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Besides accuracy, the model size of convolutional neural networks (CNN) models is another important factor considering limited hardware resources in practical applications. For example, employing deep neural networks on mobile systems…

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Structured pruning methods are developed to bridge the gap between the massive scale of neural networks and the limited hardware resources. Most current structured pruning methods rely on training datasets to fine-tune the compressed model,…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are becoming a promising technique in various domains due to their excellent capabilities in modeling non-Euclidean data. Although a spectrum of accelerators has been proposed to accelerate the inference of…

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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

Structured pruning is a popular method to reduce the cost of convolutional neural networks, that are the state of the art in many computer vision tasks. However, depending on the architecture, pruning introduces dimensional discrepancies…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Hugo Tessier , Vincent Gripon , Mathieu Léonardon , Matthieu Arzel , David Bertrand , Thomas Hannagan

The proliferation of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) has led to increased energy consumption, raising concerns about their sustainability. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), which are inspired by biological neural systems and operate using…

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Low-rank tensor compression has been proposed as a promising approach to reduce the memory and compute requirements of neural networks for their deployment on edge devices. Tensor compression reduces the number of parameters required to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Cole Hawkins , Haichuan Yang , Meng Li , Liangzhen Lai , Vikas Chandra

Network pruning and quantization are proven to be effective ways for deep model compression. To obtain a highly compact model, most methods first perform network pruning and then conduct network quantization based on the pruned model.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Jing Liu , Bohan Zhuang , Peng Chen , Chunhua Shen , Jianfei Cai , Mingkui Tan

As deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly deployed on edge devices, optimizing models for constrained computational resources is critical. Existing auto-pruning methods face challenges due to the diversity of DNN models, various…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Lixian Jing , Jianpeng Qi , Junyu Dong , Yanwei Yu

Deep Neural Networks reached state-of-the-art performance across numerous domains, but this progress has come at the cost of increasingly large and over-parameterized models, posing serious challenges for deployment on resource-constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Dario Malchiodi , Mattia Ferraretto , Marco Frasca

The high computation and memory storage of large deep neural networks (DNNs) models pose intensive challenges to the conventional Von-Neumann architecture, incurring substantial data movements in the memory hierarchy. The memristor crossbar…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Geng Yuan , Xiaolong Ma , Caiwen Ding , Sheng Lin , Tianyun Zhang , Zeinab S. Jalali , Yilong Zhao , Li Jiang , Sucheta Soundarajan , Yanzhi Wang

As edge devices become prevalent, deploying Deep Neural Networks (DNN) on edge devices has become a critical issue. However, DNN requires a high computational resource which is rarely available for edge devices. To handle this, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Jangho Kim , Simyung Chang , Nojun Kwak

Artificial neural network pruning is a method in which artificial neural network sizes can be reduced while attempting to preserve the predicting capabilities of the network. This is done to make the model smaller or faster during inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Alexandre Broggi , Nathaniel Bastian , Lance Fiondella , Gokhan Kul

Network pruning reduces the size of neural networks by removing (pruning) neurons such that the performance drop is minimal. Traditional pruning approaches focus on designing metrics to quantify the usefulness of a neuron which is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Shehryar Malik , Muhammad Umair Haider , Omer Iqbal , Murtaza Taj

While neural networks have advanced the frontiers in many applications, they often come at a high computational cost. Reducing the power and latency of neural network inference is key if we want to integrate modern networks into edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Markus Nagel , Marios Fournarakis , Rana Ali Amjad , Yelysei Bondarenko , Mart van Baalen , Tijmen Blankevoort

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are nowadays ubiquitous in many domains such as computer vision. However, due to their high latency, the deployment of DNNs hinges on the development of compression techniques such as quantization which consists…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Edouard Yvinec , Arnaud Dapogny , Matthieu Cord , Kevin Bailly

Deploying neural networks on the edge has become increasingly important as deep learning is being applied in an increasing amount of applications. At the edge computing hardware typically has limited resources disallowing to run neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Quinten Van Baelen , Peter Karsmakers

Accelerating DNN execution on various resource-limited computing platforms has been a long-standing problem. Prior works utilize l1-based group lasso or dynamic regularization such as ADMM to perform structured pruning on DNN models to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Xiaolong Ma , Zhengang Li , Yifan Gong , Tianyun Zhang , Wei Niu , Zheng Zhan , Pu Zhao , Jian Tang , Xue Lin , Bin Ren , Yanzhi Wang

Quantization is an essential technique for making neural networks more efficient, yet our theoretical understanding of it remains limited. Previous works demonstrated that extremely low-precision networks, such as binary networks, can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Aakash Kumar , Emanuele Natale

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have become the state-of-the-art (SOTA) approach for many computer vision tasks: image classification, object detection, semantic segmentation, etc. However, most SOTA networks are too large for…

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