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Deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on edge devices requires strong compression with minimal accuracy loss. This paper introduces Mix-and-Match Pruning, a globally guided, layer-wise sparsification framework that leverages sensitivity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Danial Monachan , Samira Nazari , Mahdi Taheri , Ali Azarpeyvand , Milos Krstic , Michael Huebner , Christian Herglotz

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success in various fields. However, the large number of floating-point operations (FLOPs) in DNNs poses challenges for their deployment in resource-constrained applications, e.g.,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Mengnan Jiang , Jingcun Wang , Amro Eldebiky , Xunzhao Yin , Cheng Zhuo , Ing-Chao Lin , Grace Li Zhang

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks have achieved state of the art performance across various computer vision tasks, however their practical deployment is limited by computational and memory overhead. This paper introduces Differential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Iftekhar Haider Chowdhury , Zaed Ikbal Syed , Ahmed Faizul Haque Dhrubo , Mohammad Abdul Qayum

In this paper, we introduce a new channel pruning method to accelerate very deep convolutional neural networks. Given a trained CNN model, we propose an iterative two-step algorithm to effectively prune each layer, by a LASSO regression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Yihui He

In recent years, Deep Learning models have shown a great performance in complex optimization problems. They generally require large training datasets, which is a limitation in most practical cases. Transfer learning allows importing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Javier Poyatos , Daniel Molina , Aritz. D. Martinez , Javier Del Ser , Francisco Herrera

In order to deploy deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on resource-limited devices, many model pruning methods for filters and weights have been developed, while only a few to layer pruning. However, compared with filter pruning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Pengtao Xu , Jian Cao , Fanhua Shang , Wenyu Sun , Pu Li

Recently there has been a lot of work on pruning filters from deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with the intention of reducing computations.The key idea is to rank the filters based on a certain criterion (say, l1-norm) and retain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Deepak Mittal , Shweta Bhardwaj , Mitesh M. Khapra , Balaraman Ravindran

In this paper, we introduce a new channel pruning method to accelerate very deep convolutional neural networks.Given a trained CNN model, we propose an iterative two-step algorithm to effectively prune each layer, by a LASSO regression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Yihui He , Xiangyu Zhang , Jian Sun

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have brought significant advancements in various applications in recent years, such as image recognition, speech recognition, and natural language processing. In particular, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Leonid Berlyand , Theo Bourdais , Houman Owhadi , Yitzchak Shmalo

To address the large model size and intensive computation requirement of deep neural networks (DNNs), weight pruning techniques have been proposed and generally fall into two categories, i.e., static regularization-based pruning and dynamic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Tianyun Zhang , Xiaolong Ma , Zheng Zhan , Shanglin Zhou , Minghai Qin , Fei Sun , Yen-Kuang Chen , Caiwen Ding , Makan Fardad , Yanzhi Wang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are the key to the state-of-the-art machine vision, sensor fusion and audio/video signal processing. Unfortunately, their computation complexity and tight resource constraints on the Edge make them hard to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Ranko Sredojevic , Shaoyi Cheng , Lazar Supic , Rawan Naous , Vladimir Stojanovic

Channel pruning is one of the predominant approaches for deep model compression. Existing pruning methods either train from scratch with sparsity constraints on channels, or minimize the reconstruction error between the pre-trained feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Zhuangwei Zhuang , Mingkui Tan , Bohan Zhuang , Jing Liu , Yong Guo , Qingyao Wu , Junzhou Huang , Jinhui Zhu

Deep neural networks have achieved impressive performance in many applications but their large number of parameters lead to significant computational and storage overheads. Several recent works attempt to mitigate these overheads by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Vikash Sehwag , Shiqi Wang , Prateek Mittal , Suman Jana

We introduce and analyze a new technique for model reduction for deep neural networks. While large networks are theoretically capable of learning arbitrarily complex models, overfitting and model redundancy negatively affects the prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Alireza Aghasi , Afshin Abdi , Nam Nguyen , Justin Romberg

The unmatched ability of Deep Neural Networks in capturing complex patterns in large and noisy datasets is often associated with their large hypothesis space, and consequently to the vast amount of parameters that characterize model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Enrico Ballini , Luca Muscarnera , Alessio Fumagalli , Anna Scotti , Francesco Regazzoni

Structured pruning is a commonly used convolutional neural network (CNN) compression approach. Pruning rate setting is a fundamental problem in structured pruning. Most existing works introduce too many additional learnable parameters to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Pucheng Zhai , Kailing Guo , Fang Liu , Xiaofen Xing , Xiangmin Xu

Popular network pruning algorithms reduce redundant information by optimizing hand-crafted models, and may cause suboptimal performance and long time in selecting filters. We innovatively introduce adaptive exemplar filters to simplify the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Mingbao Lin , Rongrong Ji , Shaojie Li , Yan Wang , Yongjian Wu , Feiyue Huang , Qixiang Ye

Besides accuracy, the model size of convolutional neural networks (CNN) models is another important factor considering limited hardware resources in practical applications. For example, employing deep neural networks on mobile systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Huixin Zhan , Wei-Ming Lin , Yongcan Cao

We present a post-training weight pruning method for deep neural networks that achieves accuracy levels tolerable for the production setting and that is sufficiently fast to be run on commodity hardware such as desktop CPUs or edge devices.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Ivan Lazarevich , Alexander Kozlov , Nikita Malinin

Modern deep neural network models are large and computationally intensive. One typical solution to this issue is model pruning. However, most current pruning algorithms depend on hand crafted rules or domain expertise. To overcome this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Baopu Li , Yanwen Fan , Zhihong Pan , Gang Zhang