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Associative memory models are content-addressable memory systems fundamental to biological intelligence and are notable for their high interpretability. However, existing models evaluate the quality of retrieval based on proximity, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Shurong Wang , Yuqi Pan , Zhuoyang Shen , Meng Zhang , Hongwei Wang , Guoqi Li

Data-free quantization is a task that compresses the neural network to low bit-width without access to original training data. Most existing data-free quantization methods cause severe performance degradation due to inaccurate activation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Yefei He , Luoming Zhang , Weijia Wu , Hong Zhou

Unseen or out-of-domain data can seriously degrade the performance of a neural network model, indicating the model's failure to generalize to unseen data. Neural net pruning can not only help to reduce a model's size but can improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Vikramjit Mitra , Horacio Franco

Structural pruning can simplify network architecture and improve inference speed. We propose Hardware-Aware Latency Pruning (HALP) that formulates structural pruning as a global resource allocation optimization problem, aiming at maximizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Maying Shen , Hongxu Yin , Pavlo Molchanov , Lei Mao , Jianna Liu , Jose M. Alvarez

The unmatched ability of Deep Neural Networks in capturing complex patterns in large and noisy datasets is often associated with their large hypothesis space, and consequently to the vast amount of parameters that characterize model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Enrico Ballini , Luca Muscarnera , Alessio Fumagalli , Anna Scotti , Francesco Regazzoni

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) provide a flexible framework for solving forward and inverse problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs), but standard PINN training typically relies on soft penalty formulations that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Binghang Lu , Runyu Zhang , Changhong Mou , Na Li , Guang Lin

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

Pretrained Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), developed from extensive datasets to integrate multifaceted knowledge, are increasingly recognized as valuable intellectual property (IP). To safeguard these models against IP infringement, strategies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Ruyi Ding , Lili Su , Aidong Adam Ding , Yunsi Fei

Structured pruning methods are developed to bridge the gap between the massive scale of neural networks and the limited hardware resources. Most current structured pruning methods rely on training datasets to fine-tune the compressed model,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Siqi Li , Jun Chen , Jingyang Xiang , Chengrui Zhu , Yong Liu

Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks (HGNNs) have recently demonstrated great power in handling heterogeneous graph data, rendering them widely applied in many critical real-world domains. Most HGNN models leverage attention mechanisms to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Dengke Han , Meng Wu , Runzhen Xue , Mingyu Yan , Xiaochun Ye , Dongrui Fan

Despite the recent progress of network pruning, directly applying it to the Internet of Things (IoT) applications still faces two challenges, i.e. the distribution divergence between end and cloud data and the missing of data label on end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Xiaoyu Feng , Zhuqing Yuan , Guijin Wang , Yongpan Liu

Recently, there has been growing interest in collecting reasoning-intensive pretraining data to improve LLMs' complex reasoning ability. Prior approaches typically rely on supervised classifiers to identify such data, which requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Kai Hua , Steven Wu , Ge Zhang , Ke Shen

The success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in various applications is accompanied by a significant increase in computation and parameter storage costs. Recent efforts to reduce these overheads involve pruning and compressing the…

Pruning is a legitimate method for reducing the size of a neural network to fit in low SWaP hardware, but the networks must be trained and pruned offline. We propose an algorithm, Artificial Neurogenesis (ANG), that grows rather than prunes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-12 John Mixter , Ali Akoglu

In recent years, the integration of Machine Learning (ML) models with Operation Research (OR) tools has gained popularity across diverse applications, including cancer treatment, algorithmic configuration, and chemical process optimization.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Matteo Cacciola , Antonio Frangioni , Andrea Lodi

Quantization techniques commonly reduce the inference costs of neural networks by restricting the precision of weights and activations. Recent studies show that also reducing the precision of the accumulator can further improve hardware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Ian Colbert , Alessandro Pappalardo , Jakoba Petri-Koenig , Yaman Umuroglu

Differential privacy (DP) has become an essential framework for privacy-preserving machine learning. Existing DP learning methods, however, often have disparate impacts on model predictions, e.g., for minority groups. Gradient clipping,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Linzh Zhao , Aki Rehn , Mikko A. Heikkilä , Razane Tajeddine , Antti Honkela

Weight pruning methods for deep neural networks (DNNs) have been investigated recently, but prior work in this area is mainly heuristic, iterative pruning, thereby lacking guarantees on the weight reduction ratio and convergence time. To…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Tianyun Zhang , Shaokai Ye , Kaiqi Zhang , Jian Tang , Wujie Wen , Makan Fardad , Yanzhi Wang

Although deep neural networks have provided impressive gains in performance, these improvements often come at the cost of increased computational complexity and expense. In many cases, such as 3D volume or video classification tasks, not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Sharath M Shankaranarayana , Soumava Kumar Roy , Prasad Sudhakar , Chandan Aladahalli

During the last years, algorithms known as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) had become increasingly popular, expanding its application range to several areas. In particular, the image processing field has experienced a remarkable…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Federico Nicolas Peccia , Luciano Ferreyro , Alejandro Furfaro