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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…
Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have recently achieved remarkable successes in a number of applications. However, the huge sizes and computational burden of these models make it difficult for their deployment on edge devices. A practically…
We propose a new method for creating computationally efficient convolutional neural networks (CNNs) by using low-rank representations of convolutional filters. Rather than approximating filters in previously-trained networks with more…
Model pruning has become a useful technique that improves the computational efficiency of deep learning, making it possible to deploy solutions in resource-limited scenarios. A widely-used practice in relevant work assumes that a…
In this work we present a method to improve the pruning step of the current state-of-the-art methodology to compress neural networks. The novelty of the proposed pruning technique is in its differentiability, which allows pruning to be…
The optimization of over-parameterized deep neural networks represents a large-scale, high-dimensional, and strongly non-convex decision problem that challenges existing optimization frameworks. Current evolutionary and gradient-based…
Structured weight pruning is a representative model compression technique of DNNs to reduce the storage and computation requirements and accelerate inference. An automatic hyperparameter determination process is necessary due to the large…
In general, deep neural network (DNN) pruning methods fall into two categories: 1) Weight-based deterministic constraints, and 2) Probabilistic frameworks. While each approach has its merits and limitations there are a set of common…
Introduced in the late 1980s for generalization purposes, pruning has now become a staple for compressing deep neural networks. Despite many innovations in recent decades, pruning approaches still face core issues that hinder their…
Deep neural networks have dramatically achieved great success on a variety of challenging tasks. However, most successful DNNs have an extremely complex structure, leading to extensive research on model compression.As a significant area of…
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…
As a popular channel pruning method for convolutional neural networks (CNNs), network slimming (NS) has a three-stage process: (1) it trains a CNN with $\ell_1$ regularization applied to the scaling factors of the batch normalization…
Previous works utilized ''smaller-norm-less-important'' criterion to prune filters with smaller norm values in a convolutional neural network. In this paper, we analyze this norm-based criterion and point out that its effectiveness depends…
Despite enjoying extensive applications in video analysis, three-dimensional convolutional neural networks (3D CNNs)are restricted by their massive computation and storage consumption. To solve this problem, we propose a threedimensional…
Deep Neural Networks have been used in a wide variety of applications with significant success. However, their highly complex nature owing to comprising millions of parameters has lead to problems during deployment in pipelines with low…
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success in various fields. However, the large number of floating-point operations (FLOPs) in DNNs poses challenges for their deployment in resource-constrained applications, e.g.,…
Pruning techniques are used comprehensively to compress convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on image classification. However, the majority of pruning methods require a well pre-trained model to provide useful supporting parameters, such as…
Deep neural networks (DNNs) although achieving human-level performance in many domains, have very large model size that hinders their broader applications on edge computing devices. Extensive research work have been conducted on DNN model…
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…
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…