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Weight pruning is an effective technique to reduce the model size and inference time for deep neural networks in real-world deployments. However, since magnitudes and relative importance of weights are very different for different layers of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Xiao Zhou , Weizhong Zhang , Hang Xu , Tong Zhang

Structural pruning techniques are essential for deploying multimodal large language models (MLLMs) across various hardware platforms, from edge devices to cloud servers. However, current pruning methods typically determine optimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Zhihan Zhang , Xiang Pan , Hongchen Wei , Zhenzhong Chen

Recent studies have shown that skeletonization (pruning parameters) of networks \textit{at initialization} provides all the practical benefits of sparsity both at inference and training time, while only marginally degrading their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Pau de Jorge , Amartya Sanyal , Harkirat S. Behl , Philip H. S. Torr , Gregory Rogez , Puneet K. Dokania

This paper presents a novel approach to neural network pruning by integrating a graph-based observation space into an AutoML framework to address the limitations of existing methods. Traditional pruning approaches often depend on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Dieter Balemans , Thomas Huybrechts , Jan Steckel , Siegfried Mercelis

Network pruning has been known to produce compact models without much accuracy degradation. However, how the pruning process affects a network's robustness and the working mechanism behind remain unresolved. In this work, we theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Shufan Wang , Ningyi Liao , Liyao Xiang , Nanyang Ye , Quanshi Zhang

The problem of a deep learning model losing performance on a previously learned task when fine-tuned to a new one is a phenomenon known as Catastrophic forgetting. There are two major ways to mitigate this problem: either preserving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Shivangi Srivastava , Maxim Berman , Matthew B. Blaschko , Devis Tuia

Deep model compression has been extensively studied, and state-of-the-art methods can now achieve high compression ratios with minimal accuracy loss. This paper studies model compression through a different lens: could we compress models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Shupeng Gui , Haotao Wang , Chen Yu , Haichuan Yang , Zhangyang Wang , Ji Liu

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has shown remarkable success in complex autonomous driving scenarios. However, DRL models inevitably bring high memory consumption and computation, which hinders their wide deployment in resource-limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Wensheng Su , Zhenni Li , Minrui Xu , Jiawen Kang , Dusit Niyato , Shengli Xie

Deep convolutional neural networks have been proved successful on a wide range of tasks, yet they are still hindered by their large computation cost in many industrial scenarios. In this paper, we propose to reduce such cost for CNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Jinting Chen , Zhaocheng Zhu , Cheng Li , Yuming Zhao

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Shaokai Ye , Tianyun Zhang , Kaiqi Zhang , Jiayu Li , Kaidi Xu , Yunfei Yang , Fuxun Yu , Jian Tang , Makan Fardad , Sijia Liu , Xiang Chen , Xue Lin , Yanzhi Wang

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

Deep Neural Network (DNN) trained by the gradient descent method is known to be vulnerable to maliciously perturbed adversarial input, aka. adversarial attack. As one of the countermeasures against adversarial attack, increasing the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Adnan Siraj Rakin , Zhezhi He , Li Yang , Yanzhi Wang , Liqiang Wang , Deliang Fan

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Ning Liu , Xiaolong Ma , Zhiyuan Xu , Yanzhi Wang , Jian Tang , Jieping Ye

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Muhammad Umair Haider , Murtaza Taj

Machine learning pipelines for classification tasks often train a universal model to achieve accuracy across a broad range of classes. However, a typical user encounters only a limited selection of classes regularly. This disparity provides…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Shivam Aggarwal , Kuluhan Binici , Tulika Mitra

Network pruning has been the driving force for the acceleration of neural networks and the alleviation of model storage/transmission burden. With the advent of AutoML and neural architecture search (NAS), pruning has become topical with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Yawei Li , Shuhang Gu , Kai Zhang , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Modern deep neural networks, particularly recent large language models, come with massive model sizes that require significant computational and storage resources. To enable the deployment of modern models on resource-constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Hongrong Cheng , Miao Zhang , Javen Qinfeng Shi

Neuromorphic neural network processors, in the form of compute-in-memory crossbar arrays of memristors, or in the form of subthreshold analog and mixed-signal ASICs, promise enormous advantages in compute density and energy efficiency for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Julian Büchel , Fynn Faber , Dylan R. Muir

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a powerful framework for solving complex real-world problems. Large neural networks employed in the framework are traditionally associated with better generalization capabilities, but their increased size…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Samin Yeasar Arnob , Riyasat Ohib , Sergey Plis , Doina Precup

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have shown promise in various dynamic visual tasks, yet those ready for practical deployment often lack the compactness and robustness essential in resource-limited and safety-critical settings. Prior research…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Zichen Song , Jiakang Li , Songning Lai , Sitan Huang