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Despite the notable success of graph convolutional networks (GCNs) in skeleton-based action recognition, their performance often depends on large volumes of labeled data, which are frequently scarce in practical settings. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Hichem Sahbi

Mini-batch inference of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is a key problem in many real-world applications. Recently, a GNN design principle of model depth-receptive field decoupling has been proposed to address the well-known issue of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Bingyi Zhang , Hanqing Zeng , Viktor Prasanna

Human action recognition from skeleton data, fueled by the Graph Convolutional Network (GCN), has attracted lots of attention, due to its powerful capability of modeling non-Euclidean structure data. However, many existing GCN methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Wei Peng , Xiaopeng Hong , Haoyu Chen , Guoying Zhao

Graph neural network (GNN) inference faces significant bottlenecks in preprocessing, which often dominate overall inference latency. We introduce AutoGNN, an FPGA-based accelerator designed to address these challenges by leveraging FPGA's…

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable accuracy in many artificial intelligence applications, e.g. computer vision, at the cost of a large number of parameters and high computational complexity. Weight pruning can compress DNN models…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Xuhao Chen

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have emerged as dominant methods for skeleton-based action recognition. However, they still suffer from two problems, namely, neighborhood constraints and entangled spatiotemporal feature representations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Ruwen Bai , Min Li , Bo Meng , Fengfa Li , Miao Jiang , Junxing Ren , Degang Sun

Deep spiking neural networks (SNNs) have emerged as a potential alternative to traditional deep learning frameworks, due to their promise to provide increased compute efficiency on event-driven neuromorphic hardware. However, to perform…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Souvik Kundu , Gourav Datta , Massoud Pedram , Peter A. Beerel

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) suffer from rapidly increasing storage and computational costs as their depth grows, which severely hinders their deployment on resource-constrained edge devices. Pruning is a practical approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Li Xu , Xianchao Xiu

In this paper, we devise a novel lightweight Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) design dubbed as Multi-Rate Magnitude Pruning (MRMP) that jointly trains network topology and weights. Our method is variational and proceeds by aligning the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Hichem Sahbi

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

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs), particularly for large-scale graphs, are crucial across numerous domains. However, training distributed full-batch GCNs on large-scale graphs suffers from inefficient memory access patterns and high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Chen Zhuang , Lingqi Zhang , Du Wu , Peng Chen , Jiajun Huang , Xin Liu , Rio Yokota , Nikoli Dryden , Toshio Endo , Satoshi Matsuoka , Mohamed Wahib

In skeleton-based action recognition, a key challenge is distinguishing between actions with similar trajectories of joints due to the lack of image-level details in skeletal representations. Recognizing that the differentiation of similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Hongda Liu , Yunfan Liu , Min Ren , Hao Wang , Yunlong Wang , Zhenan Sun

Pose-based action recognition has drawn considerable attention recently. Existing methods exploit the joint positions to extract the body-part features from the activation map of the convolutional networks to assist human action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Lei Shi , Yifan Zhang , Jian Cheng , Hanqing Lu

Due to the sparsity and irregularity of the point cloud data, methods that directly consume points have become popular. Among all point-based models, graph convolutional networks (GCN) lead to notable performance by fully preserving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Qiangeng Xu , Xudong Sun , Cho-Ying Wu , Panqu Wang , Ulrich Neumann

The deployment of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) on resource constrained platforms such as mobile devices and embedded systems has been greatly hindered by their high implementation cost, and thus motivated a lot research interest in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Boyu Zhang , Azadeh Davoodi , Yu Hen Hu

Recurrent neural networks can be large and compute-intensive, yet many applications that benefit from RNNs run on small devices with very limited compute and storage capabilities while still having run-time constraints. As a result, there…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Urmish Thakker , Jesse Beu , Dibakar Gope , Ganesh Dasika , Matthew Mattina

Heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) are essential for capturing the structure and semantic information in heterogeneous graphs. However, existing GPU-based solutions, such as PyTorch Geometric, suffer from low GPU utilization due to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Meng Wu , Jingkai Qiu , Mingyu Yan , Wenming Li , Yang Zhang , Zhimin Zhang , Xiaochun Ye , Dongrui Fan

Although deep neural networks (NNs) have achievedstate-of-the-art accuracy in many visual recognition tasks,the growing computational complexity and energy con-sumption of networks remains an issue, especially for ap-plications on platforms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Le Thanh Nguyen-Meidine , Eric Granger , Madhu Kiran , Louis-Antoine Blais-Morin , Marco Pedersoli

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with large kernels, drawing inspiration from the key operations of vision transformers (ViTs), have demonstrated impressive performance in various vision-based applications. To address the issue of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Miaoxin Wang , Xiao Wu , Jun Lin , Zhongfeng Wang

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are powerful tools for solving sequence-based problems, but their efficacy and execution time are dependent on the size of the network. Following recent work in simplifying these networks with model pruning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Feiwen Zhu , Jeff Pool , Michael Andersch , Jeremy Appleyard , Fung Xie