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We develop an algorithm capable of compressing large networks into a smaller ones with similar control plane behavior: For every stable routing solution in the large, original network, there exists a corresponding solution in the compressed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Ryan Beckett , Aarti Gupta , Ratul Mahajan , David Walker

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

Transformer-based pre-trained language models have significantly improved the performance of various natural language processing (NLP) tasks in the recent years. While effective and prevalent, these models are usually prohibitively large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Dongkuan Xu , Ian E. H. Yen , Jinxi Zhao , Zhibin Xiao

Network pruning is a widely-used compression technique that is able to significantly scale down overparameterized models with minimal loss of accuracy. This paper shows that pruning may create or exacerbate disparate impacts. The paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Cuong Tran , Ferdinando Fioretto , Jung-Eun Kim , Rakshit Naidu

Recent research has studied the role of sparsity in high dimensional regression and signal reconstruction, establishing theoretical limits for recovering sparse models from sparse data. This line of work shows that $\ell_1$-regularized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-01-11 Shuheng Zhou , John Lafferty , Larry Wasserman

The increasing size and complexity of Large Language Models (LLMs) pose challenges for their deployment on personal computers and mobile devices. Aggressive post-training model compression is necessary to reduce the models' size, but it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Zining Zhang , Yao Chen , Bingsheng He , Zhenjie Zhang

Deep neural networks have achieved state-of-the-art performance across numerous applications, but their high memory and computational demands present significant challenges, particularly in resource-constrained environments. Model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Shihao Zhang , Rayan Saab

Previous work showed empirically that large neural networks can be significantly reduced in size while preserving their accuracy. Model compression became a central research topic, as it is crucial for deployment of neural networks on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Ben Mussay , Margarita Osadchy , Vladimir Braverman , Samson Zhou , Dan Feldman

Neural networks can be drastically shrunk in size by removing redundant parameters. While crucial for the deployment on resource-constraint hardware, oftentimes, compression comes with a severe drop in accuracy and lack of adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Qi Zhao , Christian Wressnegger

Sparse neural networks are highly desirable in deep learning in reducing its complexity. The goal of this paper is to study how choices of regularization parameters influence the sparsity level of learned neural networks. We first derive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Lixin Shen , Rui Wang , Yuesheng Xu , Mingsong Yan

When deploying deep learning models to a device, it is traditionally assumed that available computational resources (compute, memory, and power) remain static. However, real-world computing systems do not always provide stable resource…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Elvis Nunez , Maxwell Horton , Anish Prabhu , Anurag Ranjan , Ali Farhadi , Mohammad Rastegari

Neural networks embedded in safety-sensitive applications such as self-driving cars and wearable health monitors rely on two important techniques: input attribution for hindsight analysis and network compression to reduce its size for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Geondo Park , June Yong Yang , Sung Ju Hwang , Eunho Yang

Model compression is instrumental in optimizing deep neural network inference on resource-constrained hardware. The prevailing methods for network compression, namely quantization and pruning, have been shown to enhance efficiency at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Ben Zandonati , Glenn Bucagu , Adrian Alan Pol , Maurizio Pierini , Olya Sirkin , Tal Kopetz

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate exceptional reasoning abilities, enabling strong generalization across diverse tasks such as commonsense reasoning and instruction following. However, as LLMs scale, inference costs become…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Rhea Sanjay Sukthanker , Benedikt Staffler , Frank Hutter , Aaron Klein

Deep neural networks (DNNs) often have to be compressed, via pruning and/or quantization, before they can be deployed in practical settings. In this work we propose a new compression-aware minimizer dubbed CrAM that modifies the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Alexandra Peste , Adrian Vladu , Eldar Kurtic , Christoph H. Lampert , Dan Alistarh

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

Deep neural networks have achieved increasingly accurate results on a wide variety of complex tasks. However, much of this improvement is due to the growing use and availability of computational resources (e.g use of GPUs, more layers, more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Ini Oguntola , Subby Olubeko , Christopher Sweeney

Large-scale deep learning models are well-suited for compression. Across a variety of tasks, methods like pruning, quantization, and knowledge distillation have been used to achieve massive reductions in model parameters with only marginal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Pedram Bakhtiarifard , Tong Chen , Jonathan Wenshøj , Erik B Dam , Raghavendra Selvan

Model compression is a crucial part of deploying neural networks (NNs), especially when the memory and storage of computing devices are limited in many applications. This paper focuses on two model compression techniques: low-rank…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Chenyang Li , Jihoon Chung , Mengnan Du , Haimin Wang , Xianlian Zhou , Bo Shen

Compressing large-scale neural networks is essential for deploying models on resource-constrained devices. Most existing methods adopt weight pruning or low-bit quantization individually, often resulting in suboptimal compression rates to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Ziyi Wang , Nan Jiang , Guang Lin , Qifan Song