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The deployment of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in many real world applications is largely hindered by their high computational cost. In this paper, we propose a novel learning scheme for CNNs to simultaneously 1) reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Zhuang Liu , Jianguo Li , Zhiqiang Shen , Gao Huang , Shoumeng Yan , Changshui Zhang

In order to enhance the real-time performance of convolutional neural networks(CNNs), more and more researchers are focusing on improving the efficiency of CNN. Based on the analysis of some CNN architectures, such as ResNet, DenseNet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Qiuyu Zhu , Ruixin Zhang

Structured pruning is a well-established technique for compressing neural networks, making it suitable for deployment in resource-limited edge devices. This paper presents an efficient Loss-Aware Automatic Selection of Structured Pruning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Deepak Ghimire , Kilho Lee , Seong-heum Kim

State-of-the-art convolutional neural networks (CNNs) used in vision applications have large models with numerous weights. Training these models is very compute- and memory-resource intensive. Much research has been done on pruning or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Sangkug Lym , Esha Choukse , Siavash Zangeneh , Wei Wen , Sujay Sanghavi , Mattan Erez

To design fast neural networks, many works have been focusing on reducing the number of floating-point operations (FLOPs). We observe that such reduction in FLOPs, however, does not necessarily lead to a similar level of reduction in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Jierun Chen , Shiu-hong Kao , Hao He , Weipeng Zhuo , Song Wen , Chul-Ho Lee , S. -H. Gary Chan

Despite the promising results of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), their application on devices with limited resources is still a big challenge; this is mainly due to the huge memory and computation requirements of the CNN. To counter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Csanád Sándor , Szabolcs Pável , Lehel Csató

Neural networks performance has been significantly improved in the last few years, at the cost of an increasing number of floating point operations per second (FLOPs). However, more FLOPs can be an issue when computational resources are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Thibault Castells , Seul-Ki Yeom

The challenge of speeding up deep learning models during the deployment phase has been a large, expensive bottleneck in the modern tech industry. In this paper, we examine the use of both regularization and pruning for reduced computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Tai Vu , Emily Wen , Roy Nehoran

Structural pruning can simplify network architecture and improve inference speed. We propose Hardware-Aware Latency Pruning (HALP) that formulates structural pruning as a global resource allocation optimization problem, aiming at maximizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Maying Shen , Hongxu Yin , Pavlo Molchanov , Lei Mao , Jianna Liu , Jose M. Alvarez

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have become the dominant neural network architecture for solving many state-of-the-art (SOA) visual processing tasks. Even though Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) are most often used in training and…

Acceleration of convolutional neural network has received increasing attention during the past several years. Among various acceleration techniques, filter pruning has its inherent merit by effectively reducing the number of convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Dong Wang , Lei Zhou , Xiao Bai , Jun Zhou

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have a large number of parameters and take significantly large hardware resources to compute, so edge devices struggle to run high-level networks. This paper proposes a novel method to reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Athul Shibu , Abhishek Kumar , Heechul Jung , Dong-Gyu Lee

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has an amount of parameter redundancy, filter pruning aims to remove the redundant filters and provides the possibility for the application of CNN on terminal devices. However, previous works pay more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Pengkun Liu , Yaru Yue , Yanjun Guo , Xingxiang Tao , Xiaoguang Zhou

Structural pruning can simplify network architecture and improve inference speed. We propose Hardware-Aware Latency Pruning (HALP) that formulates structural pruning as a global resource allocation optimization problem, aiming at maximizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Maying Shen , Hongxu Yin , Pavlo Molchanov , Lei Mao , Jianna Liu , Jose M. Alvarez

Deeper and wider Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) achieve superior performance but bring expensive computation cost. Accelerating such over-parameterized neural network has received increased attention. A typical pruning algorithm is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Yang He , Xuanyi Dong , Guoliang Kang , Yanwei Fu , Chenggang Yan , Yi Yang

Phenomenally successful in practical inference problems, convolutional neural networks (CNN) are widely deployed in mobile devices, data centers, and even supercomputers. The number of parameters needed in CNNs, however, are often large and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Jongsoo Park , Sheng Li , Wei Wen , Ping Tak Peter Tang , Hai Li , Yiran Chen , Pradeep Dubey

This paper proposes a new method to improve the training efficiency of deep convolutional neural networks. During training, the method evaluates scores to measure how much each layer's parameters change and whether the layer will continue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Giorgio Cruciata , Luca Cruciata , Liliana Lo Presti , Jan Van Gemert , Marco La Cascia

Structured pruning greatly eases the deployment of large neural networks in resource-constrained environments. However, current methods either involve strong domain expertise, require extra hyperparameter tuning, or are restricted only to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Qingyuan Li , Bo Zhang , Xiangxiang Chu

We present a novel deep learning architecture in which the convolution operation leverages heterogeneous kernels. The proposed HetConv (Heterogeneous Kernel-Based Convolution) reduces the computation (FLOPs) and the number of parameters as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Pravendra Singh , Vinay Kumar Verma , Piyush Rai , Vinay P. Namboodiri

As state of the art neural networks (NNs) continue to grow in size, their resource-efficient implementation becomes ever more important. In this paper, we introduce a compression scheme that reduces the number of computations required for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Hans Rosenberger , Rodrigo Fischer , Johanna S. Fröhlich , Ali Bereyhi , Ralf R. Müller