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While the research on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is progressing quickly, the real-world deployment of these models is often limited by computing resources and memory constraints. In this paper, we address this issue by proposing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Dong Wang , Lei Zhou , Xueni Zhang , Xiao Bai , Jun Zhou

As deep neural networks are increasingly used in applications suited for low-power devices, a fundamental dilemma becomes apparent: the trend is to grow models to absorb increasing data that gives rise to memory intensive; however low-power…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Weiyu Guo , Jiabin Ma , Liang Wang , Yongzhen Huang

This paper evaluates six strategies for mitigating imbalanced data: oversampling, undersampling, ensemble methods, specialized algorithms, class weight adjustments, and a no-mitigation approach referred to as the baseline. These strategies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Jacques Wainer

Depth pruning improves the deployment efficiency of large language models (LLMs) by identifying and removing redundant layers. A widely accepted standard for this identification process is to measure the similarity between layers using…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Yuli Chen , Shuhao Zhang , Fanshen Meng , Bo Cheng , Jiale Han , Qiang Tong , Xiulei Liu

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

Real time application of deep learning algorithms is often hindered by high computational complexity and frequent memory accesses. Network pruning is a promising technique to solve this problem. However, pruning usually results in irregular…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Sajid Anwar , Kyuyeon Hwang , Wonyong Sung

The evolving capabilities of large language models are accompanied by growing sizes and deployment costs, necessitating effective inference optimisation techniques. We propose a novel pruning method utilising centrality measures from graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 David Hoffmann , Kailash Budhathoki , Matthaeus Kleindessner

Model compression techniques reduce the computational load and memory consumption of deep neural networks. After the compression operation, e.g. parameter pruning, the model is normally fine-tuned on the original training dataset to recover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Adrian Holzbock , Achyut Hegde , Klaus Dietmayer , Vasileios Belagiannis

Pruning is a model compression method that removes redundant parameters in deep neural networks (DNNs) while maintaining accuracy. Most available filter pruning methods require complex treatments such as iterative pruning, features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yue Wu , Yuan Lan , Luchan Zhang , Yang Xiang

Neural network pruning is a popular model compression method which can significantly reduce the computing cost with negligible loss of accuracy. Recently, filters are often pruned directly by designing proper criteria or using auxiliary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Haopu Shang , Jia-Liang Wu , Wenjing Hong , Chao Qian

Filters are the essential elements in convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Filters are corresponded to the feature maps and form the main part of the computational and memory requirement for the CNN processing. In filter pruning methods, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Morteza Mousa-Pasandi , Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi , Shahram Shirani

With the increasing size of large language models, layer pruning has gained increased attention as a hardware-friendly approach for model compression. However, existing layer pruning methods struggle to simultaneously address key practical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Tao Yuan , Haoli Bai , Yinfei Pan , Xuyang Cao , Tianyu Zhang , Lu Hou , Ting Hu , Xianzhi Yu

Biomedical data are widely accepted in developing prediction models for identifying a specific tumor, drug discovery and classification of human cancers. However, previous studies usually focused on different classifiers, and overlook the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-05 Shigang Liu , Jun Zhang , Yang Xiang , Wanlei Zhou , Dongxi Xiang

Previous work showed empirically that large neural networks can be significantly reduced in size while preserving their accuracy. Model compression became a central research topic, as it is crucial for deployment of neural networks on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Ben Mussay , Margarita Osadchy , Vladimir Braverman , Samson Zhou , Dan Feldman

Utilizing massive web-scale datasets has led to unprecedented performance gains in machine learning models, but also imposes outlandish compute requirements for their training. In order to improve training and data efficiency, we here push…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Amro Abbas , Evgenia Rusak , Kushal Tirumala , Wieland Brendel , Kamalika Chaudhuri , Ari S. Morcos

Neural network pruning is a highly effective technique aimed at reducing the computational and memory demands of large neural networks. In this research paper, we present a novel approach to pruning neural networks utilizing Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-07 Sunil Mathew , Daniel B. Rowe

In this paper, we present a novel sensitivity-based filter pruning algorithm (SbF-Pruner) to learn the importance scores of filters of each layer end-to-end. Our method learns the scores from the filter weights, enabling it to account for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Zahra Babaiee , Lucas Liebenwein , Ramin Hasani , Daniela Rus , Radu Grosu

This paper presents an iterative pruning strategy for Convolutional Network Fabrics (CNF) in presence of noisy training and testing data. With the continuous increase in size of neural network models, various authors have developed pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Ilias Benjelloun , Bart Lamiroy , Efoevi Koudou

Filter pruning has attracted increasing attention in recent years for its capacity in compressing and accelerating convolutional neural networks. Various data-independent criteria, including norm-based and relationship-based ones, were…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Shaowu Chen , Weize Sun , Lei Huang

Data rebalancing techniques, including oversampling and undersampling, are a common approach to addressing the challenges of imbalanced data. To tackle unresolved problems related to both oversampling and undersampling, we propose a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Karen Medlin , Sven Leyffer , Krishnan Raghavan