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Overparameterized Neural Networks (NN) display state-of-the-art performance. However, there is a growing need for smaller, energy-efficient, neural networks tobe able to use machine learning applications on devices with limited…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-21 Soufiane Hayou , Jean-Francois Ton , Arnaud Doucet , Yee Whye Teh

Deep learning has become a ubiquitous technology to improve machine intelligence. However, most of the existing deep models are structurally very complex, making them difficult to be deployed on the mobile platforms with limited…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Yiwen Guo , Anbang Yao , Yurong Chen

Pruning filters is an effective method for accelerating deep neural networks (DNNs), but most existing approaches prune filters on a pre-trained network directly which limits in acceleration. Although each filter has its own effect in DNNs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Zhengguang Zhou , Wengang Zhou , Richang Hong , Houqiang Li

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are usually over-parameterized, causing excessive memory and interconnection cost on the hardware platform. Existing pruning approaches remove secondary parameters at the end of training to reduce the model size;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Gokul Krishnan , Xiaocong Du , Yu Cao

The enormous inference cost of deep neural networks can be scaled down by network compression. Pruning is one of the predominant approaches used for deep network compression. However, existing pruning techniques have one or more of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Sai Aparna Aketi , Sourjya Roy , Anand Raghunathan , Kaushik Roy

Modern deep neural networks are often too large to use in many practical scenarios. Neural network pruning is an important technique for reducing the size of such models and accelerating inference. Gibbs pruning is a novel framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Alex Labach , Shahrokh Valaee

We introduce a pruning algorithm that provably sparsifies the parameters of a trained model in a way that approximately preserves the model's predictive accuracy. Our algorithm uses a small batch of input points to construct a data-informed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Cenk Baykal , Lucas Liebenwein , Igor Gilitschenski , Dan Feldman , Daniela Rus

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in object detection tasks, but their increasing complexity poses significant challenges for deployment on resource-constrained platforms. While model compression techniques such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Abhinav Shukla , Nachiket Tapas

The resource requirements of deep neural networks (DNNs) pose significant challenges to their deployment on edge devices. Common approaches to address this issue are pruning and mixed-precision quantization, which lead to latency and memory…

Deep neural networks have achieved impressive performance in many applications but their large number of parameters lead to significant computational and storage overheads. Several recent works attempt to mitigate these overheads by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Vikash Sehwag , Shiqi Wang , Prateek Mittal , Suman Jana

Neural networks have long strived to emulate the learning capabilities of the human brain. While deep neural networks (DNNs) draw inspiration from the brain in neuron design, their training methods diverge from biological foundations.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Joseph Bingham , Saman Zonouz , Dvir Aran

The subject of green AI has been gaining attention within the deep learning community given the recent trend of ever larger and more complex neural network models. Existing solutions for reducing the computational load of training at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Xiaoying Zhi , Varun Babbar , Rundong Liu , Pheobe Sun , Fran Silavong , Ruibo Shi , Sean Moran

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are the key to the state-of-the-art machine vision, sensor fusion and audio/video signal processing. Unfortunately, their computation complexity and tight resource constraints on the Edge make them hard to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Ranko Sredojevic , Shaoyi Cheng , Lazar Supic , Rawan Naous , Vladimir Stojanovic

Vision Transformer and its variants have been adopted in many visual tasks due to their powerful capabilities, which also bring significant challenges in computation and storage. Consequently, researchers have introduced various compression…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Zeyu Wang , Weichen Dai , Xiangyu Zhou , Ji Qi , Yi Zhou

In this paper, we propose a novel meta learning approach for automatic channel pruning of very deep neural networks. We first train a PruningNet, a kind of meta network, which is able to generate weight parameters for any pruned structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Zechun Liu , Haoyuan Mu , Xiangyu Zhang , Zichao Guo , Xin Yang , Tim Kwang-Ting Cheng , Jian Sun

Deep neural networks have been widely adopted in many vision and robotics applications with visual inputs. It is essential to verify its robustness against semantic transformation perturbations, such as brightness and contrast. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Hanjiang Hu , Bowei Li , Ziwei Wang , Tianhao Wei , Casidhe Hutchison , Eric Sample , Changliu Liu

Modern deep networks have millions to billions of parameters, which leads to high memory and energy requirements during training as well as during inference on resource-constrained edge devices. Consequently, pruning techniques have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Sourjya Roy , Priyadarshini Panda , Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan , Anand Raghunathan

Neural network pruning reduces the computational cost of an over-parameterized network to improve its efficiency. Popular methods vary from $\ell_1$-norm sparsification to Neural Architecture Search (NAS). In this work, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Yonathan Aflalo , Asaf Noy , Ming Lin , Itamar Friedman , Lihi Zelnik

For many applications, utilizing DNNs (Deep Neural Networks) requires their implementation on a target architecture in an optimized manner concerning energy consumption, memory requirement, throughput, etc. DNN compression is used to reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Muhammad Sabih , Frank Hannig , Juergen Teich

Network pruning is a widely-used compression technique that is able to significantly scale down overparameterized models with minimal loss of accuracy. This paper shows that pruning may create or exacerbate disparate impacts. The paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Cuong Tran , Ferdinando Fioretto , Jung-Eun Kim , Rakshit Naidu