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Neural Networks can be effectively compressed through pruning, significantly reducing storage and compute demands while maintaining predictive performance. Simple yet effective methods like magnitude pruning remove less important parameters…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Max Zimmer , Megi Andoni , Christoph Spiegel , Sebastian Pokutta

There is an ongoing effort to develop feature selection algorithms to improve interpretability, reduce computational resources, and minimize overfitting in predictive models. Neural networks stand out as architectures on which to build…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Felix Zimmer , Patrik Okanovic , Torsten Hoefler

Deep Neural Network (DNN) trained by the gradient descent method is known to be vulnerable to maliciously perturbed adversarial input, aka. adversarial attack. As one of the countermeasures against adversarial attack, increasing the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Adnan Siraj Rakin , Zhezhi He , Li Yang , Yanzhi Wang , Liqiang Wang , Deliang Fan

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

In image Super-Resolution (SR), relying on large datasets for training is a double-edged sword. While offering rich training material, they also demand substantial computational and storage resources. In this work, we analyze dataset…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Brian B. Moser , Federico Raue , Andreas Dengel

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

The recent success of deep neural networks (DNNs) for function approximation in reinforcement learning has triggered the development of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms in various fields, such as robotics, computer games,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Dor Livne , Kobi Cohen

The most common method for DNN pruning is hard thresholding of network weights, followed by retraining to recover any lost accuracy. Recently developed smart pruning algorithms use the DNN response over the training set for a variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Konstantinos Pitas , Mike Davies , Pierre Vandergheynst

Network slicing is born as an emerging business to operators, by allowing them to sell the customized slices to various tenants at different prices. In order to provide better-performing and cost-efficient services, network slicing involves…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Qi Sun , Chi-Lin I , Chenyang Yang , Xianfu Chen , Minjian Zhao , Honggang Zhang

Verification of deep neural networks has witnessed a recent surge of interest, fueled by success stories in diverse domains and by abreast concerns about safety and security in envisaged applications. Complexity and sheer size of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Dario Guidotti , Francesco Leofante , Luca Pulina , Armando Tacchella

To accelerate DNNs inference, low-rank approximation has been widely adopted because of its solid theoretical rationale and efficient implementations. Several previous works attempted to directly approximate a pre-trained model by low-rank…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Yuhui Xu , Yuxi Li , Shuai Zhang , Wei Wen , Botao Wang , Wenrui Dai , Yingyong Qi , Yiran Chen , Weiyao Lin , Hongkai Xiong

We introduce a DNN training technique that learns only a fraction of the full parameter set without incurring an accuracy penalty. To do this, our algorithm constrains the total number of weights updated during backpropagation to those with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Maximilian Golub , Guy Lemieux , Mieszko Lis

Deep neural networks exploiting millions of parameters are nowadays the norm in deep learning applications. This is a potential issue because of the great amount of computational resources needed for training, and of the possible loss of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Giovanni Bonetta , Matteo Ribero , Rossella Cancelliere

Neural Networks (NN), although successfully applied to several Artificial Intelligence tasks, are often unnecessarily over-parametrised. In edge/fog computing, this might make their training prohibitive on resource-constrained devices,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Lorenzo Valerio , Franco Maria Nardini , Andrea Passarella , Raffaele Perego

Neural network pruning---the task of reducing the size of a network by removing parameters---has been the subject of a great deal of work in recent years. We provide a meta-analysis of the literature, including an overview of approaches to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Davis Blalock , Jose Javier Gonzalez Ortiz , Jonathan Frankle , John Guttag

Pruning is a well-established technique for removing unnecessary structure from neural networks after training to improve the performance of inference. Several recent results have explored the possibility of pruning at initialization time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Jonathan Frankle , Gintare Karolina Dziugaite , Daniel M. Roy , Michael Carbin

Deep reinforcement learning (deep RL) has achieved superior performance in complex sequential tasks by learning directly from image input. A deep neural network is used as a function approximator and requires no specific state information.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Xi Chen , Caylin Hickey

The learning capability of a neural network improves with increasing depth at higher computational costs. Wider layers with dense kernel connectivity patterns furhter increase this cost and may hinder real-time inference. We propose feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Sajid Anwar , Wonyong Sung

In offline reinforcement learning (RL), we seek to utilize offline data to evaluate (or learn) policies in scenarios where the data are collected from a distribution that substantially differs from that of the target policy to be evaluated.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Ruosong Wang , Yifan Wu , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Sham M. Kakade

Structured pruning is a popular method for compressing a neural network: given a large trained network, one alternates between removing channel connections and fine-tuning; reducing the overall width of the network. However, the efficacy of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-10 Elliot J. Crowley , Jack Turner , Amos Storkey , Michael O'Boyle