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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains, but their performance can be severely degraded by noisy or corrupted training data. Conventional noise mitigation methods often rely on explicit…

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Network pruning is a commonly used measure to alleviate the storage and computational burden of deep neural networks. However, the fundamental limit of network pruning is still lacking. To close the gap, in this work we'll take a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-20 Qiaozhe Zhang , Ruijie Zhang , Jun Sun , Yingzhuang Liu

Balancing predictive power and interpretability has long been a challenging research area, particularly in powerful yet complex models like neural networks, where nonlinearity obstructs direct interpretation. This paper introduces a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Antoine Ledent , Peng Liu

Neural networks (NNs) are making a large impact both on research and industry. Nevertheless, as NNs' accuracy increases, it is followed by an expansion in their size, required number of compute operations and energy consumption. Increase in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Martin Ferianc , Anush Sankaran , Olivier Mastropietro , Ehsan Saboori , Quentin Cappart

Recent advancements have scaled neural networks to unprecedented sizes, achieving remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks. However, deploying these large-scale models on resource-constrained devices poses significant challenges…

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Phenomenally successful in practical inference problems, convolutional neural networks (CNN) are widely deployed in mobile devices, data centers, and even supercomputers. The number of parameters needed in CNNs, however, are often large and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Jongsoo Park , Sheng Li , Wei Wen , Ping Tak Peter Tang , Hai Li , Yiran Chen , Pradeep Dubey

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are central to sequence modeling tasks, yet their high computational complexity poses challenges for scalability and real-time deployment. Traditional pruning techniques, predominantly based on weight…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-26 Rakesh Sengupta

To solve ever more complex problems, Deep Neural Networks are scaled to billions of parameters, leading to huge computational costs. An effective approach to reduce computational requirements and increase efficiency is to prune unnecessary…

The computational demands of modern Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are immense and constantly growing. While training costs usually capture public attention, inference demands are also contributing in significant computational, energy and…

This paper addresses the topic of sparsifying deep neural networks (DNN's). While DNN's are powerful models that achieve state-of-the-art performance on a large number of tasks, the large number of model parameters poses serious storage and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Igor Fedorov , Bhaskar D. Rao

Pruning is widely used to reduce the complexity of deep learning models, but its effects on interpretability and representation learning remain poorly understood. This paper investigates how pruning influences vision models across three key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Enrico Cassano , Riccardo Renzulli , Andrea Bragagnolo , Marco Grangetto

Deep neural networks include millions of learnable parameters, making their deployment over resource-constrained devices problematic. SeReNe (Sensitivity-based Regularization of Neurons) is a method for learning sparse topologies with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Enzo Tartaglione , Andrea Bragagnolo , Francesco Odierna , Attilio Fiandrotti , Marco Grangetto

The goal of model compression is to reduce the size of a large neural network while retaining a comparable performance. As a result, computation and memory costs in resource-limited applications may be significantly reduced by dropping…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-10 Wenjing Yang , Ganghua Wang , Jie Ding , Yuhong Yang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been proven to be effective in solving many real-life problems, but its high computation cost prohibits those models from being deployed to edge devices. Pruning, as a method to introduce zeros to model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Fei Sun , Minghai Qin , Tianyun Zhang , Xiaolong Ma , Haoran Li , Junwen Luo , Zihao Zhao , Yen-Kuang Chen , Yuan Xie

Deep convolutional neural networks have liberated its extraordinary power on various tasks. However, it is still very challenging to deploy state-of-the-art models into real-world applications due to their high computational complexity. How…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Zehao Huang , Naiyan Wang

We show how fitting sparse linear models over learned deep feature representations can lead to more debuggable neural networks. These networks remain highly accurate while also being more amenable to human interpretation, as we demonstrate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Eric Wong , Shibani Santurkar , Aleksander Mądry

Model pruning seeks to induce sparsity in a deep neural network's various connection matrices, thereby reducing the number of nonzero-valued parameters in the model. Recent reports (Han et al., 2015; Narang et al., 2017) prune deep networks…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-15 Michael Zhu , Suyog Gupta

Transformer-based Language Models have become ubiquitous in Natural Language Processing (NLP) due to their impressive performance on various tasks. However, expensive training as well as inference remains a significant impediment to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Amit Dhurandhar , Tejaswini Pedapati , Ronny Luss , Soham Dan , Aurelie Lozano , Payel Das , Georgios Kollias

The lack of transparency of neural networks stays a major break for their use. The Layerwise Relevance Propagation technique builds heat-maps representing the relevance of each input in the model s decision. The relevance spreads backward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Mathilde Guillemot , Catherine Heusele , Rodolphe Korichi , Sylvianne Schnebert , Liming Chen

Kernel pruning methods have been proposed to speed up, simplify, and improve explanation of convolutional neural network (CNN) models. However, the effectiveness of a simplified model is often below the original one. In this letter, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-19 D. Osaku , J. F. Gomes , A. X. Falcão