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It is widely acknowledged that large and sparse models have higher accuracy than small and dense models under the same model size constraints. This motivates us to train a large model and then remove its redundant neurons or weights by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Jianwei Li , Weizhi Gao , Qi Lei , Dongkuan Xu

Diffusion models have shown remarkable success across a wide range of generative tasks. However, they often suffer from spatially inconsistent generation, arguably due to the inherent locality of their denoising mechanisms. This can yield…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Wenshuai Zhao , Zhiyuan Li , Yi Zhao , Mohammad Hassan Vali , Martin Trapp , Joni Pajarinen , Juho Kannala , Arno Solin

Model pruning seeks to induce sparsity in a deep neural network's various connection matrices, thereby reducing the number of nonzero-valued parameters in the model. Recent reports (Han et al., 2015; Narang et al., 2017) prune deep networks…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-15 Michael Zhu , Suyog Gupta

This paper explores the challenges and benefits of a trainable destruction process in diffusion samplers -- diffusion-based generative models trained to sample an unnormalised density without access to data samples. Contrary to the majority…

Despite the impressive capabilities of generating images, text-to-image diffusion models are susceptible to producing undesirable outputs such as NSFW content and copyrighted artworks. To address this issue, recent studies have focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Tianyun Yang , Juan Cao , Chang Xu

In recent years, the development of diffusion models has led to significant progress in image and video generation tasks, with pre-trained models like the Stable Diffusion series playing a crucial role. Inspired by model pruning which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Teng Hu , Jiangning Zhang , Ran Yi , Hongrui Huang , Yabiao Wang , Lizhuang Ma

The ever-increasing fine-tuning cost of large-scale pre-trained models gives rise to the importance of dataset pruning, which aims to reduce dataset size while maintaining task performance. However, existing dataset pruning methods require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Wenyu Jiang , Zhenlong Liu , Zejian Xie , Songxin Zhang , Bingyi Jing , Hongxin Wei

Due to the over-parameterization of neural networks, many model compression methods based on pruning and quantization have emerged. They are remarkable in reducing the size, parameter number, and computational complexity of the model.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Yun Chu , Pu Li , Yong Bai , Zhuhua Hu , Yongqing Chen , Jiafeng Lu

In-Context Learning and Chain-of-Thought prompting improve reasoning in large language models (LLMs). These typically come at the cost of longer, more expensive prompts that may contain redundant information. Prompt compression based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Caleb Zheng , Jyotika Singh , Fang Tu , Weiyi Sun , Sujeeth Bharadwaj , Yassine Benajiba , Sujith Ravi , Eli Shlizerman , Dan Roth

Pruning neural networks has proven to be a successful approach to increase the efficiency and reduce the memory storage of deep learning models without compromising performance. Previous literature has shown that it is possible to achieve a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Joaquin Alvarez

Diffusion models are powerful generative models that achieve state-of-the-art performance in image synthesis. However, training them demands substantial amounts of data and computational resources. Continual learning would allow for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Sergi Masip , Pau Rodriguez , Tinne Tuytelaars , Gido M. van de Ven

Diffusion model has emerged as the \emph{de-facto} model for image generation, yet the heavy training overhead hinders its broader adoption in the research community. We observe that diffusion models are commonly trained to learn all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Jiachen Lei , Qinglong Wang , Peng Cheng , Zhongjie Ba , Zhan Qin , Zhibo Wang , Zhenguang Liu , Kui Ren

Diffusion probabilistic models can generate high-quality samples. Yet, their sampling process requires numerous denoising steps, making it slow and computationally intensive. We propose to reduce the sampling cost by pruning a pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Alireza Ganjdanesh , Yan Kang , Yuchen Liu , Richard Zhang , Zhe Lin , Heng Huang

State-of-the-art convolutional neural networks (CNNs) used in vision applications have large models with numerous weights. Training these models is very compute- and memory-resource intensive. Much research has been done on pruning or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Sangkug Lym , Esha Choukse , Siavash Zangeneh , Wei Wen , Sujay Sanghavi , Mattan Erez

Diffusion models (DMs) are a powerful type of generative models that have achieved state-of-the-art results in various image synthesis tasks and have shown potential in other domains, such as natural language processing and temporal data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Inês Cardoso Oliveira , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Luis A. Leiva

Network pruning is one of the most dominant methods for reducing the heavy inference cost of deep neural networks. Existing methods often iteratively prune networks to attain high compression ratio without incurring significant loss in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Duong H. Le , Trung-Nhan Vo , Nam Thoai

The reconstruction of unsteady flow fields from limited measurements is a challenging and crucial task for many engineering applications. Machine learning models are gaining popularity for solving this problem due to their ability to learn…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-09 Marc Amorós-Trepat , Luis Medrano-Navarro , Qiang Liu , Luca Guastoni , Nils Thuerey

We propose an efficient approach to train large diffusion models with masked transformers. While masked transformers have been extensively explored for representation learning, their application to generative learning is less explored in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Hongkai Zheng , Weili Nie , Arash Vahdat , Anima Anandkumar

Diffusion models demonstrate outstanding performance in image generation, but their multi-step inference mechanism requires immense computational cost. Previous works accelerate inference by leveraging layer or token cache techniques to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Haowei Zhu , Ji Liu , Ziqiong Liu , Dong Li , Junhai Yong , Bin Wang , Emad Barsoum

Large scale deep learning provides a tremendous opportunity to improve the quality of content recommendation systems by employing both wider and deeper models, but this comes at great infrastructural cost and carbon footprint in modern data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Mao Ye , Dhruv Choudhary , Jiecao Yu , Ellie Wen , Zeliang Chen , Jiyan Yang , Jongsoo Park , Qiang Liu , Arun Kejariwal