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In this paper, we explore a novel model reusing task tailored for graph neural networks (GNNs), termed as "deep graph reprogramming". We strive to reprogram a pre-trained GNN, without amending raw node features nor model parameters, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Yongcheng Jing , Chongbin Yuan , Li Ju , Yiding Yang , Xinchao Wang , Dacheng Tao

Pruning encompasses a range of techniques aimed at increasing the sparsity of neural networks (NNs). These techniques can generally be framed as minimizing a loss function subject to an $L_0$ norm constraint. This paper introduces CoNNect,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Christian Franssen , Jinyang Jiang , Yijie Peng , Bernd Heidergott

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown to be powerful tools for graph analytics. The key idea is to recursively propagate and aggregate information along edges of the given graph. Despite their success, however, the existing GNNs are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Dongsheng Luo , Wei Cheng , Wenchao Yu , Bo Zong , Jingchao Ni , Haifeng Chen , Xiang Zhang

Meta-learning has received a tremendous recent attention as a possible approach for mimicking human intelligence, i.e., acquiring new knowledge and skills with little or even no demonstration. Most of the existing meta-learning methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Fan Zhou , Chengtai Cao , Kunpeng Zhang , Goce Trajcevski , Ting Zhong , Ji Geng

Modern deep neural networks require a significant amount of computing time and power to train and deploy, which limits their usage on edge devices. Inspired by the iterative weight pruning in the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-15 John Tan Chong Min , Mehul Motani

The remarkable performance of modern deep neural networks (DNNs) is largely driven by their massive scale, often comprising tens to hundreds of millions-or even billions-of parameters. However, such a scale incurs substantial storage and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Mingyuan Wang , Yangzi Guo , Sida Liu , Yuhang Liu

The rapid increase in the parameters of deep learning models has led to significant costs, challenging computational efficiency and model interpretability. In this paper, we introduce a novel and straightforward neural network pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Zhang Zhang , Ruyi Tao , Jiang Zhang

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) especially deep convolutional networks are very popular these days and have been proved to successfully offer quite reliable solutions to many vision problems. However, the use of deep neural networks is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Yangzi Guo , Yiyuan She , Adrian Barbu

We propose an algorithm capable of identifying and eliminating irrelevant layers of a neural network during the early stages of training. In contrast to weight or filter-level pruning, layer pruning reduces the harder to parallelize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Valentin Frank Ingmar Guenter , Athanasios Sideris

Network pruning is widely used for reducing the heavy inference cost of deep models in low-resource settings. A typical pruning algorithm is a three-stage pipeline, i.e., training (a large model), pruning and fine-tuning. During pruning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Zhuang Liu , Mingjie Sun , Tinghui Zhou , Gao Huang , Trevor Darrell

Convolutional neural networks trained without supervision come close to matching performance with supervised pre-training, but sometimes at the cost of an even higher number of parameters. Extracting subnetworks from these large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Mathilde Caron , Ari Morcos , Piotr Bojanowski , Julien Mairal , Armand Joulin

Adapting pre-trained neural models to downstream tasks has become the standard practice for obtaining high-quality models. In this work, we propose a novel model adaptation paradigm, adapting by pruning, which prunes neural connections in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Yang Gao , Nicolo Colombo , Wei Wang

We propose a novel algorithm for combined unit and layer pruning of deep neural networks that functions during training and without requiring a pre-trained network to apply. Our algorithm optimally trades-off learning accuracy and pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Valentin Frank Ingmar Guenter , Athanasios Sideris

Graph structure learning is a well-established problem that aims at optimizing graph structures adaptive to specific graph datasets to help message passing neural networks (i.e., GNNs) to yield effective and robust node embeddings. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Wentao Zhao , Qitian Wu , Chenxiao Yang , Junchi Yan

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

Graph neural networks have shown superior performance in a wide range of applications providing a powerful representation of graph-structured data. Recent works show that the representation can be further improved by auxiliary tasks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Dasol Hwang , Jinyoung Park , Sunyoung Kwon , Kyung-Min Kim , Jung-Woo Ha , Hyunwoo J. Kim

Meta-learning is a branch of machine learning which aims to quickly adapt models, such as neural networks, to perform new tasks by learning an underlying structure across related tasks. In essence, models are being trained to learn new…

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

Overparameterized Neural Networks (NN) display state-of-the-art performance. However, there is a growing need for smaller, energy-efficient, neural networks tobe able to use machine learning applications on devices with limited…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-21 Soufiane Hayou , Jean-Francois Ton , Arnaud Doucet , Yee Whye Teh

Neural networks are easier to optimise when they have many more weights than are required for modelling the mapping from inputs to outputs. This suggests a two-stage learning procedure that first learns a large net and then prunes away…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Aidan N. Gomez , Ivan Zhang , Siddhartha Rao Kamalakara , Divyam Madaan , Kevin Swersky , Yarin Gal , Geoffrey E. Hinton