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Artificial neural network pruning is a method in which artificial neural network sizes can be reduced while attempting to preserve the predicting capabilities of the network. This is done to make the model smaller or faster during inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Alexandre Broggi , Nathaniel Bastian , Lance Fiondella , Gokhan Kul

In this paper, we present DSN (Deep Serial Number), a simple yet effective watermarking algorithm designed specifically for deep neural networks (DNNs). Unlike traditional methods that incorporate identification signals into DNNs, our…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Ruixiang Tang , Mengnan Du , Xia Hu

Named Data Networking (NDN) is a promising Future Internet architecture to support content distribution. Its inherent addressless routing paradigm brings valuable characteristics to improve the transmission robustness and efficiency, e.g.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Yuhang Ye , Brian Lee , Ronan Flynn , Niall Murray , Guiming Fang , Jianwen Cao , Yuansong Qiao

Instead of building deep learning models from scratch, developers are more and more relying on adapting pre-trained models to their customized tasks. However, powerful pre-trained models may be misused for unethical or illegal tasks, e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Jiangyi Deng , Shengyuan Pang , Yanjiao Chen , Liangming Xia , Yijie Bai , Haiqin Weng , Wenyuan Xu

Neural Networks (NN), although successfully applied to several Artificial Intelligence tasks, are often unnecessarily over-parametrised. In edge/fog computing, this might make their training prohibitive on resource-constrained devices,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Lorenzo Valerio , Franco Maria Nardini , Andrea Passarella , Raffaele Perego

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are effective in solving many real-world problems. Larger DNN models usually exhibit better quality (e.g., accuracy) but their excessive computation results in long inference time. Model sparsification can reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Xiaolong Ma , Minghai Qin , Fei Sun , Zejiang Hou , Kun Yuan , Yi Xu , Yanzhi Wang , Yen-Kuang Chen , Rong Jin , Yuan Xie

Structured pruning is a commonly used convolutional neural network (CNN) compression approach. Pruning rate setting is a fundamental problem in structured pruning. Most existing works introduce too many additional learnable parameters to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Pucheng Zhai , Kailing Guo , Fang Liu , Xiaofen Xing , Xiangmin Xu

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

With the emergence of smart cities, Internet of Things (IoT) devices as well as deep learning technologies have witnessed an increasing adoption. To support the requirements of such paradigm in terms of memory and computation, joint and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Emna Baccour , Aiman Erbad , Amr Mohamed , Mounir Hamdi , Mohsen Guizani

Unstructured neural network pruning algorithms have achieved impressive compression rates. However, the resulting - typically irregular - sparse matrices hamper efficient hardware implementations, leading to additional memory usage and…

The success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in various applications is accompanied by a significant increase in computation and parameter storage costs. Recent efforts to reduce these overheads involve pruning and compressing the…

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have demonstrated impressive image generation capabilities. Still, their computational intensity prohibits resource-constrained organizations from deploying T2I models after fine-tuning them on their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Alireza Ganjdanesh , Reza Shirkavand , Shangqian Gao , Heng Huang

To deal with various datasets over different complexity, this paper presents an self-adaptive learning model that combines the proposed Dynamic Connected Neural Decision Networks (DNDN) and a new pruning method--Dynamic Soft Pruning (DSP).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Xinyu Fan

Massive data is often considered essential for deep learning applications, but it also incurs significant computational and infrastructural costs. Therefore, dataset pruning (DP) has emerged as an effective way to improve data efficiency by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yihua Zhang , Yimeng Zhang , Aochuan Chen , Jinghan Jia , Jiancheng Liu , Gaowen Liu , Mingyi Hong , Shiyu Chang , Sijia Liu

When deploying pre-trained neural network models in real-world applications, model consumers often encounter resource-constraint platforms such as mobile and smart devices. They typically use the pruning technique to reduce the size and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Mark Huasong Meng , Guangdong Bai , Sin Gee Teo , Jin Song Dong

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated their superiority in practice. Arguably, the rapid development of DNNs is largely benefited from high-quality (open-sourced) datasets, based on which researchers and developers can easily…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Yiming Li , Yang Bai , Yong Jiang , Yong Yang , Shu-Tao Xia , Bo Li

Deep learning algorithms are increasingly employed at the edge. However, edge devices are resource constrained and thus require efficient deployment of deep neural networks. Pruning methods are a key tool for edge deployment as they can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Yunqiang Li , Jan C. van Gemert , Torsten Hoefler , Bert Moons , Evangelos Eleftheriou , Bram-Ernst Verhoef

Due to costly efforts during data acquisition and model training, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) belong to the intellectual property of the model creator. Hence, unauthorized use, theft, or modification may lead to legal repercussions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Torsten Krauß , Jasper Stang , Alexandra Dmitrienko

Automated scraping stands out as a common method for collecting data in deep learning models without the authorization of data owners. Recent studies have begun to tackle the privacy concerns associated with this data collection method.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Thushari Hapuarachchi , Jing Lin , Kaiqi Xiong , Mohamed Rahouti , Gitte Ost

Pruning is an effective method to reduce the memory footprint and computational cost associated with large natural language processing models. However, current pruning algorithms either only focus on one pruning category, e.g., structured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Zhewei Yao , Xiaoxia Wu , Linjian Ma , Sheng Shen , Kurt Keutzer , Michael W. Mahoney , Yuxiong He