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The deployment of deep neural networks on resource-constrained devices necessitates effective model com- pression strategies that judiciously balance the reduction of model size with the preservation of performance. This study introduces a…

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Overparameterized networks trained to convergence have shown impressive performance in domains such as computer vision and natural language processing. Pushing state of the art on salient tasks within these domains corresponds to these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-04 James O' Neill

Pruning is one of the most effective model reduction techniques. Deep networks require massive computation and such models need to be compressed to bring them on edge devices. Most existing pruning techniques are focused on vision-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Ramchalam Kinattinkara Ramakrishnan , Eyyüb Sari , Vahid Partovi Nia

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 Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in recent years. Compressing these models not only reduces storage requirements, making deployment to edge devices feasible, but also accelerates inference,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Boyao Wang , Volodymyr Kindratenko

In comparison to classical shallow representation learning techniques, deep neural networks have achieved superior performance in nearly every application benchmark. But despite their clear empirical advantages, it is still not well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Calvin Murdock , George Cazenavette , Simon Lucey

Vision Transformer and its variants have been adopted in many visual tasks due to their powerful capabilities, which also bring significant challenges in computation and storage. Consequently, researchers have introduced various compression…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Zeyu Wang , Weichen Dai , Xiangyu Zhou , Ji Qi , Yi Zhou

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Ken C. L. Wong , Satyananda Kashyap , Mehdi Moradi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) underpin many machine learning applications. Production quality DNN models achieve high inference accuracy by training millions of DNN parameters which has a significant resource footprint. This presents a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Bailey J. Eccles , Philip Rodgers , Peter Kilpatrick , Ivor Spence , Blesson Varghese

Contemporary state-of-the-art neural networks have increasingly large numbers of parameters, which prevents their deployment on devices with limited computational power. Pruning is one technique to remove unnecessary weights and reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Sahel Mohammad Iqbal , Subhankar Mishra

Recent years have seen significant efforts to adopt Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare for various use cases, from computer-aided diagnosis to ICU triage. However, the size of AI models has been rapidly growing due to scaling laws…

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Deep learning models have become increasingly popular for a wide range of applications, including computer vision, natural language processing, and speech recognition. However, these models typically require large amounts of computational…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-27 Salem Ameen , Kangaranmulle Siriwardana , Theo Theodoridis

Model compression is crucial for deployment of neural networks on devices with limited computational and memory resources. Many different methods show comparable accuracy of the compressed model and similar compression rates. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Ben Mussay , Daniel Feldman , Samson Zhou , Vladimir Braverman , Margarita Osadchy

Deep learning models are yielding increasingly better performances thanks to multiple factors. To be successful, model may have large number of parameters or complex architectures and be trained on large dataset. This leads to large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Jean-Roch Vlimant , Junqi Yin

Pruning is a compression method which aims to improve the efficiency of neural networks by reducing their number of parameters while maintaining a good performance, thus enhancing the performance-to-cost ratio in nontrivial ways. Of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Hugo Tessier , Ghouti Boukli Hacene , Vincent Gripon

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

The widespread availability of pre-trained vision models has enabled numerous deep learning applications through their transferable representations. However, their computational and storage costs often limit practical deployment.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Leonardo Iurada , Beatrice Occhiena , Tatiana Tommasi

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

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved significant breakthroughs in various fields. However, these advancements have led to a substantial increase in the complexity and size of these networks. This poses a challenge when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Ahmed Sadaqa , Di Liu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been quite successful in solving many complex learning problems. However, DNNs tend to have a large number of learning parameters, leading to a large memory and computation requirement. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Sangkyun Lee , Jeonghyun Lee