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Structured pruning is an effective approach for compressing large pre-trained neural networks without significantly affecting their performance. However, most current structured pruning methods do not provide any performance guarantees, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Marwa El Halabi , Suraj Srinivas , Simon Lacoste-Julien

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become a widely deployed model for numerous machine learning applications. However, their fixed architecture, substantial training cost, and significant model redundancy make it difficult to efficiently…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Xiaoliang Dai , Hongxu Yin , Niraj K. Jha

Pruning methods have shown to be effective at reducing the size of deep neural networks while keeping accuracy almost intact. Among the most effective methods are those that prune a network while training it with a sparsity prior loss and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Carl Lemaire , Andrew Achkar , Pierre-Marc Jodoin

Training a good deep learning model requires substantial data and computing resources, which makes the resulting neural model a valuable intellectual property. To prevent the neural network from being undesirably exploited, non-transferable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Guangtao Zeng , Wei Lu

To reduce the significant redundancy in deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), most existing methods prune neurons by only considering statistics of an individual layer or two consecutive layers (e.g., prune one layer to minimize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Ruichi Yu , Ang Li , Chun-Fu Chen , Jui-Hsin Lai , Vlad I. Morariu , Xintong Han , Mingfei Gao , Ching-Yung Lin , Larry S. Davis

The removal of carefully-selected examples from training data has recently emerged as an effective way of improving the robustness of machine learning models. However, the best way to select these examples remains an open question. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Andrea Napoli , Paul White

The nonparametric variational information bottleneck (NVIB) provides the foundation for nonparametric variational differential privacy (NVDP), a framework for building privacy-preserving language models. However, the learned latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Dina El Zein , Shashi Kumar , James Henderson

Transferable adversarial attacks against Deep neural networks (DNNs) have received broad attention in recent years. An adversarial example can be crafted by a surrogate model and then attack the unknown target model successfully, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yao Zhu , Yuefeng Chen , Xiaodan Li , Kejiang Chen , Yuan He , Xiang Tian , Bolun Zheng , Yaowu Chen , Qingming Huang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) pre-trained on large-scale datasets such as ImageNet are widely used as feature extractors to construct high-accuracy classification models from scarce data for specific tasks. In such scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Daisuke Yasui , Toshitaka Matsuki , Hiroshi Sato

As we push the boundaries of performance in various vision tasks, the models grow in size correspondingly. To keep up with this growth, we need very aggressive pruning techniques for efficient inference and deployment on edge devices.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Xinglong Sun , Barath Lakshmanan , Maying Shen , Shiyi Lan , Jingde Chen , Jose Alvarez

As deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly deployed on edge devices, optimizing models for constrained computational resources is critical. Existing auto-pruning methods face challenges due to the diversity of DNN models, various…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Lixian Jing , Jianpeng Qi , Junyu Dong , Yanwei Yu

For a machine learning model deployed in real world scenarios, the ability of detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) samples is indispensable and challenging. Most existing OOD detection methods focused on exploring advanced training skills or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Chao Chen , Zhihang Fu , Kai Liu , Ze Chen , Mingyuan Tao , Jieping Ye

Weight pruning is an effective model compression technique to tackle the challenges of achieving real-time deep neural network (DNN) inference on mobile devices. However, prior pruning schemes have limited application scenarios due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yifan Gong , Geng Yuan , Zheng Zhan , Wei Niu , Zhengang Li , Pu Zhao , Yuxuan Cai , Sijia Liu , Bin Ren , Xue Lin , Xulong Tang , Yanzhi Wang

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

The most common method for DNN pruning is hard thresholding of network weights, followed by retraining to recover any lost accuracy. Recently developed smart pruning algorithms use the DNN response over the training set for a variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Konstantinos Pitas , Mike Davies , Pierre Vandergheynst

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are nowadays witnessing a major success in solving many pattern recognition tasks including skeleton-based classification. The deployment of DNNs on edge-devices, endowed with limited time and memory resources,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Hichem Sahbi

Neural network pruning is one of the most popular methods of accelerating the inference of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The dominant pruning methods, filter-level pruning methods, evaluate their performance through the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Wenxiao Wang , Shuai Zhao , Minghao Chen , Jinming Hu , Deng Cai , Haifeng Liu

Current structural pruning methods face two significant limitations: (i) they often limit pruning to finer-grained levels like channels, making aggressive parameter reduction challenging, and (ii) they focus heavily on parameter and FLOP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Xinglong Sun , Barath Lakshmanan , Maying Shen , Shiyi Lan , Jingde Chen , Jose M. Alvarez

A deep neural network (DNN) classifier represents a model owner's intellectual property as training a DNN classifier often requires lots of resource. Watermarking was recently proposed to protect the intellectual property of DNN…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Xiaoyu Cao , Jinyuan Jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

The intellectual property (IP) of Deep neural networks (DNNs) can be easily ``stolen'' by surrogate model attack. There has been significant progress in solutions to protect the IP of DNN models in classification tasks. However, little…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Jie Zhang , Dongdong Chen , Jing Liao , Han Fang , Zehua Ma , Weiming Zhang , Gang Hua , Nenghai Yu