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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

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are reported to be overparametrized. The search for optimal (minimal) and sufficient architecture is an NP-hard problem as the hyperparameter space for possible network configurations is vast. Here, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Tin Barisin , Illia Horenko

Pruning is a model compression method that removes redundant parameters in deep neural networks (DNNs) while maintaining accuracy. Most available filter pruning methods require complex treatments such as iterative pruning, features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yue Wu , Yuan Lan , Luchan Zhang , Yang Xiang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) play an increasingly important role in various computer systems. In order to create these networks, engineers typically specify a desired topology, and then use an automated training algorithm to select the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Ori Lahav , Guy Katz

Network pruning is an effective method to reduce the computational expense of over-parameterized neural networks for deployment on low-resource systems. Recent state-of-the-art techniques for retraining pruned networks such as weight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Duong H. Le , Binh-Son Hua

The widespread use of mobile devices for all kinds of transactions makes necessary reliable and real-time identity authentication, leading to the adoption of face recognition (FR) via the cameras embedded in such devices. Progress of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Fernando Alonso-Fernandez , Kevin Hernandez-Diaz , Jose Maria Buades Rubio , Prayag Tiwari , Josef Bigun

Convolutional neural network (CNN) has been widely used for vision-based tasks. Due to the high computational complexity and memory storage requirement, it is hard to directly deploy a full-precision CNN on embedded devices. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Yixing Li , Fengbo Ren

Pruning encompasses a range of techniques aimed at increasing the sparsity of neural networks (NNs). These techniques can generally be framed as minimizing a loss function subject to an $L_0$ norm constraint. This paper introduces CoNNect,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Christian Franssen , Jinyang Jiang , Yijie Peng , Bernd Heidergott

Typical convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have several millions of parameters and require a large amount of annotated data to train them. In medical applications where training data is hard to come by, these sophisticated machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-09 Rahul Venkataramani , Sheshadri Thiruvenkadam , Prasad Sudhakar , Hariharan Ravishankar , Vivek Vaidya

Convolution is a central operation in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), which applies a kernel to overlapping regions shifted across the image. However, because of the strong correlations in real-world image data, convolutional kernels…

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are indispensable to state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms. However, they are still rarely deployed on battery-powered mobile devices, such as smartphones and wearable gadgets, where vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Tien-Ju Yang , Yu-Hsin Chen , Vivienne Sze

Overparameterized Neural Networks (NN) display state-of-the-art performance. However, there is a growing need for smaller, energy-efficient, neural networks tobe able to use machine learning applications on devices with limited…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-21 Soufiane Hayou , Jean-Francois Ton , Arnaud Doucet , Yee Whye Teh

Pruning methods can considerably reduce the size of artificial neural networks without harming their performance. In some cases, they can even uncover sub-networks that, when trained in isolation, match or surpass the test accuracy of their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Franco Pellegrini , Giulio Biroli

Deep learning has established many new state of the art solutions in the last decade in areas such as object, scene and speech recognition. In particular Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is a category of deep learning which obtains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-26 Vincent Andrearczyk , Paul F. Whelan

Modern deep neural networks require a significant amount of computing time and power to train and deploy, which limits their usage on edge devices. Inspired by the iterative weight pruning in the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-15 John Tan Chong Min , Mehul Motani

This paper presents an iterative pruning strategy for Convolutional Network Fabrics (CNF) in presence of noisy training and testing data. With the continuous increase in size of neural network models, various authors have developed pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Ilias Benjelloun , Bart Lamiroy , Efoevi Koudou

Network pruning in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has been extensively investigated in recent years. To determine the impact of pruning a group of filters on a network's accuracy, state-of-the-art pruning methods consistently assume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Ekdeep Singh Lubana , Puja Trivedi , Conrad Hougen , Robert P. Dick , Alfred O. Hero

The state-of-the-art performance for several real-world problems is currently reached by convolutional neural networks (CNN). Such learning models exploit recent results in the field of deep learning, typically leading to highly performing,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Giosuè Cataldo Marinò , Alessandro Petrini , Dario Malchiodi , Marco Frasca

In recent years, many neural network models have been proposed for pattern classification, function approximation and regression problems. This paper presents an approach for classifying patterns from simplified NNs. Although the predictive…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-09-28 S. M. Kamruzzaman , Ahmed Ryadh Hasan

We introduce a class of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) that utilize recurrent neural networks (RNNs) as convolution filters. A convolution filter is typically implemented as a linear affine transformation followed by a non-linear…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Yi Yang