English
Related papers

Related papers: Protective Self-Adaptive Pruning to Better Compres…

200 papers

Unstructured neural network pruning algorithms have achieved impressive compression rates. However, the resulting - typically irregular - sparse matrices hamper efficient hardware implementations, leading to additional memory usage and…

One-shot magnitude pruning can cause severe accuracy collapse in the high-sparsity regime, even when the pruning mask preserves the largest weights. We argue that this failure reflects a granularity mismatch in post-pruning repair. Under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Qishi Zhan , Ziheng Chen , Minxuan Hu

To deal with various datasets over different complexity, this paper presents an self-adaptive learning model that combines the proposed Dynamic Connected Neural Decision Networks (DNDN) and a new pruning method--Dynamic Soft Pruning (DSP).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Xinyu Fan

Deep neural networks have dramatically achieved great success on a variety of challenging tasks. However, most successful DNNs have an extremely complex structure, leading to extensive research on model compression.As a significant area of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Haipeng Jia , Xueshuang Xiang , Da Fan , Meiyu Huang , Changhao Sun , Yang He

Weight pruning of deep neural networks (DNNs) has been proposed to satisfy the limited storage and computing capability of mobile edge devices. However, previous pruning methods mainly focus on reducing the model size and/or improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yifan Gong , Zheng Zhan , Zhengang Li , Wei Niu , Xiaolong Ma , Wenhao Wang , Bin Ren , Caiwen Ding , Xue Lin , Xiaolin Xu , Yanzhi Wang

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

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) especially deep convolutional networks are very popular these days and have been proved to successfully offer quite reliable solutions to many vision problems. However, the use of deep neural networks is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Yangzi Guo , Yiyuan She , Adrian Barbu

Structured pruning can simplify network architecture and improve inference speed. Combined with the underlying hardware and inference engine in which the final model is deployed, better results can be obtained by using latency collaborative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Siyuan Pan , Linna Zhang , Jie Zhang , Xiaoshuang Li , Liang Hou , Xiaobing Tu

Various forms of representations may arise in the many layers embedded in deep neural networks (DNNs). Of these, where can we find the most compact representation? We propose to use a pruning framework to answer this question: How compact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Hyun-Joo Jung , Jaedeok Kim , Yoonsuck Choe

Deploying complex deep learning models on edge devices is challenging because they have substantial compute and memory resource requirements, whereas edge devices' resource budget is limited. To solve this problem, extensive pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Kaiqi Zhao , Animesh Jain , Ming Zhao

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved significant advances in a wide range of applications. However, their deployment on resource-constrained devices remains a challenge due to the large number of layers and parameters, which result in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Sara Makenali , Babak Rokh , Ali Azarpeyvand

In Machine Learning, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are a very powerful tool, broadly used in many applications. Often, the selected (deep) architectures include many layers, and therefore a large amount of parameters, which makes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Matteo Cacciola , Antonio Frangioni , Xinlin Li , Andrea Lodi

Network pruning and knowledge distillation are two widely-known model compression methods that efficiently reduce computation cost and model size. A common problem in both pruning and distillation is to determine compressed architecture,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Dongqi Wang , Shengyu Zhang , Zhipeng Di , Xin Lin , Weihua Zhou , Fei Wu

Previous AutoML pruning works utilized individual layer features to automatically prune filters. We analyze the correlation for two layers from the different blocks which have a short-cut structure. It shows that, in one block, the deeper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Mingyang Zhang , Xinyi Yu , Jingtao Rong , Linlin Ou

Introduced in the late 1980s for generalization purposes, pruning has now become a staple for compressing deep neural networks. Despite many innovations in recent decades, pruning approaches still face core issues that hinder their…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Hugo Tessier , Vincent Gripon , Mathieu Léonardon , Matthieu Arzel , Thomas Hannagan , David Bertrand

Deep learning has become a ubiquitous technology to improve machine intelligence. However, most of the existing deep models are structurally very complex, making them difficult to be deployed on the mobile platforms with limited…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Yiwen Guo , Anbang Yao , Yurong Chen

Model compression techniques on Deep Neural Network (DNN) have been widely acknowledged as an effective way to achieve acceleration on a variety of platforms, and DNN weight pruning is a straightforward and effective method. There are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Xiaolong Ma , Fu-Ming Guo , Wei Niu , Xue Lin , Jian Tang , Kaisheng Ma , Bin Ren , Yanzhi Wang

Filter pruning of a CNN is typically achieved by applying discrete masks on the CNN's filter weights or activation maps, post-training. Here, we present a new filter-importance-scoring concept named pruning by active attention manipulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Zahra Babaiee , Lucas Liebenwein , Ramin Hasani , Daniela Rus , Radu Grosu

Deep learning models for Time Series Classification (TSC) have achieved strong predictive performance but their high computational and memory requirements often limit deployment on resource-constrained devices. While structured pruning can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Javidan Abdullayev , Maxime Devanne , Cyril Meyer , Ali Ismail-Fawaz , Jonathan Weber , Germain Forestier

Channel pruning is formulated as a neural architecture search (NAS) problem recently. However, existing NAS-based methods are challenged by huge computational cost and inflexibility of applications. How to deal with multiple sparsity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Lanbo Lin , Yujiu Yang , Zhenhua Guo