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Modern deep neural network models are large and computationally intensive. One typical solution to this issue is model pruning. However, most current pruning algorithms depend on hand crafted rules or domain expertise. To overcome this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Baopu Li , Yanwen Fan , Zhihong Pan , Gang Zhang

Deep learning has driven significant advances in medical image analysis, yet its adoption in clinical practice remains constrained by the large size and lack of transparency in modern models. Advances in interpretability techniques such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Nikita Malik , Pratinav Seth , Neeraj Kumar Singh , Chintan Chitroda , Vinay Kumar Sankarapu

This paper attempts to answer the question whether neural network pruning can be used as a tool to achieve differential privacy without losing much data utility. As a first step towards understanding the relationship between neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Yangsibo Huang , Yushan Su , Sachin Ravi , Zhao Song , Sanjeev Arora , Kai Li

With the successful application of deep learning in communications systems, deep neural networks are becoming the preferred method for signal classification. Although these models yield impressive results, they often come with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yao Lu , Yutao Zhu , Yuqi Li , Dongwei Xu , Yun Lin , Qi Xuan , Xiaoniu Yang

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

Neural network pruning offers an effective method for compressing a multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) model with minimal performance loss. However, it entails several rounds of pruning and re-training needed to be run for each…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Jiamin Xie , Ke Li , Jinxi Guo , Andros Tjandra , Yuan Shangguan , Leda Sari , Chunyang Wu , Junteng Jia , Jay Mahadeokar , Ozlem Kalinli

In general, deep neural network (DNN) pruning methods fall into two categories: 1) Weight-based deterministic constraints, and 2) Probabilistic frameworks. While each approach has its merits and limitations there are a set of common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Madan Ravi Ganesh , Dawsin Blanchard , Jason J. Corso , Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a powerful framework for solving complex real-world problems. Large neural networks employed in the framework are traditionally associated with better generalization capabilities, but their increased size…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Samin Yeasar Arnob , Riyasat Ohib , Sergey Plis , Doina Precup

Deep Neural nets (NNs) with millions of parameters are at the heart of many state-of-the-art computer vision systems today. However, recent works have shown that much smaller models can achieve similar levels of performance. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-23 Suraj Srinivas , R. Venkatesh Babu

Model pruning is a popular approach to enable the deployment of large deep learning models on edge devices with restricted computational or storage capacities. Although sparse models achieve performance comparable to that of their dense…

The ever-increasing number of parameters in deep neural networks poses challenges for memory-limited applications. Regularize-and-prune methods aim at meeting these challenges by sparsifying the network weights. In this context we quantify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Enzo Tartaglione , Skjalg Lepsøy , Attilio Fiandrotti , Gianluca Francini

Random pruning is arguably the most naive way to attain sparsity in neural networks, but has been deemed uncompetitive by either post-training pruning or sparse training. In this paper, we focus on sparse training and highlight a perhaps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Shiwei Liu , Tianlong Chen , Xiaohan Chen , Li Shen , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Zhangyang Wang , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Network pruning can significantly reduce the computation and memory footprint of large neural networks. To achieve a good trade-off between model size and performance, popular pruning techniques usually rely on hand-crafted heuristics and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Wenyuan Zeng , Yuwen Xiong , Raquel Urtasun

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

Deep neural networks have emerged as powerful tools for learning operators defined over infinite-dimensional function spaces. However, existing theories frequently encounter difficulties related to dimensionality and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jianfei Li , Shuo Huang , Han Feng , Ding-Xuan Zhou , Gitta Kutyniok

The limited and dynamically varied resources on edge devices motivate us to deploy an optimized deep neural network that can adapt its sub-networks to fit in different resource constraints. However, existing works often build sub-networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Zhongnan Qu , Syed Shakib Sarwar , Xin Dong , Yuecheng Li , Ekin Sumbul , Barbara De Salvo

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

Artificial neural networks took a lot of inspiration from their biological counterparts in becoming our best machine perceptual systems. This work summarizes some of that history and incorporates modern theoretical neuroscience into…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Robert Bain

Neural network pruning---the task of reducing the size of a network by removing parameters---has been the subject of a great deal of work in recent years. We provide a meta-analysis of the literature, including an overview of approaches to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Davis Blalock , Jose Javier Gonzalez Ortiz , Jonathan Frankle , John Guttag

Most artificial networks today rely on dense representations, whereas biological networks rely on sparse representations. In this paper we show how sparse representations can be more robust to noise and interference, as long as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Subutai Ahmad , Luiz Scheinkman