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Channel pruning is a promising technique to compress the parameters of deep convolutional neural networks(DCNN) and to speed up the inference. This paper aims to address the long-standing inefficiency of channel pruning. Most channel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Zhouyang Xie , Yan Fu , Shengzhao Tian , Junlin Zhou , Duanbing Chen

This paper focuses on network pruning for image retrieval acceleration. Prevailing image retrieval works target at the discriminative feature learning, while little attention is paid to how to accelerate the model inference, which should be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Xiaodong Wang , Zhedong Zheng , Yang He , Fei Yan , Zhiqiang Zeng , Yi Yang

Filter pruning is effective to reduce the computational costs of neural networks. Existing methods show that updating the previous pruned filter would enable large model capacity and achieve better performance. However, during the iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Yang He , Ping Liu , Linchao Zhu , Yi Yang

Deep learning-based image matching methods play a crucial role in computer vision, yet they often suffer from substantial computational demands. To tackle this challenge, we present HCPM, an efficient and detector-free local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Ying Chen , Yong Liu , Kai Wu , Qiang Nie , Shang Xu , Huifang Ma , Bing Wang , Chengjie Wang

Pruning techniques are used comprehensively to compress convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on image classification. However, the majority of pruning methods require a well pre-trained model to provide useful supporting parameters, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Yiheng Lu , Maoguo Gong , Wei Zhao , Kaiyuan Feng , Hao Li

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved impressive performance in many computer vision tasks. However, their large model sizes require heavy computational resources, making pruning redundant filters from existing pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Kiran Purohit , Anurag Reddy Parvathgari , Sourangshu Bhattacharya

The mainstream approach for filter pruning is usually either to force a hard-coded importance estimation upon a computation-heavy pretrained model to select "important" filters, or to impose a hyperparameter-sensitive sparse constraint on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Mingbao Lin , Bohong Chen , Fei Chao , Rongrong Ji

Filter pruning is widely adopted to compress and accelerate the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), but most previous works ignore the relationship between filters and channels in different layers. Processing each layer independently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Xiaorui Wang , Jun Wang , Xin Tang , Peng Gao , Rui Fang , Guotong Xie

Structured pruning methods are developed to bridge the gap between the massive scale of neural networks and the limited hardware resources. Most current structured pruning methods rely on training datasets to fine-tune the compressed model,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Siqi Li , Jun Chen , Jingyang Xiang , Chengrui Zhu , Yong Liu

Layer pruning has emerged as a potent approach to remove redundant layers in the pre-trained network on the purpose of reducing network size and improve computational efficiency. However, existing layer pruning methods mostly overlook the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Yuqi Li , Yao Lu , Junhao Dong , Zeyu Dong , Chuanguang Yang , Xin Yin , Yihao Chen , Jianping Gou , Yingli Tian , Tingwen Huang

Neural network pruning offers a promising prospect to facilitate deploying deep neural networks on resource-limited devices. However, existing methods are still challenged by the training inefficiency and labor cost in pruning designs, due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Mingbao Lin , Rongrong Ji , Yan Wang , Yichen Zhang , Baochang Zhang , Yonghong Tian , Ling Shao

Previous works utilized ''smaller-norm-less-important'' criterion to prune filters with smaller norm values in a convolutional neural network. In this paper, we analyze this norm-based criterion and point out that its effectiveness depends…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Yang He , Ping Liu , Ziwei Wang , Zhilan Hu , Yi Yang

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks~(CNNs) offer remarkable performance of classifications and regressions in many high-dimensional problems and have been widely utilized in real-word cognitive applications. However, high computational cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Chuhan Min , Aosen Wang , Yiran Chen , Wenyao Xu , Xin Chen

Neural network pruning has remarkable performance for reducing the complexity of deep network models. Recent network pruning methods usually focused on removing unimportant or redundant filters in the network. In this paper, by exploring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Yuanzhi Duan , Xiaofang Hu , Yue Zhou , Qiang Liu , Shukai Duan

Deep Neural Network (DNN) is powerful but computationally expensive and memory intensive, thus impeding its practical usage on resource-constrained front-end devices. DNN pruning is an approach for deep model compression, which aims at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Xiaohan Ding , Guiguang Ding , Xiangxin Zhou , Yuchen Guo , Jungong Han , Ji Liu

Filters are the essential elements in convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Filters are corresponded to the feature maps and form the main part of the computational and memory requirement for the CNN processing. In filter pruning methods, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Morteza Mousa-Pasandi , Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi , Shahram Shirani

The most common method for DNN pruning is hard thresholding of network weights, followed by retraining to recover any lost accuracy. Recently developed smart pruning algorithms use the DNN response over the training set for a variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Konstantinos Pitas , Mike Davies , Pierre Vandergheynst

Filter pruning method introduces structural sparsity by removing selected filters and is thus particularly effective for reducing complexity. Previous works empirically prune networks from the point of view that filter with smaller norm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Tao Niu , Yinglei Teng , Panpan Zou

Pruning is an effective method for compressing Large Language Models, but finding an optimal, non-uniform layer-wise sparsity allocation remains a key challenge. While heuristic methods are fast but yield suboptimal performance, more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xin Yuan , Siqi Li , Jiateng Wei , Chengrui Zhu , Yanming Wu , Qingpeng Li , Jiajun Lv , Xiaoke Lan , Jun Chen , Yong Liu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown state-of-the-art performance in various applications. However, CNNs are resource-hungry due to their requirement of high computational complexity and memory storage. Recent efforts toward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Arshdeep Singh , Mark D. Plumbley