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Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) has recently emerged as an effective technique for improving DNN robustness to input variations. However, its interplay with the compactness requirements of on-device DNN deployments remains less explored.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Jialuo He , Huangxun Chen

Developmental plasticity plays a prominent role in shaping the brain's structure during ongoing learning in response to dynamically changing environments. However, the existing network compression methods for deep artificial neural networks…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Bing Han , Feifei Zhao , Yi Zeng , Guobin Shen

To address the enormous size of Large Language Models (LLMs), model compression methods, such as quantization and pruning, are often deployed, especially on edge devices. In this work, we focus on layer-wise post-training quantization and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jing Liu , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Ye Wang , Hassan Mansour , Matthew Brand

With the introduction of SNIP [arXiv:1810.02340v2], it has been demonstrated that modern neural networks can effectively be pruned before training. Yet, its sensitivity criterion has since been criticized for not propagating training signal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Stijn Verdenius , Maarten Stol , Patrick Forré

Recent work has explored the possibility of pruning neural networks at initialization. We assess proposals for doing so: SNIP (Lee et al., 2019), GraSP (Wang et al., 2020), SynFlow (Tanaka et al., 2020), and magnitude pruning. Although…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Jonathan Frankle , Gintare Karolina Dziugaite , Daniel M. Roy , Michael Carbin

In this work we present a method to improve the pruning step of the current state-of-the-art methodology to compress neural networks. The novelty of the proposed pruning technique is in its differentiability, which allows pruning to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Franco Manessi , Alessandro Rozza , Simone Bianco , Paolo Napoletano , Raimondo Schettini

Continual learning (CL) in deep neural networks (DNNs) involves incrementally accumulating knowledge in a DNN from a growing data stream. A major challenge in CL is that non-stationary data streams cause catastrophic forgetting of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Md Yousuf Harun , Jhair Gallardo , Junyu Chen , Christopher Kanan

Current deep learning architectures are growing larger in order to learn from complex datasets. These architectures require giant matrix multiplication operations to train millions of parameters. Conversely, there is another growing trend…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-06 Ryan Spring , Anshumali Shrivastava

Currently, an increasing number of model pruning methods are proposed to resolve the contradictions between the computer powers required by the deep learning models and the resource-constrained devices. However, most of the traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Jiaqi Li , Haoran Li , Yaran Chen , Zixiang Ding , Nannan Li , Mingjun Ma , Zicheng Duan , Dongbing Zhao

The recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly improved language understanding and generation capabilities. However, it is difficult to deploy LLMs on resource-constrained edge devices due to their high…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Haotian Zheng , Jinke Ren , Yushan Sun , Ruichen Zhang , Wenbo Zhang , Zhen Li , Dusit Niyato , Shuguang Cui , Yatong Han

Network pruning techniques, including weight pruning and filter pruning, reveal that most state-of-the-art neural networks can be accelerated without a significant performance drop. This work focuses on filter pruning which enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Xuanyu He , Yu-I Yang , Ran Song , Jiachen Pu , Conggang Hu , Feijun Jiang , Wei Zhang , Huanghao Ding

While multimodal large language models demonstrate strong performance in complex reasoning tasks, they pose significant challenges related to model complexity during deployment, especially for resource-limited devices. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yinan Liang , Ziwei Wang , Xiuwei Xu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved significant success across various NLP tasks. However, their massive computational costs limit their widespread use, particularly in real-time applications. Structured pruning offers an effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Shengkun Tang , Oliver Sieberling , Eldar Kurtic , Zhiqiang Shen , Dan Alistarh

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are reported to be overparametrized. The search for optimal (minimal) and sufficient architecture is an NP-hard problem as the hyperparameter space for possible network configurations is vast. Here, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Tin Barisin , Illia Horenko

Modern deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performances but are typically over-parameterized. The over-parameterization may result in undesirably large generalization error in the absence of other customized training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Jiawei Du , Daquan Zhou , Jiashi Feng , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Joey Tianyi Zhou

A central goal in deep learning is to learn compact representations of features at every layer of a neural network, which is useful for both unsupervised representation learning and structured network pruning. While there is a growing body…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Jie Bu , Arka Daw , M. Maruf , Anuj Karpatne

In this work, we introduce a learning model designed to meet the needs of applications in which computational resources are limited, and robustness and interpretability are prioritized. Learning problems can be formulated as constrained…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 Christos Mavridis , John Baras

Structural pruning enhances hardware-agnostic inference efficiency for large language models (LLMs) yet often fails to maintain comparable performance. Local pruning performs efficient layer-by-layer compression but ignores global topology.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Guanchen Li , Yixing Xu , Zeping Li , Ji Liu , Xuanwu Yin , Dong Li , Emad Barsoum

Many mobile applications demand selective execution of multiple correlated deep learning inference tasks on resource-constrained platforms. Given a set of deep neural networks, each pre-trained for a single task, it is desired that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Xiaoxi He , Dawei Gao , Zimu Zhou , Yongxin Tong , Lothar Thiele

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