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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

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) have shown promising performances in several visual recognition problems which motivated the researchers to propose popular architectures such as LeNet, AlexNet, VGGNet, ResNet, and many more.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-13 S. H. Shabbeer Basha , Mohammad Farazuddin , Viswanath Pulabaigari , Shiv Ram Dubey , Snehasis Mukherjee

In general, deep neural network (DNN) pruning methods fall into two categories: 1) Weight-based deterministic constraints, and 2) Probabilistic frameworks. While each approach has its merits and limitations there are a set of common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Madan Ravi Ganesh , Dawsin Blanchard , Jason J. Corso , Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh

Fine-tuning is an important step in adapting foundation models such as large language models to downstream tasks. To make this step more accessible to users with limited computational budgets, it is crucial to develop fine-tuning methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Cen-Jhih Li , Aditya Bhaskara

For many years, the family of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has been a workhorse in deep learning. Recently, many novel CNN structures have been designed to address increasingly challenging tasks. To make them work efficiently on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Yanli Liu , Bochen Guan , Qinwen Xu , Weiyi Li , Shuxue Quan

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have a large number of parameters and take significantly large hardware resources to compute, so edge devices struggle to run high-level networks. This paper proposes a novel method to reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Athul Shibu , Abhishek Kumar , Heechul Jung , Dong-Gyu Lee

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has been applied in numerous Internet of Things (IoT) devices for multifarious downstream tasks. However, with the increasing amount of data on edge devices, CNNs can hardly complete some tasks in time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Zidu Wang , Xuexin Liu , Long Huang , Yunqing Chen , Yufei Zhang , Zhikang Lin , Rui Wang

Making deep convolutional neural networks more accurate typically comes at the cost of increased computational and memory resources. In this paper, we reduce this cost by exploiting the fact that the importance of features computed by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Xitong Gao , Yiren Zhao , Łukasz Dudziak , Robert Mullins , Cheng-zhong Xu

We present a novel end-to-end deep learning-based adaptation control algorithm for frequency-domain adaptive system identification. The proposed method exploits a deep neural network to map observed signal features to corresponding…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-07 Thomas Haubner , Andreas Brendel , Walter Kellermann

Channel pruning is a promising technique to compress the parameters of deep convolutional neural networks(DCNN) and to speed up the inference. This paper aims to address the long-standing inefficiency of channel pruning. Most channel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Zhouyang Xie , Yan Fu , Shengzhao Tian , Junlin Zhou , Duanbing Chen

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is more and more widely used in various fileds, and its computation and memory-demand are also increasing significantly. In order to make it applicable to limited conditions such as embedded application,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Jiayi Yao , Ping Li , Xiatao Kang , Yuzhe Wang

The recent focus on the efficiency of deep neural networks (DNNs) has led to significant work on model compression approaches, of which weight pruning is one of the most popular. At the same time, there is rapidly-growing computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Elias Frantar , Dan Alistarh

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown state-of-the-art performance in various applications. However, CNNs are resource-hungry due to their requirement of high computational complexity and memory storage. Recent efforts toward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Arshdeep Singh , Mark D. Plumbley

Structured pruning methods are developed to bridge the gap between the massive scale of neural networks and the limited hardware resources. Most current structured pruning methods rely on training datasets to fine-tune the compressed model,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Siqi Li , Jun Chen , Jingyang Xiang , Chengrui Zhu , Yong Liu

Federated learning on heterogeneous edge devices requires personalized compression while preserving aggregation compatibility and stable convergence. We present Curvature-Aware Heterogeneous Federated Pruning (CA-HFP), a practical framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Gang Hu , Yinglei Teng , Pengfei Wu , Shijun Ma

While critical for alignment, Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) incurs the risk of catastrophic forgetting, yet the layer-wise emergence of instruction-following capabilities remains elusive. We investigate this mechanism via a comprehensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Qinghua Zhao , Xueling Gong , Xinyu Chen , Zhongfeng Kang , Xinlu Li

We propose an efficient and unified framework, namely ThiNet, to simultaneously accelerate and compress CNN models in both training and inference stages. We focus on the filter level pruning, i.e., the whole filter would be discarded if it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Jian-Hao Luo , Jianxin Wu , Weiyao Lin

As a deep learning model typically contains millions of trainable weights, there has been a growing demand for a more efficient network structure with reduced storage space and improved run-time efficiency. Pruning is one of the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Qisheng He , Weisong Shi , Ming Dong

Filter pruning has been widely used for compressing convolutional neural networks to reduce computation costs during the deployment stage. Recent studies have shown that filter pruning techniques can achieve lossless compression of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Rizhao Cai , Haoliang Li , Alex Kot

Overparametrized transformer networks are the state-of-the-art architecture for Large Language Models (LLMs). However, such models contain billions of parameters making large compute a necessity, while raising environmental concerns. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yang Zhang , Yawei Li , Xinpeng Wang , Qianli Shen , Barbara Plank , Bernd Bischl , Mina Rezaei , Kenji Kawaguchi