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Adaptive network pruning approach has recently drawn significant attention due to its excellent capability to identify the importance and redundancy of layers and filters and customize a suitable pruning solution. However, it remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Liang Li , Pengfei Zhao

Neural network pruning techniques reduce the number of parameters without compromising predicting ability of a network. Many algorithms have been developed for pruning both over-parameterized fully-connected networks (FCNs) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Xin Qian , Diego Klabjan

Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e. inputs that are imperceptibly perturbed from natural data and yet incorrectly classified by the network. Adversarial training, a heuristic form of robust optimization that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Ruiqi Gao , Tianle Cai , Haochuan Li , Liwei Wang , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Jason D. Lee

The unmatched ability of Deep Neural Networks in capturing complex patterns in large and noisy datasets is often associated with their large hypothesis space, and consequently to the vast amount of parameters that characterize model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Enrico Ballini , Luca Muscarnera , Alessio Fumagalli , Anna Scotti , Francesco Regazzoni

Adversarially robust machine learning has received much recent attention. However, prior attacks and defenses for non-parametric classifiers have been developed in an ad-hoc or classifier-specific basis. In this work, we take a holistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Yao-Yuan Yang , Cyrus Rashtchian , Yizhen Wang , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Channel pruning and tensor decomposition have received extensive attention in convolutional neural network compression. However, these two techniques are traditionally deployed in an isolated manner, leading to significant accuracy drop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Yuchao Li , Shaohui Lin , Jianzhuang Liu , Qixiang Ye , Mengdi Wang , Fei Chao , Fan Yang , Jincheng Ma , Qi Tian , Rongrong Ji

Increasing the model capacity is a known approach to enhance the adversarial robustness of deep learning networks. On the other hand, various model compression techniques, including pruning and quantization, can reduce the size of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Svetlana Pavlitska , Hannes Grolig , J. Marius Zöllner

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) suffer from rapidly increasing storage and computational costs as their depth grows, which severely hinders their deployment on resource-constrained edge devices. Pruning is a practical approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Li Xu , Xianchao Xiu

We propose a novel hardware-aware magnitude pruning technique for coherent photonic neural networks. The proposed technique can prune 99.45% of network parameters and reduce the static power consumption by 98.23% with a negligible accuracy…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Sanmitra Banerjee , Mahdi Nikdast , Sudeep Pasricha , Krishnendu Chakrabarty

Artificial neural network pruning is a method in which artificial neural network sizes can be reduced while attempting to preserve the predicting capabilities of the network. This is done to make the model smaller or faster during inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Alexandre Broggi , Nathaniel Bastian , Lance Fiondella , Gokhan Kul

Neural network pruning offers a promising prospect to facilitate deploying deep neural networks on resource-limited devices. However, existing methods are still challenged by the training inefficiency and labor cost in pruning designs, due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Mingbao Lin , Rongrong Ji , Yan Wang , Yichen Zhang , Baochang Zhang , Yonghong Tian , Ling Shao

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) especially deep convolutional networks are very popular these days and have been proved to successfully offer quite reliable solutions to many vision problems. However, the use of deep neural networks is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Yangzi Guo , Yiyuan She , Adrian Barbu

Neural Network Pruning has been established as driving force in the exploration of memory and energy efficient solutions with high throughput both during training and at test time. In this paper, we introduce a novel criterion for model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Angelos-Christos Maroudis , Sotirios Xydis

We introduce a pruning algorithm that provably sparsifies the parameters of a trained model in a way that approximately preserves the model's predictive accuracy. Our algorithm uses a small batch of input points to construct a data-informed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Cenk Baykal , Lucas Liebenwein , Igor Gilitschenski , Dan Feldman , Daniela Rus

Compression of convolutional neural network models has recently been dominated by pruning approaches. A class of previous works focuses solely on pruning the unimportant filters to achieve network compression. Another important direction is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Tariq M. Khan , Syed S. Naqvi , Antonio Robles-Kelly , Erik Meijering

Pruning is a compression method which aims to improve the efficiency of neural networks by reducing their number of parameters while maintaining a good performance, thus enhancing the performance-to-cost ratio in nontrivial ways. Of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Hugo Tessier , Ghouti Boukli Hacene , Vincent Gripon

Deep Neural Networks have achieved remarkable success relying on the developing availability of GPUs and large-scale datasets with increasing network depth and width. However, due to the expensive computation and intensive memory,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-07 E Zhenqian , Gao Weiguo

In the era of exceptionally data-hungry models, careful selection of the training data is essential to mitigate the extensive costs of deep learning. Data pruning offers a solution by removing redundant or uninformative samples from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Artem Vysogorets , Kartik Ahuja , Julia Kempe

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved significant breakthroughs in various fields. However, these advancements have led to a substantial increase in the complexity and size of these networks. This poses a challenge when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Ahmed Sadaqa , Di Liu

Neural network pruning with suitable retraining can yield networks with considerably fewer parameters than the original with comparable degrees of accuracy. Typical pruning methods require large, fully trained networks as a starting point…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Timothy Foldy-Porto , Yeshwanth Venkatesha , Priyadarshini Panda