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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated promising performance in graph analysis. Nevertheless, the inference process of GNNs remains costly, hindering their applications for large graphs. This paper proposes inference-friendly graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yangxin Fan , Haolai Che , Yinghui Wu

Due to the high activation sparsity and use of accumulates (AC) instead of expensive multiply-and-accumulates (MAC), neuromorphic spiking neural networks (SNNs) have emerged as a promising low-power alternative to traditional DNNs for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Gourav Datta , Zeyu Liu , Md Abdullah-Al Kaiser , Souvik Kundu , Joe Mathai , Zihan Yin , Ajey P. Jacob , Akhilesh R. Jaiswal , Peter A. Beerel

Multi-exit network is a promising architecture for efficient model inference by sharing backbone networks and weights among multiple exits. However, the gradient conflict of the shared weights results in sub-optimal accuracy. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Cheng Gong , Yao Chen , Qiuyang Luo , Ye Lu , Tao Li , Yuzhi Zhang , Yufei Sun , Le Zhang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have been recently integrated into Transformer architectures due to their potential to reduce computational demands and to improve power efficiency. Yet, the implementation of the attention mechanism using…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Zihang Song , Prabodh Katti , Osvaldo Simeone , Bipin Rajendran

Contemporary Deep Neural Network (DNN) contains millions of synaptic connections with tens to hundreds of layers. The large computation and memory requirements pose a challenge to the hardware design. In this work, we leverage the intrinsic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Jingyang Zhu , Jingbo Jiang , Xizi Chen , Chi-Ying Tsui

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are powerful tools for analyzing and learning from graph-structured (GS) data, facilitating a wide range of services. Deploying such services in privacy-critical cloud environments necessitates the development…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Fuyi Wang , Zekai Chen , Mingyuan Fan , Jianying Zhou , Lei Pan , Leo Yu Zhang

Neuromorphic object recognition with spiking neural networks (SNNs) is the cornerstone of low-power neuromorphic computing. However, existing SNNs suffer from significant latency, utilizing 10 to 40 timesteps or more, to recognize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Yongqi Ding , Lin Zuo , Mengmeng Jing , Pei He , Yongjun Xiao

This paper presents GridNet, a new Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture for semantic image segmentation (full scene labelling). Classical neural networks are implemented as one stream from the input to the output with subsampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Damien Fourure , Rémi Emonet , Elisa Fromont , Damien Muselet , Alain Tremeau , Christian Wolf

Network compression techniques have become increasingly important in recent years because the loads of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are heavy for edge devices in real-world applications. While many methods compress neural network parameters,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Kuan-Ting Tu , Po-Hsien Yu , Yu-Syuan Tseng , Shao-Yi Chien

In recent years, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) have outreached the performance of classical algorithms for image restoration tasks. However most of these methods are not suited for computational efficiency and are therefore too…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Andrea Castagnetti , Alain Pegatoquet , Benoît Miramond

Recently, deep learning-based compressed sensing (CS) has achieved great success in reducing the sampling and computational cost of sensing systems and improving the reconstruction quality. These approaches, however, largely overlook the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yu Zhou , Yu Chen , Xiao Zhang , Pan Lai , Lei Huang , Jianmin Jiang

Graph Neural Networks (GNN) exhibit superior performance in graph representation learning, but their inference cost can be high, due to an aggregation operation that can require a memory fetch for a very large number of nodes. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yaochen Hu , Mai Zeng , Ge Zhang , Pavel Rumiantsev , Liheng Ma , Yingxue Zhang , Mark Coates

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

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

In this paper we propose a novel framework for learning local image descriptors in a discriminative manner. For this purpose we explore a siamese architecture of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), with a Hinge embedding loss on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Edgar Simo-Serra , Eduard Trulls , Luis Ferraz , Iasonas Kokkinos , Francesc Moreno-Noguer

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a promising alternative to traditional deep learning frameworks, since they provide higher computational efficiency due to event-driven information processing. SNNs distribute the analog values of pixel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Isha Garg , Sayeed Shafayet Chowdhury , Kaushik Roy

Biologically inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have attracted significant attention for their ability to provide extremely energy-efficient machine intelligence through event-driven operation and sparse activities. As artificial…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Shaoyi Huang , Haowen Fang , Kaleel Mahmood , Bowen Lei , Nuo Xu , Bin Lei , Yue Sun , Dongkuan Xu , Wujie Wen , Caiwen Ding

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved superior performance in various prediction tasks, but can be very vulnerable to adversarial examples or perturbations. Therefore, it is crucial to measure the sensitivity of DNNs to various forms of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-23 Hai Shu , Hongtu Zhu

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are the current state-of-the-art models in many speech related tasks. There is a growing interest, though, for more biologically realistic, hardware friendly and energy efficient models, named Spiking Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Thomas Pellegrini , Romain Zimmer , Timothée Masquelier

In this paper, we introduce PrivDFS, a distributed feature-sharing framework for input-private inference in image classification. A single holistic intermediate representation in split inference gives diffusion-based Data Reconstruction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Zihan Liu , Jiayi Wen , Junru Wu , Xuyang Zou , Shouhong Tan , Zhirun Zheng , Cheng Huang