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Automatic designing computationally efficient neural networks has received much attention in recent years. Existing approaches either utilize network pruning or leverage the network architecture search methods. This paper presents a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Zhengsu Chen , Jianwei Niu , Lingxi Xie , Xuefeng Liu , Longhui Wei , Qi Tian

Deep neural networks have been the predominant paradigm in machine learning for solving cognitive tasks. Such models, however, are restricted by a high computational overhead, limiting their applicability and hindering advancements in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Ian Pons , Bruno Yamamoto , Anna H. Reali Costa , Artur Jordao

The remarkable performance of modern deep neural networks (DNNs) is largely driven by their massive scale, often comprising tens to hundreds of millions-or even billions-of parameters. However, such a scale incurs substantial storage and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Mingyuan Wang , Yangzi Guo , Sida Liu , Yuhang Liu

Finding out the computational redundant part of a trained Deep Neural Network (DNN) is the key question that pruning algorithms target on. Many algorithms try to predict model performance of the pruned sub-nets by introducing various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Bailin Li , Bowen Wu , Jiang Su , Guangrun Wang , Liang Lin

Neural network pruning is a widely used strategy for reducing model storage and computing requirements. It allows to lower the complexity of the network by introducing sparsity in the weights. Because taking advantage of sparse matrices is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Nathan Hubens , Matei Mancas , Bernard Gosselin , Marius Preda , Titus Zaharia

This paper presents a novel framework combining group equivariant convolutional neural networks (G-CNNs) with equivariant-aware structured pruning to produce compact, transformation-invariant models for resource-constrained environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Mohammed Alnemari

One of the major challenges in deploying deep neural network architectures is their size which has an adverse effect on their inference time and memory requirements. Deep CNNs can either be pruned width-wise by removing filters based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Muhammad Umair Haider , Murtaza Taj

Neuron pruning is an efficient method to compress the network into a slimmer one for reducing the computational cost and storage overhead. Most of state-of-the-art results are obtained in a layer-by-layer optimization mode. It discards the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Weijie Chen , Yuan Zhang , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu

In this work, we propose a simple but effective channel pruning framework called Progressive Channel Pruning (PCP) to accelerate Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). In contrast to the existing channel pruning methods that prune channels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jinyang Guo , Weichen Zhang , Wanli Ouyang , Dong Xu

Network pruning is an important research field aiming at reducing computational costs of neural networks. Conventional approaches follow a fixed paradigm which first trains a large and redundant network, and then determines which units…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Yulong Wang , Xiaolu Zhang , Lingxi Xie , Jun Zhou , Hang Su , Bo Zhang , Xiaolin Hu

Previous AutoML pruning works utilized individual layer features to automatically prune filters. We analyze the correlation for two layers from the different blocks which have a short-cut structure. It shows that, in one block, the deeper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Mingyang Zhang , Xinyi Yu , Jingtao Rong , Linlin Ou

Pruning is a widely used technique for reducing the size of deep neural networks while maintaining their performance. However, such a technique, despite being able to massively compress deep models, is hardly able to remove entire layers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Zhu Liao , Victor Quétu , Van-Tam Nguyen , Enzo Tartaglione

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

Filter pruning is one of the most effective ways to accelerate and compress convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In this work, we propose a global filter pruning algorithm called Gate Decorator, which transforms a vanilla CNN module by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Zhonghui You , Kun Yan , Jinmian Ye , Meng Ma , Ping Wang

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) have shown promising performances in several visual recognition problems which motivated the researchers to propose popular architectures such as LeNet, AlexNet, VGGNet, ResNet, and many more.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-13 S. H. Shabbeer Basha , Mohammad Farazuddin , Viswanath Pulabaigari , Shiv Ram Dubey , Snehasis Mukherjee

Adapters are a parameter-efficient alternative to fine-tuning, which augment a frozen base network to learn new tasks. Yet, the inference of the adapted model is often slower than the corresponding fine-tuned model. To improve on this, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Lukas Hedegaard , Aman Alok , Juby Jose , Alexandros Iosifidis

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) has achieved significant success in computer vision field. However, the high computational cost of the deep complex models prevents the deployment on edge devices with limited memory and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Huiyuan Zhuo , Xuelin Qian , Yanwei Fu , Heng Yang , Xiangyang Xue

Filter pruning has been widely used for neural network compression because of its enabled practical acceleration. To date, most of the existing filter pruning works explore the importance of filters via using intra-channel information. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Yang Sui , Miao Yin , Yi Xie , Huy Phan , Saman Zonouz , Bo Yuan

Neural network compression empowers the effective yet unwieldy deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) to be deployed in resource-constrained scenarios. Most state-of-the-art approaches prune the model in filter-level according to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Wenxiao Wang , Cong Fu , Jishun Guo , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He

Pruning on neural networks before training not only compresses the original models, but also accelerates the network training phase, which has substantial application value. The current work focuses on fine-grained pruning, which uses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Xiatao Kang , Ping Li , Jiayi Yao , Chengxi Li