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With the increasing size of datasets used for training neural networks, data pruning becomes an attractive field of research. However, most current data pruning algorithms are limited in their ability to preserve accuracy compared to models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Emanuel Ben-Baruch , Adam Botach , Igor Kviatkovsky , Manoj Aggarwal , Gérard Medioni

Modern deep neural networks (DNNs) consist of millions of parameters, necessitating high-performance computing during training and inference. Pruning is one solution that significantly reduces the space and time complexities of DNNs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Dhananjay Saikumar , Blesson Varghese

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) often rely on very large datasets for training. Given the large size of such datasets, it is conceivable that they contain certain samples that either do not contribute or negatively impact the DNN's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Kashyap Chitta , Jose M. Alvarez , Elmar Haussmann , Clement Farabet

We investigate pruning and quantization for deep neural networks. Our goal is to achieve extremely high sparsity for quantized networks to enable implementation on low cost and low power accelerator hardware. In a practical scenario, there…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Po-Hsiang Yu , Sih-Sian Wu , Jan P. Klopp , Liang-Gee Chen , Shao-Yi Chien

Training deep neural networks with noise and data heterogeneity is a major challenge. We introduce Lightweight Learnable Adaptive Weighting (LiLAW), a method that dynamically adjusts the loss weight of each training sample based on its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Abhishek Moturu , Muhammad Muzammil , Anna Goldenberg , Babak Taati

Model pruning is a widely adopted technique to reduce the computational complexity and memory footprint of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). However, global unstructured pruning often leads to significant degradation in accuracy, typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Chinmay Tripurwar , Utkarsh Maurya , Dishant

This work introduces a novel approach to pruning deep learning models by using distilled data. Unlike conventional strategies which primarily focus on architectural or algorithmic optimization, our method reconsiders the role of data in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Luke McDermott , Daniel Cummings

Researchers have long tried to minimize training costs in deep learning while maintaining strong generalization across diverse datasets. Emerging research on dataset distillation aims to reduce training costs by creating a small synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ahmad Sajedi , Samir Khaki , Ehsan Amjadian , Lucy Z. Liu , Yuri A. Lawryshyn , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Modern deep networks have millions to billions of parameters, which leads to high memory and energy requirements during training as well as during inference on resource-constrained edge devices. Consequently, pruning techniques have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Sourjya Roy , Priyadarshini Panda , Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan , Anand Raghunathan

Pruning neural networks has regained interest in recent years as a means to compress state-of-the-art deep neural networks and enable their deployment on resource-constrained devices. In this paper, we propose a robust compressive learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 George Retsinas , Athena Elafrou , Georgios Goumas , Petros Maragos

Pruning the weights of neural networks is an effective and widely-used technique for reducing model size and inference complexity. We develop and test a novel method based on compressed sensing which combines the pruning and training into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Jonathan W. Siegel , Jianhong Chen , Pengchuan Zhang , Jinchao Xu

In this paper, we propose a novel meta learning approach for automatic channel pruning of very deep neural networks. We first train a PruningNet, a kind of meta network, which is able to generate weight parameters for any pruned structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Zechun Liu , Haoyuan Mu , Xiangyu Zhang , Zichao Guo , Xin Yang , Tim Kwang-Ting Cheng , Jian Sun

Transformer-based language models have shown state-of-the-art performance on a variety of natural language understanding tasks. To achieve this performance, these models are first pre-trained on general corpus and then fine-tuned on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Mohammadreza Tayaranian , Seyyed Hasan Mozafari , Brett H. Meyer , James J. Clark , Warren J. Gross

Neural network quantization and pruning are two techniques commonly used to reduce the computational complexity and memory footprint of these models for deployment. However, most existing pruning strategies operate on full-precision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Luis Guerra , Bohan Zhuang , Ian Reid , Tom Drummond

Most existing pruning works are resource-intensive, requiring retraining or fine-tuning of the pruned models for accuracy. We propose a retraining-free pruning method based on hyperspherical learning and loss penalty terms. The proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Dan Liu , Xue Liu

Positive-Unlabeled (PU) learning aims to learn a model with rare positive samples and abundant unlabeled samples. Compared with classical binary classification, the task of PU learning is much more challenging due to the existence of many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Chengming Xu , Chen Liu , Siqian Yang , Yabiao Wang , Shijie Zhang , Lijie Jia , Yanwei Fu

Existing dataset pruning techniques primarily focus on classification tasks, limiting their applicability to more complex and practical tasks like instance segmentation. Instance segmentation presents three key challenges: pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yalun Dai , Lingao Xiao , Ivor W. Tsang , Yang He

Neural network pruning is a popular technique used to reduce the inference costs of modern, potentially overparameterized, networks. Starting from a pre-trained network, the process is as follows: remove redundant parameters, retrain, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Lucas Liebenwein , Cenk Baykal , Brandon Carter , David Gifford , Daniela Rus

Deep learning has grown tremendously over recent years, yielding state-of-the-art results in various fields. However, training such models requires huge amounts of data, increasing the computational time and cost. To address this, dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Murad Tukan , Alaa Maalouf , Margarita Osadchy

The computational burden and inherent redundancy of large-scale datasets challenge the training of contemporary machine learning models. Data pruning offers a solution by selecting smaller, informative subsets, yet existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Feiyang Kang , Nadine Chang , Maying Shen , Marc T. Law , Rafid Mahmood , Ruoxi Jia , Jose M. Alvarez