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In this paper, we propose a novel meta learning approach for automatic channel pruning of very deep neural networks. We first train a PruningNet, a kind of meta network, which is able to generate weight parameters for any pruned structure…

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In the era of increasing concerns over cybersecurity threats, defending against backdoor attacks is paramount in ensuring the integrity and reliability of machine learning models. However, many existing approaches require substantial…

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We focus on low-dimensional non-metric search, where tree-based approaches permit efficient and accurate retrieval while having short indexing time. These methods rely on space partitioning and require a pruning rule to avoid visiting…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Leonid Boytsov , Eric Nyberg

This paper presents a novel approach to network pruning, targeting block pruning in deep neural networks for edge computing environments. Our method diverges from traditional techniques that utilize proxy metrics, instead employing a direct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Cheng-En Wu , Azadeh Davoodi , Yu Hen Hu

Weight pruning is an effective model compression technique to tackle the challenges of achieving real-time deep neural network (DNN) inference on mobile devices. However, prior pruning schemes have limited application scenarios due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yifan Gong , Geng Yuan , Zheng Zhan , Wei Niu , Zhengang Li , Pu Zhao , Yuxuan Cai , Sijia Liu , Bin Ren , Xue Lin , Xulong Tang , Yanzhi Wang

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

We present NNrepair, a constraint-based technique for repairing neural network classifiers. The technique aims to fix the logic of the network at an intermediate layer or at the last layer. NNrepair first uses fault localization to find…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Muhammad Usman , Divya Gopinath , Youcheng Sun , Yannic Noller , Corina Pasareanu

In this work, we focus on the problem of image instance retrieval with deep descriptors extracted from pruned Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). The objective is to heavily prune convolutional edges while maintaining retrieval…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Gaurav Manek , Jie Lin , Vijay Chandrasekhar , Lingyu Duan , Sateesh Giduthuri , Xiaoli Li , Tomaso Poggio

Neural networks have long strived to emulate the learning capabilities of the human brain. While deep neural networks (DNNs) draw inspiration from the brain in neuron design, their training methods diverge from biological foundations.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Joseph Bingham , Saman Zonouz , Dvir Aran

Artificial Intelligence (AI) relies heavily on deep learning - a technology that is becoming increasingly popular in real-life applications of AI, even in the safety-critical and high-risk domains. However, it is recently discovered that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Jie Wang , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Naveed Akhtar

Contemporary state-of-the-art neural networks have increasingly large numbers of parameters, which prevents their deployment on devices with limited computational power. Pruning is one technique to remove unnecessary weights and reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Sahel Mohammad Iqbal , Subhankar Mishra

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…

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Model-based deep learning (MBDL) is a powerful methodology for designing deep models to solve imaging inverse problems. MBDL networks can be seen as iterative algorithms that estimate the desired image using a physical measurement model and…

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This work addresses the challenge of using a deep learning model to prune graphs and the ability of this method to integrate explainability into spatio-temporal problems through a new approach. Instead of applying explainability to the…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) provide excellent performance across a wide range of classification tasks, but their training requires high computational resources and is often outsourced to third parties. Recent work has shown that outsourced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Kang Liu , Brendan Dolan-Gavitt , Siddharth Garg

Despite the remarkable performance, modern deep neural networks are inevitably accompanied by a significant amount of computational cost for learning and deployment, which may be incompatible with their usage on edge devices. Recent efforts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Seul-Ki Yeom , Kyung-Hwan Shim , Jee-Hyun Hwang

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

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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) excel at relational reasoning but face two persistent challenges: the lack of interpretable attribution for heterogeneous node types, and the computational overhead of message passing over large, noisy graphs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Seungwoo Kum

The advancement of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on various vision applications has attracted lots of attention. Yet the majority of CNNs are unable to satisfy the strict requirement for real-world deployment. To overcome this, the…

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