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The rapid proliferation of deep neural networks (DNNs) across several domains has led to increasing concerns regarding intellectual property (IP) protection and model misuse. Trained DNNs represent valuable assets, often developed through…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Sangeeth B , Serena Nicolazzo , Deepa K. , Vinod P

To solve ever more complex problems, Deep Neural Networks are scaled to billions of parameters, leading to huge computational costs. An effective approach to reduce computational requirements and increase efficiency is to prune unnecessary…

Deep neural networks have been widely used in many critical applications, such as autonomous vehicles and medical diagnosis. However, their security is threatened by backdoor attacks, which are achieved by adding artificial patterns to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Dong Huang , Qingwen Bu

Pruning before training enables the deployment of neural networks on smart devices. By retaining weights conducive to generalization, pruned networks can be accommodated on resource-constrained smart devices. It is commonly held that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Jinying Xiao , Ping Li , Zhe Tang , Jie Nie

Deep reinforcement learning approaches have shown impressive results in a variety of different domains, however, more complex heterogeneous architectures such as world models require the different neural components to be trained separately…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Sebastian Risi , Kenneth O. Stanley

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are widely used by engineers to solve difficult problems that require predictive modeling from data. However, these models are often massive, with millions or billions of parameters, and require substantial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Federico Formica , Andrea Rota , Aurora Francesca Zanenga , Andrea Bombarda , Mark Lawford , Lionel C. Briand , Claudio Menghi

In this paper we study predictive pattern mining problems where the goal is to construct a predictive model based on a subset of predictive patterns in the database. Our main contribution is to introduce a novel method called safe pattern…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-16 Kazuya Nakagawa , Shinya Suzumura , Masayuki Karasuyama , Koji Tsuda , Ichiro Takeuchi

Model pruning is a widely adopted technique to reduce the computational complexity and memory footprint of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). However, global unstructured pruning often leads to significant degradation in accuracy, typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Chinmay Tripurwar , Utkarsh Maurya , Dishant

The rapidly growing parameter volume of deep neural networks (DNNs) hinders the artificial intelligence applications on resource constrained devices, such as mobile and wearable devices. Neural network pruning, as one of the mainstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Ao Ren , Tao Zhang , Yuhao Wang , Sheng Lin , Peiyan Dong , Yen-kuang Chen , Yuan Xie , Yanzhi Wang

The surge in popularity of machine learning (ML) has driven significant investments in training Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). However, these models that require resource-intensive training are vulnerable to theft and unauthorized use. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Jasper Stang , Torsten Krauß , Alexandra Dmitrienko

Differential privacy (DP) has become an essential framework for privacy-preserving machine learning. Existing DP learning methods, however, often have disparate impacts on model predictions, e.g., for minority groups. Gradient clipping,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Linzh Zhao , Aki Rehn , Mikko A. Heikkilä , Razane Tajeddine , Antti Honkela

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have proven to be quite effective in a vast array of machine learning tasks, with recent examples in cyber security and autonomous vehicles. Despite the superior performance of DNNs in these applications, it has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Qinglong Wang , Wenbo Guo , Kaixuan Zhang , Alexander G. Ororbia , Xinyu Xing , Xue Liu , C. Lee Giles

One of the major challenges in deploying deep neural network architectures is their size which has an adverse effect on their inference time and memory requirements. Deep CNNs can either be pruned width-wise by removing filters based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Muhammad Umair Haider , Murtaza Taj

Pruning can be an effective method of compressing large pre-trained models for inference speed acceleration. Previous pruning approaches rely on access to the original training dataset for both pruning and subsequent fine-tuning. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Haihang Wu , Wei Wang , Tamasha Malepathirana , Sachith Seneviratne , Denny Oetomo , Saman Halgamuge

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. Moreover, the transferability of the adversarial examples has received broad attention in recent years, which means that adversarial examples crafted by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Dingcheng Yang , Wenjian Yu , Zihao Xiao , Jiaqi Luo

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples, which can produce erroneous predictions by injecting imperceptible perturbations. In this work, we study the transferability of adversarial examples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Zeyu Qin , Yanbo Fan , Yi Liu , Li Shen , Yong Zhang , Jue Wang , Baoyuan Wu

Pretraining on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) has shown great power in facilitating various downstream tasks. As pretraining generally requires huge amount of data and computational resources, the pretrained GNNs are high-value Intellectual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Enyan Dai , Minhua Lin , Suhang Wang

Neural networks grow vastly in size to tackle more sophisticated tasks. In many cases, such large networks are not deployable on particular hardware and need to be reduced in size. Pruning techniques help to shrink deep neural networks to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Udo Schlegel , Samuel Schiegg , Daniel A. Keim

Distributed deep neural networks (DNNs) have emerged as a key technique to reduce communication overhead without sacrificing performance in edge computing systems. Recently, entropy coding has been introduced to further reduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Milin Zhang , Mohammad Abdi , Shahriar Rifat , Francesco Restuccia

Insect flight is a strongly nonlinear and actuated dynamical system. As such, strategies for understanding its control have typically relied on either model-based methods or linearizations thereof. Here we develop a framework that combines…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-11 Olivia Zahn , Jorge Bustamante , Callin Switzer , Thomas Daniel , J. Nathan Kutz