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In the world of deep learning, Transformer models have become very significant, leading to improvements in many areas from understanding language to recognizing images, covering a wide range of applications. Despite their success, the…

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The deployment of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) on resource constrained platforms such as mobile devices and embedded systems has been greatly hindered by their high implementation cost, and thus motivated a lot research interest in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Boyu Zhang , Azadeh Davoodi , Yu Hen Hu

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…

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We study model pruning methods applied to Transformer-based neural network language models for automatic speech recognition. We explore three aspects of the pruning frame work, namely criterion, method and scheduler, analyzing their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Leonardo Emili , Thiago Fraga-Silva , Ernest Pusateri , Markus Nußbaum-Thom , Youssef Oualil

In recent years, Deep Learning models have shown a great performance in complex optimization problems. They generally require large training datasets, which is a limitation in most practical cases. Transfer learning allows importing the…

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While task-specific finetuning of pretrained networks has led to significant empirical advances in NLP, the large size of networks makes finetuning difficult to deploy in multi-task, memory-constrained settings. We propose diff pruning as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Demi Guo , Alexander M. Rush , Yoon Kim

Intracortical brain-machine interfaces demand low-latency, energy-efficient solutions for neural decoding. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) deployed on neuromorphic hardware have demonstrated remarkable efficiency in neural decoding by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Francesca Rivelli , Martin Popov , Charalampos S. Kouzinopoulos , Guangzhi Tang

Although deep neural networks (NNs) have achievedstate-of-the-art accuracy in many visual recognition tasks,the growing computational complexity and energy con-sumption of networks remains an issue, especially for ap-plications on platforms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Le Thanh Nguyen-Meidine , Eric Granger , Madhu Kiran , Louis-Antoine Blais-Morin , Marco Pedersoli

We present a provable, sampling-based approach for generating compact Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) by identifying and removing redundant filters from an over-parameterized network. Our algorithm uses a small batch of input data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Lucas Liebenwein , Cenk Baykal , Harry Lang , Dan Feldman , Daniela Rus

The emergence of deep and large-scale spiking neural networks (SNNs) exhibiting high performance across diverse complex datasets has led to a need for compressing network models due to the presence of a significant number of redundant…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yaxin Li , Qi Xu , Jiangrong Shen , Hongming Xu , Long Chen , Gang Pan

Filter pruning is a common method to achieve model compression and acceleration in deep neural networks (DNNs).Some research regarded filter pruning as a combinatorial optimization problem and thus used evolutionary algorithms (EA) to prune…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Xuhua Li , Weize Sun , Lei Huang , Shaowu Chen

This paper proposed a Soft Filter Pruning (SFP) method to accelerate the inference procedure of deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Specifically, the proposed SFP enables the pruned filters to be updated when training the model after…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Yang He , Guoliang Kang , Xuanyi Dong , Yanwei Fu , Yi Yang

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have achieved impressive performance on the wide variety of tasks (classification, detection, etc.) across multiple domains at the cost of high computational and memory requirements. Thus, leveraging CNNs…

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Although large-scale self-supervised learning (SSL) models like WavLM have achieved state-of-the-art performance in speech processing, their significant size impedes deployment on resource-constrained devices. While structured pruning is a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Junyi Peng , Lin Zhang , Jiangyu Han , Oldřich Plchot , Johan Rohdin , Themos Stafylakis , Shuai Wang , Jan Černocký

We propose a simple and easy to implement neural network compression algorithm that achieves results competitive with more complicated state-of-the-art methods. The key idea is to modify the original optimization problem by adding K…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-15 Yibo Yang , Nicholas Ruozzi , Vibhav Gogate

Pruning large language models (LLMs) is a promising solution for reducing model sizes and computational complexity while preserving performance. Traditional layer-wise pruning methods often adopt a uniform sparsity approach across all…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Chuan Sun , Han Yu , Lizhen Cui , Xiaoxiao Li

Compression techniques for deep neural network models are becoming very important for the efficient execution of high-performance deep learning systems on edge-computing devices. The concept of model compression is also important for…

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are the key to the state-of-the-art machine vision, sensor fusion and audio/video signal processing. Unfortunately, their computation complexity and tight resource constraints on the Edge make them hard to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Ranko Sredojevic , Shaoyi Cheng , Lazar Supic , Rawan Naous , Vladimir Stojanovic

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are hard to deploy on edge devices due to its high computation and storage complexities. As a common practice for model compression, network pruning consists of two major categories: unstructured and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Yuchuan Tian , Hanting Chen , Tianyu Guo , Chao Xu , Yunhe Wang

It has been shown by many researchers that transformers perform as well as convolutional neural networks in many computer vision tasks. Meanwhile, the large computational costs of its attention module hinder further studies and applications…

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