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Pruning is a widely used method for compressing Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), where less relevant parameters are removed from a DNN model to reduce its size. However, removing parameters reduces model accuracy, so pruning is typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Wenhao Hu , Paul Henderson , José Cano

DNN pruning reduces memory footprint and computational work of DNN-based solutions to improve performance and energy-efficiency. An effective pruning scheme should be able to systematically remove connections and/or neurons that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Marc Riera , Jose-Maria Arnau , Antonio Gonzalez

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

In Federated Learning (FL), training is conducted on client devices, typically with limited computational resources and storage capacity. To address these constraints, we propose an automatic pruning scheme tailored for FL systems. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Thai Vu Nguyen , Long Bao Le , Anderson Avila

Mobile devices run deep learning models for various purposes, such as image classification and speech recognition. Due to the resource constraints of mobile devices, researchers have focused on either making a lightweight deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Taeho Kim , Yongin Kwon , Jemin Lee , Taeho Kim , Sangtae Ha

Structural design of neural networks is crucial for the success of deep learning. While most prior works in evolutionary learning aim at directly searching the structure of a network, few attempts have been made on another promising track,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Yuchen Liu , S. Y. Kung , David Wentzlaff

In this paper we present an alternative strategy for fine-tuning the parameters of a network. We named the technique Gradual Tuning. Once trained on a first task, the network is fine-tuned on a second task by modifying a progressively…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Guglielmo Montone , J. Kevin O'Regan , Alexander V. Terekhov

Neural network pruning is an essential approach for reducing the computational complexity of deep models so that they can be well deployed on resource-limited devices. Compared with conventional methods, the recently developed dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Yehui Tang , Yunhe Wang , Yixing Xu , Yiping Deng , Chao Xu , Dacheng Tao , Chang Xu

We introduce a method to speed up training by 2x and inference by 3x in deep neural networks using structured pruning applied before training. Unlike previous works on pruning before training which prune individual weights, our work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Joost van Amersfoort , Milad Alizadeh , Sebastian Farquhar , Nicholas Lane , Yarin Gal

Neural network pruning techniques reduce the number of parameters without compromising predicting ability of a network. Many algorithms have been developed for pruning both over-parameterized fully-connected networks (FCNs) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Xin Qian , Diego Klabjan

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has shown remarkable success in complex autonomous driving scenarios. However, DRL models inevitably bring high memory consumption and computation, which hinders their wide deployment in resource-limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Wensheng Su , Zhenni Li , Minrui Xu , Jiawen Kang , Dusit Niyato , Shengli Xie

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are effective in solving many real-world problems. Larger DNN models usually exhibit better quality (e.g., accuracy) but their excessive computation results in long inference time. Model sparsification can reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Xiaolong Ma , Minghai Qin , Fei Sun , Zejiang Hou , Kun Yuan , Yi Xu , Yanzhi Wang , Yen-Kuang Chen , Rong Jin , Yuan Xie

Deep neural networks are strongly over-parameterized, often containing far more weights than required for their task. Although such redundancy can aid optimization, it leads to inefficient deployment and high computational cost, motivating…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-18 Diego Pesce , Yang-Hui He , Guido Caldarelli

DNN pruning is a popular way to reduce the size of a model, improve the inference latency, and minimize the power consumption on DNN accelerators. However, existing approaches might be too complex, expensive or ineffective to apply to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Minsik Cho , Saurabh Adya , Devang Naik

Iterative Magnitude Pruning (IMP) is a network pruning method that repeats the process of removing weights with the least magnitudes and retraining the model. When visualizing the weight matrices of language models pruned by IMP, previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Dongjun Park , Geung-Hee Lee

Deep learning recommendation systems at scale have provided remarkable gains through increasing model capacity (i.e. wider and deeper neural networks), but it comes at significant training cost and infrastructure cost. Model pruning is an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Xiaocong Du , Bhargav Bhushanam , Jiecao Yu , Dhruv Choudhary , Tianxiang Gao , Sherman Wong , Louis Feng , Jongsoo Park , Yu Cao , Arun Kejariwal

Transformer-based NLP models are trained using hundreds of millions or even billions of parameters, limiting their applicability in computationally constrained environments. While the number of parameters generally correlates with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Hassan Sajjad , Fahim Dalvi , Nadir Durrani , Preslav Nakov

Contemporary state-of-the-art neural networks have increasingly large numbers of parameters, which prevents their deployment on devices with limited computational power. Pruning is one technique to remove unnecessary weights and reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Sahel Mohammad Iqbal , Subhankar Mishra

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved significant success across various NLP tasks. However, their massive computational costs limit their widespread use, particularly in real-time applications. Structured pruning offers an effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Shengkun Tang , Oliver Sieberling , Eldar Kurtic , Zhiqiang Shen , Dan Alistarh

The emergence of deep and large-scale spiking neural networks (SNNs) exhibiting high performance across diverse complex datasets has led to a need for compressing network models due to the presence of a significant number of redundant…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yaxin Li , Qi Xu , Jiangrong Shen , Hongming Xu , Long Chen , Gang Pan