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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…

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Network pruning is an important research field aiming at reducing computational costs of neural networks. Conventional approaches follow a fixed paradigm which first trains a large and redundant network, and then determines which units…

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From the proliferative mechanisms generating neurons from progenitor cells to neuron migration and synaptic connection formation, several vicissitudes culminate in the mature brain. Both component loss and gain remain ubiquitous during…

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Model-based deep learning (MBDL) is a powerful methodology for designing deep models to solve imaging inverse problems. MBDL networks can be seen as iterative algorithms that estimate the desired image using a physical measurement model and…

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The subject of green AI has been gaining attention within the deep learning community given the recent trend of ever larger and more complex neural network models. Existing solutions for reducing the computational load of training at…

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The big breakthrough on the ImageNet challenge in 2012 was partially due to the `dropout' technique used to avoid overfitting. Here, we introduce a new approach called `Spectral Dropout' to improve the generalization ability of deep neural…

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Deep neural networks have achieved impressive performance in many applications but their large number of parameters lead to significant computational and storage overheads. Several recent works attempt to mitigate these overheads by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Vikash Sehwag , Shiqi Wang , Prateek Mittal , Suman Jana

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

Model pruning in transformer-based language models, traditionally viewed as a means of achieving computational savings, can enhance the model's reasoning capabilities. In this work, we uncover a surprising phenomenon: the selective pruning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hieu Trung Nguyen , Bao Nguyen , Viet Anh Nguyen

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

Structured pruning reduces the computational overhead of deep neural networks by removing redundant sub-structures. However, assessing the relative importance of different sub-structures remains a significant challenge, particularly in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Gongfan Fang , Xinyin Ma , Michael Bi Mi , Xinchao Wang

Neural Networks (NN), although successfully applied to several Artificial Intelligence tasks, are often unnecessarily over-parametrised. In edge/fog computing, this might make their training prohibitive on resource-constrained devices,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Lorenzo Valerio , Franco Maria Nardini , Andrea Passarella , Raffaele Perego

Structured pruning is a well-established technique for compressing neural networks, making it suitable for deployment in resource-limited edge devices. This paper presents an efficient Loss-Aware Automatic Selection of Structured Pruning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Deepak Ghimire , Kilho Lee , Seong-heum Kim

Neural Network Pruning has been established as driving force in the exploration of memory and energy efficient solutions with high throughput both during training and at test time. In this paper, we introduce a novel criterion for model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Angelos-Christos Maroudis , Sotirios Xydis

To deal with various datasets over different complexity, this paper presents an self-adaptive learning model that combines the proposed Dynamic Connected Neural Decision Networks (DNDN) and a new pruning method--Dynamic Soft Pruning (DSP).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Xinyu Fan

Pruning is an efficient model compression technique to remove redundancy in the connectivity of deep neural networks (DNNs). Computations using sparse matrices obtained by pruning parameters, however, exhibit vastly different parallelism…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Dongsoo Lee , Se Jung Kwon , Byeongwook Kim , Parichay Kapoor , Gu-Yeon Wei

Deep convolutional neural networks have been proved successful on a wide range of tasks, yet they are still hindered by their large computation cost in many industrial scenarios. In this paper, we propose to reduce such cost for CNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Jinting Chen , Zhaocheng Zhu , Cheng Li , Yuming Zhao

Neural network pruning serves as a critical technique for enhancing the efficiency of deep learning models. Unlike unstructured pruning, which only sets specific parameters to zero, structured pruning eliminates entire channels, thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Xun Wang , John Rachwan , Stephan Günnemann , Bertrand Charpentier

In the era of exceptionally data-hungry models, careful selection of the training data is essential to mitigate the extensive costs of deep learning. Data pruning offers a solution by removing redundant or uninformative samples from the…

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