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Convolutional neural network (CNN) pruning has become one of the most successful network compression approaches in recent years. Existing works on network pruning usually focus on removing the least important filters in the network to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Zi Wang , Chengcheng Li , Xiangyang Wang

Filter pruning has attracted increasing attention in recent years for its capacity in compressing and accelerating convolutional neural networks. Various data-independent criteria, including norm-based and relationship-based ones, were…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Shaowu Chen , Weize Sun , Lei Huang

The optimization of over-parameterized deep neural networks represents a large-scale, high-dimensional, and strongly non-convex decision problem that challenges existing optimization frameworks. Current evolutionary and gradient-based…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Zak Khan , Azam Asilian Bidgoli

We propose a new formulation for pruning convolutional kernels in neural networks to enable efficient inference. We interleave greedy criteria-based pruning with fine-tuning by backpropagation - a computationally efficient procedure that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Pavlo Molchanov , Stephen Tyree , Tero Karras , Timo Aila , Jan Kautz

Channel-based pruning has achieved significant successes in accelerating deep convolutional neural network, whose pipeline is an iterative three-step procedure: ranking, pruning and fine-tuning. However, this iterative procedure is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Zi Wang , Chengcheng Li , Dali Wang , Xiangyang Wang , Hairong Qi

Pruning techniques are used comprehensively to compress convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on image classification. However, the majority of pruning methods require a well pre-trained model to provide useful supporting parameters, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Yiheng Lu , Maoguo Gong , Wei Zhao , Kaiyuan Feng , Hao Li

The sophisticated structure of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) allows for outstanding performance, but at the cost of intensive computation. As significant redundancies inevitably present in such a structure, many works have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Zhuwei Qin , Fuxun Yu , Chenchen Liu , Xiang Chen

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) achieve high performance in image classification tasks but are challenging to deploy on resource-limited hardware due to their large model sizes. To address this issue, we leverage Mutual Information, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Tien Vu-Van , Dat Du Thanh , Nguyen Ho , Mai Vu

Recently there has been a lot of work on pruning filters from deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with the intention of reducing computations. The key idea is to rank the filters based on a certain criterion (say, $l_1$-norm, average…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Deepak Mittal , Shweta Bhardwaj , Mitesh M. Khapra , Balaraman Ravindran

Acceleration of convolutional neural network has received increasing attention during the past several years. Among various acceleration techniques, filter pruning has its inherent merit by effectively reducing the number of convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Dong Wang , Lei Zhou , Xiao Bai , Jun Zhou

Model pruning has become a useful technique that improves the computational efficiency of deep learning, making it possible to deploy solutions in resource-limited scenarios. A widely-used practice in relevant work assumes that a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Jianbo Ye , Xin Lu , Zhe Lin , James Z. Wang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieve state-of-the-art performance in a wide variety of tasks in computer vision. However, interpreting CNNs still remains a challenge. This is mainly due to the large number of parameters in these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-08 Reza Abbasi-Asl , Bin Yu

A well-trained Convolutional Neural Network can easily be pruned without significant loss of performance. This is because of unnecessary overlap in the features captured by the network's filters. Innovations in network architecture such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Aaditya Prakash , James Storer , Dinei Florencio , Cha Zhang

Kernel pruning methods have been proposed to speed up, simplify, and improve explanation of convolutional neural network (CNN) models. However, the effectiveness of a simplified model is often below the original one. In this letter, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-19 D. Osaku , J. F. Gomes , A. X. Falcão

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are state-of-the-art in numerous computer vision tasks such as object classification and detection. However, the large amount of parameters they contain leads to a high computational complexity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Ghouthi Boukli Hacene , Vincent Gripon , Matthieu Arzel , Nicolas Farrugia , Yoshua Bengio

Though network pruning receives popularity in reducing the complexity of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), it remains an open issue to concurrently maintain model accuracy as well as achieve significant speedups on general CPUs. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Mingbao Lin , Yuxin Zhang , Yuchao Li , Bohong Chen , Fei Chao , Mengdi Wang , Shen Li , Yonghong Tian , Rongrong Ji

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

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved impressive performance in many computer vision tasks. However, their large model sizes require heavy computational resources, making pruning redundant filters from existing pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Kiran Purohit , Anurag Reddy Parvathgari , Sourangshu Bhattacharya

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved significant breakthroughs in various fields. However, these advancements have led to a substantial increase in the complexity and size of these networks. This poses a challenge when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Ahmed Sadaqa , Di Liu

While convolutional neural networks (CNN) have achieved impressive performance on various classification/recognition tasks, they typically consist of a massive number of parameters. This results in significant memory requirement as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Pravendra Singh , Vinay Kumar Verma , Piyush Rai , Vinay P. Namboodiri