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Existing high-performance deep learning models require very intensive computing. For this reason, it is difficult to embed a deep learning model into a system with limited resources. In this paper, we propose the novel idea of the network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Dae-Woong Jeong , Jaehun Kim , Youngseok Kim , Tae-Ho Kim , Myungsu Chae

The remarkable performance of deep Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is generally attributed to their deeper and wider architectures, which can come with significant computational costs. Pruning neural networks has thus gained interest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yang He , Lingao Xiao

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success in various fields. However, the large number of floating-point operations (FLOPs) in DNNs poses challenges for their deployment in resource-constrained applications, e.g.,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Mengnan Jiang , Jingcun Wang , Amro Eldebiky , Xunzhao Yin , Cheng Zhuo , Ing-Chao Lin , Grace Li Zhang

Determining the optimal size of a neural network is critical, as it directly impacts runtime performance and memory usage. Pruning is a well-established model compression technique that reduces the size of neural networks while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Seungbeom Hu , ChanJun Park , Andrew Ferraiuolo , Sang-Ki Ko , Jinwoo Kim , Haein Song , Jieung Kim

Pruning filters is an effective method for accelerating deep neural networks (DNNs), but most existing approaches prune filters on a pre-trained network directly which limits in acceleration. Although each filter has its own effect in DNNs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Zhengguang Zhou , Wengang Zhou , Richang Hong , Houqiang Li

In deep learning frameworks, weight pruning is a widely used technique for improving computational efficiency by reducing the size of large models. This is especially critical for convolutional operators, which often act as performance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Chi-Wei Chu , Ding-Yong Hong , Jan-Jan Wu

Recently vision transformer models have become prominent models for a range of tasks. These models, however, usually suffer from intensive computational costs and heavy memory requirements, making them impractical for deployment on edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Lu Yu , Wei Xiang

Image restoration tasks have achieved tremendous performance improvements with the rapid advancement of deep neural networks. However, most prevalent deep learning models perform inference statically, ignoring that different images have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Yang Zhou , Yuda Song , Hui Qian , Xin Du

DNN pruning reduces memory footprint and computational work of DNN-based solutions to improve performance and energy-efficiency. An effective pruning scheme should be able to systematically remove connections and/or neurons that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Marc Riera , Jose-Maria Arnau , Antonio Gonzalez

Currently, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) are used to solve all kinds of problems in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence due to their learning and adaptation capabilities. However, most successful DCNN…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Francisco Erivaldo Fernandes Junior , Gary G. Yen

Channel pruning is among the predominant approaches to compress deep neural networks. To this end, most existing pruning methods focus on selecting channels (filters) by importance/optimization or regularization based on rule-of-thumb…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Mingbao Lin , Rongrong Ji , Yuxin Zhang , Baochang Zhang , Yongjian Wu , Yonghong Tian

For many applications, utilizing DNNs (Deep Neural Networks) requires their implementation on a target architecture in an optimized manner concerning energy consumption, memory requirement, throughput, etc. DNN compression is used to reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Muhammad Sabih , Frank Hannig , Juergen Teich

Pruning methods have shown to be effective at reducing the size of deep neural networks while keeping accuracy almost intact. Among the most effective methods are those that prune a network while training it with a sparsity prior loss and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Carl Lemaire , Andrew Achkar , Pierre-Marc Jodoin

Parameters of recent neural networks require a huge amount of memory. These parameters are used by neural networks to perform machine learning tasks when processing inputs. To speed up inference, we develop Partition Pruning, an innovative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Sina Shahhosseini , Ahmad Albaqsami , Masoomeh Jasemi , Nader Bagherzadeh

The increasing computational cost of deep neural network models limits the applicability of intelligent applications on resource-constrained edge devices. While a number of neural network pruning methods have been proposed to compress the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Guangli Li , Xiu Ma , Xueying Wang , Lei Liu , Jingling Xue , Xiaobing Feng

Overparameterized Neural Networks (NN) display state-of-the-art performance. However, there is a growing need for smaller, energy-efficient, neural networks tobe able to use machine learning applications on devices with limited…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-21 Soufiane Hayou , Jean-Francois Ton , Arnaud Doucet , Yee Whye Teh

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) generally contain significantly more visual tokens than their textual counterparts, resulting in a considerable computational burden. Recent efforts have been made to tackle this issue by pruning visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Qizhe Zhang , Aosong Cheng , Ming Lu , Renrui Zhang , Zhiyong Zhuo , Jiajun Cao , Shaobo Guo , Qi She , Shanghang Zhang

Structured pruning is a popular method to reduce the cost of convolutional neural networks, that are the state of the art in many computer vision tasks. However, depending on the architecture, pruning introduces dimensional discrepancies…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Hugo Tessier , Vincent Gripon , Mathieu Léonardon , Matthieu Arzel , David Bertrand , Thomas Hannagan

Network compression is crucial to making the deep networks to be more efficient, faster, and generalizable to low-end hardware. Current network compression methods have two open problems: first, there lacks a theoretical framework to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Ziqi Zhou , Li Lian , Yilong Yin , Ze Wang

Structured pruning is an effective approach for compressing large pre-trained neural networks without significantly affecting their performance. However, most current structured pruning methods do not provide any performance guarantees, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Marwa El Halabi , Suraj Srinivas , Simon Lacoste-Julien