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Modern iterations of deep learning models contain millions (billions) of unique parameters, each represented by a b-bit number. Popular attempts at compressing neural networks (such as pruning and quantisation) have shown that many of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Christopher Subia-Waud , Srinandan Dasmahapatra

Deep convolutional neural networks have liberated its extraordinary power on various tasks. However, it is still very challenging to deploy state-of-the-art models into real-world applications due to their high computational complexity. How…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Zehao Huang , Naiyan Wang

Lightweight and effective models are essential for devices with limited resources, such as intelligent vehicles. Structured pruning offers a promising approach to model compression and efficiency enhancement. However, existing methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Jonas Schmitt , Ruiping Liu , Junwei Zheng , Jiaming Zhang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Weight pruning is a powerful technique to realize model compression. We propose PCNN, a fine-grained regular 1D pruning method. A novel index format called Sparsity Pattern Mask (SPM) is presented to encode the sparsity in PCNN. Leveraging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Zhanhong Tan , Jiebo Song , Xiaolong Ma , Sia-Huat Tan , Hongyang Chen , Yuanqing Miao , Yifu Wu , Shaokai Ye , Yanzhi Wang , Dehui Li , Kaisheng Ma

Deep learning has driven significant advances in medical image analysis, yet its adoption in clinical practice remains constrained by the large size and lack of transparency in modern models. Advances in interpretability techniques such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Nikita Malik , Pratinav Seth , Neeraj Kumar Singh , Chintan Chitroda , Vinay Kumar Sankarapu

Recent work in Deep Learning has re-imagined the representation of data as functions mapping from a coordinate space to an underlying continuous signal. When such functions are approximated by neural networks this introduces a compelling…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-09 Jonathan Richard Schwarz , Yee Whye Teh

As a widely adopted model compression technique, model pruning has demonstrated strong effectiveness across various architectures. However, we observe that when sparsity exceeds a certain threshold, both iterative and one-shot pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Junchen Liu , Yi Sheng

Large language models have recently achieved state of the art performance across a wide variety of natural language tasks. Meanwhile, the size of these models and their latency have significantly increased, which makes their usage costly,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Ziheng Wang , Jeremy Wohlwend , Tao Lei

We present a novel data-efficient semi-supervised framework to improve the generalization of image captioning models. Constructing a large-scale labeled image captioning dataset is an expensive task in terms of labor, time, and cost. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Dong-Jin Kim , Tae-Hyun Oh , Jinsoo Choi , In So Kweon

State-of-the-art deep learning models have a parameter count that reaches into the billions. Training, storing and transferring such models is energy and time consuming, thus costly. A big part of these costs is caused by training the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Paul Wimmer , Jens Mehnert , Alexandru Paul Condurache

Despite the remarkable generation capabilities of Diffusion Models (DMs), conducting training and inference remains computationally expensive. Previous works have been devoted to accelerating diffusion sampling, but achieving data-efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Yize Li , Yihua Zhang , Sijia Liu , Xue Lin

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…

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

We propose a novel algorithm for combined unit and layer pruning of deep neural networks that functions during training and without requiring a pre-trained network to apply. Our algorithm optimally trades-off learning accuracy and pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Valentin Frank Ingmar Guenter , Athanasios Sideris

The growing energy and performance costs of deep learning have driven the community to reduce the size of neural networks by selectively pruning components. Similarly to their biological counterparts, sparse networks generalize just as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Torsten Hoefler , Dan Alistarh , Tal Ben-Nun , Nikoli Dryden , Alexandra Peste

Using single-pixel detection, the end-to-end neural network that jointly optimizes both encoding and decoding enables high-precision imaging and high-level semantic sensing. However, for varied sampling rates, the large-scale network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-11 Xinrui Zhan , Liheng Bian , Chunli Zhu , Jun Zhang

Deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on edge devices requires strong compression with minimal accuracy loss. This paper introduces Mix-and-Match Pruning, a globally guided, layer-wise sparsification framework that leverages sensitivity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Danial Monachan , Samira Nazari , Mahdi Taheri , Ali Azarpeyvand , Milos Krstic , Michael Huebner , Christian Herglotz

Pruning has emerged as a promising approach for compressing large-scale models, yet its effectiveness in recovering the sparsest of models has not yet been explored. We conducted an extensive series of 485,838 experiments, applying a range…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Stephen Zhang , Vardan Papyan

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are nowadays witnessing a major success in solving many pattern recognition tasks including skeleton-based classification. The deployment of DNNs on edge-devices, endowed with limited time and memory resources,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Hichem Sahbi

In speech machine learning, neural network models are typically designed by choosing an architecture with fixed layer sizes and structure. These models are then trained to maximize performance on metrics aligned with the task's objective.…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Esteban Gómez , Tom Bäckström