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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

Neural networks achieve state-of-the-art performance in image classification, speech recognition, scientific analysis and many more application areas. Due to the high computational complexity and memory footprint of neural networks, various…

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Pruning neural networks has proven to be a successful approach to increase the efficiency and reduce the memory storage of deep learning models without compromising performance. Previous literature has shown that it is possible to achieve a…

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Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) offer uncertainty quantification but come with the downside of substantially increased training and inference costs. Sparse BNNs have been investigated for efficient inference, typically by either slowly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Junbo Li , Zichen Miao , Qiang Qiu , Ruqi Zhang

Network pruning reduces the size of neural networks by removing (pruning) neurons such that the performance drop is minimal. Traditional pruning approaches focus on designing metrics to quantify the usefulness of a neuron which is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Shehryar Malik , Muhammad Umair Haider , Omer Iqbal , Murtaza Taj

Increasingly expensive training of ever larger models such as Vision Transfomers motivate reusing the vast library of already trained state-of-the-art networks. However, their latency, high computational costs and memory demands pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Uranik Berisha , Jens Mehnert , Alexandru Paul Condurache

Channel pruning, which seeks to reduce the model size by removing redundant channels, is a popular solution for deep networks compression. Existing channel pruning methods usually conduct layer-wise channel selection by directly minimizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Yiming Hu , Siyang Sun , Jianquan Li , Jiagang Zhu , Xingang Wang , Qingyi Gu

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

Structured pruning compresses neural networks by reducing channels (filters) for fast inference and low footprint at run-time. To restore accuracy after pruning, fine-tuning is usually applied to pruned networks. However, too few remaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Yu Qian , Jian Cao , Xiaoshuang Li , Jie Zhang , Hufei Li , Jue Chen

Deep learning models have been widely used during the last decade due to their outstanding learning and abstraction capacities. However, one of the main challenges any scientist has to face using deep learning models is to establish the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Luis Balderas , Miguel Lastra , José M. Benítez

Deep ensembles have emerged as a powerful technique for improving predictive performance and enhancing model robustness across various applications by leveraging model diversity. However, traditional deep ensemble methods are often…

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have been widely adopted in temporal sequence analysis, where realtime performance is often in demand. However, RNNs suffer from heavy computational workload as the model often comes with large weight…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Runbin Shi , Peiyan Dong , Tong Geng , Yuhao Ding , Xiaolong Ma , Hayden K. -H. So , Martin Herbordt , Ang Li , Yanzhi Wang

Modern deep neural network models are large and computationally intensive. One typical solution to this issue is model pruning. However, most current pruning algorithms depend on hand crafted rules or domain expertise. To overcome this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Baopu Li , Yanwen Fan , Zhihong Pan , Gang Zhang

Even though fine-grained pruning techniques achieve a high compression ratio, conventional sparsity representations (such as CSR) associated with irregular sparsity degrade parallelism significantly. Practical pruning methods, thus, usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Baeseong Park , Se Jung Kwon , Daehwan Oh , Byeongwook Kim , Dongsoo Lee

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

Deep neural networks exploiting millions of parameters are nowadays the norm in deep learning applications. This is a potential issue because of the great amount of computational resources needed for training, and of the possible loss of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Giovanni Bonetta , Matteo Ribero , Rossella Cancelliere

Compression techniques for deep neural networks are important for implementing them on small embedded devices. In particular, channel-pruning is a useful technique for realizing compact networks. However, many conventional methods require…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-03 Kohei Yamamoto , Kurato Maeno

Neural network pruning has shown to be an effective technique for reducing the network size, trading desirable properties like generalization and robustness to adversarial attacks for higher sparsity. Recent work has claimed that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Giorgio Piras , Maura Pintor , Ambra Demontis , Battista Biggio

Neural networks have seen limited use in prediction for high-dimensional data with small sample sizes, because they tend to overfit and require tuning many more hyperparameters than existing off-the-shelf machine learning methods. With…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-12 Jean Feng , Noah Simon

Deep learning stands as the modern paradigm for solving cognitive tasks. However, as the problem complexity increases, models grow deeper and computationally prohibitive, hindering advancements in real-world and resource-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Gustavo Henrique do Nascimento , Ian Pons , Anna Helena Reali Costa , Artur Jordao