Net-Trim for simplifying a trained neural network. The method is a convex post-processing module, which prunes (sparsifies) a trained network layer by layer, while preserving the internal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Alireza Aghasi , Afshin Abdi , Justin Romberg

Channel pruning is widely used to reduce the complexity of deep network models. Recent pruning methods usually identify which parts of the network to discard by proposing a channel importance criterion. However, recent studies have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yuanzhi Duan , Yue Zhou , Peng He , Qiang Liu , Shukai Duan , Xiaofang Hu

Deep learning has driven significant advances in medical image analysis, yet its adoption in clinical practice remains constrained by the large size and lack of transparency in modern models. Advances in interpretability techniques such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Nikita Malik , Pratinav Seth , Neeraj Kumar Singh , Chintan Chitroda , Vinay Kumar Sankarapu