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The vulnerability of deep neural networks against adversarial examples - inputs with small imperceptible perturbations - has gained a lot of attention in the research community recently. Simultaneously, the number of parameters of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Florian Merkle , Maximilian Samsinger , Pascal Schöttle

The widespread use of mobile devices for all kinds of transactions makes necessary reliable and real-time identity authentication, leading to the adoption of face recognition (FR) via the cameras embedded in such devices. Progress of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Fernando Alonso-Fernandez , Kevin Hernandez-Diaz , Jose Maria Buades Rubio , Prayag Tiwari , Josef Bigun

Recent network pruning methods focus on pruning models early-on in training. To estimate the impact of removing a parameter, these methods use importance measures that were originally designed to prune trained models. Despite lacking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Ekdeep Singh Lubana , Robert P. Dick

Neural network pruning is a popular model compression method which can significantly reduce the computing cost with negligible loss of accuracy. Recently, filters are often pruned directly by designing proper criteria or using auxiliary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Haopu Shang , Jia-Liang Wu , Wenjing Hong , Chao Qian

Recently, deep learning has become a de facto standard in machine learning with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) demonstrating spectacular success on a wide variety of tasks. However, CNNs are typically very demanding computationally at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Yochai Zur , Chaim Baskin , Evgenii Zheltonozhskii , Brian Chmiel , Itay Evron , Alex M. Bronstein , Avi Mendelson

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are indispensable to state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms. However, they are still rarely deployed on battery-powered mobile devices, such as smartphones and wearable gadgets, where vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Tien-Ju Yang , Yu-Hsin Chen , Vivienne Sze

Verification of deep neural networks has witnessed a recent surge of interest, fueled by success stories in diverse domains and by abreast concerns about safety and security in envisaged applications. Complexity and sheer size of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Dario Guidotti , Francesco Leofante , Luca Pulina , Armando Tacchella

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

We introduce a DNN training technique that learns only a fraction of the full parameter set without incurring an accuracy penalty. To do this, our algorithm constrains the total number of weights updated during backpropagation to those with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Maximilian Golub , Guy Lemieux , Mieszko Lis

Neural networks achieve state-of-the-art performance in image classification, speech recognition, scientific analysis and many more application areas. Due to the high computational complexity and memory footprint of neural networks, various…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Benjamin Ramhorst , Vladimir Loncar , George A. Constantinides

Scaling deep neural networks (NN) of reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms has been shown to enhance performance when feature extraction networks are used but the gained performance comes at the significant expense of increased…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Valentin Frank Ingmar Guenter , Athanasios Sideris

Existing methods of pruning deep neural networks focus on removing unnecessary parameters of the trained network and fine tuning the model afterwards to find a good solution that recovers the initial performance of the trained model. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Abdolghani Ebrahimi , Diego Klabjan

Model compression is generally performed by using quantization, low-rank approximation or pruning, for which various algorithms have been researched in recent years. One fundamental question is: what types of compression work better for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán , Yerlan Idelbayev

Pruning is a widely used technique for reducing the size of deep neural networks while maintaining their performance. However, such a technique, despite being able to massively compress deep models, is hardly able to remove entire layers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Zhu Liao , Victor Quétu , Van-Tam Nguyen , Enzo Tartaglione

Despite the great success of deep learning, recent works show that large deep neural networks are often highly redundant and can be significantly reduced in size. However, the theoretical question of how much we can prune a neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Mao Ye , Lemeng Wu , Qiang Liu

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are central to sequence modeling tasks, yet their high computational complexity poses challenges for scalability and real-time deployment. Traditional pruning techniques, predominantly based on weight…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-26 Rakesh Sengupta

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are often over-parameterized for their tasks and can be compressed quite drastically by removing weights, a process called pruning. We investigate the impact of different pruning techniques on the classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jonathan von Rad , Florian Seuffert

One of the major challenges in deploying deep neural network architectures is their size which has an adverse effect on their inference time and memory requirements. Deep CNNs can either be pruned width-wise by removing filters based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Muhammad Umair Haider , Murtaza Taj

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

We introduce a pruning algorithm that provably sparsifies the parameters of a trained model in a way that approximately preserves the model's predictive accuracy. Our algorithm uses a small batch of input points to construct a data-informed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Cenk Baykal , Lucas Liebenwein , Igor Gilitschenski , Dan Feldman , Daniela Rus