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Recent work on deep neural network pruning has shown there exist sparse subnetworks that achieve equal or improved accuracy, training time, and loss using fewer network parameters when compared to their dense counterparts. Orthogonal to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Justin Cosentino , Federico Zaiter , Dan Pei , Jun Zhu

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) states that a randomly-initialized large neural network contains a small sub-network (i.e., winning tickets) which, when trained in isolation, can achieve comparable performance to the large network. LTH…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Man Yao , Yuhong Chou , Guangshe Zhao , Xiawu Zheng , Yonghong Tian , Bo Xu , Guoqi Li

Sparse models require less memory for storage and enable a faster inference by reducing the necessary number of FLOPs. This is relevant both for time-critical and on-device computations using neural networks. The stabilized lottery ticket…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Christopher Brix , Parnia Bahar , Hermann Ney

Network pruning is widely used for reducing the heavy inference cost of deep models in low-resource settings. A typical pruning algorithm is a three-stage pipeline, i.e., training (a large model), pruning and fine-tuning. During pruning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Zhuang Liu , Mingjie Sun , Tinghui Zhou , Gao Huang , Trevor Darrell

Neural network pruning techniques can reduce the parameter counts of trained networks by over 90%, decreasing storage requirements and improving computational performance of inference without compromising accuracy. However, contemporary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Jonathan Frankle , Michael Carbin

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are inspired by the sparse and event-driven nature of biological neural processing, and offer the potential for ultra-low-power artificial intelligence. However, realizing their efficiency benefits requires…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Ilkin Aliyev , Kama Svoboda , Tosiron Adegbija , Jean-Marc Fellous

With graphs rapidly growing in size and deeper graph neural networks (GNNs) emerging, the training and inference of GNNs become increasingly expensive. Existing network weight pruning algorithms cannot address the main space and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Tianlong Chen , Yongduo Sui , Xuxi Chen , Aston Zhang , Zhangyang Wang

Recent advances in neural network pruning have shown how it is possible to reduce the computational costs and memory demands of deep learning models before training. We focus on this framework and propose a new pruning at initialization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Leonardo Iurada , Marco Ciccone , Tatiana Tommasi

The lottery ticket hypothesis has sparked the rapid development of pruning algorithms that aim to reduce the computational costs associated with deep learning during training and model deployment. Currently, such algorithms are primarily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Jonas Fischer , Rebekka Burkholz

Deep spiking neural networks (SNNs) have emerged as a potential alternative to traditional deep learning frameworks, due to their promise to provide increased compute efficiency on event-driven neuromorphic hardware. However, to perform…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Souvik Kundu , Gourav Datta , Massoud Pedram , Peter A. Beerel

Quantization is an essential technique for making neural networks more efficient, yet our theoretical understanding of it remains limited. Previous works demonstrated that extremely low-precision networks, such as binary networks, can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Aakash Kumar , Emanuele Natale

In deep model compression, the recent finding "Lottery Ticket Hypothesis" (LTH) (Frankle & Carbin, 2018) pointed out that there could exist a winning ticket (i.e., a properly pruned sub-network together with original weight initialization)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Ning Liu , Geng Yuan , Zhengping Che , Xuan Shen , Xiaolong Ma , Qing Jin , Jian Ren , Jian Tang , Sijia Liu , Yanzhi Wang

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have manifested remarkable advantages in power consumption and event-driven property during the inference process. To take full advantage of low power consumption and improve the efficiency of these models…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Jiangrong Shen , Qi Xu , Jian K. Liu , Yueming Wang , Gang Pan , Huajin Tang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are more biologically plausible and computationally efficient. Therefore, SNNs have the natural advantage of drawing the sparse structural plasticity of brain development to alleviate the energy problems of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Bing Han , Feifei Zhao , Yi Zeng , Wenxuan Pan

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) represent the forefront of neuromorphic computing, promising energy-efficient and biologically plausible models for complex tasks. This paper weaves together three groundbreaking studies that revolutionize SNN…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Biswadeep Chakraborty , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

Biologically inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have attracted significant attention for their ability to provide extremely energy-efficient machine intelligence through event-driven operation and sparse activities. As artificial…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Shaoyi Huang , Haowen Fang , Kaleel Mahmood , Bowen Lei , Nuo Xu , Bin Lei , Yue Sun , Dongkuan Xu , Wujie Wen , Caiwen Ding

While the exponential growth of the space sector and new operative concepts ask for higher spacecraft autonomy, the development of AI-assisted space systems was so far hindered by the low availability of power and energy typical of space…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Paolo Lunghi , Stefano Silvestrini , Dominik Dold , Gabriele Meoni , Alexander Hadjiivanov , Dario Izzo

The Strong Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (SLTH) demonstrates the existence of high-performing subnetworks within a randomly initialized model, discoverable through pruning a convolutional neural network (CNN) without any weight training. A…

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) represent a promising approach in machine learning, combining the hierarchical learning capabilities of deep neural networks with the energy efficiency of spike-based computations. Traditional end-to-end…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Ruyin Wan , Qian Zhang , George Em Karniadakis

The human brain utilizes spikes for information transmission and dynamically reorganizes its network structure to boost energy efficiency and cognitive capabilities throughout its lifespan. Drawing inspiration from this spike-based…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Jiangrong Shen , Qi Xu , Gang Pan , Badong Chen