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A variety of modeling techniques have been developed in the past decade to reduce the computational expense and improve the accuracy of modeling. In this study, a new framework of modeling is suggested. Compared with other popular methods,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Yu Li , Hu Wang , Kangjia Mo , Tao Zeng

Deep learning-based speech enhancement methods have significantly improved speech quality and intelligibility. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been proven to be essential components of many high-performance models. In this paper,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Dahan Wang , Xiaobin Rong , Shiruo Sun , Yuxiang Hu , Changbao Zhu , Jing Lu

Deep learning has revolutionized the computer vision and image classification domains. In this context Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) based architectures are the most widely applied models. In this article, we introduced two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Seyedsaman Emami , Gonzalo Martínez-Muñoz

Scaling deep neural networks (NN) of reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms has been shown to enhance performance when feature extraction networks are used but the gained performance comes at the significant expense of increased…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Valentin Frank Ingmar Guenter , Athanasios Sideris

Pruning encompasses a range of techniques aimed at increasing the sparsity of neural networks (NNs). These techniques can generally be framed as minimizing a loss function subject to an $L_0$ norm constraint. This paper introduces CoNNect,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Christian Franssen , Jinyang Jiang , Yijie Peng , Bernd Heidergott

Recent years have witnessed a substantial increase in the deep learning (DL)architectures proposed for visual recognition tasks like person re-identification,where individuals must be recognized over multiple distributed cameras.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Hugo Masson , Amran Bhuiyan , Le Thanh Nguyen-Meidine , Mehrsan Javan , Parthipan Siva , Ismail Ben Ayed , Eric Granger

Channel pruning has been broadly recognized as an effective technique to reduce the computation and memory cost of deep convolutional neural networks. However, conventional pruning methods have limitations in that: they are restricted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Zejiang Hou , Minghai Qin , Fei Sun , Xiaolong Ma , Kun Yuan , Yi Xu , Yen-Kuang Chen , Rong Jin , Yuan Xie , Sun-Yuan Kung

Pruning neural networks has regained interest in recent years as a means to compress state-of-the-art deep neural networks and enable their deployment on resource-constrained devices. In this paper, we propose a robust compressive learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 George Retsinas , Athena Elafrou , Georgios Goumas , Petros Maragos

In the past few years, neural networks have evolved from simple Feedforward Neural Networks to more complex neural networks, such as Convolutional Neural Networks and Recurrent Neural Networks. Where CNNs are a perfect fit for tasks where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Harshil Darji

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have achieved impressive performance on the wide variety of tasks (classification, detection, etc.) across multiple domains at the cost of high computational and memory requirements. Thus, leveraging CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Pravendra Singh , Vinay Sameer Raja Kadi , Nikhil Verma , Vinay P. Namboodiri

The "CNN-RNN" design pattern is increasingly widely applied in a variety of image annotation tasks including multi-label classification and captioning. Existing models use the weakly semantic CNN hidden layer or its transform as the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Feng Liu , Tao Xiang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Wankou Yang , Changyin Sun

In this paper, we propose a principled deep reinforcement learning (RL) approach that is able to accelerate the convergence rate of general deep neural networks (DNNs). With our approach, a deep RL agent (synonym for optimizer in this work)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Jie Fu

Filters are the essential elements in convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Filters are corresponded to the feature maps and form the main part of the computational and memory requirement for the CNN processing. In filter pruning methods, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Morteza Mousa-Pasandi , Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi , Shahram Shirani

Structured pruning greatly eases the deployment of large neural networks in resource-constrained environments. However, current methods either involve strong domain expertise, require extra hyperparameter tuning, or are restricted only to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Qingyuan Li , Bo Zhang , Xiangxiang Chu

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

Understanding the per-layer learning dynamics of deep neural networks is of significant interest as it may provide insights into how neural networks learn and the potential for better training regimens. We investigate learning in Deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Ayush Manish Agrawal , Atharva Tendle , Harshvardhan Sikka , Sahib Singh , Amr Kayid

How much can pruning algorithms teach us about the fundamentals of learning representations in neural networks? And how much can these fundamentals help while devising new pruning techniques? A lot, it turns out. Neural network pruning has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Aditya Sharma , Nikolas Wolfe , Bhiksha Raj

In recent years, deep neural networks have achieved great success in the field of computer vision. However, it is still a big challenge to deploy these deep models on resource-constrained embedded devices such as mobile robots, smart phones…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Yiming Hu , Siyang Sun , Jianquan Li , Xingang Wang , Qingyi Gu

In this paper, we propose a novel Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) structure for general-purpose multi-task learning (MTL), which enables automatic feature fusing at every layer from different tasks. This is in contrast with the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Yuan Gao , Jiayi Ma , Mingbo Zhao , Wei Liu , Alan L. Yuille

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have shown unparalleled achievements in numerous applications, reflecting their proficiency in managing vast data sets. Yet, their static structure limits their adaptability in ever-changing environments. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Yunjie Zhu , Yunhao Chen