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Pruning neural networks has proven to be a successful approach to increase the efficiency and reduce the memory storage of deep learning models without compromising performance. Previous literature has shown that it is possible to achieve a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Joaquin Alvarez

Ensembles of neural networks typically outperform individual networks but incur large computational costs, whereas weight aggregation produces less costly, yet also less accurate, aggregate models. We introduce partial fusion of networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Fabian Morelli , Stephan Eckstein

Deep learning has excelled in image recognition tasks through neural networks inspired by the human brain. However, the necessity for large models to improve prediction accuracy introduces significant computational demands and extended…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Taigo Sakai , Kazuhiro Hotta

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

Biological foundation models (BioFMs), pretrained on large-scale biological sequences, have recently shown strong potential in providing meaningful representations for diverse downstream bioinformatics tasks. However, such models often rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yifan Wu , Jiyue Jiang , Xichen Ye , Yiqi Wang , Chang Zhou , Yitao Xu , Jiayang Chen , He Hu , Weizhong Zhang , Cheng Jin , Jiao Yuan , Yu Li

Neural networks have achieved remarkable performance in various application domains. Nevertheless, a large number of weights in pre-trained deep neural networks prohibit them from being deployed on smartphones and embedded systems. It is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Shibo Yao , Dantong Yu , Ioannis Koutis

Due to the over-parameterization of neural networks, many model compression methods based on pruning and quantization have emerged. They are remarkable in reducing the size, parameter number, and computational complexity of the model.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Yun Chu , Pu Li , Yong Bai , Zhuhua Hu , Yongqing Chen , Jiafeng Lu

Bayesian inference in function space has gained attention due to its robustness against overparameterization in neural networks. However, approximating the infinite-dimensional function space introduces several challenges. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Sophie Steger , Christian Knoll , Bernhard Klein , Holger Fröning , Franz Pernkopf

Neural network pruning is essential for reducing model complexity to enable deployment on resource constrained hardware. While performance loss of pruned networks is often attributed to the removal of critical parameters, we identify signal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Dhananjay Saikumar , Blesson Varghese

Pruning is a standard technique for removing unnecessary structure from a neural network to reduce its storage footprint, computational demands, or energy consumption. Pruning can reduce the parameter-counts of many state-of-the-art neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Jonathan Frankle , David Bau

Pruning neural networks has regained interest in recent years as a means to compress state-of-the-art deep neural networks and enable their deployment on resource-constrained devices. In this paper, we propose a robust compressive learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 George Retsinas , Athena Elafrou , Georgios Goumas , Petros Maragos

Prototypical network (PN) is a simple yet effective few shot learning strategy. It is a metric-based meta-learning technique where classification is performed by computing Euclidean distances to prototypical representations of each class.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Ranjana Roy Chowdhury , Deepti R. Bathula

How much can pruning algorithms teach us about the fundamentals of learning representations in neural networks? And how much can these fundamentals help while devising new pruning techniques? A lot, it turns out. Neural network pruning has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Aditya Sharma , Nikolas Wolfe , Bhiksha Raj

Filter pruning has gained widespread adoption for the purpose of compressing and speeding up convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, existing approaches are still far from practical applications due to biased filter selection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Xiaolong Tang , Shuo Ye , Yufeng Shi , Tianheng Hu , Qinmu Peng , Xinge You

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

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

State-of-the-art computer vision models are rapidly increasing in capacity, where the number of parameters far exceeds the number required to fit the training set. This results in better optimization and generalization performance. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Najeeb Khan , Ian Stavness

This work presents a probabilistic channel pruning method to accelerate Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Previous pruning methods often zero out unimportant channels in training in a deterministic manner, which reduces CNN's learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Wenqi Shao , Hang Yu , Zhaoyang Zhang , Hang Xu , Zhenguo Li , Ping Luo

Global Neuron Importance Estimation is used to prune neural networks for efficiency reasons. To determine the global importance of each neuron or convolutional kernel, most of the existing methods either use activation or gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Suman Sapkota , Binod Bhattarai

Ensemble techniques are frequently encountered in machine learning and engineering problems since the method combines different models and produces an optimal predictive solution. The ensemble concept can be adapted to deep learning models…