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Channel pruning is a promising technique to compress the parameters of deep convolutional neural networks(DCNN) and to speed up the inference. This paper aims to address the long-standing inefficiency of channel pruning. Most channel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Zhouyang Xie , Yan Fu , Shengzhao Tian , Junlin Zhou , Duanbing Chen

Real time application of deep learning algorithms is often hindered by high computational complexity and frequent memory accesses. Network pruning is a promising technique to solve this problem. However, pruning usually results in irregular…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Sajid Anwar , Kyuyeon Hwang , Wonyong Sung

Recent network pruning methods focus on pruning models early-on in training. To estimate the impact of removing a parameter, these methods use importance measures that were originally designed to prune trained models. Despite lacking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Ekdeep Singh Lubana , Robert P. Dick

Resource-efficient convolution neural networks enable not only the intelligence on edge devices but also opportunities in system-level optimization such as scheduling. In this work, we aim to improve the performance of resource-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Ting-Wu Chin , Cha Zhang , Diana Marculescu

Deep network pruning is an effective method to reduce the storage and computation cost of deep neural networks when applying them to resource-limited devices. Among many pruning granularities, neuron level pruning will remove redundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Zhengtao Wang , Ce Zhu , Zhiqiang Xia , Qi Guo , Yipeng Liu

Deep learning based image segmentation methods have achieved great success, even having human-level accuracy in some applications. However, due to the black box nature of deep learning, the best method may fail in some situations. Thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Leixin Zhou , Wenxiang Deng , Xiaodong Wu

In the era of exceptionally data-hungry models, careful selection of the training data is essential to mitigate the extensive costs of deep learning. Data pruning offers a solution by removing redundant or uninformative samples from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Artem Vysogorets , Kartik Ahuja , Julia Kempe

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

Existing high-performance deep learning models require very intensive computing. For this reason, it is difficult to embed a deep learning model into a system with limited resources. In this paper, we propose the novel idea of the network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Dae-Woong Jeong , Jaehun Kim , Youngseok Kim , Tae-Ho Kim , Myungsu Chae

The main goal of network pruning is imposing sparsity on the neural network by increasing the number of parameters with zero value in order to reduce the architecture size and the computational speedup. In most of the previous research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Amirsina Torfi , Rouzbeh A. Shirvani , Sobhan Soleymani , Naser M. Nasrabadi

A central goal in deep learning is to learn compact representations of features at every layer of a neural network, which is useful for both unsupervised representation learning and structured network pruning. While there is a growing body…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Jie Bu , Arka Daw , M. Maruf , Anuj Karpatne

In safety-critical but computationally resource-constrained applications, deep learning faces two key challenges: lack of robustness against adversarial attacks and large neural network size (often millions of parameters). While the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Vikash Sehwag , Shiqi Wang , Prateek Mittal , Suman Jana

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have recently achieved remarkable successes in a number of applications. However, the huge sizes and computational burden of these models make it difficult for their deployment on edge devices. A practically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Liangjian Wen , Xuanyang Zhang , Haoli Bai , Zenglin Xu

Large and performant neural networks are often overparameterized and can be drastically reduced in size and complexity thanks to pruning. Pruning is a group of methods, which seeks to remove redundant or unnecessary weights or groups of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Robin Dupont , Mohammed Amine Alaoui , Hichem Sahbi , Alice Lebois

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Alexey Kruglov

We adapt a manifold sampling algorithm for the nonsmooth, nonconvex formulations of learning that arise when imposing robustness to outliers present in the training data. We demonstrate the approach on objectives based on trimmed loss.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Matt Menickelly , Stefan M. Wild

As deep neural networks are growing in size and being increasingly deployed to more resource-limited devices, there has been a recent surge of interest in network pruning methods, which aim to remove less important weights or activations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Minyoung Song , Jaehong Yoon , Eunho Yang , Sung Ju Hwang

Neural networks are susceptible to adversarial examples-small input perturbations that cause models to fail. Adversarial training is one of the solutions that stops adversarial examples; models are exposed to attacks during training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Maximilian Kaufmann , Yiren Zhao , Ilia Shumailov , Robert Mullins , Nicolas Papernot

Artificial neural network pruning is a method in which artificial neural network sizes can be reduced while attempting to preserve the predicting capabilities of the network. This is done to make the model smaller or faster during inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Alexandre Broggi , Nathaniel Bastian , Lance Fiondella , Gokhan Kul

The optimization of over-parameterized deep neural networks represents a large-scale, high-dimensional, and strongly non-convex decision problem that challenges existing optimization frameworks. Current evolutionary and gradient-based…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Zak Khan , Azam Asilian Bidgoli