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The ability of Deep Neural Networks to approximate highly complex functions is key to their success. This benefit, however, comes at the expense of a large model size, which challenges its deployment in resource-constrained environments.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Sawinder Kaur , Ferdinando Fioretto , Asif Salekin

Neural networks have achieved remarkable performance in various application domains. Nevertheless, a large number of weights in pre-trained deep neural networks prohibit them from being deployed on smartphones and embedded systems. It is…

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Graph neural networks (GNNs) are known to operate with high accuracy on learning from graph-structured data, but they suffer from high computational and resource costs. Neural network compression methods are used to reduce the model size…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Khatoon Khedri , Reza Rawassizadeh , Qifu Wen , Mehdi Hosseinzadeh

One of the most important parts of Artificial Neural Networks is minimizing the loss functions which tells us how good or bad our model is. To minimize these losses we need to tune the weights and biases. Also to calculate the minimum value…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Kaustubh Yadav

Network-based transfer learning allows the reuse of deep learning features with limited data, but the resulting models can be unnecessarily large. Although network pruning can improve inference efficiency, existing algorithms usually…

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A new method called the Survival Beran-based Neural Importance Model (SurvBeNIM) is proposed. It aims to explain predictions of machine learning survival models, which are in the form of survival or cumulative hazard functions. The main…

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Learning symbolic turbulence models from indirect observation data is of significant interest as it not only improves the accuracy of posterior prediction but also provides explicit model formulations with good interpretability. However, it…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-12 Chutian Wu , Xin-Lei Zhang , Duo Xu , Guowei He

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…

Pruning the weights of randomly initialized neural networks plays an important role in the context of lottery ticket hypothesis. Ramanujan et al. (2020) empirically showed that only pruning the weights can achieve remarkable performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Daiki Chijiwa , Shin'ya Yamaguchi , Yasutoshi Ida , Kenji Umakoshi , Tomohiro Inoue

Model pruning has become a useful technique that improves the computational efficiency of deep learning, making it possible to deploy solutions in resource-limited scenarios. A widely-used practice in relevant work assumes that a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Jianbo Ye , Xin Lu , Zhe Lin , James Z. Wang

Although 3D Convolutional Neural Networks are essential for most learning based applications involving dense 3D data, their applicability is limited due to excessive memory and computational requirements. Compressing such networks by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Zhiwei Xu , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Vibhav Vineet , Richard Hartley

With the success of deep learning, recent efforts have been focused on analyzing how learned networks make their classifications. We are interested in analyzing the network output based on the network structure and information flow through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Sandeep Konam , Ian Quah , Stephanie Rosenthal , Manuela Veloso

Understanding and quantifying node importance is a fundamental problem in network science and engineering, underpinning a wide range of applications such as influence maximization, social recommendation, and network dismantling. Prior…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Jiahui Gao , Kuang Zhou , Yuchen Zhu , Keyu Wu

Different features have different relevance to a particular learning problem. Some features are less relevant; while some very important. Instead of selecting the most relevant features using feature selection, an algorithm can be given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-01-26 Ridwan Al Iqbal

Despite the growing availability of high-capacity computational platforms, implementation complexity still has been a great concern for the real-world deployment of neural networks. This concern is not exclusively due to the huge costs of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Felipe Dennis de Resende Oliveira , Eduardo Luiz Ortiz Batista , Rui Seara

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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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become important machine learning tools for graph analysis, and its explainability is crucial for safety, fairness, and robustness. Layer-wise relevance propagation for GNNs (GNN-LRP) evaluates the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Ping Xiong , Thomas Schnake , Michael Gastegger , Grégoire Montavon , Klaus-Robert Müller , Shinichi Nakajima

One of the main problems of importance sampling in Bayesian networks is representation of the importance function, which should ideally be as close as possible to the posterior joint distribution. Typically, we represent an importance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-09 Changhe Yuan , Marek J. Druzdzel

Pruning is a highly effective approach for compressing large language models (LLMs), significantly reducing inference latency. However, conventional training-free structured pruning methods often employ a heuristic metric that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Songtao Liu , Peng Liu

Given a classification model and a prediction for some input, there are heuristic strategies for ranking features according to their importance in regard to the prediction. One common approach to this task is rooted in propositional logic…

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