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This paper proposes a method for reconstructing three-dimensional turbulent flows from sparse measurements without the need for ground truth data during training. A weight-sharing network is developed to infer the full flow fields from…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-11 Yaxin Mo , Luca Magri

Pruning large neural networks to create high-quality, independently trainable sparse masks, which can maintain similar performance to their dense counterparts, is very desirable due to the reduced space and time complexity. As research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Ajay Jaiswal , Haoyu Ma , Tianlong Chen , Ying Ding , Zhangyang Wang

Channel (or 3D filter) pruning serves as an effective way to accelerate the inference of neural networks. There has been a flurry of algorithms that try to solve this practical problem, each being claimed effective in some ways. Yet, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Yawei Li , Kamil Adamczewski , Wen Li , Shuhang Gu , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have manifested remarkable advantages in power consumption and event-driven property during the inference process. To take full advantage of low power consumption and improve the efficiency of these models…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Jiangrong Shen , Qi Xu , Jian K. Liu , Yueming Wang , Gang Pan , Huajin Tang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are used in many applications, but their large size and high computational cost make them hard to run on devices with limited resources. Two widely used techniques to address this challenge are weight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Dan Liu , Nikita Dvornik , Xue Liu

Designing neural networks typically relies on manual trial and error or a neural architecture search (NAS) followed by weight training. The former is time-consuming and labor-intensive, while the latter often discretizes architecture search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Zitong Huang , Mansooreh Montazerin , Ajitesh Srivastava

Weight pruning methods of DNNs have been demonstrated to achieve a good model pruning rate without loss of accuracy, thereby alleviating the significant computation/storage requirements of large-scale DNNs. Structured weight pruning methods…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Tianyun Zhang , Shaokai Ye , Kaiqi Zhang , Xiaolong Ma , Ning Liu , Linfeng Zhang , Jian Tang , Kaisheng Ma , Xue Lin , Makan Fardad , Yanzhi Wang

Weight pruning is a technique to make Deep Neural Network (DNN) inference more computationally efficient by reducing the number of model parameters over the course of training. However, most weight pruning techniques generally does not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Bradley McDanel , Helia Dinh , John Magallanes

Convolutional neural network (CNN) pruning has become one of the most successful network compression approaches in recent years. Existing works on network pruning usually focus on removing the least important filters in the network to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Zi Wang , Chengcheng Li , Xiangyang Wang

While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) excel at learning complex latent-space representations, their over-parameterization can lead to overfitting and reduced performance, particularly with limited data. This, alongside their high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Manish Sharma , Jamison Heard , Eli Saber , Panos P. Markopoulos

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved promising results in medical image segmentation. However, CNNs require lots of training data and are incapable of handling pose and deformation of objects. Furthermore, their pooling layers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Minh Tran , Viet-Khoa Vo-Ho , Ngan T. H. Le

Most neural network pruning methods, such as filter-level and layer-level prunings, prune the network model along one dimension (depth, width, or resolution) solely to meet a computational budget. However, such a pruning policy often leads…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Wenxiao Wang , Minghao Chen , Shuai Zhao , Long Chen , Jinming Hu , Haifeng Liu , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He , Wei Liu

Existing methods for reducing the computational burden of neural networks at run-time, such as parameter pruning or dynamic computational path selection, focus solely on improving computational efficiency during inference. On the other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Simeon E. Spasov , Pietro Lio

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are computationally intensive, which limits their application on mobile devices. Their energy is dominated by the number of multiplies needed to perform the convolutions. Winograd's minimal filtering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Xingyu Liu , Jeff Pool , Song Han , William J. Dally

Convolutional Neural Networks with 3D kernels (3D-CNNs) currently achieve state-of-the-art results in video recognition tasks due to their supremacy in extracting spatiotemporal features within video frames. There have been many successful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Okan Köpüklü , Stefan Hörmann , Fabian Herzog , Hakan Cevikalp , Gerhard Rigoll

Large-scale neural networks have demonstrated remarkable performance in different domains like vision and language processing, although at the cost of massive computation resources. As illustrated by compression literature, structural model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Tianjin Huang , Fang Meng , Li Shen , Fan Liu , Yulong Pei , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Shiwei Liu , Tianlong Chen

Modern deep neural networks are typically highly overparameterized. Pruning techniques are able to remove a significant fraction of network parameters with little loss in accuracy. Recently, techniques based on dynamic reallocation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Hesham Mostafa , Xin Wang

Efficient inference of Convolutional Neural Networks is a thriving topic recently. It is desirable to achieve the maximal test accuracy under given inference budget constraints when deploying a pre-trained model. Network pruning is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Ruizhe Zhao , Wayne Luk

In this paper, we present a new approach for model acceleration by exploiting spatial sparsity in visual data. We observe that the final prediction in vision Transformers is only based on a subset of the most informative tokens, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Yongming Rao , Zuyan Liu , Wenliang Zhao , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

The demand for efficient processing of deep neural networks (DNNs) on embedded devices is a significant challenge limiting their deployment. Exploiting sparsity in the network's feature maps is one of the ways to reduce its inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Matteo Grimaldi , Darshan C. Ganji , Ivan Lazarevich , Sudhakar Sah