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To enable DNNs on edge devices like mobile phones, low-rank approximation has been widely adopted because of its solid theoretical rationale and efficient implementations. Several previous works attempted to directly approximate a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Yuhui Xu , Yuxi Li , Shuai Zhang , Wei Wen , Botao Wang , Yingyong Qi , Yiran Chen , Weiyao Lin , Hongkai Xiong

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

Large-scale deep neural networks (DNN) exhibit excellent performance for various tasks. As DNNs and datasets grow, distributed training becomes extremely time-consuming and demands larger clusters. A main bottleneck is the resulting…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yisu Wang , Ruilong Wu , Xinjiao Li , Dirk Kutscher

This paper proposes to learn high-performance deep ConvNets with sparse neural connections, referred to as sparse ConvNets, for face recognition. The sparse ConvNets are learned in an iterative way, each time one additional layer is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Yi Sun , Xiaogang Wang , Xiaoou Tang

The rise of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has led to an increase in model size and complexity, straining the memory capacity of GPUs. Sparsity in DNNs, characterized as structural or ephemeral, has gained attention as a solution. This work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Daniel Barley , Holger Fröning

Neural network pruning is a highly effective technique aimed at reducing the computational and memory demands of large neural networks. In this research paper, we present a novel approach to pruning neural networks utilizing Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-07 Sunil Mathew , Daniel B. Rowe

Neural Networks (NN), although successfully applied to several Artificial Intelligence tasks, are often unnecessarily over-parametrised. In edge/fog computing, this might make their training prohibitive on resource-constrained devices,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Lorenzo Valerio , Franco Maria Nardini , Andrea Passarella , Raffaele Perego

We introduce and analyze a new technique for model reduction for deep neural networks. While large networks are theoretically capable of learning arbitrarily complex models, overfitting and model redundancy negatively affects the prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Alireza Aghasi , Afshin Abdi , Nam Nguyen , Justin Romberg

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

Weight pruning is among the most popular approaches for compressing deep convolutional neural networks. Recent work suggests that in a randomly initialized deep neural network, there exist sparse subnetworks that achieve performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Vinay Kumar Verma , Nikhil Mehta , Shijing Si , Ricardo Henao , Lawrence Carin

Efficient data selection is essential for improving the training efficiency of deep neural networks and reducing the associated annotation costs. However, traditional methods tend to be computationally expensive, limiting their scalability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Humaira Kousar , Hasnain Irshad Bhatti , Jaekyun Moon

Neural networks are usually over-parameterized with significant redundancy in the number of required neurons which results in unnecessary computation and memory usage at inference time. One common approach to address this issue is to prune…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Mohammad Babaeizadeh , Paris Smaragdis , Roy H. Campbell

With the growth of neural network size, model compression has attracted increasing interest in recent research. As one of the most common techniques, pruning has been studied for a long time. By exploiting the structured sparsity of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Chengyu Xia , Danny H. K. Tsang , Vincent K. N. Lau

Neural networks have emerged as a powerful tool for solving complex tasks across various domains, but their increasing size and computational requirements have posed significant challenges in deploying them on resource-constrained devices.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Evan Dogariu

It has been observed in practice that applying pruning-at-initialization methods to neural networks and training the sparsified networks can not only retain the testing performance of the original dense models, but also sometimes even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Hongru Yang , Yingbin Liang , Xiaojie Guo , Lingfei Wu , Zhangyang Wang

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

Iterative magnitude pruning methods (IMPs), proven to be successful in reducing the number of insignificant nodes in over-parameterized deep neural networks (DNNs), have been getting an enormous amount of attention with the rapid deployment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Soheil Gharatappeh , Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh

Network pruning is an effective method to reduce the computational expense of over-parameterized neural networks for deployment on low-resource systems. Recent state-of-the-art techniques for retraining pruned networks such as weight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Duong H. Le , Binh-Son Hua

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

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have relied heavily on increasingly large neural networks, raising concerns about their computational and environmental costs. This paper investigates whether simpler, sparser networks can maintain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 C. Díaz-Faloh , R. Mulet