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Modern deep models are trained on large real-world datasets, where data quality varies and redundancy is common. Data-centric approaches such as dataset pruning have shown promise in improving training efficiency and model performance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Suorong Yang , Peijia Li , Yujie Liu , Zhiming Xu , Peng Ye , Wanli Ouyang , Furao Shen , Dongzhan Zhou

This paper seeks to address the dense labeling problems where a significant fraction of the dataset can be pruned without sacrificing much accuracy. We observe that, on standard medical image segmentation benchmarks, the loss gradient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Yongkang He , Mingjin Chen , Zhijing Yang , Yongyi Lu

Dataset pruning is the process of removing sub-optimal tuples from a dataset to improve the learning of a machine learning model. In this paper, we compared the performance of different algorithms, first on an unpruned dataset and then on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Arun Thundyill Saseendran , Lovish Setia , Viren Chhabria , Debrup Chakraborty , Aneek Barman Roy

Utilizing massive web-scale datasets has led to unprecedented performance gains in machine learning models, but also imposes outlandish compute requirements for their training. In order to improve training and data efficiency, we here push…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Amro Abbas , Evgenia Rusak , Kushal Tirumala , Wieland Brendel , Kamalika Chaudhuri , Ari S. Morcos

Neural networks are susceptible to adversarial examples-small input perturbations that cause models to fail. Adversarial training is one of the solutions that stops adversarial examples; models are exposed to attacks during training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Maximilian Kaufmann , Yiren Zhao , Ilia Shumailov , Robert Mullins , Nicolas Papernot

As deep neural networks include a high number of parameters and operations, it can be a challenge to implement these models on devices with limited computational resources. Despite the development of novel pruning methods toward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Morteza Homayounfar , Mohamad Koohi-Moghadam , Reza Rawassizadeh , Varut Vardhanabhuti

Ad-hoc instruction fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) is widely adopted for domain-specific adaptation. While domain-specific supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is effective and efficient, it often weakens cross-domain generalization and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Jucheng Hu , Surong Yang , Lijun Wu , Dongzhan Zhou

This paper improves upon existing data pruning methods for image classification by introducing a novel pruning metric and pruning procedure based on importance sampling. The proposed pruning metric explicitly accounts for data separability,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Steven Grosz , Rui Zhao , Rajeev Ranjan , Hongcheng Wang , Manoj Aggarwal , Gerard Medioni , Anil Jain

Dataset pruning aims to select a subset of a dataset for efficient model training. While data efficiency in natural language processing has primarily focused on within-corpus scenarios during model pre-training, efficient dataset pruning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Binh-Nguyen Nguyen , Yang He

Generative modeling has recently undergone remarkable advancements, primarily propelled by the transformative implications of Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs). The impressive capability of these models, however, often entails…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Gongfan Fang , Xinyin Ma , Xinchao Wang

Pruning can be an effective method of compressing large pre-trained models for inference speed acceleration. Previous pruning approaches rely on access to the original training dataset for both pruning and subsequent fine-tuning. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Haihang Wu , Wei Wang , Tamasha Malepathirana , Sachith Seneviratne , Denny Oetomo , Saman Halgamuge

Deep learning has been able to outperform humans in terms of classification accuracy in many tasks. However, to achieve robustness to adversarial perturbations, the best methodologies require to perform adversarial training on a much larger…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Javier Maroto , Pascal Frossard

Vulnerability detection is crucial for identifying security weaknesses in software systems. However, training effective machine learning models for this task is often constrained by the high cost and expertise required for data annotation.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Xiang Lan , Tim Menzies , Bowen Xu

When deploying pre-trained neural network models in real-world applications, model consumers often encounter resource-constraint platforms such as mobile and smart devices. They typically use the pruning technique to reduce the size and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Mark Huasong Meng , Guangdong Bai , Sin Gee Teo , Jin Song Dong

Structured pruning is an effective approach for compressing large pre-trained neural networks without significantly affecting their performance. However, most current structured pruning methods do not provide any performance guarantees, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Marwa El Halabi , Suraj Srinivas , Simon Lacoste-Julien

The subject of green AI has been gaining attention within the deep learning community given the recent trend of ever larger and more complex neural network models. Existing solutions for reducing the computational load of training at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Xiaoying Zhi , Varun Babbar , Rundong Liu , Pheobe Sun , Fran Silavong , Ruibo Shi , Sean Moran

The enormous inference cost of deep neural networks can be scaled down by network compression. Pruning is one of the predominant approaches used for deep network compression. However, existing pruning techniques have one or more of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Sai Aparna Aketi , Sourjya Roy , Anand Raghunathan , Kaushik Roy

Efficient data selection is essential for improving the training efficiency of deep neural networks and reducing the associated annotation costs. However, traditional methods tend to be computationally expensive, limiting their scalability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Humaira Kousar , Hasnain Irshad Bhatti , Jaekyun Moon

Modern deep neural networks rely heavily on massive model weights and training samples, incurring substantial computational costs. Weight pruning and coreset selection are two emerging paradigms proposed to improve computational efficiency.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Weilin Wan , Fan Yi , Weizhong Zhang , Quan Zhou , Cheng Jin

Existing generalization measures that aim to capture a model's simplicity based on parameter counts or norms fail to explain generalization in overparameterized deep neural networks. In this paper, we introduce a new, theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Lorenz Kuhn , Clare Lyle , Aidan N. Gomez , Jonas Rothfuss , Yarin Gal