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Despite the popularity of Model Compression and Multitask Learning, how to effectively compress a multitask model has been less thoroughly analyzed due to the challenging entanglement of tasks in the parameter space. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Xinglong Sun , Ali Hassani , Zhangyang Wang , Gao Huang , Humphrey Shi

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has seen remarkable advancements with deep neural networks, such as Transformer and Conformer. However, these models typically have large model sizes and high inference costs, posing a challenge to deploy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Huiqiang Jiang , Li Lyna Zhang , Yuang Li , Yu Wu , Shijie Cao , Ting Cao , Yuqing Yang , Jinyu Li , Mao Yang , Lili Qiu

Pruning of deep neural networks has been an effective technique for reducing model size while preserving most of the performance of dense networks, crucial for deploying models on memory and power-constrained devices. While recent sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Andy Li , Aiden Durrant , Milan Markovic , Tianjin Huang , Souvik Kundu , Tianlong Chen , Lu Yin , Georgios Leontidis

Diffusion models have significantly advanced the field of generative modeling. However, training a diffusion model is computationally expensive, creating a pressing need to adapt off-the-shelf diffusion models for downstream generation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Jincheng Zhong , Xingzhuo Guo , Jiaxiang Dong , Mingsheng Long

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have achieved great success in image generation but suffer from high inference latency due to their iterative denoising nature. Motivated by the evolving feature dynamics across the denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Haodong He , Yuan Gao , Weizhong Zhang , Gui-Song Xia

Data pruning is the problem of identifying a core subset that is most beneficial to training and discarding the remainder. While pruning strategies are well studied for discriminative models like those used in classification, little…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Rania Briq , Jiangtao Wang , Stefan Kesselheim

Diffusion models produce high quality images but inference is costly due to many denoising steps and heavy matrix operations. We present DiffPro, a post-training, hardware-faithful framework that works with the exact integer kernels used in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Farhana Amin , Sabiha Afroz , Kanchon Gharami , Mona Moghadampanah , Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos

The task of accelerating large neural networks on general purpose hardware has, in recent years, prompted the use of channel pruning to reduce network size. However, the efficacy of pruning based approaches has since been called into…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-08 Jack Turner , Elliot J. Crowley , Valentin Radu , José Cano , Amos Storkey , Michael O'Boyle

Deep learning models have been widely used during the last decade due to their outstanding learning and abstraction capacities. However, one of the main challenges any scientist has to face using deep learning models is to establish the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Luis Balderas , Miguel Lastra , José M. Benítez

Diffusion-based inpainting is a powerful tool for the reconstruction of images from sparse data. Its quality strongly depends on the choice of known data. Optimising their spatial location -- the inpainting mask -- is challenging. A…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-17 Tobias Alt , Pascal Peter , Joachim Weickert

Diffusion Models (DMs) have exhibited superior performance in generating high-quality and diverse images. However, this exceptional performance comes at the cost of expensive architectural design, particularly due to the attention module…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Hongjie Wang , Difan Liu , Yan Kang , Yijun Li , Zhe Lin , Niraj K. Jha , Yuchen Liu

Mesh reconstruction from multi-view images is a fundamental problem in computer vision, but its performance degrades significantly under sparse-view conditions, especially in unseen regions where no ground-truth observations are available.…

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Image restoration aims to enhance low quality images, producing high quality images that exhibit natural visual characteristics and fine semantic attributes. Recently, the diffusion model has emerged as a powerful technique for image…

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Diffusion-based remote sensing (RS) generative foundation models are cruial for downstream tasks. However, these models rely on large amounts of globally representative data, which often contain redundancy, noise, and class imbalance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Fan Wei , Runmin Dong , Yushan Lai , Yixiang Yang , Zhaoyang Luo , Jinxiao Zhang , Miao Yang , Shuai Yuan , Jiyao Zhao , Bin Luo , Haohuan Fu

In response to recent data regulation requirements, machine unlearning (MU) has emerged as a critical process to remove the influence of specific examples from a given model. Although exact unlearning can be achieved through complete model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Jinghan Jia , Jiancheng Liu , Parikshit Ram , Yuguang Yao , Gaowen Liu , Yang Liu , Pranay Sharma , Sijia Liu

Diffusion models have proven to be highly effective in generating high-quality images. However, adapting large pre-trained diffusion models to new domains remains an open challenge, which is critical for real-world applications. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Enze Xie , Lewei Yao , Han Shi , Zhili Liu , Daquan Zhou , Zhaoqiang Liu , Jiawei Li , Zhenguo Li

For a responsible and safe deployment of diffusion models in various domains, regulating the generated outputs from these models is desirable because such models could generate undesired, violent, and obscene outputs. To tackle this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Subhodip Panda , Varun M S , Shreyans Jain , Sarthak Kumar Maharana , Prathosh A. P

Pruning-based unlearning has recently emerged as a fast, training-free, and data-independent approach to remove undesired concepts from diffusion models. It promises high efficiency and robustness, offering an attractive alternative to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ci Zhang , Zhaojun Ding , Chence Yang , Jun Liu , Xiaoming Zhai , Shaoyi Huang , Beiwen Li , Xiaolong Ma , Jin Lu , Geng Yuan

Model pruning is a popular approach to enable the deployment of large deep learning models on edge devices with restricted computational or storage capacities. Although sparse models achieve performance comparable to that of their dense…

Pruning aims to reduce the number of parameters while maintaining performance close to the original network. This work proposes a novel \emph{self-distillation} based pruning strategy, whereby the representational similarity between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-01 James O' Neill , Sourav Dutta , Haytham Assem