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Resource-efficient convolution neural networks enable not only the intelligence on edge devices but also opportunities in system-level optimization such as scheduling. In this work, we aim to improve the performance of resource-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Ting-Wu Chin , Cha Zhang , Diana Marculescu

Numerous studies have revealed that deep learning-based medical image classification models may exhibit bias towards specific demographic attributes, such as race, gender, and age. Existing bias mitigation methods often achieve high level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Qingpeng Kong , Ching-Hao Chiu , Dewen Zeng , Yu-Jen Chen , Tsung-Yi Ho , Jingtong hu , Yiyu Shi

We introduce and analyze a new technique for model reduction for deep neural networks. While large networks are theoretically capable of learning arbitrarily complex models, overfitting and model redundancy negatively affects the prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Alireza Aghasi , Afshin Abdi , Nam Nguyen , Justin Romberg

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

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved significant advances in a wide range of applications. However, their deployment on resource-constrained devices remains a challenge due to the large number of layers and parameters, which result in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Sara Makenali , Babak Rokh , Ali Azarpeyvand

Pruning is an efficient model compression technique to remove redundancy in the connectivity of deep neural networks (DNNs). Computations using sparse matrices obtained by pruning parameters, however, exhibit vastly different parallelism…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Dongsoo Lee , Se Jung Kwon , Byeongwook Kim , Parichay Kapoor , Gu-Yeon Wei

As neural networks grow in size and complexity, inference speeds decline. To combat this, one of the most effective compression techniques -- channel pruning -- removes channels from weights. However, for multi-branch segments of a model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Alvin Wan , Hanxiang Hao , Kaushik Patnaik , Yueyang Xu , Omer Hadad , David Güera , Zhile Ren , Qi Shan

We present a filter pruning approach for deep model compression, using a multitask network. Our approach is based on learning a a pruner network to prune a pre-trained target network. The pruner is essentially a multitask deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Vinay Kumar Verma , Pravendra Singh , Vinay P. Namboodiri , Piyush Rai

We develop a fast, tractable technique called Net-Trim for simplifying a trained neural network. The method is a convex post-processing module, which prunes (sparsifies) a trained network layer by layer, while preserving the internal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Alireza Aghasi , Afshin Abdi , Justin Romberg

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

In the era of exceptionally data-hungry models, careful selection of the training data is essential to mitigate the extensive costs of deep learning. Data pruning offers a solution by removing redundant or uninformative samples from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Artem Vysogorets , Kartik Ahuja , Julia Kempe

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved significant breakthroughs in various fields. However, these advancements have led to a substantial increase in the complexity and size of these networks. This poses a challenge when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Ahmed Sadaqa , Di Liu

This paper describes a channel-selection approach for simplifying deep neural networks. Specifically, we propose a new type of generic network layer, called pruning layer, to seamlessly augment a given pre-trained model for compression.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Chih-Yao Chiu , Hwann-Tzong Chen , Tyng-Luh Liu

To solve ever more complex problems, Deep Neural Networks are scaled to billions of parameters, leading to huge computational costs. An effective approach to reduce computational requirements and increase efficiency is to prune unnecessary…

We propose a simple but effective data-driven channel pruning algorithm, which compresses deep neural networks in a differentiable way by exploiting the characteristics of operations. The proposed approach makes a joint consideration of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Minsoo Kang , Bohyung Han

Channel pruning has been broadly recognized as an effective technique to reduce the computation and memory cost of deep convolutional neural networks. However, conventional pruning methods have limitations in that: they are restricted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Zejiang Hou , Minghai Qin , Fei Sun , Xiaolong Ma , Kun Yuan , Yi Xu , Yen-Kuang Chen , Rong Jin , Yuan Xie , Sun-Yuan Kung

Adapting pre-trained neural models to downstream tasks has become the standard practice for obtaining high-quality models. In this work, we propose a novel model adaptation paradigm, adapting by pruning, which prunes neural connections in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Yang Gao , Nicolo Colombo , Wei Wang

One of the major challenges in deploying deep neural network architectures is their size which has an adverse effect on their inference time and memory requirements. Deep CNNs can either be pruned width-wise by removing filters based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Muhammad Umair Haider , Murtaza Taj

We present a provable, sampling-based approach for generating compact Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) by identifying and removing redundant filters from an over-parameterized network. Our algorithm uses a small batch of input data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Lucas Liebenwein , Cenk Baykal , Harry Lang , Dan Feldman , Daniela Rus

The resource requirements of deep neural networks (DNNs) pose significant challenges to their deployment on edge devices. Common approaches to address this issue are pruning and mixed-precision quantization, which lead to latency and memory…