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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

The success of CNNs in various applications is accompanied by a significant increase in the computation and parameter storage costs. Recent efforts toward reducing these overheads involve pruning and compressing the weights of various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Hao Li , Asim Kadav , Igor Durdanovic , Hanan Samet , Hans Peter Graf

Neural networks have emerged as a powerful tool for solving complex tasks across various domains, but their increasing size and computational requirements have posed significant challenges in deploying them on resource-constrained devices.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Evan Dogariu

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved significant advances in a wide range of applications. However, their deployment on resource-constrained devices remains a challenge due to the large number of layers and parameters, which result in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Sara Makenali , Babak Rokh , Ali Azarpeyvand

Neural network pruning is frequently used to compress over-parameterized networks by large amounts, while incurring only marginal drops in generalization performance. However, the impact of pruning on networks that have been highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Sayan Ghosh , Karthik Prasad , Xiaoliang Dai , Peizhao Zhang , Bichen Wu , Graham Cormode , Peter Vajda

Pruning and quantization are proven methods for improving the performance and storage efficiency of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Pruning removes near-zero weights in tensors and masks weak connections between neurons in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Yuan Wen , David Gregg

We introduce and analyze a new technique for model reduction for deep neural networks. While large networks are theoretically capable of learning arbitrarily complex models, overfitting and model redundancy negatively affects the prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Alireza Aghasi , Afshin Abdi , Nam Nguyen , Justin Romberg

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

Pruning deep neural networks is a widely used strategy to alleviate the computational burden in machine learning. Overwhelming empirical evidence suggests that pruned models retain very high accuracy even with a tiny fraction of parameters.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Viplove Arora , Daniele Irto , Sebastian Goldt , Guido Sanguinetti

Deep neural networks have evolved to become power demanding and consequently difficult to apply to small-size mobile platforms. Network parameter reduction methods have been introduced to systematically deal with the computational and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Mahdi Biparva , John Tsotsos

Filters are the essential elements in convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Filters are corresponded to the feature maps and form the main part of the computational and memory requirement for the CNN processing. In filter pruning methods, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Morteza Mousa-Pasandi , Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi , Shahram Shirani

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated extraordinarily good performance in many computer vision tasks. The increasing size of CNN models, however, prevents them from being widely deployed to devices with limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Guan Li , Junpeng Wang , Han-Wei Shen , Kaixin Chen , Guihua Shan , Zhonghua Lu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) although achieving human-level performance in many domains, have very large model size that hinders their broader applications on edge computing devices. Extensive research work have been conducted on DNN model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Shaokai Ye , Tianyun Zhang , Kaiqi Zhang , Jiayu Li , Kaidi Xu , Yunfei Yang , Fuxun Yu , Jian Tang , Makan Fardad , Sijia Liu , Xiang Chen , Xue Lin , Yanzhi Wang

Even though probabilistic treatments of neural networks have a long history, they have not found widespread use in practice. Sampling approaches are often too slow already for simple networks. The size of the inputs and the depth of typical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Jochen Gast , Stefan Roth

Pruning is one of the most effective model reduction techniques. Deep networks require massive computation and such models need to be compressed to bring them on edge devices. Most existing pruning techniques are focused on vision-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Ramchalam Kinattinkara Ramakrishnan , Eyyüb Sari , Vahid Partovi Nia

The increasing size of recently proposed Neural Networks makes it hard to implement them on embedded devices, where memory, battery and computational power are a non-trivial bottleneck. For this reason during the last years network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Dalila Ressi , Riccardo Romanello , Sabina Rossi , Carla Piazza

The goal of filter pruning is to search for unimportant filters to remove in order to make convolutional neural networks (CNNs) efficient without sacrificing the performance in the process. The challenge lies in finding information that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Junghun Oh , Heewon Kim , Sungyong Baik , Cheeun Hong , Kyoung Mu Lee

This paper presents a novel approach to neural network pruning by integrating a graph-based observation space into an AutoML framework to address the limitations of existing methods. Traditional pruning approaches often depend on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Dieter Balemans , Thomas Huybrechts , Jan Steckel , Siegfried Mercelis

Neural network pruning typically removes connections or neurons from a pretrained converged model; while a new pruning paradigm, pruning at initialization (PaI), attempts to prune a randomly initialized network. This paper offers the first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Huan Wang , Can Qin , Yue Bai , Yulun Zhang , Yun Fu

One surprising trait of neural networks is the extent to which their connections can be pruned with little to no effect on accuracy. But when we cross a critical level of parameter sparsity, pruning any further leads to a sudden drop in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Junyang Cai , Khai-Nguyen Nguyen , Nishant Shrestha , Aidan Good , Ruisen Tu , Xin Yu , Shandian Zhe , Thiago Serra