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Network pruning is one of the most dominant methods for reducing the heavy inference cost of deep neural networks. Existing methods often iteratively prune networks to attain high compression ratio without incurring significant loss in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Duong H. Le , Trung-Nhan Vo , Nam Thoai

Although multi-task deep neural network (DNN) models have computation and storage benefits over individual single-task DNN models, they can be further optimized via model compression. Numerous structured pruning methods are already…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Siddhant Garg , Lijun Zhang , Hui Guan

In this paper, we propose a novel layer-adaptive weight-pruning approach for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) that addresses the challenge of optimizing the output distortion minimization while adhering to a target pruning ratio constraint. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Kaixin Xu , Zhe Wang , Xue Geng , Jie Lin , Min Wu , Xiaoli Li , Weisi Lin

Weight pruning and weight quantization are two important categories of DNN model compression. Prior work on these techniques are mainly based on heuristics. A recent work developed a systematic frame-work of DNN weight pruning using the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Shaokai Ye , Xiaoyu Feng , Tianyun Zhang , Xiaolong Ma , Sheng Lin , Zhengang Li , Kaidi Xu , Wujie Wen , Sijia Liu , Jian Tang , Makan Fardad , Xue Lin , Yongpan Liu , Yanzhi Wang

Pruning is a widely used method for compressing Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), where less relevant parameters are removed from a DNN model to reduce its size. However, removing parameters reduces model accuracy, so pruning is typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Wenhao Hu , Paul Henderson , José Cano

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are often over-parameterized for their tasks and can be compressed quite drastically by removing weights, a process called pruning. We investigate the impact of different pruning techniques on the classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jonathan von Rad , Florian Seuffert

Network pruning can significantly reduce the computation and memory footprint of large neural networks. To achieve a good trade-off between model size and performance, popular pruning techniques usually rely on hand-crafted heuristics and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Wenyuan Zeng , Yuwen Xiong , Raquel Urtasun

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, $l_1$-norm, average…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Deepak Mittal , Shweta Bhardwaj , Mitesh M. Khapra , Balaraman Ravindran

Pruning neural networks, i.e., removing some of their parameters whilst retaining their accuracy, is one of the main ways to reduce the latency of a machine learning pipeline, especially in resource- and/or bandwidth-constrained scenarios.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Carla Fabiana Chiasserini , Francesco Malandrino , Nuria Molner , Zhiqiang Zhao

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

Weight pruning methods of DNNs have been demonstrated to achieve a good model pruning rate without loss of accuracy, thereby alleviating the significant computation/storage requirements of large-scale DNNs. Structured weight pruning methods…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Tianyun Zhang , Shaokai Ye , Kaiqi Zhang , Xiaolong Ma , Ning Liu , Linfeng Zhang , Jian Tang , Kaisheng Ma , Xue Lin , Makan Fardad , Yanzhi Wang

Deep Learning plays a significant role in assisting humans in many aspects of their lives. As these networks tend to get deeper over time, they extract more features to increase accuracy at the cost of additional inference latency. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Mehrshad Zandigohar , Deniz Erdogmus , Gunar Schirner

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

Weight pruning methods for deep neural networks (DNNs) have been investigated recently, but prior work in this area is mainly heuristic, iterative pruning, thereby lacking guarantees on the weight reduction ratio and convergence time. To…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Tianyun Zhang , Shaokai Ye , Kaiqi Zhang , Jian Tang , Wujie Wen , Makan Fardad , Yanzhi Wang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have shown significant advantages in a wide variety of domains. However, DNNs are becoming computationally intensive and energy hungry at an exponential pace, while at the same time, there is a vast demand for…

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) enable efficient deep learning by saving on storage and computational costs. However, as the size of neural networks continues to grow, meeting computational requirements remains a challenge. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Matt Gorbett , Hossein Shirazi , Indrakshi Ray

Accelerating DNN execution on various resource-limited computing platforms has been a long-standing problem. Prior works utilize l1-based group lasso or dynamic regularization such as ADMM to perform structured pruning on DNN models to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Xiaolong Ma , Zhengang Li , Yifan Gong , Tianyun Zhang , Wei Niu , Zheng Zhan , Pu Zhao , Jian Tang , Xue Lin , Bin Ren , Yanzhi Wang

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

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) play a major role in image processing tasks like image classification, object detection, semantic segmentation. Very often CNN networks have from several to hundred stacked layers with several megabytes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Marcin Pietron , Maciej Wielgosz

In recent years, deep neural networks have known a wide success in various application domains. However, they require important computational and memory resources, which severely hinders their deployment, notably on mobile devices or for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Nathan Hubens , Matei Mancas , Bernard Gosselin , Marius Preda , Titus Zaharia