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Channel pruning is an important family of methods to speed up deep model's inference. Previous filter pruning algorithms regard channel pruning and model fine-tuning as two independent steps. This paper argues that combining them into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Jian-Hao Luo , Jianxin Wu

Pruning is a promising approach to compress complex deep learning models in order to deploy them on resource-constrained edge devices. However, many existing pruning solutions are based on unstructured pruning, which yields models that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Kaiqi Zhao , Animesh Jain , Ming Zhao

Structured pruning is a well-established technique for compressing neural networks, making it suitable for deployment in resource-limited edge devices. This paper presents an efficient Loss-Aware Automatic Selection of Structured Pruning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Deepak Ghimire , Kilho Lee , Seong-heum Kim

Channel-based pruning has achieved significant successes in accelerating deep convolutional neural network, whose pipeline is an iterative three-step procedure: ranking, pruning and fine-tuning. However, this iterative procedure is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Zi Wang , Chengcheng Li , Dali Wang , Xiangyang Wang , Hairong Qi

Structured pruning is a commonly used convolutional neural network (CNN) compression approach. Pruning rate setting is a fundamental problem in structured pruning. Most existing works introduce too many additional learnable parameters to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Pucheng Zhai , Kailing Guo , Fang Liu , Xiaofen Xing , Xiangmin Xu

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

The rapidly growing parameter volume of deep neural networks (DNNs) hinders the artificial intelligence applications on resource constrained devices, such as mobile and wearable devices. Neural network pruning, as one of the mainstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Ao Ren , Tao Zhang , Yuhao Wang , Sheng Lin , Peiyan Dong , Yen-kuang Chen , Yuan Xie , Yanzhi Wang

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is more and more widely used in various fileds, and its computation and memory-demand are also increasing significantly. In order to make it applicable to limited conditions such as embedded application,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Jiayi Yao , Ping Li , Xiatao Kang , Yuzhe Wang

Neural networks performance has been significantly improved in the last few years, at the cost of an increasing number of floating point operations per second (FLOPs). However, more FLOPs can be an issue when computational resources are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Thibault Castells , Seul-Ki Yeom

With the increase of structure complexity, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) take a fair amount of computation cost. Meanwhile, existing research reveals the salient parameter redundancy in CNNs. The current pruning methods can compress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Jingfei Chang , Yang Lu , Ping Xue , Yiqun Xu , Zhen Wei

We study network pruning which aims to remove redundant channels/kernels and hence speed up the inference of deep networks. Existing pruning methods either train from scratch with sparsity constraints or minimize the reconstruction error…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Jing Liu , Bohan Zhuang , Zhuangwei Zhuang , Yong Guo , Junzhou Huang , Jinhui Zhu , Mingkui Tan

Channel pruning, which seeks to reduce the model size by removing redundant channels, is a popular solution for deep networks compression. Existing channel pruning methods usually conduct layer-wise channel selection by directly minimizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Yiming Hu , Siyang Sun , Jianquan Li , Jiagang Zhu , Xingang Wang , Qingyi Gu

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

Traditional channel-wise pruning methods by reducing network channels struggle to effectively prune efficient CNN models with depth-wise convolutional layers and certain efficient modules, such as popular inverted residual blocks. Prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Ji Liu , Dehua Tang , Yuanxian Huang , Li Zhang , Xiaocheng Zeng , Dong Li , Mingjie Lu , Jinzhang Peng , Yu Wang , Fan Jiang , Lu Tian , Ashish Sirasao

The increasing computational demands of modern neural networks present deployment challenges on resource-constrained devices. Network pruning offers a solution to reduce model size and computational cost while maintaining performance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Xiang Meng , Wenyu Chen , Riade Benbaki , Rahul Mazumder

In this paper, we propose a novel meta learning approach for automatic channel pruning of very deep neural networks. We first train a PruningNet, a kind of meta network, which is able to generate weight parameters for any pruned structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Zechun Liu , Haoyuan Mu , Xiangyu Zhang , Zichao Guo , Xin Yang , Tim Kwang-Ting Cheng , Jian Sun

Channel pruning is a promising technique to compress the parameters of deep convolutional neural networks(DCNN) and to speed up the inference. This paper aims to address the long-standing inefficiency of channel pruning. Most channel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Zhouyang Xie , Yan Fu , Shengzhao Tian , Junlin Zhou , Duanbing Chen

In this work we present a method to improve the pruning step of the current state-of-the-art methodology to compress neural networks. The novelty of the proposed pruning technique is in its differentiability, which allows pruning to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Franco Manessi , Alessandro Rozza , Simone Bianco , Paolo Napoletano , Raimondo Schettini

Reducing the high computational cost of large convolutional neural networks is crucial when deploying the networks to resource-constrained environments. We first show the greedy approach of recent channel pruning methods ignores the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Yeonwoo Jeong , Deokjae Lee , Gaon An , Changyong Son , Hyun Oh Song

With the growth of interest in the attack and defense of deep neural networks, researchers are focusing more on the robustness of applying them to devices with limited memory. Thus, unlike adversarial training, which only considers the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Haidong Xie , Lixin Qian , Xueshuang Xiang , Naijin Liu