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Modern deep neural network models are large and computationally intensive. One typical solution to this issue is model pruning. However, most current pruning algorithms depend on hand crafted rules or domain expertise. To overcome this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Baopu Li , Yanwen Fan , Zhihong Pan , Gang Zhang

The ability of Deep Neural Networks to approximate highly complex functions is key to their success. This benefit, however, comes at the expense of a large model size, which challenges its deployment in resource-constrained environments.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Sawinder Kaur , Ferdinando Fioretto , Asif Salekin

Adapting pre-trained neural models to downstream tasks has become the standard practice for obtaining high-quality models. In this work, we propose a novel model adaptation paradigm, adapting by pruning, which prunes neural connections in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Yang Gao , Nicolo Colombo , Wei Wang

In response to recent data regulation requirements, machine unlearning (MU) has emerged as a critical process to remove the influence of specific examples from a given model. Although exact unlearning can be achieved through complete model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Jinghan Jia , Jiancheng Liu , Parikshit Ram , Yuguang Yao , Gaowen Liu , Yang Liu , Pranay Sharma , Sijia Liu

Deep learning models have been widely used during the last decade due to their outstanding learning and abstraction capacities. However, one of the main challenges any scientist has to face using deep learning models is to establish the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Luis Balderas , Miguel Lastra , José M. Benítez

Large language models (LLMs) deliver impressive results but face challenges from increasing model sizes and computational costs. Structured pruning reduces model size and speeds up inference but often causes uneven degradation across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Hexuan Deng , Wenxiang Jiao , Xuebo Liu , Jing Li , Min Zhang , Zhaopeng Tu

Network pruning is a commonly used measure to alleviate the storage and computational burden of deep neural networks. However, the fundamental limit of network pruning is still lacking. To close the gap, in this work we'll take a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-20 Qiaozhe Zhang , Ruijie Zhang , Jun Sun , Yingzhuang Liu

Lightweight model design has become an important direction in the application of deep learning technology, pruning is an effective mean to achieve a large reduction in model parameters and FLOPs. The existing neural network pruning methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Zhuangzhi Chen , Jingyang Xiang , Yao Lu , Qi Xuan , Xiaoniu Yang

One surprising trait of neural networks is the extent to which their connections can be pruned with little to no effect on accuracy. But when we cross a critical level of parameter sparsity, pruning any further leads to a sudden drop in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Junyang Cai , Khai-Nguyen Nguyen , Nishant Shrestha , Aidan Good , Ruisen Tu , Xin Yu , Shandian Zhe , Thiago Serra

Since the convolutional neural networks are often trained with redundant parameters, it is possible to reduce redundant kernels or filters to obtain a compact network without dropping the classification accuracy. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Kakeru Mitsuno , Takio Kurita

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful machine learning models and have succeeded in various artificial intelligence tasks. Although various architectures and modules for the DNNs have been proposed, selecting and designing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Shinichi Shirakawa , Yasushi Iwata , Youhei Akimoto

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

Crossbar architecture based devices have been widely adopted in neural network accelerators by taking advantage of the high efficiency on vector-matrix multiplication (VMM) operations. However, in the case of convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Ling Liang , Lei Deng , Yueling Zeng , Xing Hu , Yu Ji , Xin Ma , Guoqi Li , Yuan Xie

Deep network pruning is an effective method to reduce the storage and computation cost of deep neural networks when applying them to resource-limited devices. Among many pruning granularities, neuron level pruning will remove redundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Zhengtao Wang , Ce Zhu , Zhiqiang Xia , Qi Guo , Yipeng Liu

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

Synaptic pruning in biological brains removes weak connections to improve efficiency. In contrast, dropout regularization in artificial neural networks randomly deactivates neurons without considering activity-dependent pruning. We propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Gideon Vos , Liza van Eijk , Zoltan Sarnyai , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become a widely deployed model for numerous machine learning applications. However, their fixed architecture, substantial training cost, and significant model redundancy make it difficult to efficiently…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Xiaoliang Dai , Hongxu Yin , Niraj K. Jha

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are applied in a wide range of usecases. There is an increased demand for deploying DNNs on devices that do not have abundant resources such as memory and computation units. Recently, network compression through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Haichuan Yang , Shupeng Gui , Yuhao Zhu , Ji Liu

Unstructured neural network pruning algorithms have achieved impressive compression rates. However, the resulting - typically irregular - sparse matrices hamper efficient hardware implementations, leading to additional memory usage and…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are nowadays witnessing a major success in solving many pattern recognition tasks including skeleton-based classification. The deployment of DNNs on edge-devices, endowed with limited time and memory resources,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Hichem Sahbi