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Real time application of deep learning algorithms is often hindered by high computational complexity and frequent memory accesses. Network pruning is a promising technique to solve this problem. However, pruning usually results in irregular…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Sajid Anwar , Kyuyeon Hwang , Wonyong Sung

Pruning of deep neural networks has been an effective technique for reducing model size while preserving most of the performance of dense networks, crucial for deploying models on memory and power-constrained devices. While recent sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Andy Li , Aiden Durrant , Milan Markovic , Tianjin Huang , Souvik Kundu , Tianlong Chen , Lu Yin , Georgios Leontidis

Pruning methods have recently grown in popularity as an effective way to reduce the size and computational complexity of deep neural networks. Large numbers of parameters can be removed from trained models with little discernible loss in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Tim Whitaker , Darrell Whitley

Modern Machine learning techniques take advantage of the exponentially rising calculation power in new generation processor units. Thus, the number of parameters which are trained to resolve complex tasks was highly increased over the last…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Richard C. Gerum , André Erpenbeck , Patrick Krauss , Achim Schilling

The Vision Transformer architecture is a deep learning model inspired by the success of the Transformer model in Natural Language Processing. However, the self-attention mechanism, large number of parameters, and the requirement for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Yogi Prasetyo , Novanto Yudistira , Agus Wahyu Widodo

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

Neural network pruning is essential for reducing model complexity to enable deployment on resource constrained hardware. While performance loss of pruned networks is often attributed to the removal of critical parameters, we identify signal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Dhananjay Saikumar , Blesson Varghese

Neural networks are easier to optimise when they have many more weights than are required for modelling the mapping from inputs to outputs. This suggests a two-stage learning procedure that first learns a large net and then prunes away…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Aidan N. Gomez , Ivan Zhang , Siddhartha Rao Kamalakara , Divyam Madaan , Kevin Swersky , Yarin Gal , Geoffrey E. Hinton

One-shot magnitude pruning can cause severe accuracy collapse in the high-sparsity regime, even when the pruning mask preserves the largest weights. We argue that this failure reflects a granularity mismatch in post-pruning repair. Under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Qishi Zhan , Ziheng Chen , Minxuan Hu

It has been observed \citep{zhang2016understanding} that deep neural networks can memorize: they achieve 100\% accuracy on training data. Recent theoretical results explained such behavior in highly overparametrized regimes, where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Rong Ge , Runzhe Wang , Haoyu Zhao

This paper introduces Growing Networks with Autonomous Pruning (GNAP) for image classification. Unlike traditional convolutional neural networks, GNAP change their size, as well as the number of parameters they are using, during training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Charles De Lambilly , Stefan Duffner

The brain, as the source of inspiration for Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), is based on a sparse structure. This sparse structure helps the brain to consume less energy, learn easier and generalize patterns better than any other ANN. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Seyed Majid Naji , Azra Abtahi , Farokh Marvasti

Pruning is a compression method which aims to improve the efficiency of neural networks by reducing their number of parameters while maintaining a good performance, thus enhancing the performance-to-cost ratio in nontrivial ways. Of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Hugo Tessier , Ghouti Boukli Hacene , Vincent Gripon

We rigorously evaluate three state-of-the-art techniques for inducing sparsity in deep neural networks on two large-scale learning tasks: Transformer trained on WMT 2014 English-to-German, and ResNet-50 trained on ImageNet. Across thousands…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Trevor Gale , Erich Elsen , Sara Hooker

Due to the significant computational challenge of training large-scale graph neural networks (GNNs), various sparse learning techniques have been exploited to reduce memory and storage costs. Examples include \textit{graph sparsification}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Shuai Zhang , Meng Wang , Pin-Yu Chen , Sijia Liu , Songtao Lu , Miao Liu

Deep convolutional neural networks have liberated its extraordinary power on various tasks. However, it is still very challenging to deploy state-of-the-art models into real-world applications due to their high computational complexity. How…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Zehao Huang , Naiyan Wang

Pruning neural networks has regained interest in recent years as a means to compress state-of-the-art deep neural networks and enable their deployment on resource-constrained devices. In this paper, we propose a robust compressive learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 George Retsinas , Athena Elafrou , Georgios Goumas , Petros Maragos

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are used in state-of-the-art models in domains such as speech recognition, machine translation, and language modelling. Sparsity is a technique to reduce compute and memory requirements of deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Sharan Narang , Eric Undersander , Gregory Diamos

Neural networks are usually not the tool of choice for nonparametric high-dimensional problems where the number of input features is much larger than the number of observations. Though neural networks can approximate complex multivariate…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-06-25 Jean Feng , Noah Simon

While deep neural networks (DNNs) have proven to be efficient for numerous tasks, they come at a high memory and computation cost, thus making them impractical on resource-limited devices. However, these networks are known to contain a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Anthony Berthelier , Yongzhe Yan , Thierry Chateau , Christophe Blanc , Stefan Duffner , Christophe Garcia