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We present a method for fine-grained face manipulation. Given a face image with an arbitrary expression, our method can synthesize another arbitrary expression by the same person. This is achieved by first fitting a 3D face model and then…

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Although large-scale self-supervised learning (SSL) models like WavLM have achieved state-of-the-art performance in speech processing, their significant size impedes deployment on resource-constrained devices. While structured pruning is a…

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Recent advances in pruning of neural networks have made it possible to remove a large number of filters or weights without any perceptible drop in accuracy. The number of parameters and that of FLOPs are usually the reported metrics to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Sara Elkerdawy , Mostafa Elhoushi , Abhineet Singh , Hong Zhang , Nilanjan Ray

Chest radiography is climacteric in identifying different pulmonary diseases, yet radiologist workload and inefficiency can lead to misdiagnoses. Automatic, accurate, and efficient segmentation of lung from X-ray images of chest is…

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In this paper, we propose a novel meta learning approach for automatic channel pruning of very deep neural networks. We first train a PruningNet, a kind of meta network, which is able to generate weight parameters for any pruned structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Zechun Liu , Haoyuan Mu , Xiangyu Zhang , Zichao Guo , Xin Yang , Tim Kwang-Ting Cheng , Jian Sun

Many efforts have been made to facilitate natural language processing tasks with pre-trained language models (LMs), and brought significant improvements to various applications. To fully leverage the nearly unlimited corpora and capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Liyuan Liu , Xiang Ren , Jingbo Shang , Jian Peng , Jiawei Han

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have proven to be surprisingly efficient for image editing by inverting and manipulating the latent code corresponding to a natural image. This property emerges from the disentangled nature of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Mustafa Shukor , Xu Yao , Bharath Bhushan Damodaran , Pierre Hellier

Layer pruning has emerged as a potent approach to remove redundant layers in the pre-trained network on the purpose of reducing network size and improve computational efficiency. However, existing layer pruning methods mostly overlook the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Yuqi Li , Yao Lu , Junhao Dong , Zeyu Dong , Chuanguang Yang , Xin Yin , Yihao Chen , Jianping Gou , Yingli Tian , Tingwen Huang

Pre-trained language models achieve superior performance but are computationally expensive. Techniques such as pruning and knowledge distillation have been developed to reduce their sizes and latencies. In this work, we propose a structured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Ziqing Yang , Yiming Cui , Xin Yao , Shijin Wang

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

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved significant breakthroughs in various fields. However, these advancements have led to a substantial increase in the complexity and size of these networks. This poses a challenge when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Ahmed Sadaqa , Di Liu

We present an efficient alternative to the convolutional layer using cheap spatial transformations. This construction exploits an inherent spatial redundancy of the learned convolutional filters to enable a much greater parameter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Roy Miles , Krystian Mikolajczyk

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

Speech representation models based on the transformer architecture and trained by self-supervised learning have shown great promise for solving tasks such as speech and speaker recognition, keyword spotting, emotion detection, and more.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Teresa Dorszewski , Lenka Tětková , Lars Kai Hansen

Large language models have recently achieved state of the art performance across a wide variety of natural language tasks. Meanwhile, the size of these models and their latency have significantly increased, which makes their usage costly,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Ziheng Wang , Jeremy Wohlwend , Tao Lei

Network compression has been widely studied since it is able to reduce the memory and computation cost during inference. However, previous methods seldom deal with complicated structures like residual connections, group/depth-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Liyang Liu , Shilong Zhang , Zhanghui Kuang , Aojun Zhou , Jing-Hao Xue , Xinjiang Wang , Yimin Chen , Wenming Yang , Qingmin Liao , Wayne Zhang

Previous AutoML pruning works utilized individual layer features to automatically prune filters. We analyze the correlation for two layers from the different blocks which have a short-cut structure. It shows that, in one block, the deeper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Mingyang Zhang , Xinyi Yu , Jingtao Rong , Linlin Ou

To reduce computational overhead while maintaining model performance, model pruning techniques have been proposed. Among these, structured pruning, which removes entire convolutional channels or layers, significantly enhances computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Qingsong Lv , Jiasheng Sun , Sheng Zhou , Xu Zhang , Liangcheng Li , Yun Gao , Sun Qiao , Jie Song , Jiajun Bu

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have proven to be surprisingly efficient for image editing by inverting and manipulating the latent code corresponding to an input real image. This editing property emerges from the disentangled nature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Mustafa Shukor , Xu Yao , Bharath Bushan Damodaran , Pierre Hellier

Model compression is crucial for deployment of neural networks on devices with limited computational and memory resources. Many different methods show comparable accuracy of the compressed model and similar compression rates. However, the…

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