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Tensorial neural networks (TNNs) combine the successes of multilinear algebra with those of deep learning to enable extremely efficient reduced-order models of high-dimensional problems. Here, I describe a deep neural network architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Caleb G. Wagner

In Machine Learning, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are a very powerful tool, broadly used in many applications. Often, the selected (deep) architectures include many layers, and therefore a large amount of parameters, which makes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Matteo Cacciola , Antonio Frangioni , Xinlin Li , Andrea Lodi

The concept of compressing deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is essential to use limited computation, power, and memory resources on embedded devices. However, existing methods achieve this objective at the cost of a drop in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Waqar Ahmed , Andrea Zunino , Pietro Morerio , Vittorio Murino

Reducing the size of a neural network (pruning) by removing weights without impacting its performance is an important problem for resource-constrained devices. In the past, pruning was typically accomplished by ranking or penalizing weights…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Rajan Sahu , Shivam Chadha , Nithin Nagaraj , Archana Mathur , Snehanshu Saha

Structured pruning methods are among the effective strategies for extracting small resource-efficient convolutional neural networks from their dense counterparts with minimal loss in accuracy. However, most existing methods still suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Rishabh Tiwari , Udbhav Bamba , Arnav Chavan , Deepak K. Gupta

Existing pruning methods are typically applied during training or compile time and often rely on structured sparsity. While compatible with low-power microcontrollers (MCUs), structured pruning underutilizes the opportunity for fine-grained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Ashe Neth , Sawinder kaur , Mohammad Nur Hossain Khan , Subrata Biswas , Asif Salekin , Bashima Islam

The emergence of deep and large-scale spiking neural networks (SNNs) exhibiting high performance across diverse complex datasets has led to a need for compressing network models due to the presence of a significant number of redundant…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yaxin Li , Qi Xu , Jiangrong Shen , Hongming Xu , Long Chen , Gang Pan

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are nowadays becoming mainstream in solving many image processing tasks including skeleton-based recognition. Their general recipe consists in learning convolutional and attention layers that maximize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Hichem Sahbi

Recently there has been a lot of work on pruning filters from deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with the intention of reducing computations.The key idea is to rank the filters based on a certain criterion (say, l1-norm) and retain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Deepak Mittal , Shweta Bhardwaj , Mitesh M. Khapra , Balaraman Ravindran

To address the large model size and intensive computation requirement of deep neural networks (DNNs), weight pruning techniques have been proposed and generally fall into two categories, i.e., static regularization-based pruning and dynamic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Tianyun Zhang , Xiaolong Ma , Zheng Zhan , Shanglin Zhou , Minghai Qin , Fei Sun , Yen-Kuang Chen , Caiwen Ding , Makan Fardad , Yanzhi Wang

With the growth of neural network size, model compression has attracted increasing interest in recent research. As one of the most common techniques, pruning has been studied for a long time. By exploiting the structured sparsity of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Chengyu Xia , Danny H. K. Tsang , Vincent K. N. Lau

Neural network pruning techniques reduce the number of parameters without compromising predicting ability of a network. Many algorithms have been developed for pruning both over-parameterized fully-connected networks (FCNs) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Xin Qian , Diego Klabjan

Compressing and pruning large machine learning models has become a critical step towards their deployment in real-world applications. Standard pruning and compression techniques are typically designed without taking the structure of the…

Pruning on neural networks before training not only compresses the original models, but also accelerates the network training phase, which has substantial application value. The current work focuses on fine-grained pruning, which uses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Xiatao Kang , Ping Li , Jiayi Yao , Chengxi Li

Deep neural networks (DNNs) offer significant flexibility and robust performance. This makes them ideal for building not only system models but also advanced neural network controllers (NNCs). However, their high complexity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Ganesh Sundaram , Jonas Ulmen , Amjad Haider , Daniel Görges

State-of-the-art neural networks are getting deeper and wider. While their performance increases with the increasing number of layers and neurons, it is crucial to design an efficient deep architecture in order to reduce computational and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-13 Hengyuan Hu , Rui Peng , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

The subject of green AI has been gaining attention within the deep learning community given the recent trend of ever larger and more complex neural network models. Existing solutions for reducing the computational load of training at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Xiaoying Zhi , Varun Babbar , Rundong Liu , Pheobe Sun , Fran Silavong , Ruibo Shi , Sean Moran

Sparsity in the structure of Neural Networks can lead to less energy consumption, less memory usage, faster computation times on convenient hardware, and automated machine learning. If sparsity gives rise to certain kinds of structure, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Julian Stier , Harshil Darji , Michael Granitzer

Pruning the weights of neural networks is an effective and widely-used technique for reducing model size and inference complexity. We develop and test a novel method based on compressed sensing which combines the pruning and training into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Jonathan W. Siegel , Jianhong Chen , Pengchuan Zhang , Jinchao Xu

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in recent years. Compressing these models not only reduces storage requirements, making deployment to edge devices feasible, but also accelerates inference,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Boyao Wang , Volodymyr Kindratenko