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The high computational costs associated with large deep learning models significantly hinder their practical deployment. Model pruning has been widely explored in deep learning literature to reduce their computational burden, but its…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Md Adnan Faisal Hossain , Fengqing Zhu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) often have to be compressed, via pruning and/or quantization, before they can be deployed in practical settings. In this work we propose a new compression-aware minimizer dubbed CrAM that modifies the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Alexandra Peste , Adrian Vladu , Eldar Kurtic , Christoph H. Lampert , Dan Alistarh

Recently there has been a lot of work on pruning filters from deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with the intention of reducing computations. The key idea is to rank the filters based on a certain criterion (say, $l_1$-norm, average…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Deepak Mittal , Shweta Bhardwaj , Mitesh M. Khapra , Balaraman Ravindran

Deep learning recommendation systems at scale have provided remarkable gains through increasing model capacity (i.e. wider and deeper neural networks), but it comes at significant training cost and infrastructure cost. Model pruning is an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Xiaocong Du , Bhargav Bhushanam , Jiecao Yu , Dhruv Choudhary , Tianxiang Gao , Sherman Wong , Louis Feng , Jongsoo Park , Yu Cao , Arun Kejariwal

This paper presents a dynamic network rewiring (DNR) method to generate pruned deep neural network (DNN) models that are robust against adversarial attacks yet maintain high accuracy on clean images. In particular, the disclosed DNR method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Souvik Kundu , Mahdi Nazemi , Peter A. Beerel , Massoud Pedram

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are successful in many computer vision tasks. However, the most accurate DNNs require millions of parameters and operations, making them energy, computation and memory intensive. This impedes the deployment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Abhinav Goel , Caleb Tung , Yung-Hsiang Lu , George K. Thiruvathukal

The task of accelerating large neural networks on general purpose hardware has, in recent years, prompted the use of channel pruning to reduce network size. However, the efficacy of pruning based approaches has since been called into…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-08 Jack Turner , Elliot J. Crowley , Valentin Radu , José Cano , Amos Storkey , Michael O'Boyle

Distributed deep neural networks (DNNs) have become central to modern computer vision, yet their deployment on resource-constrained edge devices remains hindered by substantial parameter counts, computational demands, and the probability of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Mahadev Sunil Kumar , Arnab Raha , Debayan Das , Gopakumar G , Rounak Chatterjee , Amitava Mukherjee

When deploying pre-trained neural network models in real-world applications, model consumers often encounter resource-constraint platforms such as mobile and smart devices. They typically use the pruning technique to reduce the size and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Mark Huasong Meng , Guangdong Bai , Sin Gee Teo , Jin Song Dong

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have recently achieved remarkable successes in a number of applications. However, the huge sizes and computational burden of these models make it difficult for their deployment on edge devices. A practically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Liangjian Wen , Xuanyang Zhang , Haoli Bai , Zenglin Xu

The current landscape in time-series forecasting is dominated by Transformer-based models. Their high parameter count and corresponding demand in computational resources pose a challenge to real-world deployment, especially for commercial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Nicholas Kiefer , Arvid Weyrauch , Muhammed Öz , Achim Streit , Markus Götz , Charlotte Debus

Previous work showed empirically that large neural networks can be significantly reduced in size while preserving their accuracy. Model compression became a central research topic, as it is crucial for deployment of neural networks on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Ben Mussay , Margarita Osadchy , Vladimir Braverman , Samson Zhou , Dan Feldman

Model compression is instrumental in optimizing deep neural network inference on resource-constrained hardware. The prevailing methods for network compression, namely quantization and pruning, have been shown to enhance efficiency at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Ben Zandonati , Glenn Bucagu , Adrian Alan Pol , Maurizio Pierini , Olya Sirkin , Tal Kopetz

The recent trend toward increasingly deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) leads to a higher demand of computational power and memory storage. Consequently, the deployment of CNNs in hardware has become more challenging. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Maurice Yang , Mahmoud Faraj , Assem Hussein , Vincent Gaudet

Oftentimes, machine learning applications using neural networks involve solving discrete optimization problems, such as in pruning, parameter-isolation-based continual learning and training of binary networks. Still, these discrete problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Hugo Silva , Martha White

Recent progress in deep learning has been driven by increasingly larger models. However, their computational and energy demands have grown proportionally, creating significant barriers to their deployment and to a wider adoption of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Pedro Savarese

Deep neural networks (DNNs) deliver outstanding performance, but their complexity often prohibits deployment in resource-constrained settings. Comprehensive structured pruning frameworks based on parameter dependency analysis reduce model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ganesh Sundaram , Jonas Ulmen , Daniel Görges

Deep neural networks are typically too computationally expensive to run in real-time on consumer-grade hardware and low-powered devices. In this paper, we investigate reducing the computational and memory requirements of neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Kimessha Paupamah , Steven James , Richard Klein

There has been much interest in deploying deep learning algorithms on low-powered devices, including smartphones, drones, and medical sensors. However, full-scale deep neural networks are often too resource-intensive in terms of energy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yoshitomo Matsubara , Ruihan Yang , Marco Levorato , Stephan Mandt

The growing number of AI-driven applications in mobile devices has led to solutions that integrate deep learning models with the available edge-cloud resources. Due to multiple benefits such as reduction in on-device energy consumption,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Akrit Mudvari , Antero Vainio , Iason Ofeidis , Sasu Tarkoma , Leandros Tassiulas