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We present an approach for compressing volumetric scalar fields using implicit neural representations. Our approach represents a scalar field as a learned function, wherein a neural network maps a point in the domain to an output scalar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Yuzhe Lu , Kairong Jiang , Joshua A. Levine , Matthew Berger

Most data is automatically collected and only ever "seen" by algorithms. Yet, data compressors preserve perceptual fidelity rather than just the information needed by algorithms performing downstream tasks. In this paper, we characterize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Yann Dubois , Benjamin Bloem-Reddy , Karen Ullrich , Chris J. Maddison

Recently Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) gained attention as a novel and effective representation for various data types. Thus far, prior work mostly focused on optimizing their reconstruction performance. This work investigates INRs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-05 Yannick Strümpler , Janis Postels , Ren Yang , Luc van Gool , Federico Tombari

Learned image compression sits at the intersection of machine learning and image processing. With advances in deep learning, neural network-based compression methods have emerged. In this process, an encoder maps the image to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Fabien Allemand , Attilio Fiandrotti , Sumanta Chaudhuri , Alaa Eddine Mazouz

The extensive adoption of Deep Neural Networks has led to their increased utilization in challenging scientific visualization tasks. Recent advancements in building compressed data models using implicit neural representations have shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Abhay Kumar Dwivedi , Shanu Saklani , Soumya Dutta

Dimensionality reduction, a form of compression, can simplify representations of information to increase efficiency and reveal general patterns. Yet, this simplification also forfeits information, thereby reducing representational capacity.…

Convolutional neural networks are modern models that are very efficient in many classification tasks. They were originally created for image processing purposes. Then some trials were performed to use them in different domains like natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Krzysztof Wróbel , Marcin Pietroń , Maciej Wielgosz , Michał Karwatowski , Kazimierz Wiatr

We study the neural network (NN) compression problem, viewing the tension between the compression ratio and NN performance through the lens of rate-distortion theory. We choose a distortion metric that reflects the effect of NN compression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Berivan Isik , Tsachy Weissman , Albert No

There has been much interest in deploying deep learning algorithms on low-powered devices, including smartphones, drones, and medical sensors. However, full-scale deep neural networks are often too resource-intensive in terms of energy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yoshitomo Matsubara , Ruihan Yang , Marco Levorato , Stephan Mandt

Deep neural networks are effective feature extractors but they are prohibitively large for deployment scenarios. Due to the huge number of parameters, interpretability of parameters in different layers is not straight-forward. This is why…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Saeed Damadi

After training complex deep learning models, a common task is to compress the model to reduce compute and storage demands. When compressing, it is desirable to preserve the original model's per-example decisions (e.g., to go beyond top-1…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Jerry Chee , Megan Renz , Anil Damle , Christopher De Sa

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

Overparameterized networks trained to convergence have shown impressive performance in domains such as computer vision and natural language processing. Pushing state of the art on salient tasks within these domains corresponds to these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-04 James O' Neill

Lossy image compression algorithms are pervasively used to reduce the size of images transmitted over the web and recorded on data storage media. However, we pay for their high compression rate with visual artifacts degrading the user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Lukas Cavigelli , Pascal Hager , Luca Benini

Modern neural networks have revolutionized the fields of computer vision (CV) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). They are widely used for solving complex CV tasks and NLP tasks such as image classification, image generation, and machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Xingyi Liu , Keshab K. Parhi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) frequently contain far more weights, represented at a higher precision, than are required for the specific task which they are trained to perform. Consequently, they can often be compressed using techniques such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Vinu Joseph , Saurav Muralidharan , Animesh Garg , Michael Garland , Ganesh Gopalakrishnan

In this paper, we study the compression of a target two-layer neural network with N nodes into a compressed network with M<N nodes. More precisely, we consider the setting in which the weights of the target network are i.i.d. sub-Gaussian,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Mohammad Hossein Amani , Simone Bombari , Marco Mondelli , Rattana Pukdee , Stefano Rini

We present a novel global compression framework for deep neural networks that automatically analyzes each layer to identify the optimal per-layer compression ratio, while simultaneously achieving the desired overall compression. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Lucas Liebenwein , Alaa Maalouf , Oren Gal , Dan Feldman , Daniela Rus

Image compression using neural networks have reached or exceeded non-neural methods (such as JPEG, WebP, BPG). While these networks are state of the art in ratedistortion performance, computational feasibility of these models remains a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-19 Nick Johnston , Elad Eban , Ariel Gordon , Johannes Ballé

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved significant success in a variety of real world applications, i.e., image classification. However, tons of parameters in the networks restrict the efficiency of neural networks due to the large model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Yuzhe Ma , Ran Chen , Wei Li , Fanhua Shang , Wenjian Yu , Minsik Cho , Bei Yu