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Works on lottery ticket hypothesis (LTH) and single-shot network pruning (SNIP) have raised a lot of attention currently on post-training pruning (iterative magnitude pruning), and before-training pruning (pruning at initialization). The…

In this paper, we propose a novel progressive parameter pruning method for Convolutional Neural Network acceleration, named Structured Probabilistic Pruning (SPP), which effectively prunes weights of convolutional layers in a probabilistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Huan Wang , Qiming Zhang , Yuehai Wang , Haoji Hu

Model pruning can enable the deployment of neural networks in environments with resource constraints. While pruning may have a small effect on the overall performance of the model, it can exacerbate existing biases into the model such that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Robbie Meyer , Alexander Wong

This paper presents an efficient and robust approach for reducing the size of deep neural networks by pruning entire neurons. It exploits maxout units for combining neurons into more complex convex functions and it makes use of a local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Fernando Moya Rueda , Rene Grzeszick , Gernot A. Fink

Currently, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) are used to solve all kinds of problems in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence due to their learning and adaptation capabilities. However, most successful DCNN…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Francisco Erivaldo Fernandes Junior , Gary G. Yen

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

Although 3D Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are essential for most learning based applications involving dense 3D data, their applicability is limited due to excessive memory and computational requirements. Compressing such networks by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Zhiwei Xu , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Vibhav Vineet , Richard Hartley

Although 3D Convolutional Neural Networks are essential for most learning based applications involving dense 3D data, their applicability is limited due to excessive memory and computational requirements. Compressing such networks by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Zhiwei Xu , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Vibhav Vineet , Richard Hartley

The considerable size of Large Language Models (LLMs) presents notable deployment challenges, particularly on resource-constrained hardware. Structured pruning, offers an effective means to compress LLMs, thereby reducing storage costs and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Shengrui Li , Junzhe Chen , Xueting Han , Jing Bai

To address the limitations of existing magnitude-based pruning algorithms in cases where model weights or activations are of large and similar magnitude, we propose a novel perspective to discover parameter redundancy among channels and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Yunxiang Zhang , Chenglong Zhao , Bingbing Ni , Jian Zhang , Haoran Deng

Pruning of deep neural networks has been an effective technique for reducing model size while preserving most of the performance of dense networks, crucial for deploying models on memory and power-constrained devices. While recent sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Andy Li , Aiden Durrant , Milan Markovic , Tianjin Huang , Souvik Kundu , Tianlong Chen , Lu Yin , Georgios Leontidis

Neural network pruning is essential for reducing model complexity to enable deployment on resource constrained hardware. While performance loss of pruned networks is often attributed to the removal of critical parameters, we identify signal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Dhananjay Saikumar , Blesson Varghese

As the saying goes, sometimes less is more -- and when it comes to neural networks, that couldn't be more true. Enter pruning, the art of selectively trimming away unnecessary parts of a network to create a more streamlined, efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Samir Khaki , Weihan Luo

Deep Neural Network (DNN) is powerful but computationally expensive and memory intensive, thus impeding its practical usage on resource-constrained front-end devices. DNN pruning is an approach for deep model compression, which aims at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Xiaohan Ding , Guiguang Ding , Xiangxin Zhou , Yuchen Guo , Jungong Han , Ji Liu

Phenomenally successful in practical inference problems, convolutional neural networks (CNN) are widely deployed in mobile devices, data centers, and even supercomputers. The number of parameters needed in CNNs, however, are often large and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Jongsoo Park , Sheng Li , Wei Wen , Ping Tak Peter Tang , Hai Li , Yiran Chen , Pradeep Dubey

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) suffer from different issues, such as computational complexity and the number of parameters. In recent years pruning techniques are employed to reduce the number of operations and model size in CNNs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Morteza Mousa Pasandi , Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

Deep neural networks are strongly over-parameterized, often containing far more weights than required for their task. Although such redundancy can aid optimization, it leads to inefficient deployment and high computational cost, motivating…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-18 Diego Pesce , Yang-Hui He , Guido Caldarelli

Network pruning is an effective method to reduce the computational expense of over-parameterized neural networks for deployment on low-resource systems. Recent state-of-the-art techniques for retraining pruned networks such as weight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Duong H. Le , Binh-Son Hua

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

Network pruning is a commonly used measure to alleviate the storage and computational burden of deep neural networks. However, the fundamental limit of network pruning is still lacking. To close the gap, in this work we'll take a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-20 Qiaozhe Zhang , Ruijie Zhang , Jun Sun , Yingzhuang Liu