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Network pruning can reduce the computation cost of deep neural network (DNN) models. However, sparse models often produce randomly-distributed weights to maintain accuracy, leading to irregular computations. Consequently, unstructured…

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Deep neural networks have significantly alleviated the burden of feature engineering, but comparable efforts are now required to determine effective architectures for these networks. Furthermore, as network sizes have become excessively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Yognjin Lee

Weight pruning methods of DNNs have been demonstrated to achieve a good model pruning rate without loss of accuracy, thereby alleviating the significant computation/storage requirements of large-scale DNNs. Structured weight pruning methods…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Tianyun Zhang , Shaokai Ye , Kaiqi Zhang , Xiaolong Ma , Ning Liu , Linfeng Zhang , Jian Tang , Kaisheng Ma , Xue Lin , Makan Fardad , Yanzhi Wang

The demand for efficient processing of deep neural networks (DNNs) on embedded devices is a significant challenge limiting their deployment. Exploiting sparsity in the network's feature maps is one of the ways to reduce its inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Matteo Grimaldi , Darshan C. Ganji , Ivan Lazarevich , Sudhakar Sah

The rise of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has led to an increase in model size and complexity, straining the memory capacity of GPUs. Sparsity in DNNs, characterized as structural or ephemeral, has gained attention as a solution. This work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Daniel Barley , Holger Fröning

Over-parameterization of deep neural networks (DNNs) has shown high prediction accuracy for many applications. Although effective, the large number of parameters hinders its popularity on resource-limited devices and has an outsize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Shaoyi Huang , Bowen Lei , Dongkuan Xu , Hongwu Peng , Yue Sun , Mimi Xie , Caiwen Ding

As deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly deployed on edge devices, optimizing models for constrained computational resources is critical. Existing auto-pruning methods face challenges due to the diversity of DNN models, various…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Lixian Jing , Jianpeng Qi , Junyu Dong , Yanwei Yu

Deep neural networks often have millions of parameters. This can hinder their deployment to low-end devices, not only due to high memory requirements but also because of increased latency at inference. We propose a novel model compression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Tao Lin , Sebastian U. Stich , Luis Barba , Daniil Dmitriev , Martin Jaggi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) frequently contain far more weights, represented at a higher precision, than are required for the specific task which they are trained to perform. Consequently, they can often be compressed using techniques such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Vinu Joseph , Saurav Muralidharan , Animesh Garg , Michael Garland , Ganesh Gopalakrishnan

We show for the first time that large-scale generative pretrained transformer (GPT) family models can be pruned to at least 50% sparsity in one-shot, without any retraining, at minimal loss of accuracy. This is achieved via a new pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Elias Frantar , Dan Alistarh

Federated training of large deep neural networks can often be restrictive due to the increasing costs of communicating the updates with increasing model sizes. Various model pruning techniques have been designed in centralized settings to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Dimitris Stripelis , Umang Gupta , Nikhil Dhinagar , Greg Ver Steeg , Paul Thompson , José Luis Ambite

Sparsity helps reduce the computational complexity of deep neural networks by skipping zeros. Taking advantage of sparsity is listed as a high priority in next generation DNN accelerators such as TPU. The structure of sparsity, i.e., the…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become a widely deployed model for numerous machine learning applications. However, their fixed architecture, substantial training cost, and significant model redundancy make it difficult to efficiently…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Xiaoliang Dai , Hongxu Yin , Niraj K. Jha

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are usually over-parameterized to increase the likelihood of getting adequate initial weights by random initialization. Consequently, trained DNNs have many redundancies which can be pruned from the model to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Lukas Enderich , Fabian Timm , Wolfram Burgard

The excessive computational requirements of modern artificial neural networks (ANNs) are posing limitations on the machines that can run them. Sparsification of ANNs is often motivated by time, memory and energy savings only during model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Mike Heddes , Narayan Srinivasa , Tony Givargis , Alexandru Nicolau

The deployment of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on edge devices is hindered by the substantial gap between performance requirements and available processing power. While recent research has made significant strides in developing pruning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hamid Mousavi , Mohammad Loni , Mina Alibeigi , Masoud Daneshtalab

Learning predictive models from observations using deep neural networks (DNNs) is a promising new approach to many real-world planning and control problems. However, common DNNs are too unstructured for effective planning, and current…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Ziang Liu , Genggeng Zhou , Jeff He , Tobia Marcucci , Li Fei-Fei , Jiajun Wu , Yunzhu Li

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have begun to have a pervasive impact on various applications of machine learning. However, the problem of finding an optimal DNN architecture for large applications is challenging. Common approaches go for…

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