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Deep convolutional neural networks have been proved successful on a wide range of tasks, yet they are still hindered by their large computation cost in many industrial scenarios. In this paper, we propose to reduce such cost for CNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Jinting Chen , Zhaocheng Zhu , Cheng Li , Yuming Zhao

Neural network pruning is an important step in design process of efficient neural networks for edge devices with limited computational power. Pruning is a form of knowledge transfer from the weights of the original network to a smaller…

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Resource-efficient convolution neural networks enable not only the intelligence on edge devices but also opportunities in system-level optimization such as scheduling. In this work, we aim to improve the performance of resource-constrained…

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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

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) especially deep convolutional networks are very popular these days and have been proved to successfully offer quite reliable solutions to many vision problems. However, the use of deep neural networks is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Yangzi Guo , Yiyuan She , Adrian Barbu

In this paper, we propose a novel layer-adaptive weight-pruning approach for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) that addresses the challenge of optimizing the output distortion minimization while adhering to a target pruning ratio constraint. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Kaixin Xu , Zhe Wang , Xue Geng , Jie Lin , Min Wu , Xiaoli Li , Weisi Lin

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are reported to be overparametrized. The search for optimal (minimal) and sufficient architecture is an NP-hard problem as the hyperparameter space for possible network configurations is vast. Here, we…

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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

Although deep neural networks (NNs) have achievedstate-of-the-art accuracy in many visual recognition tasks,the growing computational complexity and energy con-sumption of networks remains an issue, especially for ap-plications on platforms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Le Thanh Nguyen-Meidine , Eric Granger , Madhu Kiran , Louis-Antoine Blais-Morin , Marco Pedersoli

The performance of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) keeps elevating in recent years with increasing network depth and width. To enable DNNs on edge devices like mobile phones, researchers proposed several network compression methods including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Yuhui Xu , Yuxi Li , Shuai Zhang , Wei Wen , Botao Wang , Yingyong Qi , Yiran Chen , Weiyao Lin , Hongkai Xiong

In this paper, we propose an adaptive pruning method. This method can cut off the channel and layer adaptively. The proportion of the layer and the channel to be cut is learned adaptively. The pruning method proposed in this paper can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Weiwei Zhang , Changsheng chen , Xuechun Wu , Jialin Gao , Di Bao , Jiwei Li , Xi Zhou

The increasing computational demands of modern neural networks present deployment challenges on resource-constrained devices. Network pruning offers a solution to reduce model size and computational cost while maintaining performance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Xiang Meng , Wenyu Chen , Riade Benbaki , Rahul Mazumder

Neural network compression empowers the effective yet unwieldy deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) to be deployed in resource-constrained scenarios. Most state-of-the-art approaches prune the model in filter-level according to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Wenxiao Wang , Cong Fu , Jishun Guo , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He

As a deep learning model typically contains millions of trainable weights, there has been a growing demand for a more efficient network structure with reduced storage space and improved run-time efficiency. Pruning is one of the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Qisheng He , Weisong Shi , Ming Dong

Although large language models (LLMs) have achieved revolutionary breakthroughs in many fields, their large model size and high computational cost pose significant challenges for practical deployment on resource-constrained edge devices. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Yao Lu , Yuqi Li , Wenbin Xie , Shanqing Yu , Qi Xuan , Zhaowei Zhu , Shiping Wen

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have succeeded in many practical applications. However, their high computation and storage requirements often make them difficult to deploy on resource-constrained devices. In order to tackle this issue,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Tianzong Yu , Chunyuan Zhang , Yuan Wang , Meng Ma , Qi Song

Large language models (LLMs) excel at language understanding and generation, but their enormous computational and memory requirements hinder deployment. Compression offers a potential solution to mitigate these constraints. However, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Huanrong Liu , Chunlin Tian , Xuyang Wei , Qingbiao Li , Li Li

Modern applications require lightweight neural network models. Most existing neural network pruning methods focus on removing unimportant filters; however, these may result in the loss of statistical information after pruning due to failing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiang Liu , Mingchen Li , Xia Li , Leigang Qu , Guansu Wang , Zifan Peng , Yijun Song , Zemin Liu , Linshan Jiang , Jialin Li

Pruning is a promising approach to compress deep learning models in order to deploy them on resource-constrained edge devices. However, many existing pruning solutions are based on unstructured pruning, which yields models that cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Kaiqi Zhao , Animesh Jain , Ming Zhao