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Post-training model pruning is a promising solution, yet it faces a trade-off: simple heuristics that zero weights are fast but degrade accuracy, while principled joint optimization methods recover accuracy but are computationally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Mohammad Mozaffari , Samuel Kushnir , Maryam Mehri Dehnavi , Amir Yazdanbakhsh

The pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models have been increasingly employed to tackle the real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) problem due to their powerful generative image priors. Most of the existing methods start from random…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-25 Rongyuan Wu , Lingchen Sun , Zhiyuan Ma , Lei Zhang

Diffusion-based remote sensing (RS) generative foundation models are cruial for downstream tasks. However, these models rely on large amounts of globally representative data, which often contain redundancy, noise, and class imbalance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Fan Wei , Runmin Dong , Yushan Lai , Yixiang Yang , Zhaoyang Luo , Jinxiao Zhang , Miao Yang , Shuai Yuan , Jiyao Zhao , Bin Luo , Haohuan Fu

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

Precise image editing with text-to-image models has attracted increasing interest due to their remarkable generative capabilities and user-friendly nature. However, such attempts face the pivotal challenge of misalignment between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Wei Wu , Qingnan Fan , Shuai Qin , Hong Gu , Ruoyu Zhao , Antoni B. Chan

Diffusion-based image compression methods have achieved notable progress, delivering high perceptual quality at low bitrates. However, their practical deployment is hindered by significant inference latency and heavy computational overhead,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yiwen Jia , Hao Wei , Yanhui Zhou , Chenyang Ge

Transformer-based language models have become a key building block for natural language processing. While these models are extremely accurate, they can be too large and computationally intensive to run on standard deployments. A variety of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Eldar Kurtic , Daniel Campos , Tuan Nguyen , Elias Frantar , Mark Kurtz , Benjamin Fineran , Michael Goin , Dan Alistarh

Pruning neural networks, which involves removing a fraction of their weights, can often maintain high accuracy while significantly reducing model complexity, at least up to a certain limit. We present a neural network pruning technique that…

Objective:This study introduces a residual error-shifting mechanism that drastically reduces sampling steps while preserving critical anatomical details, thus accelerating MRI reconstruction. Approach:We propose a novel diffusion-based SR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Mojtaba Safari , Shansong Wang , Zach Eidex , Qiang Li , Erik H. Middlebrooks , David S. Yu , Xiaofeng Yang

Pruning is one of the most effective model reduction techniques. Deep networks require massive computation and such models need to be compressed to bring them on edge devices. Most existing pruning techniques are focused on vision-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Ramchalam Kinattinkara Ramakrishnan , Eyyüb Sari , Vahid Partovi Nia

The impressive performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) across various natural language processing tasks comes at the cost of vast computational resources and storage requirements. One-shot pruning techniques offer a way to alleviate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Xiang Meng , Kayhan Behdin , Haoyue Wang , Rahul Mazumder

Structural pruning of neural networks conventionally relies on identifying and discarding less important neurons, a practice often resulting in significant accuracy loss that necessitates subsequent fine-tuning efforts. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Alexander Theus , Olin Geimer , Friedrich Wicke , Thomas Hofmann , Sotiris Anagnostidis , Sidak Pal Singh

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a powerful framework for solving complex real-world problems. Large neural networks employed in the framework are traditionally associated with better generalization capabilities, but their increased size…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Samin Yeasar Arnob , Riyasat Ohib , Sergey Plis , Doina Precup

Lightweight and effective models are essential for devices with limited resources, such as intelligent vehicles. Structured pruning offers a promising approach to model compression and efficiency enhancement. However, existing methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Jonas Schmitt , Ruiping Liu , Junwei Zheng , Jiaming Zhang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

State-space language models such as Mamba match Transformer quality while permitting linear complexity inference, yet still comprise billions of parameters that hinder deployment. Existing one-shot pruning methods are tailored to attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Kaiwen Tuo , Huan Wang

We address the challenging problem of efficient inference across many devices and resource constraints, especially on edge devices. Conventional approaches either manually design or use neural architecture search (NAS) to find a specialized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Han Cai , Chuang Gan , Tianzhe Wang , Zhekai Zhang , Song Han

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

We introduce Optimal Eye Surgeon (OES), a framework for pruning and training deep image generator networks. Typically, untrained deep convolutional networks, which include image sampling operations, serve as effective image priors (Ulyanov…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Avrajit Ghosh , Xitong Zhang , Kenneth K. Sun , Qing Qu , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Rongrong Wang

Vision transformers (ViT) have recently attracted considerable attentions, but the huge computational cost remains an issue for practical deployment. Previous ViT pruning methods tend to prune the model along one dimension solely, which may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Zejiang Hou , Sun-Yuan Kung

Advanced diffusion models (DMs) perform impressively in image super-resolution (SR), but the high memory and computational costs hinder their deployment. Binarization, an ultra-compression algorithm, offers the potential for effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Zheng Chen , Haotong Qin , Yong Guo , Xiongfei Su , Xin Yuan , Linghe Kong , Yulun Zhang