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A fundamental problem in object recognition is the development of image representations that are invariant to common transformations such as translation, rotation, and small deformations. There are multiple hypotheses regarding the source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Eric Kauderer-Abrams

This paper presents a novel approach to neural network pruning by integrating a graph-based observation space into an AutoML framework to address the limitations of existing methods. Traditional pruning approaches often depend on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Dieter Balemans , Thomas Huybrechts , Jan Steckel , Siegfried Mercelis

Deep learning harnesses massive parallel floating-point processing to train and evaluate large neural networks. Trends indicate that deeper and larger neural networks with an increasing number of parameters achieve higher accuracy than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Brad Larson , Bishal Upadhyaya , Luke McDermott , Siddha Ganju

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

Convolutional neural networks have shown great success on feature extraction from raw input data such as images. Although convolutional neural networks are invariant to translations on the inputs, they are not invariant to other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Hongyang Gao , Shuiwang Ji

Techniques for understanding the functioning of complex machine learning models are becoming increasingly popular, not only to improve the validation process, but also to extract new insights about the data via exploratory analysis. Though…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-02 Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Irene Kim , Rushil Anirudh , Peer-Timo Bremer

In Machine Learning, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are a very powerful tool, broadly used in many applications. Often, the selected (deep) architectures include many layers, and therefore a large amount of parameters, which makes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Matteo Cacciola , Antonio Frangioni , Xinlin Li , Andrea Lodi

Neural networks grow vastly in size to tackle more sophisticated tasks. In many cases, such large networks are not deployable on particular hardware and need to be reduced in size. Pruning techniques help to shrink deep neural networks to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Udo Schlegel , Samuel Schiegg , Daniel A. Keim

Network pruning is a promising avenue for compressing deep neural networks. A typical approach to pruning starts by training a model and then removing redundant parameters while minimizing the impact on what is learned. Alternatively, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Namhoon Lee , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Stephen Gould , Philip H. S. Torr

Various work has suggested that the memorability of an image is consistent across people, and thus can be treated as an intrinsic property of an image. Using computer vision models, we can make specific predictions about what people will…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Coen D. Needell , Wilma A. Bainbridge

To solve ever more complex problems, Deep Neural Networks are scaled to billions of parameters, leading to huge computational costs. An effective approach to reduce computational requirements and increase efficiency is to prune unnecessary…

Bayesian neural Networks (BNNs) are a promising method of obtaining statistical uncertainties for neural network predictions but with a higher computational overhead which can limit their practical usage. This work explores the use of high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Himanshu Sharma , Elise Jennings

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

We present a provable, sampling-based approach for generating compact Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) by identifying and removing redundant filters from an over-parameterized network. Our algorithm uses a small batch of input data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Lucas Liebenwein , Cenk Baykal , Harry Lang , Dan Feldman , Daniela Rus

The advent of sparsity inducing techniques in neural networks has been of a great help in the last few years. Indeed, those methods allowed to find lighter and faster networks, able to perform more efficiently in resource-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Nathan Hubens , Victor Delvigne , Matei Mancas , Bernard Gosselin , Marius Preda , Titus Zaharia

A novel Neural Network architecture is proposed using the mathematically and physically rich idea of vector fields as hidden layers to perform nonlinear transformations in the data. The data points are interpreted as particles moving along…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Daniel Vieira , Fabio Rangel , Fabricio Firmino , Joao Paixao

We present a filter pruning approach for deep model compression, using a multitask network. Our approach is based on learning a a pruner network to prune a pre-trained target network. The pruner is essentially a multitask deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Vinay Kumar Verma , Pravendra Singh , Vinay P. Namboodiri , Piyush Rai

Pruning methods have shown to be effective at reducing the size of deep neural networks while keeping accuracy almost intact. Among the most effective methods are those that prune a network while training it with a sparsity prior loss and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Carl Lemaire , Andrew Achkar , Pierre-Marc Jodoin

Translational invariance induced by pooling operations is an inherent property of convolutional neural networks, which facilitates numerous computer vision tasks such as classification. Yet to leverage rotational invariant tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Quentin Paletta , Anthony Hu , Guillaume Arbod , Philippe Blanc , Joan Lasenby

We present a deep transformation model for probabilistic regression. Deep learning is known for outstandingly accurate predictions on complex data but in regression tasks, it is predominantly used to just predict a single number. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-02 Beate Sick , Torsten Hothorn , Oliver Dürr