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Pruning neural networks, i.e., removing some of their parameters whilst retaining their accuracy, is one of the main ways to reduce the latency of a machine learning pipeline, especially in resource- and/or bandwidth-constrained scenarios.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Carla Fabiana Chiasserini , Francesco Malandrino , Nuria Molner , Zhiqiang Zhao

Pruning is a core technique for compressing neural networks to improve computational efficiency. This process is typically approached in two ways: one-shot pruning, which involves a single pass of training and pruning, and iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Mikołaj Janusz , Tomasz Wojnar , Yawei Li , Luca Benini , Kamil Adamczewski

When deploying pre-trained neural network models in real-world applications, model consumers often encounter resource-constraint platforms such as mobile and smart devices. They typically use the pruning technique to reduce the size and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Mark Huasong Meng , Guangdong Bai , Sin Gee Teo , Jin Song Dong

In recent years the ubiquitous deployment of AI has posed great concerns in regards to algorithmic bias, discrimination, and fairness. Compared to traditional forms of bias or discrimination caused by humans, algorithmic bias generated by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Cody Blakeney , Nathaniel Huish , Yan Yan , Ziliang Zong

Pruning techniques have been successfully used in neural networks to trade accuracy for sparsity. However, the impact of network pruning is not uniform: prior work has shown that the recall for underrepresented classes in a dataset may be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Aidan Good , Jiaqi Lin , Hannah Sieg , Mikey Ferguson , Xin Yu , Shandian Zhe , Jerzy Wieczorek , Thiago Serra

Deep continual learning requires models to adapt to new tasks without retraining from scratch. However, neural networks can lose their ability to adapt to new tasks after training on previous ones, a phenomenon known as loss of plasticity.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiuqi Wang , Jayanth Srinivasa , Claire Chen , Shuze Daniel Liu , Ali Payani , Shangtong Zhang

Pruning is a well-known mechanism for reducing the computational cost of deep convolutional networks. However, studies have shown the potential of pruning as a form of regularization, which reduces overfitting and improves generalization.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Artur Jordao , Helio Pedrini

In inductive transfer learning, fine-tuning pre-trained convolutional networks substantially outperforms training from scratch. When using fine-tuning, the underlying assumption is that the pre-trained model extracts generic features, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Xuhong Li , Yves Grandvalet , Franck Davoine

Pruning methods have recently grown in popularity as an effective way to reduce the size and computational complexity of deep neural networks. Large numbers of parameters can be removed from trained models with little discernible loss in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Tim Whitaker , Darrell Whitley

Fine-tuning pretrained contextual word embedding models to supervised downstream tasks has become commonplace in natural language processing. This process, however, is often brittle: even with the same hyperparameter values, distinct random…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Jesse Dodge , Gabriel Ilharco , Roy Schwartz , Ali Farhadi , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Noah Smith

Although multi-task deep neural network (DNN) models have computation and storage benefits over individual single-task DNN models, they can be further optimized via model compression. Numerous structured pruning methods are already…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Siddhant Garg , Lijun Zhang , Hui Guan

Large deep neural network (DNN) models pose the key challenge to energy efficiency due to the significantly higher energy consumption of off-chip DRAM accesses than arithmetic or SRAM operations. It motivates the intensive research on model…

Network pruning is aimed at imposing sparsity in a neural network architecture by increasing the portion of zero-valued weights for reducing its size regarding energy-efficiency consideration and increasing evaluation speed. In most of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Amirsina Torfi , Rouzbeh A. Shirvani , Sobhan Soleymani , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

The rapidly growing parameter volume of deep neural networks (DNNs) hinders the artificial intelligence applications on resource constrained devices, such as mobile and wearable devices. Neural network pruning, as one of the mainstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Ao Ren , Tao Zhang , Yuhao Wang , Sheng Lin , Peiyan Dong , Yen-kuang Chen , Yuan Xie , Yanzhi Wang

Deep neural networks have been applied in many applications exhibiting extraordinary abilities in the field of computer vision. However, complex network architectures challenge efficient real-time deployment and require significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Tailin Liang , John Glossner , Lei Wang , Shaobo Shi , Xiaotong Zhang

Deep networks are typically trained with many more parameters than the size of the training dataset. Recent empirical evidence indicates that the practice of overparameterization not only benefits training large models, but also assists -…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Xiangyu Chang , Yingcong Li , Samet Oymak , Christos Thrampoulidis

Large scale deep learning provides a tremendous opportunity to improve the quality of content recommendation systems by employing both wider and deeper models, but this comes at great infrastructural cost and carbon footprint in modern data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Mao Ye , Dhruv Choudhary , Jiecao Yu , Ellie Wen , Zeliang Chen , Jiyan Yang , Jongsoo Park , Qiang Liu , Arun Kejariwal

Despite enjoying extensive applications in video analysis, three-dimensional convolutional neural networks (3D CNNs)are restricted by their massive computation and storage consumption. To solve this problem, we propose a threedimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Yuxin Zhang , Huan Wang , Yang Luo , Lu Yu , Haoji Hu , Hangguan Shan , Tony Q. S. Quek

Verification of deep neural networks has witnessed a recent surge of interest, fueled by success stories in diverse domains and by abreast concerns about safety and security in envisaged applications. Complexity and sheer size of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Dario Guidotti , Francesco Leofante , Luca Pulina , Armando Tacchella

Overparameterization and overfitting are common concerns when designing and training deep neural networks, that are often counteracted by pruning and regularization strategies. However, these strategies remain secondary to most learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Malena Reiners , Kathrin Klamroth , Michael Stiglmayr