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Meta-learning is a powerful paradigm for few-shot learning. Although with remarkable success witnessed in many applications, the existing optimization based meta-learning models with over-parameterized neural networks have been evidenced to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Hongduan Tian , Bo Liu , Xiao-Tong Yuan , Qingshan Liu

Deep Learning plays a significant role in assisting humans in many aspects of their lives. As these networks tend to get deeper over time, they extract more features to increase accuracy at the cost of additional inference latency. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Mehrshad Zandigohar , Deniz Erdogmus , Gunar Schirner

Pruning methods have shown to be effective at reducing the size of deep neural networks while keeping accuracy almost intact. Among the most effective methods are those that prune a network while training it with a sparsity prior loss and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Carl Lemaire , Andrew Achkar , Pierre-Marc Jodoin

Neural Networks (NN), although successfully applied to several Artificial Intelligence tasks, are often unnecessarily over-parametrised. In edge/fog computing, this might make their training prohibitive on resource-constrained devices,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Lorenzo Valerio , Franco Maria Nardini , Andrea Passarella , Raffaele Perego

Neural network pruning is an important step in design process of efficient neural networks for edge devices with limited computational power. Pruning is a form of knowledge transfer from the weights of the original network to a smaller…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Alexey Kruglov

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have become a popular 3D reconstruction approach in recent years. While they produce high-quality results, they also demand lengthy training times, often spanning days. This paper studies neural pruning as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Tianqi Ding , Dawei Xiang , Pablo Rivas , Liang Dong

Pruning well-trained neural networks is effective to achieve a promising accuracy-efficiency trade-off in computer vision regimes. However, most of existing pruning algorithms only focus on the classification task defined on the source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Ruichen Li , Binghui Li , Qi Qian , Liwei Wang

In the past few years, neural networks have evolved from simple Feedforward Neural Networks to more complex neural networks, such as Convolutional Neural Networks and Recurrent Neural Networks. Where CNNs are a perfect fit for tasks where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Harshil Darji

Efficient data selection is essential for improving the training efficiency of deep neural networks and reducing the associated annotation costs. However, traditional methods tend to be computationally expensive, limiting their scalability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Humaira Kousar , Hasnain Irshad Bhatti , Jaekyun Moon

Deep Reinforcement Learning has enabled the learning of policies for complex tasks in partially observable environments, without explicitly learning the underlying model of the tasks. While such model-free methods achieve considerable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Tanmay Shankar , Santosha K. Dwivedy , Prithwijit Guha

We propose Cluster Pruning (CUP) for compressing and accelerating deep neural networks. Our approach prunes similar filters by clustering them based on features derived from both the incoming and outgoing weight connections. With CUP, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Rahul Duggal , Cao Xiao , Richard Vuduc , Jimeng Sun

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are the key to the state-of-the-art machine vision, sensor fusion and audio/video signal processing. Unfortunately, their computation complexity and tight resource constraints on the Edge make them hard to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Ranko Sredojevic , Shaoyi Cheng , Lazar Supic , Rawan Naous , Vladimir Stojanovic

Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled network edge has realized edge intelligence in several applications such as smart agriculture, smart hospitals, and smart factories by enabling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Muhammad Zawish , Steven Davy , Lizy Abraham

This paper presents an efficient technique to prune deep and/or wide convolutional neural network models by eliminating redundant features (or filters). Previous studies have shown that over-sized deep neural network models tend to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Babajide O. Ayinde , Jacek M. Zurada

As deep neural networks are growing in size and being increasingly deployed to more resource-limited devices, there has been a recent surge of interest in network pruning methods, which aim to remove less important weights or activations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Minyoung Song , Jaehong Yoon , Eunho Yang , Sung Ju Hwang

Image restoration tasks have achieved tremendous performance improvements with the rapid advancement of deep neural networks. However, most prevalent deep learning models perform inference statically, ignoring that different images have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Yang Zhou , Yuda Song , Hui Qian , Xin Du

To perform well, Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) methods require significant memory resources and computational time. Also, sometimes these systems need additional environment information to achieve a good reward. However, it is more…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Md. Rafat Rahman Tushar , Shahnewaz Siddique

The success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in various applications is accompanied by a significant increase in computation and parameter storage costs. Recent efforts to reduce these overheads involve pruning and compressing the…

Neural networks have long strived to emulate the learning capabilities of the human brain. While deep neural networks (DNNs) draw inspiration from the brain in neuron design, their training methods diverge from biological foundations.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Joseph Bingham , Saman Zonouz , Dvir Aran

Purpose: Neural networks have received recent interest for reconstruction of undersampled MR acquisitions. Ideally network performance should be optimized by drawing the training and testing data from the same domain. In practice, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Salman Ul Hassan Dar , Muzaffer Özbey , Ahmet Burak Çatlı , Tolga Çukur