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Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have recently achieved remarkable successes in a number of applications. However, the huge sizes and computational burden of these models make it difficult for their deployment on edge devices. A practically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Liangjian Wen , Xuanyang Zhang , Haoli Bai , Zenglin Xu

Modern deep neural networks (DNNs) consist of millions of parameters, necessitating high-performance computing during training and inference. Pruning is one solution that significantly reduces the space and time complexities of DNNs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Dhananjay Saikumar , Blesson Varghese

Structured pruning is a promising approach for reducing the inference costs of large vision and language models. By removing carefully chosen structures, e.g., neurons or attention heads, the improvements from this approach can be realized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Xiang Meng , Shibal Ibrahim , Kayhan Behdin , Hussein Hazimeh , Natalia Ponomareva , Rahul Mazumder

This work evaluates the compression techniques on ConvNeXt models in image classification tasks using the CIFAR-10 dataset. Structured pruning, unstructured pruning, and dynamic quantization methods are evaluated to reduce model size and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Samer Francy , Raghubir Singh

Reducing computational costs is an important issue for development of embedded systems. Binary-weight Neural Networks (BNNs), in which weights are binarized and activations are quantized, are employed to reduce computational costs of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Tse-Wei Chen , Wei Tao , Dongyue Zhao , Kazuhiro Mima , Tadayuki Ito , Kinya Osa , Masami Kato

Recently several structured pruning techniques have been introduced for energy-efficient implementation of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) with lesser number of crossbars. Although, these techniques have claimed to preserve the accuracy of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Abhiroop Bhattacharjee , Lakshya Bhatnagar , Priyadarshini Panda

The remarkable performance of large language models (LLMs) in various language tasks has attracted considerable attention. However, the ever-increasing size of these models presents growing challenges for deployment and inference.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Jiayu Qin , Jianchao Tan , Kefeng Zhang , Xunliang Cai , Wei Wang

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have been widely adopted in temporal sequence analysis, where realtime performance is often in demand. However, RNNs suffer from heavy computational workload as the model often comes with large weight…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Runbin Shi , Peiyan Dong , Tong Geng , Yuhao Ding , Xiaolong Ma , Hayden K. -H. So , Martin Herbordt , Ang Li , Yanzhi Wang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are the key to the state-of-the-art machine vision, sensor fusion and audio/video signal processing. Unfortunately, their computation complexity and tight resource constraints on the Edge make them hard to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Ranko Sredojevic , Shaoyi Cheng , Lazar Supic , Rawan Naous , Vladimir Stojanovic

The advent of sparsity inducing techniques in neural networks has been of a great help in the last few years. Indeed, those methods allowed to find lighter and faster networks, able to perform more efficiently in resource-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Nathan Hubens , Victor Delvigne , Matei Mancas , Bernard Gosselin , Marius Preda , Titus Zaharia

Objective: To allow efficient learning using the Recurrent Inference Machine (RIM) for image reconstruction whereas not being strictly dependent on the training data distribution so that unseen modalities and pathologies are still…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-15 Dimitrios Karkalousos , Kai Lønning , Hanneke E. Hulst , Serge O. Dumoulin , Jan-Jakob Sonke , Frans M. Vos , Matthan W. A. Caan

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

Quantum neural networks (QNNs) suffer from severe gate-level redundancy, which hinders their deployment on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. In this work, we propose q-iPrune, a one-shot structured pruning framework grounded…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Haijian Shao , Wei Liu , Xing Deng , Yingtao Jiang

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are central to sequence modeling tasks, yet their high computational complexity poses challenges for scalability and real-time deployment. Traditional pruning techniques, predominantly based on weight…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-26 Rakesh Sengupta

How can we accelerate large language models(LLMs) without sacrificing accuracy? The slow inference speed of LLMs hinders us to benefit from their remarkable performance in diverse applications. This is mainly because numerous sublayers are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Seungcheol Park , Sojin Lee , Jongjin Kim , Jinsik Lee , Hyunjik Jo , U Kang

Pruning is a promising approach to compress deep learning models in order to deploy them on resource-constrained edge devices. However, many existing pruning solutions are based on unstructured pruning, which yields models that cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Kaiqi Zhao , Animesh Jain , Ming Zhao

Modern deep neural networks rely on overparameterization to achieve state-of-the-art generalization. But overparameterized models are computationally expensive. Network pruning is often employed to obtain less demanding models for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Zhilin Yu , Chao Wang , Xin Wang , Qing Wu , Yong Zhao , Xundong Wu

Structured network pruning is a practical approach to reduce computation cost directly while retaining the CNNs' generalization performance in real applications. However, identifying redundant filters is a core problem in structured network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Wenting Tang , Xingxing Wei , Bo Li

Sparsity helps reduce the computational complexity of deep neural networks by skipping zeros. Taking advantage of sparsity is listed as a high priority in next generation DNN accelerators such as TPU. The structure of sparsity, i.e., the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Huizi Mao , Song Han , Jeff Pool , Wenshuo Li , Xingyu Liu , Yu Wang , William J. Dally

SO(3) equivariant graph neural networks have become the dominant paradigm for atomistic foundation models, achieving high accuracy and data efficiency by building rotational symmetry directly into the architecture. Yet the computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chen Wang , Siyu Hu , Guangming Tan , Weile Jia