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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

The remarkable performance of modern deep neural networks (DNNs) is largely driven by their massive scale, often comprising tens to hundreds of millions-or even billions-of parameters. However, such a scale incurs substantial storage and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Mingyuan Wang , Yangzi Guo , Sida Liu , Yuhang Liu

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved significant advances in a wide range of applications. However, their deployment on resource-constrained devices remains a challenge due to the large number of layers and parameters, which result in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Sara Makenali , Babak Rokh , Ali Azarpeyvand

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have achieved impressive performance on the wide variety of tasks (classification, detection, etc.) across multiple domains at the cost of high computational and memory requirements. Thus, leveraging CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Pravendra Singh , Vinay Sameer Raja Kadi , Nikhil Verma , Vinay P. Namboodiri

In this work we present a method to improve the pruning step of the current state-of-the-art methodology to compress neural networks. The novelty of the proposed pruning technique is in its differentiability, which allows pruning to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Franco Manessi , Alessandro Rozza , Simone Bianco , Paolo Napoletano , Raimondo Schettini

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

Many state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms use large scale convolutional neural networks (CNNs) as basic building blocks. These CNNs are known for their huge number of parameters, high redundancy in weights, and tremendous computing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Qiangui Huang , Kevin Zhou , Suya You , Ulrich Neumann

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are usually over-parameterized to increase the likelihood of getting adequate initial weights by random initialization. Consequently, trained DNNs have many redundancies which can be pruned from the model to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Lukas Enderich , Fabian Timm , Wolfram Burgard

The success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in various applications is accompanied by a significant increase in computation and parameter storage costs. Recent efforts to reduce these overheads involve pruning and compressing the…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been successfully applied in various fields. In DNNs, a large number of multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations are required to be performed, posing critical challenges in applying them in resource-constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jingcun Wang , Bing Li , Grace Li Zhang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are state-of-the-art solutions for many machine learning applications, and have been widely used on mobile devices. Running DNNs on resource-constrained mobile devices often requires the help from edge servers…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Wenqi Shi , Yunzhong Hou , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu , Yang Zhang , Lu Geng

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are successful in many computer vision tasks. However, the most accurate DNNs require millions of parameters and operations, making them energy, computation and memory intensive. This impedes the deployment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Abhinav Goel , Caleb Tung , Yung-Hsiang Lu , George K. Thiruvathukal

Model compression is an essential technique for deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on power and memory-constrained resources. However, existing model-compression methods often rely on human expertise and focus on parameters' local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Sixing Yu , Arya Mazaheri , Ali Jannesari

Deep learning stands as the modern paradigm for solving cognitive tasks. However, as the problem complexity increases, models grow deeper and computationally prohibitive, hindering advancements in real-world and resource-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Gustavo Henrique do Nascimento , Ian Pons , Anna Helena Reali Costa , Artur Jordao

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

Deep neural networks (DNN) are powerful models for many pattern recognition tasks, yet their high computational complexity and memory requirement limit them to applications on high-performance computing platforms. In this paper, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Lukas Mauch , Bin Yang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in many tasks but it often comes at a high computational cost and memory usage. Compression techniques, such as pruning and quantization, are applied to reduce the memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Kimia Soroush , Mohsen Raji , Behnam Ghavami

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 network compression has gained increasing attention in recent years, particularly in computer vision applications, where the need for model reduction is crucial for overcoming deployment constraints. Pruning is a widely used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Baptiste Bauvin , Loïc Baret , Ola Ahmad

Currently, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) are used to solve all kinds of problems in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence due to their learning and adaptation capabilities. However, most successful DCNN…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Francisco Erivaldo Fernandes Junior , Gary G. Yen