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This paper introduces SpaPool, a novel pooling method that combines the strengths of both dense and sparse techniques for a graph neural network. SpaPool groups vertices into an adaptive number of clusters, leveraging the benefits of both…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-15 Rodrigue Govan , Romane Scherrer , Philippe Fournier-Viger , Nazha Selmaoui-Folcher

Downsampling is widely adopted to achieve a good trade-off between accuracy and latency for visual recognition. Unfortunately, the commonly used pooling layers are not learned, and thus cannot preserve important information. As another…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Ho Man Kwan , Shenghui Song

The channel redundancy in feature maps of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) results in the large consumption of memories and computational resources. In this work, we design a novel Slim Convolution (SlimConv) module to boost the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Jiaxiong Qiu , Cai Chen , Shuaicheng Liu , Bing Zeng

Discrete Fourier transforms provide a significant speedup in the computation of convolutions in deep learning. In this work, we demonstrate that, beyond its advantages for efficient computation, the spectral domain also provides a powerful…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-12 Oren Rippel , Jasper Snoek , Ryan P. Adams

"Lightweight convolutional neural networks" is an important research topic in the field of embedded vision. To implement image recognition tasks on a resource-limited hardware platform, it is necessary to reduce the memory size and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Tse-Wei Chen , Motoki Yoshinaga , Hongxing Gao , Wei Tao , Dongchao Wen , Junjie Liu , Kinya Osa , Masami Kato

Bilinear pooling of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) features [22, 23], and their compact variants [10], have been shown to be effective at fine-grained recognition, scene categorization, texture recognition, and visual question-answering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Tsung-Yu Lin , Subhransu Maji

In convolutional neural networks (CNNs), pooling operations play important roles such as dimensionality reduction and deformation compensation. In general, max pooling, which is the most widely used operation for local pooling, is performed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Takato Otsuzuki , Hideaki Hayashi , Yuchen Zheng , Seiichi Uchida

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with convolutional and pooling operations along the frequency axis have been proposed to attain invariance to frequency shifts of features. However, this is inappropriate with regard to the fact that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Hwaran Lee , Geonmin Kim , Ho-Gyeong Kim , Sang-Hoon Oh , Soo-Young Lee

The deployment of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in many real world applications is largely hindered by their high computational cost. In this paper, we propose a novel learning scheme for CNNs to simultaneously 1) reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Zhuang Liu , Jianguo Li , Zhiqiang Shen , Gao Huang , Shoumeng Yan , Changshui Zhang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has shown a great success in many areas including complex image classification tasks. However, they need a lot of memory and computational cost, which hinders them from running in relatively low-end…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Marcella Astrid , Seung-Ik Lee

As image-based deep reinforcement learning tackles more challenging tasks, increasing model size has become an important factor in improving performance. Recent studies achieved this by focusing on the parameter efficiency of scaled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Raphael Trumpp , Ansgar Schäfftlein , Mirco Theile , Marco Caccamo

Convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures utilize downsampling layers, which restrict the subsequent layers to learn spatially invariant features while reducing computational costs. However, such a downsampling operation makes it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Akito Takeki , Daiki Ikami , Go Irie , Kiyoharu Aizawa

Convolutional graph networks are used in particle physics for effective event reconstructions and classifications. However, their performances can be limited by the considerable amount of sensors used in modern particle detectors if applied…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-10-10 M. Bachlechner , T. Birkenfeld , P. Soldin , A. Stahl , C. Wiebusch

Pooling operations, which can be calculated at low cost and serve as a linear or nonlinear transfer function for data reduction, are found in almost every modern neural network. Countless modern approaches have already tackled replacing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Wolfgang Fuhl , Enkelejda Kasneci

Convolution utilizes a shift-equivalent prior of images, thus leading to great success in image processing tasks. However, commonly used poolings in convolutional neural networks (CNNs), such as max-pooling, average-pooling, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Zhendong Zhang

In the framework of convolutional neural networks, downsampling is often performed with an average-pooling, where all the activations are treated equally, or with a max-pooling operation that only retains an element with maximum activation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Adrien Deliège , Maxime Istasse , Ashwani Kumar , Christophe De Vleeschouwer , Marc Van Droogenbroeck

We propose a new method for creating computationally efficient convolutional neural networks (CNNs) by using low-rank representations of convolutional filters. Rather than approximating filters in previously-trained networks with more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Yani Ioannou , Duncan Robertson , Jamie Shotton , Roberto Cipolla , Antonio Criminisi

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have achieved impressive performance on the wide variety of tasks (classification, detection, etc.) across multiple domains at the cost of high computational and memory requirements. Thus, leveraging CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Pravendra Singh , Vinay Sameer Raja Kadi , Nikhil Verma , Vinay P. Namboodiri

In the feature maps of CNNs, there commonly exists considerable spatial redundancy that leads to much repetitive processing. Towards reducing this superfluous computation, we propose to compute features only at sparsely sampled locations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Zhenda Xie , Zheng Zhang , Xizhou Zhu , Gao Huang , Stephen Lin

The inception network has been shown to provide good performance on image classification problems, but there are not much evidences that it is also effective for the image restoration or pixel-wise labeling problems. For image restoration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Yoonsik Kim , Insung Hwang , Nam Ik Cho