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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in object detection tasks, but their increasing complexity poses significant challenges for deployment on resource-constrained platforms. While model compression techniques such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Abhinav Shukla , Nachiket Tapas

Network pruning has been known to produce compact models without much accuracy degradation. However, how the pruning process affects a network's robustness and the working mechanism behind remain unresolved. In this work, we theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Shufan Wang , Ningyi Liao , Liyao Xiang , Nanyang Ye , Quanshi Zhang

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

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have a large number of parameters and take significantly large hardware resources to compute, so edge devices struggle to run high-level networks. This paper proposes a novel method to reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Athul Shibu , Abhishek Kumar , Heechul Jung , Dong-Gyu Lee

Model pruning can enable the deployment of neural networks in environments with resource constraints. While pruning may have a small effect on the overall performance of the model, it can exacerbate existing biases into the model such that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Robbie Meyer , Alexander Wong

Federated Learning (FL) is constrained by the communication and energy limitations of decentralized edge devices. While gradient sparsification via Top-K magnitude pruning effectively reduces the communication payload, it remains inherently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Emmanouil M. Athanasakos

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are typically over-parameterized, bringing considerable computational overhead and memory footprint in inference. Pruning a proportion of unimportant filters is an efficient way to mitigate the inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Kai Zhao , Xin-Yu Zhang , Qi Han , Ming-Ming Cheng

Real time application of deep learning algorithms is often hindered by high computational complexity and frequent memory accesses. Network pruning is a promising technique to solve this problem. However, pruning usually results in irregular…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Sajid Anwar , Kyuyeon Hwang , Wonyong Sung

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

Channel pruning is a promising method for accelerating and compressing convolutional neural networks. However, current pruning algorithms still remain unsolved problems that how to assign layer-wise pruning ratios properly and discard the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yihao Chen , Zefang Wang

Neural networks can be compressed to reduce memory and computational requirements, or to increase accuracy by facilitating the use of a larger base architecture. In this paper we focus on pruning individual neurons, which can simultaneously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Bin Dai , Chen Zhu , David Wipf

Recent work has proposed neural network pruning techniques to reduce the size of a network while preserving robustness against adversarial examples, i.e., well-crafted inputs inducing a misclassification. These methods, which we refer to as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Giorgio Piras , Maura Pintor , Ambra Demontis , Battista Biggio , Giorgio Giacinto , Fabio Roli

Considering the hardware-friendly characteristics and broad applicability, structured pruning has emerged as an efficient solution to reduce the resource demands of large language models (LLMs) on resource-constrained devices. Traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Zihuai Xu , Yang Xu , Hongli Xu , Yunming Liao , Zhiwei Yao , Zuan Xie

Neural networks have seen an explosion of usage and research in the past decade, particularly within the domains of computer vision and natural language processing. However, only recently have advancements in neural networks yielded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Jacob Renn , Ian Sotnek , Benjamin Harvey , Brian Caffo

With the growth of neural network size, model compression has attracted increasing interest in recent research. As one of the most common techniques, pruning has been studied for a long time. By exploiting the structured sparsity of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Chengyu Xia , Danny H. K. Tsang , Vincent K. N. Lau

Non-uniform structured network pruning methods can effectively reduce Large Language Model (LLM) size by eliminating redundant channels or layers, offering lower performance degradation than uniform strategies. However, existing non-uniform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Zuxin Ma , Yunhe Cui , Yongbin Qin

The brain is a highly reconfigurable machine capable of task-specific adaptations. The brain continually rewires itself for a more optimal configuration to solve problems. We propose a novel strategic synthesis algorithm for feedforward…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Alastair Finlinson , Sotiris Moschoyiannis

A pivotal advancement in the progress of large language models (LLMs) is the emergence of the Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) LLMs. Compared to traditional LLMs, MoE LLMs can achieve higher performance with fewer parameters, but it is still hard…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Xudong Lu , Qi Liu , Yuhui Xu , Aojun Zhou , Siyuan Huang , Bo Zhang , Junchi Yan , Hongsheng Li

The learning capability of a neural network improves with increasing depth at higher computational costs. Wider layers with dense kernel connectivity patterns furhter increase this cost and may hinder real-time inference. We propose feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Sajid Anwar , Wonyong Sung

We introduce Continual Learning via Neural Pruning (CLNP), a new method aimed at lifelong learning in fixed capacity models based on neuronal model sparsification. In this method, subsequent tasks are trained using the inactive neurons and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Siavash Golkar , Michael Kagan , Kyunghyun Cho