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Network pruning reduces the size of neural networks by removing (pruning) neurons such that the performance drop is minimal. Traditional pruning approaches focus on designing metrics to quantify the usefulness of a neuron which is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Shehryar Malik , Muhammad Umair Haider , Omer Iqbal , Murtaza Taj

The subject of green AI has been gaining attention within the deep learning community given the recent trend of ever larger and more complex neural network models. Existing solutions for reducing the computational load of training at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Xiaoying Zhi , Varun Babbar , Rundong Liu , Pheobe Sun , Fran Silavong , Ruibo Shi , Sean Moran

In this paper, we present a novel sensitivity-based filter pruning algorithm (SbF-Pruner) to learn the importance scores of filters of each layer end-to-end. Our method learns the scores from the filter weights, enabling it to account for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Zahra Babaiee , Lucas Liebenwein , Ramin Hasani , Daniela Rus , Radu Grosu

Scaling deep neural networks (NN) of reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms has been shown to enhance performance when feature extraction networks are used but the gained performance comes at the significant expense of increased…

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

Channel pruning has received ever-increasing focus on network compression. In particular, class-discrimination based channel pruning has made major headway, as it fits seamlessly with the classification objective of CNNs and provides good…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Yuchen Liu , David Wentzlaff , S. Y. Kung

Continual Learning (CL) aims to train neural networks on a dynamic stream of tasks without forgetting previously learned knowledge. Among optimization-based approaches, C-Flat has emerged as a promising solution due to its plug-and-play…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Wei Li , Hangjie Yuan , Zixiang Zhao , Borui Kang , Ziwei Liu , Tao Feng

With the rapid development of deep learning, the sizes of neural networks become larger and larger so that the training and inference often overwhelm the hardware resources. Given the fact that neural networks are often over-parameterized,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Zhangheng Li , Tianlong Chen , Linyi Li , Bo Li , Zhangyang Wang

Oracle pruning, which selects unimportant weights by minimizing the pruned train loss, has been taken as the foundation for most neural network pruning methods for over 35 years, while few (if not none) have thought about how much the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Sicheng Feng , Keda Tao , Huan Wang

This paper presents an iterative pruning strategy for Convolutional Network Fabrics (CNF) in presence of noisy training and testing data. With the continuous increase in size of neural network models, various authors have developed pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Ilias Benjelloun , Bart Lamiroy , Efoevi Koudou

LLM-based recommender systems have made significant progress; however, the deployment cost associated with the large parameter volume of LLMs still hinders their real-world applications. This work explores parameter pruning to improve…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Shanle Zheng , Keqin Bao , Jizhi Zhang , Yang Zhang , Fuli Feng , Xiangnan He

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, l1-norm) and retain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Deepak Mittal , Shweta Bhardwaj , Mitesh M. Khapra , Balaraman Ravindran

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become a widely deployed model for numerous machine learning applications. However, their fixed architecture, substantial training cost, and significant model redundancy make it difficult to efficiently…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Xiaoliang Dai , Hongxu Yin , Niraj K. Jha

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has an amount of parameter redundancy, filter pruning aims to remove the redundant filters and provides the possibility for the application of CNN on terminal devices. However, previous works pay more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Pengkun Liu , Yaru Yue , Yanjun Guo , Xingxiang Tao , Xiaoguang Zhou

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

The emergence of deep and large-scale spiking neural networks (SNNs) exhibiting high performance across diverse complex datasets has led to a need for compressing network models due to the presence of a significant number of redundant…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yaxin Li , Qi Xu , Jiangrong Shen , Hongming Xu , Long Chen , Gang Pan

Recent advancements have scaled neural networks to unprecedented sizes, achieving remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks. However, deploying these large-scale models on resource-constrained devices poses significant challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Mostafa Hussien , Mahmoud Afifi , Kim Khoa Nguyen , Mohamed Cheriet

Novel computer vision architectures monopolize the spotlight, but the impact of the model architecture is often conflated with simultaneous changes to training methodology and scaling strategies. Our work revisits the canonical ResNet (He…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Irwan Bello , William Fedus , Xianzhi Du , Ekin D. Cubuk , Aravind Srinivas , Tsung-Yi Lin , Jonathon Shlens , Barret Zoph

Network adaptation is essential for the efficient operation of Cloud-RANs. Unfortunately, it leads to highly intractable mixed-integer nonlinear programming problems. Existing solutions typically rely on convex relaxation, which yield…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-18 Yifei Shen , Yuanming Shi , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

The ever-increasing fine-tuning cost of large-scale pre-trained models gives rise to the importance of dataset pruning, which aims to reduce dataset size while maintaining task performance. However, existing dataset pruning methods require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Wenyu Jiang , Zhenlong Liu , Zejian Xie , Songxin Zhang , Bingyi Jing , Hongxin Wei

Structured network pruning is a practical approach to reduce computation cost directly while retaining the CNNs' generalization performance in real applications. However, identifying redundant filters is a core problem in structured network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Wenting Tang , Xingxing Wei , Bo Li