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We propose Cluster Pruning (CUP) for compressing and accelerating deep neural networks. Our approach prunes similar filters by clustering them based on features derived from both the incoming and outgoing weight connections. With CUP, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Rahul Duggal , Cao Xiao , Richard Vuduc , Jimeng Sun

Network pruning is an effective method to reduce the computational expense of over-parameterized neural networks for deployment on low-resource systems. Recent state-of-the-art techniques for retraining pruned networks such as weight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Duong H. Le , Binh-Son Hua

Even though the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) has shown superior results in the field of computer vision, it is still a challenging task to implement computer vision algorithms in real-time at the edge, especially using a low-cost IoT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Chinthaka Gamanayake , Lahiru Jayasinghe , Benny Ng , Chau Yuen

Computer-assisted treatment has emerged as a viable application of medical imaging, owing to the efficacy of deep learning models. Real-time inference speed remains a key requirement for such applications to help medical personnel. Even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Suman Sapkota , Pranav Poudel , Sudarshan Regmi , Bibek Panthi , Binod Bhattarai

Neural network pruning is a popular model compression method which can significantly reduce the computing cost with negligible loss of accuracy. Recently, filters are often pruned directly by designing proper criteria or using auxiliary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Haopu Shang , Jia-Liang Wu , Wenjing Hong , Chao Qian

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are nowadays witnessing a major success in solving many pattern recognition tasks including skeleton-based classification. The deployment of DNNs on edge-devices, endowed with limited time and memory resources,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Hichem Sahbi

Recent advancements have scaled neural networks to unprecedented sizes, achieving remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks. However, deploying these large-scale models on resource-constrained devices poses significant challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Mostafa Hussien , Mahmoud Afifi , Kim Khoa Nguyen , Mohamed Cheriet

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

Synaptic pruning in biological brains removes weak connections to improve efficiency. In contrast, dropout regularization in artificial neural networks randomly deactivates neurons without considering activity-dependent pruning. We propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Gideon Vos , Liza van Eijk , Zoltan Sarnyai , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

In recent years, deep neural networks have known a wide success in various application domains. However, they require important computational and memory resources, which severely hinders their deployment, notably on mobile devices or for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Nathan Hubens , Matei Mancas , Bernard Gosselin , Marius Preda , Titus Zaharia

Recently, pruning deep neural networks (DNNs) has received a lot of attention for improving accuracy and generalization power, reducing network size, and increasing inference speed on specialized hardwares. Although pruning was mainly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-16 Amirreza Mahbod , Rahim Entezari , Isabella Ellinger , Olga Saukh

Dropout is a well-known regularization method by sampling a sub-network from a larger deep neural network and training different sub-networks on different subsets of the data. Inspired by the dropout concept, we propose EDropout as an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Hojjat Salehinejad , Shahrokh Valaee

As real-world graphs expand in size, larger GNN models with billions of parameters are deployed. High parameter count in such models makes training and inference on graphs expensive and challenging. To reduce the computational and memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Hongwu Peng , Deniz Gurevin , Shaoyi Huang , Tong Geng , Weiwen Jiang , Omer Khan , Caiwen Ding

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks have achieved state of the art performance across various computer vision tasks, however their practical deployment is limited by computational and memory overhead. This paper introduces Differential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Iftekhar Haider Chowdhury , Zaed Ikbal Syed , Ahmed Faizul Haque Dhrubo , Mohammad Abdul Qayum

The recent success of deep neural networks (DNNs) for function approximation in reinforcement learning has triggered the development of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms in various fields, such as robotics, computer games,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Dor Livne , Kobi Cohen

Pruning is a promising approach to compress deep learning models in order to deploy them on resource-constrained edge devices. However, many existing pruning solutions are based on unstructured pruning, which yields models that cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Kaiqi Zhao , Animesh Jain , Ming Zhao

The increasing computational demands of modern neural networks present deployment challenges on resource-constrained devices. Network pruning offers a solution to reduce model size and computational cost while maintaining performance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Xiang Meng , Wenyu Chen , Riade Benbaki , Rahul Mazumder

In deep neural networks (DNNs), there are a huge number of weights and multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) operations. Accordingly, it is challenging to apply DNNs on resource-constrained platforms, e.g., mobile phones. Quantization is a method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Wenhao Sun , Grace Li Zhang , Huaxi Gu , Bing Li , Ulf Schlichtmann

Building compact convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with reliable performance is a critical but challenging task, especially when deploying them in real-world applications. As a common approach to reduce the size of CNNs, pruning methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Hang Li , Chen Ma , Wei Xu , Xue Liu

Neural network pruning is a highly effective technique aimed at reducing the computational and memory demands of large neural networks. In this research paper, we present a novel approach to pruning neural networks utilizing Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-07 Sunil Mathew , Daniel B. Rowe