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The increasing computational cost of deep neural network models limits the applicability of intelligent applications on resource-constrained edge devices. While a number of neural network pruning methods have been proposed to compress the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Guangli Li , Xiu Ma , Xueying Wang , Lei Liu , Jingling Xue , Xiaobing Feng

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are becoming a common presence in many applications and services, due to their superior recognition accuracy. They are increasingly being used on mobile devices, many times just by porting large models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Valentin Radu , Kuba Kaszyk , Yuan Wen , Jack Turner , Jose Cano , Elliot J. Crowley , Bjorn Franke , Amos Storkey , Michael O'Boyle

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are typically over-parameterized, bringing considerable computational overhead and memory footprint in inference. Pruning a proportion of unimportant filters is an efficient way to mitigate the inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Kai Zhao , Xin-Yu Zhang , Qi Han , Ming-Ming Cheng

Recently there has been a lot of work on pruning filters from deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with the intention of reducing computations.The key idea is to rank the filters based on a certain criterion (say, l1-norm) and retain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Deepak Mittal , Shweta Bhardwaj , Mitesh M. Khapra , Balaraman Ravindran

Tensor networks provide a powerful framework for compressing multi-dimensional data. The optimal tensor network structure for a given data tensor depends on both data characteristics and specific optimality criteria, making tensor network…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Zheng Guo , Aditya Deshpande , Brian Kiedrowski , Xinyu Wang , Alex Gorodetsky

Although deep neural networks (NNs) have achievedstate-of-the-art accuracy in many visual recognition tasks,the growing computational complexity and energy con-sumption of networks remains an issue, especially for ap-plications on platforms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Le Thanh Nguyen-Meidine , Eric Granger , Madhu Kiran , Louis-Antoine Blais-Morin , Marco Pedersoli

The established redundancy in visual tokens within large vision-language models allows pruning to effectively reduce their substantial computational demands. Previous methods typically employ heuristic layer-specific pruning strategies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Hanshi Wang , Yuhao Xu , Zekun Xu , Jin Gao , Yufan Liu , Weiming Hu , Ke Wang , Zhipeng Zhang

The path to interpreting a language model often proceeds via analysis of circuits -- sparse computational subgraphs of the model that capture specific aspects of its behavior. Recent work has automated the task of discovering circuits. Yet,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Adithya Bhaskar , Alexander Wettig , Dan Friedman , Danqi Chen

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

Structural pruning enhances hardware-agnostic inference efficiency for large language models (LLMs) yet often fails to maintain comparable performance. Local pruning performs efficient layer-by-layer compression but ignores global topology.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Guanchen Li , Yixing Xu , Zeping Li , Ji Liu , Xuanwu Yin , Dong Li , Emad Barsoum

Efficient inference of Convolutional Neural Networks is a thriving topic recently. It is desirable to achieve the maximal test accuracy under given inference budget constraints when deploying a pre-trained model. Network pruning is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Ruizhe Zhao , Wayne Luk

During the last years, algorithms known as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) had become increasingly popular, expanding its application range to several areas. In particular, the image processing field has experienced a remarkable…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Federico Nicolas Peccia , Luciano Ferreyro , Alejandro Furfaro

Quantization and pruning are core techniques used to reduce the inference costs of deep neural networks. State-of-the-art quantization techniques are currently applied to both the weights and activations; however, pruning is most often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Xinyu Zhang , Ian Colbert , Ken Kreutz-Delgado , Srinjoy Das

The current landscape in time-series forecasting is dominated by Transformer-based models. Their high parameter count and corresponding demand in computational resources pose a challenge to real-world deployment, especially for commercial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Nicholas Kiefer , Arvid Weyrauch , Muhammed Öz , Achim Streit , Markus Götz , Charlotte Debus

With the general trend of increasing Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model sizes, model compression and acceleration techniques have become critical for the deployment of these models on edge devices. In this paper, we provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Jiayi Liu , Samarth Tripathi , Unmesh Kurup , Mohak Shah

In recent years, pruning has emerged as a popular technique to reduce the computational complexity and memory footprint of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models. Mutual Information (MI) has been widely used as a criterion for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Bogdan Musat , Razvan Andonie

Despite the remarkable capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs) face deployment challenges due to their extensive size. Pruning methods drop a subset of weights to accelerate, but many of them require retraining, which is prohibitively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Peijie Dong , Lujun Li , Zhenheng Tang , Xiang Liu , Xinglin Pan , Qiang Wang , Xiaowen Chu

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

Neural network pruning remains essential for deploying deep learning models on resource-constrained devices, yet existing approaches primarily target parameter reduction without directly controlling computational cost. This yields…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shahrzad Esmat , Mahdi Banisharif , Ali Jannesari

Recent progress in Multimodal Large Language Models(MLLMs) often use large image tokens to compensate the visual shortcoming of MLLMs, which not only exhibits obvious redundancy but also greatly exacerbates the already high computation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Weihao Ye , Qiong Wu , Wenhao Lin , Yiyi Zhou