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The increasing size of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) poses a pressing need for model compression, particularly when employed on resource constrained devices. Concurrently, the susceptibility of DNNs to adversarial attacks presents another…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Brijesh Vora , Kartik Patwari , Syed Mahbub Hafiz , Zubair Shafiq , Chen-Nee Chuah

While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) excel at learning complex latent-space representations, their over-parameterization can lead to overfitting and reduced performance, particularly with limited data. This, alongside their high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Manish Sharma , Jamison Heard , Eli Saber , Panos P. Markopoulos

Despite the growing availability of high-capacity computational platforms, implementation complexity still has been a great concern for the real-world deployment of neural networks. This concern is not exclusively due to the huge costs of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Felipe Dennis de Resende Oliveira , Eduardo Luiz Ortiz Batista , Rui Seara

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are ubiquitous in today's computer vision land-scape, despite involving considerable computational costs. The mainstream approaches for runtime acceleration consist in pruning connections (unstructured pruning)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Edouard Yvinec , Arnaud Dapogny , Matthieu Cord , Kevin Bailly

Overparametrized Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success in a wide variety of domains too high-dimensional for classical shallow networks subject to the curse of dimensionality. However, open questions about…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 David A. Danhofer , Davide D'Ascenzo , Rafael Dubach , Tomaso Poggio

Neural networks have been notorious for being computationally expensive. This is mainly because neural networks are often over-parametrized and most likely have redundant nodes or layers as they are getting deeper and wider. Their demand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Georgios Tzelepis , Ahraz Asif , Saimir Baci , Selcuk Cavdar , Eren Erdal Aksoy

Structured pruning is a commonly used convolutional neural network (CNN) compression approach. Pruning rate setting is a fundamental problem in structured pruning. Most existing works introduce too many additional learnable parameters to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Pucheng Zhai , Kailing Guo , Fang Liu , Xiaofen Xing , Xiangmin Xu

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

Compressing large-scale neural networks is essential for deploying models on resource-constrained devices. Most existing methods adopt weight pruning or low-bit quantization individually, often resulting in suboptimal compression rates to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Ziyi Wang , Nan Jiang , Guang Lin , Qifan Song

Principal component analysis, dictionary learning, and auto-encoders are all unsupervised methods for learning representations from a large amount of training data. In all these methods, the higher the dimensions of the input data, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Thomas Chang , Bahareh Tolooshams , Demba Ba

Modern deep neural networks require a significant amount of computing time and power to train and deploy, which limits their usage on edge devices. Inspired by the iterative weight pruning in the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-15 John Tan Chong Min , Mehul Motani

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are used in many applications, but their large size and high computational cost make them hard to run on devices with limited resources. Two widely used techniques to address this challenge are weight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Dan Liu , Nikita Dvornik , Xue Liu

Sparsity in the structure of Neural Networks can lead to less energy consumption, less memory usage, faster computation times on convenient hardware, and automated machine learning. If sparsity gives rise to certain kinds of structure, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Julian Stier , Harshil Darji , Michael Granitzer

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are powerful algorithms that have been proven capable of extracting non-Gaussian information from weak lensing (WL) data sets. Understanding which features in the data determine the output of these nested,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 José Manuel Zorrilla Matilla , Manasi Sharma , Daniel Hsu , Zoltán Haiman

Efficient inference of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is essential to making AI ubiquitous. Two important algorithmic techniques have shown promise for enabling efficient inference - sparsity and binarization. These techniques translate into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Sachit Kuhar , Alexey Tumanov , Judy Hoffman

Deep neural networks (DNNs) continue to make significant advances, solving tasks from image classification to translation or reinforcement learning. One aspect of the field receiving considerable attention is efficiently executing deep…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Antonio Polino , Razvan Pascanu , Dan Alistarh

Low precision weights, activations, and gradients have been proposed as a way to improve the computational efficiency and memory footprint of deep neural networks. Recently, low precision networks have even shown to be more robust to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Griffin Lacey , Graham W. Taylor , Shawki Areibi

Recently, deep learning has become a de facto standard in machine learning with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) demonstrating spectacular success on a wide variety of tasks. However, CNNs are typically very demanding computationally at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Yochai Zur , Chaim Baskin , Evgenii Zheltonozhskii , Brian Chmiel , Itay Evron , Alex M. Bronstein , Avi Mendelson

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are quantized for efficient inference on resource-constrained platforms. However, training deep learning models with low-precision weights and activations involves a demanding optimization task, which calls for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Ziang Long , Penghang Yin , Jack Xin

To facilitate efficient embedded and hardware implementations of deep neural networks (DNNs), two important categories of DNN model compression techniques: weight pruning and weight quantization are investigated. The former leverages the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Ao Ren , Tianyun Zhang , Shaokai Ye , Jiayu Li , Wenyao Xu , Xuehai Qian , Xue Lin , Yanzhi Wang