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We propose a unified deep meta-learning framework for accelerated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that jointly addresses multi-coil reconstruction and cross-modality synthesis. Motivated by the limitations of conventional methods in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Merham Fouladvand , Peuroly Batra

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are highly effective for image reconstruction problems. Typically, CNNs are trained on large amounts of training images. Recently, however, un-trained CNNs such as the Deep Image Prior and Deep Decoder…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-29 Mohammad Zalbagi Darestani , Reinhard Heckel

In recent years, deep neural networks have known a wide success in various application domains. However, they require important computational and memory resources, which severely hinders their deployment, notably on mobile devices or for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Nathan Hubens , Matei Mancas , Bernard Gosselin , Marius Preda , Titus Zaharia

Quantization and pruning are core techniques used to reduce the inference costs of deep neural networks. State-of-the-art quantization techniques are currently applied to both the weights and activations; however, pruning is most often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Xinyu Zhang , Ian Colbert , Ken Kreutz-Delgado , Srinjoy Das

We examine how recently documented, fundamental phenomena in deep learning models subject to pruning are affected by changes in the pruning procedure. Specifically, we analyze differences in the connectivity structure and learning dynamics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Michela Paganini , Jessica Forde

Pruning methods have shown to be effective at reducing the size of deep neural networks while keeping accuracy almost intact. Among the most effective methods are those that prune a network while training it with a sparsity prior loss and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Carl Lemaire , Andrew Achkar , Pierre-Marc Jodoin

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

Network pruning is an effective method to reduce the computational expense of over-parameterized neural networks for deployment on low-resource systems. Recent state-of-the-art techniques for retraining pruned networks such as weight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Duong H. Le , Binh-Son Hua

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains, but their performance can be severely degraded by noisy or corrupted training data. Conventional noise mitigation methods often rely on explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Deliang Jin , Gang Chen , Shuo Feng , Yufeng Ling , Haoran Zhu

Neural network pruning typically removes connections or neurons from a pretrained converged model; while a new pruning paradigm, pruning at initialization (PaI), attempts to prune a randomly initialized network. This paper offers the first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Huan Wang , Can Qin , Yue Bai , Yulun Zhang , Yun Fu

Robustness to adversarial attacks was shown to require a larger model capacity, and thus a larger memory footprint. In this paper, we introduce an approach to obtain robust yet compact models by pruning randomly-initialized binary networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Chen Liu , Ziqi Zhao , Sabine Süsstrunk , Mathieu Salzmann

Structured pruning is a popular method for compressing a neural network: given a large trained network, one alternates between removing channel connections and fine-tuning; reducing the overall width of the network. However, the efficacy of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-10 Elliot J. Crowley , Jack Turner , Amos Storkey , Michael O'Boyle

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) play a major role in image processing tasks like image classification, object detection, semantic segmentation. Very often CNN networks have from several to hundred stacked layers with several megabytes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Marcin Pietron , Maciej Wielgosz

Edge machine learning (ML) enables localized processing of data on devices and is underpinned by deep neural networks (DNNs). However, DNNs cannot be easily run on devices due to their substantial computing, memory and energy requirements…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Bailey J. Eccles , Leon Wong , Blesson Varghese

We look into the robustness of deep learning based MRI reconstruction when tested on unseen contrasts and organs. We then propose to generalize the network by training with large publicly-available natural image datasets with synthesized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Cheng Ouyang , Jo Schlemper , Carlo Biffi , Gavin Seegoolam , Jose Caballero , Anthony N. Price , Joseph V. Hajnal , Daniel Rueckert

Pruning is a well-established technique for removing unnecessary structure from neural networks after training to improve the performance of inference. Several recent results have explored the possibility of pruning at initialization time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Jonathan Frankle , Gintare Karolina Dziugaite , Daniel M. Roy , Michael Carbin

A well-trained Convolutional Neural Network can easily be pruned without significant loss of performance. This is because of unnecessary overlap in the features captured by the network's filters. Innovations in network architecture such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Aaditya Prakash , James Storer , Dinei Florencio , Cha Zhang

Pruning at initialization (PaI) reduces training costs by removing weights before training, which becomes increasingly crucial with the growing network size. However, current PaI methods still have a large accuracy gap with iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Shengkai Liu , Yaofeng Cheng , Fusheng Zha , Wei Guo , Lining Sun , Zhenshan Bing , Chenguang Yang

Model-based deep learning (MBDL) is a powerful methodology for designing deep models to solve imaging inverse problems. MBDL networks can be seen as iterative algorithms that estimate the desired image using a physical measurement model and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-04 Chicago Y. Park , Weijie Gan , Zihao Zou , Yuyang Hu , Zhixin Sun , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become a widely deployed model for numerous machine learning applications. However, their fixed architecture, substantial training cost, and significant model redundancy make it difficult to efficiently…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Xiaoliang Dai , Hongxu Yin , Niraj K. Jha