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Channel Pruning is one of the most widespread techniques used to compress deep neural networks while maintaining their performances. Currently, a typical pruning algorithm leverages neural architecture search to directly find networks with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Shiguang Wang , Tao Xie , Haijun Liu , Xingcheng Zhang , Jian Cheng

We propose a new formulation for pruning convolutional kernels in neural networks to enable efficient inference. We interleave greedy criteria-based pruning with fine-tuning by backpropagation - a computationally efficient procedure that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Pavlo Molchanov , Stephen Tyree , Tero Karras , Timo Aila , Jan Kautz

Pruning the weights of randomly initialized neural networks plays an important role in the context of lottery ticket hypothesis. Ramanujan et al. (2020) empirically showed that only pruning the weights can achieve remarkable performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Daiki Chijiwa , Shin'ya Yamaguchi , Yasutoshi Ida , Kenji Umakoshi , Tomohiro Inoue

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are able to attain better visual recognition performance than fully connected neural networks despite having much fewer parameters due to their parameter sharing principle. Modern architectures usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Ilke Cugu , Emre Akbas

Though network pruning receives popularity in reducing the complexity of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), it remains an open issue to concurrently maintain model accuracy as well as achieve significant speedups on general CPUs. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Mingbao Lin , Yuxin Zhang , Yuchao Li , Bohong Chen , Fei Chao , Mengdi Wang , Shen Li , Yonghong Tian , Rongrong Ji

We propose a simple but effective data-driven channel pruning algorithm, which compresses deep neural networks in a differentiable way by exploiting the characteristics of operations. The proposed approach makes a joint consideration of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Minsoo Kang , Bohyung Han

Channel pruning can effectively reduce both computational cost and memory footprint of the original network while keeping a comparable accuracy performance. Though great success has been achieved in channel pruning for 2D image-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Yaomin Huang , Ning Liu , Zhengping Che , Zhiyuan Xu , Chaomin Shen , Yaxin Peng , Guixu Zhang , Xinmei Liu , Feifei Feng , Jian Tang

Model compression aims to reduce the redundancy of deep networks to obtain compact models. Recently, channel pruning has become one of the predominant compression methods to deploy deep models on resource-constrained devices. Most channel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Yixin Liu , Yong Guo , Zichang Liu , Haohua Liu , Jingjie Zhang , Zejun Chen , Jing Liu , Jian Chen

Neural networks are increasingly used as surrogates in optimization problems to replace computationally expensive models. However, embedding ReLU neural networks in mathematical programs introduces significant computational challenges,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Giacomo Lastrucci , Tanuj Karia , Victor Schulte , Dominik Bongartz , Artur M. Schweidtmann

Pruning is a core technique for compressing neural networks to improve computational efficiency. This process is typically approached in two ways: one-shot pruning, which involves a single pass of training and pruning, and iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Mikołaj Janusz , Tomasz Wojnar , Yawei Li , Luca Benini , Kamil Adamczewski

Deep neural networks have achieved exceptional results across a range of applications. As the demand for efficient and sparse deep learning models escalates, the significance of model compression, particularly pruning, is increasingly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yucong Dai , Gen Li , Feng Luo , Xiaolong Ma , Yongkai Wu

Over the last century, deep learning models have become the state-of-the-art for solving complex computer vision problems. These modern computer vision models have millions of parameters, which presents two major challenges: (1) the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Florian Merkle , David Weber , Pascal Schöttle , Stephan Schlögl , Martin Nocker

Neural network compression empowers the effective yet unwieldy deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) to be deployed in resource-constrained scenarios. Most state-of-the-art approaches prune the model in filter-level according to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Wenxiao Wang , Cong Fu , Jishun Guo , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He

Nowadays, it is still difficult to adapt Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based models for deployment on embedded devices. The heavy computation and large memory footprint of CNN models become the main burden in real application. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Xin Li , Changsong Liu

Numerous studies have revealed that deep learning-based medical image classification models may exhibit bias towards specific demographic attributes, such as race, gender, and age. Existing bias mitigation methods often achieve high level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Qingpeng Kong , Ching-Hao Chiu , Dewen Zeng , Yu-Jen Chen , Tsung-Yi Ho , Jingtong hu , Yiyu Shi

The success of deep neural networks in many real-world applications is leading to new challenges in building more efficient architectures. One effective way of making networks more efficient is neural network compression. We provide an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Andrey Kuzmin , Markus Nagel , Saurabh Pitre , Sandeep Pendyam , Tijmen Blankevoort , Max Welling

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated extraordinarily good performance in many computer vision tasks. The increasing size of CNN models, however, prevents them from being widely deployed to devices with limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Guan Li , Junpeng Wang , Han-Wei Shen , Kaixin Chen , Guihua Shan , Zhonghua Lu

Structure pruning is an effective method to compress and accelerate neural networks. While filter and channel pruning are preferable to other structure pruning methods in terms of realistic acceleration and hardware compatibility, pruning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Jun-Hyung Park , Yeachan Kim , Junho Kim , Joon-Young Choi , SangKeun Lee

Neural network pruning is a highly effective technique aimed at reducing the computational and memory demands of large neural networks. In this research paper, we present a novel approach to pruning neural networks utilizing Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-07 Sunil Mathew , Daniel B. Rowe

The use of machine learning methods to tackle challenging physical layer signal processing tasks has attracted significant attention. In this work, we focus on the use of neural networks (NNs) to perform pilot-assisted channel estimation in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-26 Michel van Lier , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Henk Corporaaal , Zoran Zivkovic