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Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets) are commonly developed at a fixed resource budget, and then scaled up for better accuracy if more resources are available. In this paper, we systematically study model scaling and identify that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Mingxing Tan , Quoc V. Le

Current state-of-the-art reading comprehension models rely heavily on recurrent neural networks. We explored an entirely different approach to question answering: a convolutional model. By their nature, these convolutional models are fast…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Tobin Bell , Benjamin Penchas

This paper focuses on the problem of visual saliency prediction, predicting regions of an image that tend to attract human visual attention, under a constrained computational budget. We modify and test various recent efficient convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Feiyan Hu , Kevin McGuinness

Recent work has shown that convolutional networks can be substantially deeper, more accurate, and efficient to train if they contain shorter connections between layers close to the input and those close to the output. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Gao Huang , Zhuang Liu , Geoff Pleiss , Laurens van der Maaten , Kilian Q. Weinberger

To reduce random access memory (RAM) requirements and to increase speed of recognition algorithms we consider a weight discretization problem for trained neural networks. We show that an exponential discretization is preferable to a linear…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Magomed Yu. Malsagov , Emil M. Khayrov , Maria M. Pushkareva , Iakov M. Karandashev

We propose two efficient approximations to standard convolutional neural networks: Binary-Weight-Networks and XNOR-Networks. In Binary-Weight-Networks, the filters are approximated with binary values resulting in 32x memory saving. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-04 Mohammad Rastegari , Vicente Ordonez , Joseph Redmon , Ali Farhadi

Deep neural networks are increasingly used on mobile devices, where computational resources are limited. In this paper we develop CondenseNet, a novel network architecture with unprecedented efficiency. It combines dense connectivity with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Gao Huang , Shichen Liu , Laurens van der Maaten , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Many high-performance networks were not designed with lightweight application scenarios in mind from the outset, which has greatly restricted their scope of application. This paper takes ConvNeXt as the research object and significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Fang Wang , Huitao Li , Wenhan Chao , Zheng Zhuo , Yiran Ji , Chang Peng , Yupeng Sun

With the continuous development of neural networks for computer vision tasks, more and more network architectures have achieved outstanding success. As one of the most advanced neural network architectures, DenseNet shortcuts all feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Rui-Yang Ju , Ting-Yu Lin , Jia-Hao Jian , Jen-Shiun Chiang , Wei-Bin Yang

Convolutional neural networks show outstanding results in a variety of computer vision tasks. However, a neural network architecture design usually faces a trade-off between model performance and computational/memory complexity. For some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Pavel Kaloshin

Past few years have witnessed exponential growth of interest in deep learning methodologies with rapidly improving accuracies and reduced computational complexity. In particular, architectures using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Sai Samarth R Phaye , Apoorva Sikka , Abhinav Dhall , Deepti Bathula

Deep neural networks demonstrate to have a high performance on image classification tasks while being more difficult to train. Due to the complexity and vanishing gradient problem, it normally takes a lot of time and more computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Mohammad Sadegh Ebrahimi , Hossein Karkeh Abadi

<<<This is a pre-acceptance version, please, go through Pattern Recognition Journal on Sciencedirect to read the final version>>>. Edge detection is the basis of many computer vision applications. State of the art predominantly relies on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Xavier Soria , Angel Sappa , Patricio Humanante , Arash Akbarinia

We propose model with larger spatial size of feature maps and evaluate it on object detection task. With the goal to choose the best feature extraction network for our model we compare several popular lightweight networks. After that we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Dmitriy Anisimov , Tatiana Khanova

Recent work has shown that convolutional networks can be substantially deeper, more accurate, and efficient to train if they contain shorter connections between layers close to the input and those close to the output. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Gao Huang , Zhuang Liu , Laurens van der Maaten , Kilian Q. Weinberger

This paper proposes an optimization of an existing Deep Neural Network (DNN) that improves its hardware utilization and facilitates on-device training for resource-constrained edge environments. We implement efficient parameter reduction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Atah Nuh Mih , Alireza Rahimi , Asfia Kawnine , Francis Palma , Monica Wachowicz , Rickey Dubay , Hung Cao

FlowNet2, the state-of-the-art convolutional neural network (CNN) for optical flow estimation, requires over 160M parameters to achieve accurate flow estimation. In this paper we present an alternative network that outperforms FlowNet2 on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Tak-Wai Hui , Xiaoou Tang , Chen Change Loy

Lightweight convolutional and transformer-based networks are increasingly preferred for real-time image classification, especially on resource-constrained devices. This study evaluates the impact of hyperparameter optimization on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Vineet Kumar Rakesh , Soumya Mazumdar , Tapas Samanta , Hemendra Kumar Pandey , Amitabha Das

Recently ConvNets or convolutional neural networks (CNN) have come up as state-of-the-art classification and detection algorithms, achieving near-human performance in visual detection. However, ConvNet algorithms are typically very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Bert Moons , Bert De Brabandere , Luc Van Gool , Marian Verhelst

The use of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has greatly improved the interpretation of medical images. However, conventional CNNs typically demand extensive computational resources and large training datasets. To address these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Neerav Nemchand Gala