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Deep convolutional neural networks have liberated its extraordinary power on various tasks. However, it is still very challenging to deploy state-of-the-art models into real-world applications due to their high computational complexity. How…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Zehao Huang , Naiyan Wang

Deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on edge devices requires strong compression with minimal accuracy loss. This paper introduces Mix-and-Match Pruning, a globally guided, layer-wise sparsification framework that leverages sensitivity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Danial Monachan , Samira Nazari , Mahdi Taheri , Ali Azarpeyvand , Milos Krstic , Michael Huebner , Christian Herglotz

Sparse training is emerging as a promising avenue for reducing the computational cost of training neural networks. Several recent studies have proposed pruning methods using learnable thresholds to efficiently explore the non-uniform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Abhisek Kundu , Naveen K. Mellempudi , Dharma Teja Vooturi , Bharat Kaul , Pradeep Dubey

The sizes of deep neural networks (DNNs) are rapidly outgrowing the capacity of hardware to store and train them. Research over the past few decades has explored the prospect of sparsifying DNNs before, during, and after training by pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Ryan A. Robinett , Jeremy Kepner

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) are widely used to solve a variety of problems and as the quantity of data and the amount of available compute have increased, so have model sizes. The number of parameters in recent state-of-the-art networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Sharan Narang , Erich Elsen , Gregory Diamos , Shubho Sengupta

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

Weight pruning is an effective technique to reduce the model size and inference time for deep neural networks in real-world deployments. However, since magnitudes and relative importance of weights are very different for different layers of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Xiao Zhou , Weizhong Zhang , Hang Xu , Tong Zhang

We rigorously evaluate three state-of-the-art techniques for inducing sparsity in deep neural networks on two large-scale learning tasks: Transformer trained on WMT 2014 English-to-German, and ResNet-50 trained on ImageNet. Across thousands…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Trevor Gale , Erich Elsen , Sara Hooker

The compression of deep neural networks (DNNs) to reduce inference cost becomes increasingly important to meet realistic deployment requirements of various applications. There have been a significant amount of work regarding network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Tianyi Chen , Bo Ji , Yixin Shi , Tianyu Ding , Biyi Fang , Sheng Yi , Xiao Tu

The growing energy and performance costs of deep learning have driven the community to reduce the size of neural networks by selectively pruning components. Similarly to their biological counterparts, sparse networks generalize just as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Torsten Hoefler , Dan Alistarh , Tal Ben-Nun , Nikoli Dryden , Alexandra Peste

To improve federated training of neural networks, we develop FedSparsify, a sparsification strategy based on progressive weight magnitude pruning. Our method has several benefits. First, since the size of the network becomes increasingly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Dimitris Stripelis , Umang Gupta , Greg Ver Steeg , Jose Luis Ambite

Weight pruning is an effective model compression technique to tackle the challenges of achieving real-time deep neural network (DNN) inference on mobile devices. However, prior pruning schemes have limited application scenarios due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yifan Gong , Geng Yuan , Zheng Zhan , Wei Niu , Zhengang Li , Pu Zhao , Yuxuan Cai , Sijia Liu , Bin Ren , Xue Lin , Xulong Tang , Yanzhi Wang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on hardware is facing excessive computation cost due to the massive number of parameters. A typical training pipeline to mitigate over-parameterization is to pre-define a DNN structure first with redundant…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Xiaocong Du , Zheng Li , Yufei Ma , Yu Cao

Model compression techniques on Deep Neural Network (DNN) have been widely acknowledged as an effective way to achieve acceleration on a variety of platforms, and DNN weight pruning is a straightforward and effective method. There are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Xiaolong Ma , Fu-Ming Guo , Wei Niu , Xue Lin , Jian Tang , Kaisheng Ma , Bin Ren , Yanzhi Wang

Model pruning seeks to induce sparsity in a deep neural network's various connection matrices, thereby reducing the number of nonzero-valued parameters in the model. Recent reports (Han et al., 2015; Narang et al., 2017) prune deep networks…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-15 Michael Zhu , Suyog Gupta

Due to the significant computational challenge of training large-scale graph neural networks (GNNs), various sparse learning techniques have been exploited to reduce memory and storage costs. Examples include \textit{graph sparsification}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Shuai Zhang , Meng Wang , Pin-Yu Chen , Sijia Liu , Songtao Lu , Miao Liu

Pruning, the task of sparsifying deep neural networks, received increasing attention recently. Although state-of-the-art pruning methods extract highly sparse models, they neglect two main challenges: (1) the process of finding these sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 John Rachwan , Daniel Zügner , Bertrand Charpentier , Simon Geisler , Morgane Ayle , Stephan Günnemann

The main goal of network pruning is imposing sparsity on the neural network by increasing the number of parameters with zero value in order to reduce the architecture size and the computational speedup. In most of the previous research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Amirsina Torfi , Rouzbeh A. Shirvani , Sobhan Soleymani , Naser M. Nasrabadi

Sparsification-based pruning has been an important category in model compression. Existing methods commonly set sparsity-inducing penalty terms to suppress the importance of dropped weights, which is regarded as the suppressed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Shengji Tang , Weihao Lin , Hancheng Ye , Peng Ye , Chong Yu , Baopu Li , Tao Chen

To address the large model size and intensive computation requirement of deep neural networks (DNNs), weight pruning techniques have been proposed and generally fall into two categories, i.e., static regularization-based pruning and dynamic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Tianyun Zhang , Xiaolong Ma , Zheng Zhan , Shanglin Zhou , Minghai Qin , Fei Sun , Yen-Kuang Chen , Caiwen Ding , Makan Fardad , Yanzhi Wang