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Pruning enables appealing reductions in network memory footprint and time complexity. Conventional post-training pruning techniques lean towards efficient inference while overlooking the heavy computation for training. Recent exploration of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Maying Shen , Pavlo Molchanov , Hongxu Yin , Jose M. Alvarez

This work focuses on reducing neural network size, which is a major driver of neural network execution time, power consumption, bandwidth, and memory footprint. A key challenge is to reduce size in a manner that can be exploited readily for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Szabolcs Cséfalvay , James Imber

Deep neural networks have achieved exceptional results across a range of applications. As the demand for efficient and sparse deep learning models escalates, the significance of model compression, particularly pruning, is increasingly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yucong Dai , Gen Li , Feng Luo , Xiaolong Ma , Yongkai Wu

Structured pruning efficiently compresses networks by identifying and removing unimportant neurons. While this can be elegantly achieved by applying sparsity-inducing regularisation on BatchNorm parameters, an L1 penalty would shrink all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Mihai Suteu , Yike Guo

The enormous inference cost of deep neural networks can be scaled down by network compression. Pruning is one of the predominant approaches used for deep network compression. However, existing pruning techniques have one or more of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Sai Aparna Aketi , Sourjya Roy , Anand Raghunathan , Kaushik Roy

Generative modeling has recently undergone remarkable advancements, primarily propelled by the transformative implications of Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs). The impressive capability of these models, however, often entails…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Gongfan Fang , Xinyin Ma , Xinchao Wang

Deep Neural Networks have been used in a wide variety of applications with significant success. However, their highly complex nature owing to comprising millions of parameters has lead to problems during deployment in pipelines with low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Elvis Johnson , Xiaochen Tang , Sriramacharyulu Samudrala

Parameter pruning is a promising approach for CNN compression and acceleration by eliminating redundant model parameters with tolerable performance loss. Despite its effectiveness, existing regularization-based parameter pruning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Huan Wang , Qiming Zhang , Yuehai Wang , Haoji Hu

Structured pruning and quantization are fundamental techniques used to reduce the size of deep neural networks (DNNs) and typically are applied independently. Applying these techniques jointly via co-optimization has the potential to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Xiaoyi Qu , David Aponte , Colby Banbury , Daniel P. Robinson , Tianyu Ding , Kazuhito Koishida , Ilya Zharkov , Tianyi Chen

Neural network pruning is an essential approach for reducing the computational complexity of deep models so that they can be well deployed on resource-limited devices. Compared with conventional methods, the recently developed dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Yehui Tang , Yunhe Wang , Yixing Xu , Yiping Deng , Chao Xu , Dacheng Tao , Chang Xu

Reducing the size of a neural network (pruning) by removing weights without impacting its performance is an important problem for resource-constrained devices. In the past, pruning was typically accomplished by ranking or penalizing weights…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Rajan Sahu , Shivam Chadha , Nithin Nagaraj , Archana Mathur , Snehanshu Saha

Structured pruning is a popular method to reduce the cost of convolutional neural networks, that are the state of the art in many computer vision tasks. However, depending on the architecture, pruning introduces dimensional discrepancies…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Hugo Tessier , Vincent Gripon , Mathieu Léonardon , Matthieu Arzel , David Bertrand , Thomas Hannagan

Modern deep neural networks rely on overparameterization to achieve state-of-the-art generalization. But overparameterized models are computationally expensive. Network pruning is often employed to obtain less demanding models for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Zhilin Yu , Chao Wang , Xin Wang , Qing Wu , Yong Zhao , Xundong Wu

Pruning is an efficient model compression technique to remove redundancy in the connectivity of deep neural networks (DNNs). Computations using sparse matrices obtained by pruning parameters, however, exhibit vastly different parallelism…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Dongsoo Lee , Se Jung Kwon , Byeongwook Kim , Parichay Kapoor , Gu-Yeon Wei

One of the most effective methods of channel pruning is to trim on the basis of the importance of each neuron. However, measuring the importance of each neuron is an NP-hard problem. Previous works have proposed to trim by considering the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Bilan Lai , Haoran Xiang , Furao Shen

Compressing and pruning large machine learning models has become a critical step towards their deployment in real-world applications. Standard pruning and compression techniques are typically designed without taking the structure of the…

As deep neural networks include a high number of parameters and operations, it can be a challenge to implement these models on devices with limited computational resources. Despite the development of novel pruning methods toward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Morteza Homayounfar , Mohamad Koohi-Moghadam , Reza Rawassizadeh , Varut Vardhanabhuti

Network pruning is one of the most dominant methods for reducing the heavy inference cost of deep neural networks. Existing methods often iteratively prune networks to attain high compression ratio without incurring significant loss in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Duong H. Le , Trung-Nhan Vo , Nam Thoai

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has shown remarkable success in complex autonomous driving scenarios. However, DRL models inevitably bring high memory consumption and computation, which hinders their wide deployment in resource-limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Wensheng Su , Zhenni Li , Minrui Xu , Jiawen Kang , Dusit Niyato , Shengli Xie

Magnitude pruning is one of the mainstream methods in lightweight architecture design whose goal is to extract subnetworks with the largest weight connections. This method is known to be successful, but under very high pruning regimes, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Hichem Sahbi