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Quantization and pruning are two essential techniques for compressing neural networks, yet they are often treated independently, with limited theoretical analysis connecting them. This paper introduces a unified framework for post-training…

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Neural network quantization and pruning are two techniques commonly used to reduce the computational complexity and memory footprint of these models for deployment. However, most existing pruning strategies operate on full-precision and…

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Automated Machine Learning(Auto-ML) pruning methods aim at searching a pruning strategy automatically to reduce the computational complexity of deep Convolutional Neural Networks(deep CNNs). However, some previous work found that the…

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For practical deep neural network design on mobile devices, it is essential to consider the constraints incurred by the computational resources and the inference latency in various applications. Among deep network acceleration related…

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To address the enormous size of Large Language Models (LLMs), model compression methods, such as quantization and pruning, are often deployed, especially on edge devices. In this work, we focus on layer-wise post-training quantization and…

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PQuantML is a new open-source, hardware-aware neural network model compression library tailored to end-to-end workflows. Motivated by the need to deploy performant models to environments with strict latency constraints, PQuantML simplifies…

The ever-increasing size of large language models (LLMs) presents significant challenges for deployment due to their heavy computational and memory requirements. Current model pruning techniques attempt to alleviate these issues by relying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Ayan Sengupta , Siddhant Chaudhary , Tanmoy Chakraborty

To facilitate efficient embedded and hardware implementations of deep neural networks (DNNs), two important categories of DNN model compression techniques: weight pruning and weight quantization are investigated. The former leverages the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Ao Ren , Tianyun Zhang , Shaokai Ye , Jiayu Li , Wenyao Xu , Xuehai Qian , Xue Lin , Yanzhi Wang

Deep Neural Networks(DNNs) have many parameters and activation data, and these both are expensive to implement. One method to reduce the size of the DNN is to quantize the pre-trained model by using a low-bit expression for weights and…

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Quantization and pruning are core techniques used to reduce the inference costs of deep neural networks. State-of-the-art quantization techniques are currently applied to both the weights and activations; however, pruning is most often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Xinyu Zhang , Ian Colbert , Ken Kreutz-Delgado , Srinjoy Das

Pruning is a promising approach to compress deep learning models in order to deploy them on resource-constrained edge devices. However, many existing pruning solutions are based on unstructured pruning, which yields models that cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Kaiqi Zhao , Animesh Jain , Ming Zhao

With the rapid scaling up of deep neural networks (DNNs), extensive research studies on network model compression such as weight pruning have been performed for improving deployment efficiency. This work aims to advance the compression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Qing Yang , Wei Wen , Zuoguan Wang , Hai Li

Compressing Deep Neural Network (DNN) models to alleviate the storage and computation requirements is essential for practical applications, especially for resource limited devices. Although capable of reducing a reasonable amount of model…

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Deep neural networks are typically too computationally expensive to run in real-time on consumer-grade hardware and low-powered devices. In this paper, we investigate reducing the computational and memory requirements of neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Kimessha Paupamah , Steven James , Richard Klein

This work evaluates the compression techniques on ConvNeXt models in image classification tasks using the CIFAR-10 dataset. Structured pruning, unstructured pruning, and dynamic quantization methods are evaluated to reduce model size and…

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Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) under resource constraints is a significant challenge in deep learning. Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), pruning, and quantization are all effective methods for improving resource efficiency. However,…

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Deep learning models have achieved tremendous success in most of the industries in recent years. The evolution of these models has also led to an increase in the model size and energy requirement, making it difficult to deploy in production…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Aayush Saxena , Arit Kumar Bishwas , Ayush Ashok Mishra , Ryan Armstrong

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

Designing neural architectures is a fundamental step in deep learning applications. As a partner technique, model compression on neural networks has been widely investigated to gear the needs that the deep learning algorithms could be run…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Yukang Chen , Gaofeng Meng , Qian Zhang , Xinbang Zhang , Liangchen Song , Shiming Xiang , Chunhong Pan

Quantization, knowledge distillation, and magnitude pruning are among the most popular methods for neural network compression in NLP. Independently, these methods reduce model size and can accelerate inference, but their relative benefit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Rajiv Movva , Jinhao Lei , Shayne Longpre , Ajay Gupta , Chris DuBois