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As deep neural networks include a high number of parameters and operations, it can be a challenge to implement these models on devices with limited computational resources. Despite the development of novel pruning methods toward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Morteza Homayounfar , Mohamad Koohi-Moghadam , Reza Rawassizadeh , Varut Vardhanabhuti

Structured pruning is one of the most popular approaches to effectively compress the heavy deep neural networks (DNNs) into compact sub-networks while retaining performance. The existing methods suffer from multi-stage procedures along with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Tianyi Chen , Xiaoyi Qu , David Aponte , Colby Banbury , Jongwoo Ko , Tianyu Ding , Yong Ma , Vladimir Lyapunov , Ilya Zharkov , Luming Liang

With the growth of interest in the attack and defense of deep neural networks, researchers are focusing more on the robustness of applying them to devices with limited memory. Thus, unlike adversarial training, which only considers the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Haidong Xie , Lixin Qian , Xueshuang Xiang , Naijin Liu

We introduce hybrid pruning which combines both coarse-grained channel and fine-grained weight pruning to reduce model size, computation and power demands with no to little loss in accuracy for enabling modern networks deployment on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Xiaofan Xu , Mi Sun Park , Cormac Brick

We propose a novel hardware-aware magnitude pruning technique for coherent photonic neural networks. The proposed technique can prune 99.45% of network parameters and reduce the static power consumption by 98.23% with a negligible accuracy…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Sanmitra Banerjee , Mahdi Nikdast , Sudeep Pasricha , Krishnendu Chakrabarty

Large vision transformers present impressive scalability, as their performance can be well improved with increased model capacity. Nevertheless, their cumbersome parameters results in exorbitant computational and memory demands. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chengchao Shen

In recent years, deep network pruning has attracted significant attention in order to enable the rapid deployment of AI into small devices with computation and memory constraints. Pruning is often achieved by dropping redundant weights,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Enmao Diao , Ganghua Wang , Jiawei Zhan , Yuhong Yang , Jie Ding , Vahid Tarokh

Model compression is crucial for deployment of neural networks on devices with limited computational and memory resources. Many different methods show comparable accuracy of the compressed model and similar compression rates. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Ben Mussay , Daniel Feldman , Samson Zhou , Vladimir Braverman , Margarita Osadchy

Reducing the test time resource requirements of a neural network while preserving test accuracy is crucial for running inference on resource-constrained devices. To achieve this goal, we introduce a novel network reparameterization based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Chaoqi Wang , Roger Grosse , Sanja Fidler , Guodong Zhang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) offer significant flexibility and robust performance. This makes them ideal for building not only system models but also advanced neural network controllers (NNCs). However, their high complexity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Ganesh Sundaram , Jonas Ulmen , Amjad Haider , Daniel Görges

Neural radiance fields (NeRF) have garnered significant attention, with recent works such as Instant-NGP accelerating NeRF training and evaluation through a combination of hashgrid-based positional encoding and neural networks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xiufeng Xie , Riccardo Gherardi , Zhihong Pan , Stephen Huang

Network pruning is a promising avenue for compressing deep neural networks. A typical approach to pruning starts by training a model and then removing redundant parameters while minimizing the impact on what is learned. Alternatively, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Namhoon Lee , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Stephen Gould , Philip H. S. Torr

A variety of pruning methods have been introduced for over-parameterized Recurrent Neural Networks to improve efficiency in terms of power consumption and storage utilization. These advances motivate a new paradigm, termed `hyperpruning',…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Caleb Zheng , Eli Shlizerman

Neural Networks (NN), although successfully applied to several Artificial Intelligence tasks, are often unnecessarily over-parametrised. In edge/fog computing, this might make their training prohibitive on resource-constrained devices,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Lorenzo Valerio , Franco Maria Nardini , Andrea Passarella , Raffaele Perego

Privacy-preserving machine learning (PPML) solutions are gaining widespread popularity. Among these, many rely on homomorphic encryption (HE) that offers confidentiality of the model and the data, but at the cost of large latency and memory…

Large Language Models have achieved remarkable success across various natural language processing tasks, yet their high computational cost during inference remains a major bottleneck. This paper introduces Sparse Expert Activation Pruning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xun Liang , Hanyu Wang , Huayi Lai , Simin Niu , Shichao Song , Jiawei Yang , Jihao Zhao , Feiyu Xiong , Bo Tang , Zhiyu Li

In this work, to limit the number of required attention inference hops in memory-augmented neural networks, we propose an online adaptive approach called A2P-MANN. By exploiting a small neural network classifier, an adequate number of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Mohsen Ahmadzadeh , Mehdi Kamal , Ali Afzali-Kusha , Massoud Pedram

A well-trained Convolutional Neural Network can easily be pruned without significant loss of performance. This is because of unnecessary overlap in the features captured by the network's filters. Innovations in network architecture such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Aaditya Prakash , James Storer , Dinei Florencio , Cha Zhang

We propose Cluster Pruning (CUP) for compressing and accelerating deep neural networks. Our approach prunes similar filters by clustering them based on features derived from both the incoming and outgoing weight connections. With CUP, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Rahul Duggal , Cao Xiao , Richard Vuduc , Jimeng Sun

Encoding input coordinates with sinusoidal functions into multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) has proven effective for implicit neural representations (INRs) of low-dimensional signals, enabling the modeling of high-frequency details. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Diana Aldana , João Paulo Lima , Daniel Csillag , Daniel Perazzo , Haoan Feng , Luiz Velho , Tiago Novello