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Network pruning is aimed at imposing sparsity in a neural network architecture by increasing the portion of zero-valued weights for reducing its size regarding energy-efficiency consideration and increasing evaluation speed. In most of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Amirsina Torfi , Rouzbeh A. Shirvani , Sobhan Soleymani , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

Deep neural networks are often highly overparameterized, prohibiting their use in compute-limited systems. However, a line of recent works has shown that the size of deep networks can be considerably reduced by identifying a subset of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Minsu Cho , Ameya Joshi , Chinmay Hegde

This paper presents a novel differentiable method for unstructured weight pruning of deep neural networks. Our learned-threshold pruning (LTP) method learns per-layer thresholds via gradient descent, unlike conventional methods where they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Kambiz Azarian , Yash Bhalgat , Jinwon Lee , Tijmen Blankevoort

When deploying pre-trained neural network models in real-world applications, model consumers often encounter resource-constraint platforms such as mobile and smart devices. They typically use the pruning technique to reduce the size and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Mark Huasong Meng , Guangdong Bai , Sin Gee Teo , Jin Song Dong

Many complex processes can be viewed as dynamical systems on networks. However, in real cases, only the performances of the system are known, the network structure and the dynamical rules are not observed. Therefore, recovering latent…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-12-03 Zhang Zhang , Yi Zhao , Jing Liu , Shuo Wang , Ruyi Tao , Ruyue Xin , Jiang Zhang

Deep neural networks have evolved to become power demanding and consequently difficult to apply to small-size mobile platforms. Network parameter reduction methods have been introduced to systematically deal with the computational and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Mahdi Biparva , John Tsotsos

Existing pruning techniques preserve deep neural networks' overall ability to make correct predictions but may also amplify hidden biases during the compression process. We propose a novel pruning method, Fairness-aware GRAdient Pruning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Xiaofeng Lin , Seungbae Kim , Jungseock Joo

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in object detection tasks, but their increasing complexity poses significant challenges for deployment on resource-constrained platforms. While model compression techniques such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Abhinav Shukla , Nachiket Tapas

Pruning neural networks at initialization would enable us to find sparse models that retain the accuracy of the original network while consuming fewer computational resources for training and inference. However, current methods are…

Deep neural networks have dramatically achieved great success on a variety of challenging tasks. However, most successful DNNs have an extremely complex structure, leading to extensive research on model compression.As a significant area of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Haipeng Jia , Xueshuang Xiang , Da Fan , Meiyu Huang , Changhao Sun , Yang He

As deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly deployed on edge devices, optimizing models for constrained computational resources is critical. Existing auto-pruning methods face challenges due to the diversity of DNN models, various…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Lixian Jing , Jianpeng Qi , Junyu Dong , Yanwei Yu

Deep neural networks are strongly over-parameterized, often containing far more weights than required for their task. Although such redundancy can aid optimization, it leads to inefficient deployment and high computational cost, motivating…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-18 Diego Pesce , Yang-Hui He , Guido Caldarelli

Network pruning is a commonly used measure to alleviate the storage and computational burden of deep neural networks. However, the fundamental limit of network pruning is still lacking. To close the gap, in this work we'll take a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-20 Qiaozhe Zhang , Ruijie Zhang , Jun Sun , Yingzhuang Liu

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are applied in a wide range of usecases. There is an increased demand for deploying DNNs on devices that do not have abundant resources such as memory and computation units. Recently, network compression through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Haichuan Yang , Shupeng Gui , Yuhao Zhu , Ji Liu

Model Compression has drawn much attention within the deep learning community recently. Compressing a dense neural network offers many advantages including lower computation cost, deployability to devices of limited storage and memories,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Diptarka Saha , Zihe Liu , Feng Liang

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) has achieved significant success in computer vision field. However, the high computational cost of the deep complex models prevents the deployment on edge devices with limited memory and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Huiyuan Zhuo , Xuelin Qian , Yanwei Fu , Heng Yang , Xiangyang Xue

Network pruning is one of the most dominant methods for reducing the heavy inference cost of deep neural networks. Existing methods often iteratively prune networks to attain high compression ratio without incurring significant loss in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Duong H. Le , Trung-Nhan Vo , Nam Thoai

We propose a novel algorithm for combined unit and layer pruning of deep neural networks that functions during training and without requiring a pre-trained network to apply. Our algorithm optimally trades-off learning accuracy and pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Valentin Frank Ingmar Guenter , Athanasios Sideris

One of the major challenges in deploying deep neural network architectures is their size which has an adverse effect on their inference time and memory requirements. Deep CNNs can either be pruned width-wise by removing filters based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Muhammad Umair Haider , Murtaza Taj

Pruning seeks to design lightweight architectures by removing redundant weights in overparameterized networks. Most of the existing techniques first remove structured sub-networks (filters, channels,...) and then fine-tune the resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Robin Dupont , Hichem Sahbi , Guillaume Michel