English
Related papers

Related papers: Regularization-based Pruning of Irrelevant Weights…

200 papers

Deep neural networks achieve outstanding performance across vision and language tasks, yet their large parameter counts limit deployment in resource-constrained settings. One-shot pruning reduces model size without retraining, but models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Vincent-Daniel Yun , Junhyuk Jo , Sunwoo Lee

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

This paper addresses the topic of sparsifying deep neural networks (DNN's). While DNN's are powerful models that achieve state-of-the-art performance on a large number of tasks, the large number of model parameters poses serious storage and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Igor Fedorov , Bhaskar D. Rao

Deep convolutional neural networks have liberated its extraordinary power on various tasks. However, it is still very challenging to deploy state-of-the-art models into real-world applications due to their high computational complexity. How…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Zehao Huang , Naiyan Wang

Pruning aims to accelerate and compress models by removing redundant parameters, identified by specifically designed importance scores which are usually imperfect. This removal is irreversible, often leading to subpar performance in pruned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Xinglong Sun , Maying Shen , Hongxu Yin , Lei Mao , Pavlo Molchanov , Jose M. Alvarez

Deep neural networks include millions of learnable parameters, making their deployment over resource-constrained devices problematic. SeReNe (Sensitivity-based Regularization of Neurons) is a method for learning sparse topologies with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Enzo Tartaglione , Andrea Bragagnolo , Francesco Odierna , Attilio Fiandrotti , Marco Grangetto

Since the convolutional neural networks are often trained with redundant parameters, it is possible to reduce redundant kernels or filters to obtain a compact network without dropping the classification accuracy. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Kakeru Mitsuno , Takio Kurita

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

Synaptic pruning in biological brains removes weak connections to improve efficiency. In contrast, dropout regularization in artificial neural networks randomly deactivates neurons without considering activity-dependent pruning. We propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Gideon Vos , Liza van Eijk , Zoltan Sarnyai , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

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

Modern neural network architectures typically have many millions of parameters and can be pruned significantly without substantial loss in effectiveness which demonstrates they are over-parameterized. The contribution of this work is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-09 Yaniv Shulman

Dropout-based regularization methods can be regarded as injecting random noise with pre-defined magnitude to different parts of the neural network during training. It was recently shown that Bayesian dropout procedure not only improves…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Kirill Neklyudov , Dmitry Molchanov , Arsenii Ashukha , Dmitry Vetrov

State-of-the-art deep learning models have a parameter count that reaches into the billions. Training, storing and transferring such models is energy and time consuming, thus costly. A big part of these costs is caused by training the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Paul Wimmer , Jens Mehnert , Alexandru Paul Condurache

How to develop slim and accurate deep neural networks has become crucial for real- world applications, especially for those employed in embedded systems. Though previous work along this research line has shown some promising results, most…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Xin Dong , Shangyu Chen , Sinno Jialin Pan

Large neural networks are heavily over-parameterized. This is done because it improves training to optimality. However once the network is trained, this means many parameters can be zeroed, or pruned, leaving an equivalent sparse neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Michael G. Rawson

With the rapid scaling up of deep neural networks (DNNs), extensive research studies on network model compression such as weight pruning have been performed for improving deployment efficiency. This work aims to advance the compression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Qing Yang , Wei Wen , Zuoguan Wang , Hai Li

In this work, we describe a new approach that uses deep neural networks (DNN) to obtain regularization parameters for solving inverse problems. We consider a supervised learning approach, where a network is trained to approximate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-15 Babak Maboudi Afkham , Julianne Chung , Matthias Chung

The impressive success of modern deep neural networks on computer vision tasks has been achieved through models of very large capacity compared to the number of available training examples. This overparameterization is often said to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Alex Hernández-García , Peter König

Structural neural network pruning aims to remove the redundant channels in the deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) by pruning the filters of less importance to the final output accuracy. To reduce the degradation of performance after…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Nanfei Jiang , Xu Zhao , Chaoyang Zhao , Yongqi An , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

This paper presents a novel method which simultaneously learns the number of filters and network features repeatedly over multiple epochs. We propose a novel pruning loss to explicitly enforces the optimizer to focus on promising candidate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Tinghuai Wang , Lixin Fan , Huiling Wang