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As a result of the growing size of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), the gap to hardware capabilities in terms of memory and compute increases. To effectively compress DNNs, quantization and connection pruning are usually considered. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Guenther Schindler , Wolfgang Roth , Franz Pernkopf , Holger Froening

To solve ever more complex problems, Deep Neural Networks are scaled to billions of parameters, leading to huge computational costs. An effective approach to reduce computational requirements and increase efficiency is to prune unnecessary…

A computational graph in a deep neural network (DNN) denotes a specific data flow diagram (DFD) composed of many tensors and operators. Existing toolkits for visualizing computational graphs are not applicable when the structure is highly…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Rusheng Pan , Zhiyong Wang , Yating Wei , Han Gao , Gongchang Ou , Caleb Chen Cao , Jingli Xu , Tong Xu , Wei Chen

Channel pruning is a powerful technique to reduce the computational overhead of deep neural networks, enabling efficient deployment on resource-constrained devices. However, existing pruning methods often rely on local heuristics or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Zifan Liu , Yuan Cao , Yanwei Yu , Heng Qi , Jie Gui

Model compression is an essential technique for deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on power and memory-constrained resources. However, existing model-compression methods often rely on human expertise and focus on parameters' local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Sixing Yu , Arya Mazaheri , Ali Jannesari

Handling the problem of scalability is one of the essential issues for multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms to be applied to real-world problems typically involving massively many agents. For this, parameter sharing across…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Woojun Kim , Youngchul Sung

Real time application of deep learning algorithms is often hindered by high computational complexity and frequent memory accesses. Network pruning is a promising technique to solve this problem. However, pruning usually results in irregular…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Sajid Anwar , Kyuyeon Hwang , Wonyong Sung

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on hardware is facing excessive computation cost due to the massive number of parameters. A typical training pipeline to mitigate over-parameterization is to pre-define a DNN structure first with redundant…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Xiaocong Du , Zheng Li , Yufei Ma , Yu Cao

DNN pruning reduces memory footprint and computational work of DNN-based solutions to improve performance and energy-efficiency. An effective pruning scheme should be able to systematically remove connections and/or neurons that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Marc Riera , Jose-Maria Arnau , Antonio Gonzalez

The rise of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has led to an increase in model size and complexity, straining the memory capacity of GPUs. Sparsity in DNNs, characterized as structural or ephemeral, has gained attention as a solution. This work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Daniel Barley , Holger Fröning

Despite the remarkable performance, modern deep neural networks are inevitably accompanied by a significant amount of computational cost for learning and deployment, which may be incompatible with their usage on edge devices. Recent efforts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Seul-Ki Yeom , Kyung-Hwan Shim , Jee-Hyun Hwang

Advanced deep neural networks (DNNs), designed by either human or AutoML algorithms, are growing increasingly complex. Diverse operations are connected by complicated connectivity patterns, e.g., various types of skip connections. Those…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Wuyang Chen , Wei Huang , Xinyu Gong , Boris Hanin , Zhangyang Wang

Deep convolutional neural networks have liberated its extraordinary power on various tasks. However, it is still very challenging to deploy state-of-the-art models into real-world applications due to their high computational complexity. How…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Zehao Huang , Naiyan Wang

Pruning methods have shown to be effective at reducing the size of deep neural networks while keeping accuracy almost intact. Among the most effective methods are those that prune a network while training it with a sparsity prior loss and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Carl Lemaire , Andrew Achkar , Pierre-Marc Jodoin

Despite a lack of theoretical understanding, deep neural networks have achieved unparalleled performance in a wide range of applications. On the other hand, shallow representation learning with component analysis is associated with rich…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Calvin Murdock , Ming-Fang Chang , Simon Lucey

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become powerful tools for learning from graph-structured data, finding applications across diverse domains. However, as graph sizes and connectivity increase, standard GNN training methods face significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Eshed Gal , Moshe Eliasof , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Ivan I. Kyrchei , Eldad Haber , Eran Treister

In Machine Learning, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are a very powerful tool, broadly used in many applications. Often, the selected (deep) architectures include many layers, and therefore a large amount of parameters, which makes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Matteo Cacciola , Antonio Frangioni , Xinlin Li , Andrea Lodi

The learning capability of a neural network improves with increasing depth at higher computational costs. Wider layers with dense kernel connectivity patterns furhter increase this cost and may hinder real-time inference. We propose feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Sajid Anwar , Wonyong Sung

Convolutional neural network (CNN) delivers impressive achievements in computer vision and machine learning field. However, CNN incurs high computational complexity, especially for vision quality applications because of large image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-07 Wei-Ting Wang , Han-Lin Li , Wei-Shiang Lin , Cheng-Ming Chiang , Yi-Min Tsai

Structured pruning and quantization are fundamental techniques used to reduce the size of deep neural networks (DNNs) and typically are applied independently. Applying these techniques jointly via co-optimization has the potential to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Xiaoyi Qu , David Aponte , Colby Banbury , Daniel P. Robinson , Tianyu Ding , Kazuhito Koishida , Ilya Zharkov , Tianyi Chen