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Agriculture is vital for global food security, but crops are vulnerable to diseases that impact yield and quality. While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) accurately classify plant diseases using leaf images, their high computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 T. Ahmed , S. Jannat , Md. F. Islam , J. Noor

Pruning seeks to design lightweight architectures by removing redundant weights in overparameterized networks. Most of the existing techniques first remove structured sub-networks (filters, channels,...) and then fine-tune the resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Robin Dupont , Hichem Sahbi , Guillaume Michel

Sparse neural systems are gaining traction for efficient continual learning due to their modularity and low interference. Architectures such as Sparse Distributed Memory Multi-Layer Perceptrons (SDMLP) construct task-specific subnetworks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Huiyan Xue , Xuming Ran , Yaxin Li , Qi Xu , Enhui Li , Yi Xu , Qiang Zhang

The extensive amounts of data required for training deep neural networks pose significant challenges on storage and transmission fronts. Dataset distillation has emerged as a promising technique to condense the information of massive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Ali Abbasi , Ashkan Shahbazi , Hamed Pirsiavash , Soheil Kolouri

Model compression has been widely adopted to obtain light-weighted deep neural networks. Most prevalent methods, however, require fine-tuning with sufficient training data to ensure accuracy, which could be challenged by privacy and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Haoli Bai , Jiaxiang Wu , Irwin King , Michael Lyu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are energy-efficient computing architectures that exchange spikes for processing information, unlike classical Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). Due to this, SNNs are better suited for real-life deployments.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Ravi Kumar Kushawaha , Saurabh Kumar , Biplab Banerjee , Rajbabu Velmurugan

Despite the recent progress of network pruning, directly applying it to the Internet of Things (IoT) applications still faces two challenges, i.e. the distribution divergence between end and cloud data and the missing of data label on end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Xiaoyu Feng , Zhuqing Yuan , Guijin Wang , Yongpan Liu

Recent works imply that the channel pruning can be regarded as searching optimal sub-structure from unpruned networks. However, existing works based on this observation require training and evaluating a large number of structures, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Shaopeng Guo , Yujie Wang , Quanquan Li , Junjie Yan

In safety-critical but computationally resource-constrained applications, deep learning faces two key challenges: lack of robustness against adversarial attacks and large neural network size (often millions of parameters). While the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Vikash Sehwag , Shiqi Wang , Prateek Mittal , Suman Jana

The carbon footprint of natural language processing research has been increasing in recent years due to its reliance on large and inefficient neural network implementations. Distillation is a network compression technique which attempts to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Mark Anderson , Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

This paper presents a novel approach to neural network compression that addresses redundancy at both the filter and architectural levels through a unified framework grounded in information flow analysis. Building on the concept of tensor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Aleksei Samarin , Artem Nazarenko , Egor Kotenko , Valentin Malykh , Alexander Savelev , Aleksei Toropov

Pre-trained language models achieve superior performance but are computationally expensive. Techniques such as pruning and knowledge distillation have been developed to reduce their sizes and latencies. In this work, we propose a structured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Ziqing Yang , Yiming Cui , Xin Yao , Shijin Wang

We present a lightweight post-processing method to refine the semantic segmentation results of point cloud sequences. Most existing methods usually segment frame by frame and encounter the inherent ambiguity of the problem: based on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Yutaka Momma , Weimin Wang , Edgar Simo-Serra , Satoshi Iizuka , Ryosuke Nakamura , Hiroshi Ishikawa

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved significant breakthroughs in various fields. However, these advancements have led to a substantial increase in the complexity and size of these networks. This poses a challenge when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Ahmed Sadaqa , Di Liu

Self-supervised learning (SSL) models like WavLM can be effectively utilized when building speaker diarization systems but are often large and slow, limiting their use in resource constrained scenarios. Previous studies have explored…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Jiangyu Han , Federico Landini , Johan Rohdin , Anna Silnova , Mireia Diez , Jan Cernocky , Lukas Burget

Deep neural networks have been applied in many applications exhibiting extraordinary abilities in the field of computer vision. However, complex network architectures challenge efficient real-time deployment and require significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Tailin Liang , John Glossner , Lei Wang , Shaobo Shi , Xiaotong Zhang

MR imaging techniques are of great benefit to disease diagnosis. However, due to the limitation of MR devices, significant intensity inhomogeneity often exists in imaging results, which impedes both qualitative and quantitative medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Dong Liang , Xingyu Qiu , Yuzhen Li , Wei Wang , Kuanquan Wang , Suyu Dong , Gongning Luo

With the rise in interest of sparse neural networks, we study how neural network pruning with synthetic data leads to sparse networks with unique training properties. We find that distilled data, a synthetic summarization of the real data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Luke McDermott , Daniel Cummings

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

Deep neural networks have been the predominant paradigm in machine learning for solving cognitive tasks. Such models, however, are restricted by a high computational overhead, limiting their applicability and hindering advancements in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Ian Pons , Bruno Yamamoto , Anna H. Reali Costa , Artur Jordao