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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been emerged as the state-of-the-art algorithms in broad range of applications. To reduce the memory foot-print of DNNs, in particular for embedded applications, sparsification techniques have been proposed.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Foroozan Karimzadeh , Ningyuan Cao , Brian Crafton , Justin Romberg , Arijit Raychowdhury

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are effective in solving many real-world problems. Larger DNN models usually exhibit better quality (e.g., accuracy) but their excessive computation results in long inference time. Model sparsification can reduce…

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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…

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Although deep neural networks (NNs) have achievedstate-of-the-art accuracy in many visual recognition tasks,the growing computational complexity and energy con-sumption of networks remains an issue, especially for ap-plications on platforms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Le Thanh Nguyen-Meidine , Eric Granger , Madhu Kiran , Louis-Antoine Blais-Morin , Marco Pedersoli

Neural network pruning is a popular technique used to reduce the inference costs of modern, potentially overparameterized, networks. Starting from a pre-trained network, the process is as follows: remove redundant parameters, retrain, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Lucas Liebenwein , Cenk Baykal , Brandon Carter , David Gifford , Daniela Rus

Graph neural networks (GNN) analysis engines are vital for real-world problems that use large graph models. Challenges for a GNN hardware platform include the ability to (a) host a variety of GNNs, (b) handle high sparsity in input vertex…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Sudipta Mondal , Susmita Dey Manasi , Kishor Kunal , S. Ramprasath , Sachin S. Sapatnekar

The success of DNN pruning has led to the development of energy-efficient inference accelerators that support pruned models with sparse weight and activation tensors. Because the memory layouts and dataflows in these architectures are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Dingqing Yang , Amin Ghasemazar , Xiaowei Ren , Maximilian Golub , Guy Lemieux , Mieszko Lis

Deep Neural Network (DNN) is powerful but computationally expensive and memory intensive, thus impeding its practical usage on resource-constrained front-end devices. DNN pruning is an approach for deep model compression, which aims at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Xiaohan Ding , Guiguang Ding , Xiangxin Zhou , Yuchen Guo , Jungong Han , Ji Liu

We present distributed algorithms for training dynamic Graph Neural Networks (GNN) on large scale graphs spanning multi-node, multi-GPU systems. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first scaling study on dynamic GNN. We devise…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Venkatesan T. Chakaravarthy , Shivmaran S. Pandian , Saurabh Raje , Yogish Sabharwal , Toyotaro Suzumura , Shashanka Ubaru

Compression techniques for deep neural networks are important for implementing them on small embedded devices. In particular, channel-pruning is a useful technique for realizing compact networks. However, many conventional methods require…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-03 Kohei Yamamoto , Kurato Maeno

To accelerate inference of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), various techniques have been proposed to reduce computation redundancy. Converting convolutional layers into frequency domain significantly reduces the computation complexity…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently emerged as a promising approach to tackling power allocation problems in wireless networks. Since unpaired transmitters and receivers are often spatially distant, the distance-based threshold is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Lili Chen , Jingge Zhu , Jamie Evans

GNN inference is a non-trivial task, especially in industrial scenarios with giant graphs, given three main challenges, i.e., scalability tailored for full-graph inference on huge graphs, inconsistency caused by stochastic acceleration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Dalong Zhang , Xianzheng Song , Zhiyang Hu , Yang Li , Miao Tao , Binbin Hu , Lin Wang , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jun Zhou

Recent works on neural network pruning advocate that reducing the depth of the network is more effective in reducing run-time memory usage and accelerating inference latency than reducing the width of the network through channel pruning. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Jinuk Kim , Yeonwoo Jeong , Deokjae Lee , Hyun Oh Song

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Javier García-Sigüenza , Mirco Nanni , Faraón Llorens-Largo , José F. Vicent

Improving the efficiency of neural network inference is undeniably important in a time where commercial use of AI models increases daily. Node pruning is the art of removing computational units such as neurons, filters, attention heads, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Joshua Offergeld , Marcel van Gerven , Nasir Ahmad

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are nowadays witnessing a major success in solving many pattern recognition tasks including skeleton-based classification. The deployment of DNNs on edge-devices, endowed with limited time and memory resources,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Hichem Sahbi

We propose an algorithm capable of identifying and eliminating irrelevant layers of a neural network during the early stages of training. In contrast to weight or filter-level pruning, layer pruning reduces the harder to parallelize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Valentin Frank Ingmar Guenter , Athanasios Sideris

While many systems have been developed to train Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), efficient model inference and evaluation remain to be addressed. For instance, using the widely adopted node-wise approach, model evaluation can account for up to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Peiqi Yin , Xiao Yan , Jinjing Zhou , Qiang Fu , Zhenkun Cai , James Cheng , Bo Tang , Minjie Wang