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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…

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Current techniques for deep neural network (DNN) pruning often involve intricate multi-step processes that require domain-specific expertise, making their widespread adoption challenging. To address the limitation, the Only-Train-Once (OTO)…

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Filter level pruning is an effective method to accelerate the inference speed of deep CNN models. Although numerous pruning algorithms have been proposed, there are still two open issues. The first problem is how to prune residual…

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Network pruning is a widely used technique to reduce computation cost and model size for deep neural networks. However, the typical three-stage pipeline, i.e., training, pruning and retraining (fine-tuning) significantly increases the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Deniz Gurevin , Shanglin Zhou , Lynn Pepin , Bingbing Li , Mikhail Bragin , Caiwen Ding , Fei Miao

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…

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The recent success of deep neural networks (DNNs) for function approximation in reinforcement learning has triggered the development of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms in various fields, such as robotics, computer games,…

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Structured pruning is an effective approach for compressing large pre-trained neural networks without significantly affecting their performance. However, most current structured pruning methods do not provide any performance guarantees, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Marwa El Halabi , Suraj Srinivas , Simon Lacoste-Julien

Pruning neural networks has regained interest in recent years as a means to compress state-of-the-art deep neural networks and enable their deployment on resource-constrained devices. In this paper, we propose a robust compressive learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 George Retsinas , Athena Elafrou , Georgios Goumas , Petros Maragos

Automatic Speech Recognition models require large amount of speech data for training, and the collection of such data often leads to privacy concerns. Federated learning has been widely used and is considered to be an effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Rongmei Lin , Yonghui Xiao , Tien-Ju Yang , Ding Zhao , Li Xiong , Giovanni Motta , Françoise Beaufays

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…

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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) pre-trained on large-scale datasets such as ImageNet are widely used as feature extractors to construct high-accuracy classification models from scarce data for specific tasks. In such scenarios,…

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Network pruning is a widely used technique to reduce computation cost and model size for deep neural networks. However, the typical three-stage pipeline significantly increases the overall training time. In this paper, we develop a…

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In real applications of Reinforcement Learning (RL), such as robotics, low latency and energy efficient inference is very desired. The use of sparsity and pruning for optimizing Neural Network inference, and particularly to improve energy…

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Recent advances in the field of artificial intelligence have been made possible by deep neural networks. In applications where data are scarce, transfer learning and data augmentation techniques are commonly used to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Mohammad Saeed Abrishami , Amir Erfan Eshratifar , David Eigen , Yanzhi Wang , Shahin Nazarian , Massoud Pedram

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are a class of neural networks used in sequential tasks. However, in general, RNNs have a large number of parameters and involve enormous computational costs by repeating the recurrent structures in many…

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To enable DNNs on edge devices like mobile phones, low-rank approximation has been widely adopted because of its solid theoretical rationale and efficient implementations. Several previous works attempted to directly approximate a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Yuhui Xu , Yuxi Li , Shuai Zhang , Wei Wen , Botao Wang , Yingyong Qi , Yiran Chen , Weiyao Lin , Hongkai Xiong

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are sensitive to adversarial examples, resulting in fragile and unreliable performance in the real world. Although adversarial training (AT) is currently one of the most effective methodologies to robustify DNNs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yize Li , Pu Zhao , Xue Lin , Bhavya Kailkhura , Ryan Goldhahn

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are hard to deploy on edge devices due to its high computation and storage complexities. As a common practice for model compression, network pruning consists of two major categories: unstructured and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Yuchuan Tian , Hanting Chen , Tianyu Guo , Chao Xu , Yunhe Wang

We explore the applications of random matrix theory (RMT) in the training of deep neural networks (DNNs), focusing on layer pruning that is reducing the number of DNN parameters (weights). Our numerical results show that this pruning leads…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Leonid Berlyand , Etienne Sandier , Yitzchak Shmalo , Lei Zhang

Artificial neural network pruning is a method in which artificial neural network sizes can be reduced while attempting to preserve the predicting capabilities of the network. This is done to make the model smaller or faster during inference…

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