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Although deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved great success in computer vision tasks, its real-world application is still impeded by its voracious demand of computational resources. Current works mostly seek to compress…

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Network pruning is one of the most dominant methods for reducing the heavy inference cost of deep neural networks. Existing methods often iteratively prune networks to attain high compression ratio without incurring significant loss in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Duong H. Le , Trung-Nhan Vo , Nam Thoai

Spatial downsampling layers are favored in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to downscale feature maps for larger receptive fields and less memory consumption. However, for discriminative tasks, there is a possibility that these layers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Ziteng Gao , Limin Wang , Gangshan Wu

One of the most effective methods of channel pruning is to trim on the basis of the importance of each neuron. However, measuring the importance of each neuron is an NP-hard problem. Previous works have proposed to trim by considering the…

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Training deep networks that generalize to a wide range of variations in test data is essential to building accurate and robust image classifiers. One standard strategy is to apply data augmentation to synthetically enlarge the training set.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Yunhan Zhao , Ye Tian , Charless Fowlkes , Wei Shen , Alan Yuille

This paper proposes a deep Convolutional Neural Network(CNN) with strong generalization ability for structural topology optimization. The architecture of the neural network is made up of encoding and decoding parts, which provide down- and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Yiquan Zhang , Bo Peng , Xiaoyi Zhou , Cheng Xiang , Dalei Wang

Backpropagation (BP) is the standard algorithm for training the deep neural networks that power modern artificial intelligence including large language models. However, BP is energy inefficient and unlikely to be implemented by the brain.…

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Model ensembles have long been used in machine learning to reduce the variance in individual model predictions, making them more robust to input perturbations. Pseudo-ensemble methods like dropout have also been commonly used in deep…

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Many of our core assumptions about how neural networks operate remain empirically untested. One common assumption is that convolutional neural networks need to be stable to small translations and deformations to solve image recognition…

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In recent years, learned image compression methods have demonstrated superior rate-distortion performance compared to traditional image compression methods. Recent methods utilize convolutional neural networks (CNN), variational…

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Precoding design exploiting deep learning methods has been widely studied for multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems. However, conventional neural precoding design applies black-box-based neural networks which are less…

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Multi-vector embedding models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for document retrieval, preserving fine-grained visual and textual details through token-level representations. However, this expressiveness comes at a staggering cost:…

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Representation learning has significantly been developed with the advance of contrastive learning methods. Most of those methods have benefited from various data augmentations that are carefully designated to maintain their identities so…

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With the increasing popularity of deep learning in image processing, many learned lossless image compression methods have been proposed recently. One group of algorithms that have shown good performance are based on learned pixel-based…

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There are a variety of approaches to obtain a vast receptive field with convolutional neural networks (CNNs), such as pooling or striding convolutions. Most of these approaches were initially designed for image classification and later…

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CNNs have made an undeniable impact on computer vision through the ability to learn high-capacity models with large annotated training sets. One of their remarkable properties is the ability to transfer knowledge from a large source dataset…

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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) remain a central approach in image classification, but their performance depends strongly on architectural and training choices. This paper presents an empirical ablation-based study of CNN optimization…

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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used in efficient image super-resolution. However, for CNN-based methods, performance gains often require deeper networks and larger feature maps, which increase complexity and inference…

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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have emerged as one of the most successful machine learning technologies for image and video processing. The most computationally intensive parts of CNNs are the convolutional layers, which convolve…

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