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Many neural network pruning algorithms proceed in three steps: train the network to completion, remove unwanted structure to compress the network, and retrain the remaining structure to recover lost accuracy. The standard retraining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Alex Renda , Jonathan Frankle , Michael Carbin

There has been a recent trend in training neural networks to replace data structures that have been crafted by hand, with an aim for faster execution, better accuracy, or greater compression. In this setting, a neural data structure is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Jack W Rae , Sergey Bartunov , Timothy P Lillicrap

Neural network pruning is a highly effective technique aimed at reducing the computational and memory demands of large neural networks. In this research paper, we present a novel approach to pruning neural networks utilizing Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-07 Sunil Mathew , Daniel B. Rowe

With the general trend of increasing Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model sizes, model compression and acceleration techniques have become critical for the deployment of these models on edge devices. In this paper, we provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Jiayi Liu , Samarth Tripathi , Unmesh Kurup , Mohak Shah

Networks are a powerful tool to model complex systems, and the definition of many Graph Neural Networks (GNN), Deep Learning algorithms that can handle networks, has opened a new way to approach many real-world problems that would be hardly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Marco Grassia , Manlio De Domenico , Giuseppe Mangioni

In today's world, a vast amount of data is being generated by edge devices that can be used as valuable training data to improve the performance of machine learning algorithms in terms of the achieved accuracy or to reduce the compute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Aditya Rajagopal , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

Gradient based meta-learning methods are prone to overfit on the meta-training set, and this behaviour is more prominent with large and complex networks. Moreover, large networks restrict the application of meta-learning models on low-power…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Arnav Chavan , Rishabh Tiwari , Udbhav Bamba , Deepak K. Gupta

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely used in representation learning on graphs and achieved superior performance in tasks such as node classification. However, analyzing heterogeneous graph of different types of nodes and links…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Shin-woo Park , Byung Jun Bae , Jinyoung Yeo , Seung-won Hwang

Structure pruning is an effective method to compress and accelerate neural networks. While filter and channel pruning are preferable to other structure pruning methods in terms of realistic acceleration and hardware compatibility, pruning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Jun-Hyung Park , Yeachan Kim , Junho Kim , Joon-Young Choi , SangKeun Lee

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool to capture intricate network patterns, achieving success across different domains. However, existing GNNs require careful domain-specific architecture designs and training from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Jingzhe Liu , Haitao Mao , Zhikai Chen , Bingheng Li , Wenqi Fan , Mingxuan Ju , Tong Zhao , Neil Shah , Jiliang Tang

When deploying pre-trained neural network models in real-world applications, model consumers often encounter resource-constraint platforms such as mobile and smart devices. They typically use the pruning technique to reduce the size and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Mark Huasong Meng , Guangdong Bai , Sin Gee Teo , Jin Song Dong

We present a novel network pruning algorithm called Dynamic Sparse Training that can jointly find the optimal network parameters and sparse network structure in a unified optimization process with trainable pruning thresholds. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Junjie Liu , Zhe Xu , Runbin Shi , Ray C. C. Cheung , Hayden K. H. So

This work addresses the challenge of using a deep learning model to prune graphs and the ability of this method to integrate explainability into spatio-temporal problems through a new approach. Instead of applying explainability to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Javier García-Sigüenza , Mirco Nanni , Faraón Llorens-Largo , José F. Vicent

Invariance describes transformations that do not alter data's underlying semantics. Neural networks that preserve natural invariance capture good inductive biases and achieve superior performance. Hence, modern networks are handcrafted to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Derek Xu , Yizhou Sun , Wei Wang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) do not have a predictable recognition behavior with respect to the input resolution change. This prevents the feasibility of deployment on different input image resolutions for a specific model. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Duo Li , Anbang Yao , Qifeng Chen

Neural network pruning is a fruitful area of research with surging interest in high sparsity regimes. Benchmarking in this domain heavily relies on faithful representation of the sparsity of subnetworks, which has been traditionally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Artem Vysogorets , Julia Kempe

Recent network pruning methods focus on pruning models early-on in training. To estimate the impact of removing a parameter, these methods use importance measures that were originally designed to prune trained models. Despite lacking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Ekdeep Singh Lubana , Robert P. Dick

Deep neural networks have been the predominant paradigm in machine learning for solving cognitive tasks. Such models, however, are restricted by a high computational overhead, limiting their applicability and hindering advancements in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Ian Pons , Bruno Yamamoto , Anna H. Reali Costa , Artur Jordao

As a few large-scale pre-trained models become the major choices of various applications, new challenges arise for model pruning, e.g., can we avoid pruning the same model from scratch for every downstream task? How to reuse the pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Haiyan Zhao , Tianyi Zhou , Guodong Long , Jing Jiang , Chengqi Zhang

Deep pre-trained Transformer models have achieved state-of-the-art results over a variety of natural language processing (NLP) tasks. By learning rich language knowledge with millions of parameters, these models are usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Zhengyan Zhang , Fanchao Qi , Zhiyuan Liu , Qun Liu , Maosong Sun