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The remarkable performance of modern deep neural networks (DNNs) is largely driven by their massive scale, often comprising tens to hundreds of millions-or even billions-of parameters. However, such a scale incurs substantial storage and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Mingyuan Wang , Yangzi Guo , Sida Liu , Yuhang Liu

This paper presents a novel approach to network pruning, targeting block pruning in deep neural networks for edge computing environments. Our method diverges from traditional techniques that utilize proxy metrics, instead employing a direct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Cheng-En Wu , Azadeh Davoodi , Yu Hen Hu

Contemporary state-of-the-art neural networks have increasingly large numbers of parameters, which prevents their deployment on devices with limited computational power. Pruning is one technique to remove unnecessary weights and reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Sahel Mohammad Iqbal , Subhankar Mishra

Pruning neural networks has regained interest in recent years as a means to compress state-of-the-art deep neural networks and enable their deployment on resource-constrained devices. In this paper, we propose a robust compressive learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 George Retsinas , Athena Elafrou , Georgios Goumas , Petros Maragos

Network pruning is an effective method to reduce the computational expense of over-parameterized neural networks for deployment on low-resource systems. Recent state-of-the-art techniques for retraining pruned networks such as weight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Duong H. Le , Binh-Son Hua

Despite the promising results of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), their application on devices with limited resources is still a big challenge; this is mainly due to the huge memory and computation requirements of the CNN. To counter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Csanád Sándor , Szabolcs Pável , Lehel Csató

Domain-specific embedding models have shown promise for applications that require specialized semantic understanding, such as coding agents and financial retrieval systems, often achieving higher performance gains than general models.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yixuan Tang , Yi Yang

Pruning is one of the most effective model reduction techniques. Deep networks require massive computation and such models need to be compressed to bring them on edge devices. Most existing pruning techniques are focused on vision-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Ramchalam Kinattinkara Ramakrishnan , Eyyüb Sari , Vahid Partovi Nia

Deep Learning models have become the dominant approach in several areas due to their high performance. Unfortunately, the size and hence computational requirements of operating such models can be considerably high. Therefore, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Abdullah Salama , Oleksiy Ostapenko , Tassilo Klein , Moin Nabi

Large-scale vision generative models, including diffusion and flow models, have demonstrated remarkable performance in visual generation tasks. However, transferring these pre-trained models to downstream tasks often results in significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Changlin Li , Jiawei Zhang , Zeyi Shi , Zongxin Yang , Zhihui Li , Xiaojun Chang

Network pruning is a promising avenue for compressing deep neural networks. A typical approach to pruning starts by training a model and then removing redundant parameters while minimizing the impact on what is learned. Alternatively, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Namhoon Lee , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Stephen Gould , Philip H. S. Torr

Deep learning networks excel at classification, yet identifying minimal architectures that reliably solve a task remains challenging. We present a computational methodology for systematically exploring and analyzing the relationships among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ziwei Zheng , Huizhi Liang , Vaclav Snasel , Vito Latora , Panos Pardalos , Giuseppe Nicosia , Varun Ojha

Neural network pruning with suitable retraining can yield networks with considerably fewer parameters than the original with comparable degrees of accuracy. Typical pruning methods require large, fully trained networks as a starting point…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Timothy Foldy-Porto , Yeshwanth Venkatesha , Priyadarshini Panda

We propose a simultaneous learning and pruning algorithm capable of identifying and eliminating irrelevant structures in a neural network during the early stages of training. Thus, the computational cost of subsequent training iterations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Valentin Frank Ingmar Guenter , Athanasios Sideris

Overparameterized Neural Networks (NN) display state-of-the-art performance. However, there is a growing need for smaller, energy-efficient, neural networks tobe able to use machine learning applications on devices with limited…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-21 Soufiane Hayou , Jean-Francois Ton , Arnaud Doucet , Yee Whye Teh

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

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

The great success of deep learning heavily relies on increasingly larger training data, which comes at a price of huge computational and infrastructural costs. This poses crucial questions that, do all training data contribute to model's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Shuo Yang , Zeke Xie , Hanyu Peng , Min Xu , Mingming Sun , Ping Li

Deep neural networks are strongly over-parameterized, often containing far more weights than required for their task. Although such redundancy can aid optimization, it leads to inefficient deployment and high computational cost, motivating…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-18 Diego Pesce , Yang-Hui He , Guido Caldarelli

Network-based transfer learning allows the reuse of deep learning features with limited data, but the resulting models can be unnecessarily large. Although network pruning can improve inference efficiency, existing algorithms usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Ken C. L. Wong , Satyananda Kashyap , Mehdi Moradi