English
Related papers

Related papers: A Multi-objective Complex Network Pruning Framewor…

200 papers

This paper describes a channel-selection approach for simplifying deep neural networks. Specifically, we propose a new type of generic network layer, called pruning layer, to seamlessly augment a given pre-trained model for compression.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Chih-Yao Chiu , Hwann-Tzong Chen , Tyng-Luh Liu

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have shown significant advantages in a wide variety of domains. However, DNNs are becoming computationally intensive and energy hungry at an exponential pace, while at the same time, there is a vast demand for…

Deep neural networks are powerful, yet their high complexity greatly limits their potential to be deployed on billions of resource-constrained edge devices. Pruning is a crucial network compression technique, yet most existing methods focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Qizhen Lan , Jung Im Choi , Qing Tian

We propose a joint feature compression and transmission scheme for efficient inference at the wireless network edge. Our goal is to enable efficient and reliable inference at the edge server assuming limited computational resources at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Mikolaj Jankowski , Deniz Gunduz , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Effectively preserving both the structural and dynamical properties during the reduction of complex networks remains a significant research topic. Existing network reduction methods based on renormalization group or sampling often face…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Dan Chen , Housheng Su , Yong Wang , Jie Liu

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have a large number of parameters and take significantly large hardware resources to compute, so edge devices struggle to run high-level networks. This paper proposes a novel method to reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Athul Shibu , Abhishek Kumar , Heechul Jung , Dong-Gyu Lee

In this work, we propose a simple but effective channel pruning framework called Progressive Channel Pruning (PCP) to accelerate Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). In contrast to the existing channel pruning methods that prune channels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jinyang Guo , Weichen Zhang , Wanli Ouyang , Dong Xu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) offer significant flexibility and robust performance. This makes them ideal for building not only system models but also advanced neural network controllers (NNCs). However, their high complexity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Ganesh Sundaram , Jonas Ulmen , Amjad Haider , Daniel Görges

State-of-the-art deep learning models have a parameter count that reaches into the billions. Training, storing and transferring such models is energy and time consuming, thus costly. A big part of these costs is caused by training the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Paul Wimmer , Jens Mehnert , Alexandru Paul Condurache

Due to the over-parameterization of neural networks, many model compression methods based on pruning and quantization have emerged. They are remarkable in reducing the size, parameter number, and computational complexity of the model.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Yun Chu , Pu Li , Yong Bai , Zhuhua Hu , Yongqing Chen , Jiafeng Lu

Today, artificial neural networks are the state of the art for solving a variety of complex tasks, especially in image classification. Such architectures consist of a sequence of stacked layers with the aim of extracting useful information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Simone Sarti , Eugenio Lomurno , Matteo Matteucci

The rapidly growing parameter volume of deep neural networks (DNNs) hinders the artificial intelligence applications on resource constrained devices, such as mobile and wearable devices. Neural network pruning, as one of the mainstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Ao Ren , Tao Zhang , Yuhao Wang , Sheng Lin , Peiyan Dong , Yen-kuang Chen , Yuan Xie , Yanzhi Wang

Wireless powered mobile-edge computing (MEC) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm to enhance the data processing capability of low-power networks, such as wireless sensor networks and internet of things (IoT). In this paper, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Liang Huang , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Network pruning techniques, including weight pruning and filter pruning, reveal that most state-of-the-art neural networks can be accelerated without a significant performance drop. This work focuses on filter pruning which enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Xuanyu He , Yu-I Yang , Ran Song , Jiachen Pu , Conggang Hu , Feijun Jiang , Wei Zhang , Huanghao Ding

Finding out the computational redundant part of a trained Deep Neural Network (DNN) is the key question that pruning algorithms target on. Many algorithms try to predict model performance of the pruned sub-nets by introducing various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Bailin Li , Bowen Wu , Jiang Su , Guangrun Wang , Liang Lin

Convolutional neural networks are prevailing in deep learning tasks. However, they suffer from massive cost issues when working on mobile devices. Network pruning is an effective method of model compression to handle such problems. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Zhaofeng Si , Honggang Qi , Xiaoyu Song

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…

Distributed training using multiple devices (e.g., GPUs) has been widely adopted for learning DNN models over large datasets. However, the performance of large-scale distributed training tends to be far from linear speed-up in practice.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Hanpeng Hu , Chenyu Jiang , Yuchen Zhong , Yanghua Peng , Chuan Wu , Yibo Zhu , Haibin Lin , Chuanxiong Guo

Pruning is one of the major methods to compress deep neural networks. In this paper, we propose an Ising energy model within an optimization framework for pruning convolutional kernels and hidden units. This model is designed to reduce…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Hojjat Salehinejad , Shahrokh Valaee

Despite the remarkable generation capabilities of Diffusion Models (DMs), conducting training and inference remains computationally expensive. Previous works have been devoted to accelerating diffusion sampling, but achieving data-efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Yize Li , Yihua Zhang , Sijia Liu , Xue Lin