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This paper presents an efficient technique to prune deep and/or wide convolutional neural network models by eliminating redundant features (or filters). Previous studies have shown that over-sized deep neural network models tend to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Babajide O. Ayinde , Jacek M. Zurada

Deep convolutional neural networks have proven to be well suited for image classification applications. However, if there is distortion in the image, the classification accuracy can be significantly degraded, even with state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Minho Ha , Younghoon Byeon , Youngjoo Lee , Sunggu Lee

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are widely used to face challenging tasks like speech recognition, natural language processing or computer vision. As CNN architectures get larger and more complex, their computational requirements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Luis Balderas , Miguel Lastra , José M. Benítez

Pruning is critical for scaling large language models (LLMs). Global pruning achieves strong performance but requires $\mathcal{O}(N)$ memory, which is infeasible for billion-parameter models. Local pruning reduces GPU memory usage to that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Xinyuan Song , Guangji Bai , Liang Zhao

How to develop slim and accurate deep neural networks has become crucial for real- world applications, especially for those employed in embedded systems. Though previous work along this research line has shown some promising results, most…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Xin Dong , Shangyu Chen , Sinno Jialin Pan

Structured network pruning excels non-structured methods because they can take advantage of the thriving developed parallel computing techniques. In this paper, we propose a new structured pruning method. Firstly, to create more structured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Bojue Wang , Chunmei Ma , Bin Liu , Nianbo Liu , Jinqi Zhu

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

The most common method for DNN pruning is hard thresholding of network weights, followed by retraining to recover any lost accuracy. Recently developed smart pruning algorithms use the DNN response over the training set for a variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Konstantinos Pitas , Mike Davies , Pierre Vandergheynst

Artificial neural network pruning is a method in which artificial neural network sizes can be reduced while attempting to preserve the predicting capabilities of the network. This is done to make the model smaller or faster during inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Alexandre Broggi , Nathaniel Bastian , Lance Fiondella , Gokhan Kul

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) has achieved significant success in computer vision field. However, the high computational cost of the deep complex models prevents the deployment on edge devices with limited memory and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Huiyuan Zhuo , Xuelin Qian , Yanwei Fu , Heng Yang , Xiangyang Xue

Recent advancements have scaled neural networks to unprecedented sizes, achieving remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks. However, deploying these large-scale models on resource-constrained devices poses significant challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Mostafa Hussien , Mahmoud Afifi , Kim Khoa Nguyen , Mohamed Cheriet

Neural network pruning is a widely used strategy for reducing model storage and computing requirements. It allows to lower the complexity of the network by introducing sparsity in the weights. Because taking advantage of sparse matrices is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Nathan Hubens , Matei Mancas , Bernard Gosselin , Marius Preda , Titus Zaharia

Weight pruning is an effective model compression technique to tackle the challenges of achieving real-time deep neural network (DNN) inference on mobile devices. However, prior pruning schemes have limited application scenarios due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yifan Gong , Geng Yuan , Zheng Zhan , Wei Niu , Zhengang Li , Pu Zhao , Yuxuan Cai , Sijia Liu , Bin Ren , Xue Lin , Xulong Tang , Yanzhi Wang

With the rapid development of deep learning, the sizes of neural networks become larger and larger so that the training and inference often overwhelm the hardware resources. Given the fact that neural networks are often over-parameterized,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Zhangheng Li , Tianlong Chen , Linyi Li , Bo Li , Zhangyang Wang

Pruning is one of the most effective model reduction techniques. Deep networks require massive computation and such models need to be compressed to bring them on edge devices. Most existing pruning techniques are focused on vision-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Ramchalam Kinattinkara Ramakrishnan , Eyyüb Sari , Vahid Partovi Nia

Over the last century, deep learning models have become the state-of-the-art for solving complex computer vision problems. These modern computer vision models have millions of parameters, which presents two major challenges: (1) the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Florian Merkle , David Weber , Pascal Schöttle , Stephan Schlögl , Martin Nocker

Recently, pruning deep neural networks (DNNs) has received a lot of attention for improving accuracy and generalization power, reducing network size, and increasing inference speed on specialized hardwares. Although pruning was mainly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-16 Amirreza Mahbod , Rahim Entezari , Isabella Ellinger , Olga Saukh

Network pruning reduces the computation costs of an over-parameterized network without performance damage. Prevailing pruning algorithms pre-define the width and depth of the pruned networks, and then transfer parameters from the unpruned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Xuanyi Dong , Yi Yang

The deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is the state-of-the-art solution for large-scale visual recognition. Following basic principles such as increasing the depth and constructing highway connections, researchers have manually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Lingxi Xie , Alan Yuille

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have recently evinced immense success for various image recognition tasks. However, a question of paramount importance is somewhat unanswered in deep learning research - is the selected CNN optimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Sukrit Shankar , Duncan Robertson , Yani Ioannou , Antonio Criminisi , Roberto Cipolla