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Channel pruning is a powerful technique to reduce the computational overhead of deep neural networks, enabling efficient deployment on resource-constrained devices. However, existing pruning methods often rely on local heuristics or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Zifan Liu , Yuan Cao , Yanwei Yu , Heng Qi , Jie Gui

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

Channel pruning is a promising method for accelerating and compressing convolutional neural networks. However, current pruning algorithms still remain unsolved problems that how to assign layer-wise pruning ratios properly and discard the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yihao Chen , Zefang Wang

Model compression and hardware acceleration are essential for the resource-efficient deployment of deep neural networks. Modern object detectors have highly interconnected convolutional layers with concatenations. In this work, we study how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Svetlana Pavlitska , Oliver Bagge , Federico Peccia , Toghrul Mammadov , J. Marius Zöllner

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently unlocked real-time, high-fidelity novel view synthesis by representing scenes using explicit 3D primitives. However, traditional methods often require millions of Gaussians to capture complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Anh Thuan Tran , Jana Kosecka

The colossal parameters and computational overhead of Large Language Models (LLMs) challenge their real-world applications. Network pruning, which targets unstructured or structured sparsity by removing redundant parameters, has recently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Yuxin Wang , Minghua Ma , Zekun Wang , Jingchang Chen , Huiming Fan , Liping Shan , Qing Yang , Dongliang Xu , Ming Liu , Bing Qin

Neural network pruning is an important step in design process of efficient neural networks for edge devices with limited computational power. Pruning is a form of knowledge transfer from the weights of the original network to a smaller…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Alexey Kruglov

With the growing size of pre-trained models, full fine-tuning and storing all the parameters for various downstream tasks is costly and infeasible. In this paper, we propose a new parameter-efficient fine-tuning method, Gradient-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Zhi Zhang , Qizhe Zhang , Zijun Gao , Renrui Zhang , Ekaterina Shutova , Shiji Zhou , Shanghang Zhang

Structure pruning is an effective method to compress and accelerate neural networks. While filter and channel pruning are preferable to other structure pruning methods in terms of realistic acceleration and hardware compatibility, pruning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Jun-Hyung Park , Yeachan Kim , Junho Kim , Joon-Young Choi , SangKeun Lee

Nowadays, it is still difficult to adapt Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based models for deployment on embedded devices. The heavy computation and large memory footprint of CNN models become the main burden in real application. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Xin Li , Changsong Liu

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

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are state-of-the-art in numerous computer vision tasks such as object classification and detection. However, the large amount of parameters they contain leads to a high computational complexity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Ghouthi Boukli Hacene , Vincent Gripon , Matthieu Arzel , Nicolas Farrugia , Yoshua Bengio

Pruning is a model compression method that removes redundant parameters in deep neural networks (DNNs) while maintaining accuracy. Most available filter pruning methods require complex treatments such as iterative pruning, features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yue Wu , Yuan Lan , Luchan Zhang , Yang Xiang

During the last years, algorithms known as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) had become increasingly popular, expanding its application range to several areas. In particular, the image processing field has experienced a remarkable…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Federico Nicolas Peccia , Luciano Ferreyro , Alejandro Furfaro

Existing methods for reducing the computational burden of neural networks at run-time, such as parameter pruning or dynamic computational path selection, focus solely on improving computational efficiency during inference. On the other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Simeon E. Spasov , Pietro Lio

Pruning has become a very powerful and effective technique to compress and accelerate modern neural networks. Existing pruning methods can be grouped into two categories: filter pruning (FP) and weight pruning (WP). FP wins at hardware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Fanxu Meng , Hao Cheng , Ke Li , Huixiang Luo , Xiaowei Guo , Guangming Lu , Xing Sun

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have well-documented performance in various graph learning tasks, but their analysis is still at its infancy. Graph scattering transforms (GSTs) offer training-free deep GCN models that extract features…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-28 Vassilis N. Ioannidis , Siheng Chen , Georgios B. Giannakis

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

Structural design of neural networks is crucial for the success of deep learning. While most prior works in evolutionary learning aim at directly searching the structure of a network, few attempts have been made on another promising track,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Yuchen Liu , S. Y. Kung , David Wentzlaff

We present a provable, sampling-based approach for generating compact Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) by identifying and removing redundant filters from an over-parameterized network. Our algorithm uses a small batch of input data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Lucas Liebenwein , Cenk Baykal , Harry Lang , Dan Feldman , Daniela Rus