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We present a filter pruning approach for deep model compression, using a multitask network. Our approach is based on learning a a pruner network to prune a pre-trained target network. The pruner is essentially a multitask deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Vinay Kumar Verma , Pravendra Singh , Vinay P. Namboodiri , Piyush Rai

Pruning is a core technique for compressing neural networks to improve computational efficiency. This process is typically approached in two ways: one-shot pruning, which involves a single pass of training and pruning, and iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Mikołaj Janusz , Tomasz Wojnar , Yawei Li , Luca Benini , Kamil Adamczewski

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have advanced rapidly within the unified Transformer architecture, yet their deployment on resource-constrained devices remains challenging due to high computational complexity. While pruning has emerged as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zimeng Wu , Yunhong Wang , Donghao Wang , Jiaxin Chen

Convolutional neural network (CNN) delivers impressive achievements in computer vision and machine learning field. However, CNN incurs high computational complexity, especially for vision quality applications because of large image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-07 Wei-Ting Wang , Han-Lin Li , Wei-Shiang Lin , Cheng-Ming Chiang , Yi-Min Tsai

DNN pruning is a popular way to reduce the size of a model, improve the inference latency, and minimize the power consumption on DNN accelerators. However, existing approaches might be too complex, expensive or ineffective to apply to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Minsik Cho , Saurabh Adya , Devang Naik

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

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

Knowledge Distillation (KD) compresses computationally expensive pre-trained language models (PLMs) by transferring their knowledge to smaller models, allowing their use in resource-constrained or real-time settings. However, most smaller…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Hayeon Lee , Rui Hou , Jongpil Kim , Davis Liang , Hongbo Zhang , Sung Ju Hwang , Alexander Min

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) compression is crucial to deploying these models in edge devices with limited resources. Existing channel pruning algorithms for CNNs have achieved plenty of success on complex models. They approach the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Alireza Ganjdanesh , Shangqian Gao , Heng Huang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have emerged as the state-of-the-art in multiple vision tasks including depth estimation. However, memory and computing power requirements remain as challenges to be tackled in these models. Monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Sara Elkerdawy , Hong Zhang , Nilanjan Ray

The transition from monolithic to multi-component neural architectures in advanced neural network controllers poses substantial challenges due to the high computational complexity of the latter. Conventional model compression techniques for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Ganesh Sundaram , Jonas Ulmen , Daniel Görges

Diffusion models have achieved impressive advancements in various vision tasks. However, these gains often rely on increasing model size, which escalates computational complexity and memory demands, complicating deployment, raising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yang Zhang , Er Jin , Wenzhong Liang , Yanfei Dong , Ashkan Khakzar , Philip Torr , Johannes Stegmaier , Kenji Kawaguchi

With the general trend of increasing Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model sizes, model compression and acceleration techniques have become critical for the deployment of these models on edge devices. In this paper, we provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Jiayi Liu , Samarth Tripathi , Unmesh Kurup , Mohak Shah

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are state-of-the-art in numerous computer vision tasks such as object classification and detection. However, the large amount of parameters they contain leads to a high computational complexity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Ghouthi Boukli Hacene , Vincent Gripon , Matthieu Arzel , Nicolas Farrugia , Yoshua Bengio

Model pruning is a performance optimization technique for large language models like R1 or o3-mini. However, existing pruning methods often lead to significant performance degradation or require extensive retraining and fine-tuning. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Wei Jiang , Anying Fu , Youling Zhang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) offer significant flexibility and robust performance. This makes them ideal for building not only system models but also advanced neural network controllers (NNCs). However, their high complexity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Ganesh Sundaram , Jonas Ulmen , Amjad Haider , Daniel Görges

Large-scale pre-trained models have been remarkably successful in resolving downstream tasks. Nonetheless, deploying these models on low-capability devices still requires an effective approach, such as model pruning. However, pruning the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Haiyan Zhao , Guodong Long

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

In Natural Language Processing (NLP), Transformers have already revolutionized the field by utilizing an attention-based encoder-decoder model. Recently, some pioneering works have employed Transformer-like architectures in Computer Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Gousia Habib , Tausifa Jan Saleem , Brejesh Lall

Pruning is a compression method which aims to improve the efficiency of neural networks by reducing their number of parameters while maintaining a good performance, thus enhancing the performance-to-cost ratio in nontrivial ways. Of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Hugo Tessier , Ghouti Boukli Hacene , Vincent Gripon