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In this work, we propose a simple but effective channel pruning framework called Progressive Channel Pruning (PCP) to accelerate Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). In contrast to the existing channel pruning methods that prune channels…

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Diffusion-based generative models (DGMs) have recently attracted attention in speech enhancement research (SE) as previous works showed a remarkable generalization capability. However, DGMs are also computationally intensive, as they…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Chenda Li , Samuele Cornell , Shinji Watanabe , Yanmin Qian

The gradient discretisation method (GDM) is a generic framework for designing and analysing numerical schemes for diffusion models. In this paper, we study the GDM for the porous medium equation, including fast diffusion and slow diffusion…

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Deep neural networks have achieved exceptional results across a range of applications. As the demand for efficient and sparse deep learning models escalates, the significance of model compression, particularly pruning, is increasingly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yucong Dai , Gen Li , Feng Luo , Xiaolong Ma , Yongkai Wu

Diffusion Models (DMs) have achieved state-of-the-art generative performance across multiple modalities, yet their sampling process remains prohibitively slow due to the need for hundreds of function evaluations. Recent progress in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Tong Zhao , Mingkun Lei , Liangyu Yuan , Yanming Yang , Chenxi Song , Yang Wang , Beier Zhu , Chi Zhang

Seismic imaging from sparsely acquired data faces challenges such as low image quality, discontinuities, and migration swing artifacts. Existing convolutional neural network (CNN)-based methods struggle with complex feature distributions…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-08-01 Xingchen Shi , Shijun Cheng , Weijian Mao , Wei Ouyang

Learning dynamical systems from sparse observations is critical in numerous fields, including biology, finance, and physics. Even if tackling such problems is standard in general information fusion, it remains challenging for contemporary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Ella Tamir , Arno Solin

Model pruning is a performance optimization technique for large language models like R1 or o3-mini. However, existing pruning methods often lead to significant performance degradation or require extensive retraining and fine-tuning. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Wei Jiang , Anying Fu , Youling Zhang

Transforming large pre-trained low-resolution diffusion models to cater to higher-resolution demands, i.e., diffusion extrapolation, significantly improves diffusion adaptability. We propose tuning-free CutDiffusion, aimed at simplifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Mingbao Lin , Zhihang Lin , Wengyi Zhan , Liujuan Cao , Rongrong Ji

Unstructured pruning reduces the memory footprint in deep neural networks (DNNs). Recently, researchers proposed different types of structural pruning intending to reduce also the computation complexity. In this work, we first suggest a new…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Itay Hubara , Brian Chmiel , Moshe Island , Ron Banner , Seffi Naor , Daniel Soudry

Pruning aims to accelerate and compress models by removing redundant parameters, identified by specifically designed importance scores which are usually imperfect. This removal is irreversible, often leading to subpar performance in pruned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Xinglong Sun , Maying Shen , Hongxu Yin , Lei Mao , Pavlo Molchanov , Jose M. Alvarez

Current structured pruning methods often result in considerable accuracy drops due to abrupt network changes and loss of information from pruned structures. To address these issues, we introduce the Decay Pruning Method (DPM), a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Minghao Yang , Linlin Gao , Pengyuan Li , Wenbo Li , Yihong Dong , Zhiying Cui

Pruning is a promising approach to compress complex deep learning models in order to deploy them on resource-constrained edge devices. However, many existing pruning solutions are based on unstructured pruning, which yields models that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Kaiqi Zhao , Animesh Jain , Ming Zhao

In the era of AIGC, the demand for low-budget or even on-device applications of diffusion models emerged. In terms of compressing the Stable Diffusion models (SDMs), several approaches have been proposed, and most of them leveraged the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Dingkun Zhang , Sijia Li , Chen Chen , Qingsong Xie , Haonan Lu

Backpropagation-based approaches aim to align diffusion models with reward functions through end-to-end backpropagation of the reward gradient within the denoising chain, offering a promising perspective. However, due to the computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Xiefan Guo , Miaomiao Cui , Liefeng Bo , Di Huang

Bayesian model reduction provides an efficient approach for comparing the performance of all nested sub-models of a model, without re-evaluating any of these sub-models. Until now, Bayesian model reduction has been applied mainly in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Jim Beckers , Bart van Erp , Ziyue Zhao , Kirill Kondrashov , Bert de Vries

Pruning, the task of sparsifying deep neural networks, received increasing attention recently. Although state-of-the-art pruning methods extract highly sparse models, they neglect two main challenges: (1) the process of finding these sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 John Rachwan , Daniel Zügner , Bertrand Charpentier , Simon Geisler , Morgane Ayle , Stephan Günnemann

Overparameterization has been shown to benefit both the optimization and generalization of neural networks, but large networks are resource hungry at both training and test time. Network pruning can reduce test-time resource requirements,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Chaoqi Wang , Guodong Zhang , Roger Grosse

Weight pruning has been widely acknowledged as a straightforward and effective method to eliminate redundancy in Deep Neural Networks (DNN), thereby achieving acceleration on various platforms. However, most of the pruning techniques are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Xiaolong Ma , Wei Niu , Tianyun Zhang , Sijia Liu , Sheng Lin , Hongjia Li , Xiang Chen , Jian Tang , Kaisheng Ma , Bin Ren , Yanzhi Wang

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) have recently achieved remarkable results in conditional and unconditional image generation. The pre-trained models can be adapted without further training to different downstream tasks, by…

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