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Neural network pruning with suitable retraining can yield networks with considerably fewer parameters than the original with comparable degrees of accuracy. Typical pruning methods require large, fully trained networks as a starting point…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Timothy Foldy-Porto , Yeshwanth Venkatesha , Priyadarshini Panda

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have recently achieved great success in many visual recognition tasks. However, existing deep neural network models are computationally expensive and memory intensive, hindering their deployment in devices with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Yu Cheng , Duo Wang , Pan Zhou , Tao Zhang

After training complex deep learning models, a common task is to compress the model to reduce compute and storage demands. When compressing, it is desirable to preserve the original model's per-example decisions (e.g., to go beyond top-1…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Jerry Chee , Megan Renz , Anil Damle , Christopher De Sa

Structured pruning and quantization are promising approaches for reducing the inference time and memory footprint of neural networks. However, most existing methods require the original training dataset to fine-tune the model. This not only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Shipeng Bai , Jun Chen , Xintian Shen , Yixuan Qian , Yong Liu

Deep neural networks have achieved state-of-the-art performance across numerous applications, but their high memory and computational demands present significant challenges, particularly in resource-constrained environments. Model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Shihao Zhang , Rayan Saab

Given a pretrained encoder-based language model, how can we accurately compress it without retraining? Retraining-free structured pruning algorithms are crucial in pretrained language model compression due to their significantly reduced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Seungcheol Park , Hojun Choi , U Kang

Existing high-performance deep learning models require very intensive computing. For this reason, it is difficult to embed a deep learning model into a system with limited resources. In this paper, we propose the novel idea of the network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Dae-Woong Jeong , Jaehun Kim , Youngseok Kim , Tae-Ho Kim , Myungsu Chae

Many neural network pruning algorithms proceed in three steps: train the network to completion, remove unwanted structure to compress the network, and retrain the remaining structure to recover lost accuracy. The standard retraining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Alex Renda , Jonathan Frankle , Michael Carbin

Recent advances in model compression have provided procedures for compressing large neural networks to a fraction of their original size while retaining most if not all of their accuracy. However, all of these approaches rely on access to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Raphael Gontijo Lopes , Stefano Fenu , Thad Starner

In today's world, a vast amount of data is being generated by edge devices that can be used as valuable training data to improve the performance of machine learning algorithms in terms of the achieved accuracy or to reduce the compute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Aditya Rajagopal , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

Network pruning is one of the most dominant methods for reducing the heavy inference cost of deep neural networks. Existing methods often iteratively prune networks to attain high compression ratio without incurring significant loss in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Duong H. Le , Trung-Nhan Vo , Nam Thoai

This paper is dedicated to an efficient compression of weights and optimizer states (called checkpoints) obtained at different stages during a neural network training process. First, we propose a prediction-based compression approach, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Yuriy Kim , Evgeny Belyaev

The widespread availability of pre-trained vision models has enabled numerous deep learning applications through their transferable representations. However, their computational and storage costs often limit practical deployment.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Leonardo Iurada , Beatrice Occhiena , Tatiana Tommasi

Vision Transformer and its variants have been adopted in many visual tasks due to their powerful capabilities, which also bring significant challenges in computation and storage. Consequently, researchers have introduced various compression…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Zeyu Wang , Weichen Dai , Xiangyu Zhou , Ji Qi , Yi Zhou

The success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in various applications is accompanied by a significant increase in computation and parameter storage costs. Recent efforts to reduce these overheads involve pruning and compressing the…

By removing parameters from deep neural networks, unstructured pruning methods aim at cutting down memory footprint and computational cost, while maintaining prediction accuracy. In order to tackle this otherwise intractable problem, many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 César Laurent , Camille Ballas , Thomas George , Nicolas Ballas , Pascal Vincent

Recent advances in deep learning have made available large, powerful convolutional neural networks (CNN) with state-of-the-art performance in several real-world applications. Unfortunately, these large-sized models have millions of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Giosuè Cataldo Marinò , Gregorio Ghidoli , Marco Frasca , Dario Malchiodi

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

Deep Neural Networks have been used in a wide variety of applications with significant success. However, their highly complex nature owing to comprising millions of parameters has lead to problems during deployment in pipelines with low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Elvis Johnson , Xiaochen Tang , Sriramacharyulu Samudrala

Deep neural networks have been the predominant paradigm in machine learning for solving cognitive tasks. Such models, however, are restricted by a high computational overhead, limiting their applicability and hindering advancements in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Ian Pons , Bruno Yamamoto , Anna H. Reali Costa , Artur Jordao