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There has recently been an increasing desire to evaluate neural networks locally on computationally-limited devices in order to exploit their recent effectiveness for several applications; such effectiveness has nevertheless come together…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Hossein Baktash , Emanuele Natale , Laurent Viennot

Despite the growing availability of high-capacity computational platforms, implementation complexity still has been a great concern for the real-world deployment of neural networks. This concern is not exclusively due to the huge costs of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Felipe Dennis de Resende Oliveira , Eduardo Luiz Ortiz Batista , Rui Seara

Quantization and pruning are two essential techniques for compressing neural networks, yet they are often treated independently, with limited theoretical analysis connecting them. This paper introduces a unified framework for post-training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Haoyu Zhang , Rayan Saab

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are state-of-the-art in numerous computer vision tasks such as object classification and detection. However, the large amount of parameters they contain leads to a high computational complexity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Ghouthi Boukli Hacene , Vincent Gripon , Matthieu Arzel , Nicolas Farrugia , Yoshua Bengio

This paper is focused on the improvement the efficiency of the sparse convolutional neural networks (CNNs) layers on graphic processing units (GPU). The Nvidia deep neural network (cuDnn) library provides the most effective implementation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Marcin Pietroń , Dominik Żurek

Inference time, model size, and accuracy are three key factors in deep model compression. Most of the existing work addresses these three key factors separately as it is difficult to optimize them all at the same time. For example, low-bit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Dan Liu , Xi Chen , Jie Fu , Chen Ma , Xue Liu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are quickly becoming the standard approach for learning on graph structured data across several domains, but they lack transparency in their decision-making. Several perturbation-based approaches have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Anna Himmelhuber , Mitchell Joblin , Martin Ringsquandl , Thomas Runkler

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful models for graph-structured data, with broad applications. However, the interplay between GNN parameter optimization, expressivity, and generalization remains poorly understood. We address this by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Samir Moustafa , Lorenz Kummer , Simon Fetzel , Nils M. Kriege , Wilfried N. Gansterer

As large-scale graphs become more widespread, more and more computational challenges with extracting, processing, and interpreting large graph data are being exposed. It is therefore natural to search for ways to summarize these expansive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Nasrin Shabani , Jia Wu , Amin Beheshti , Quan Z. Sheng , Jin Foo , Venus Haghighi , Ambreen Hanif , Maryam Shahabikargar

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have made significant advances on several fundamental inference tasks. As a result, there is a surge of interest in using these models for making potentially important decisions in high-regret applications.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Kaidi Xu , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Mengshu Sun , Caiwen Ding , Bhavya Kailkhura , Xue Lin

Despite much research, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) still do not display the favorable scaling properties of other deep neural networks such as Convolutional Neural Networks and Transformers. Previous work has identified issues such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Ameen Ali , Hakan Cevikalp , Lior Wolf

Graph Neural Networks (GNN) exhibit superior performance in graph representation learning, but their inference cost can be high, due to an aggregation operation that can require a memory fetch for a very large number of nodes. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yaochen Hu , Mai Zeng , Ge Zhang , Pavel Rumiantsev , Liheng Ma , Yingxue Zhang , Mark Coates

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful tools for learning representations from structured data. Despite their growing popularity and success across various applications, GNNs encounter several challenges that limit their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yassine Abbahaddou

Pruning is a core technique for compressing neural networks to improve computational efficiency. This process is typically approached in two ways: one-shot pruning, which involves a single pass of training and pruning, and iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Mikołaj Janusz , Tomasz Wojnar , Yawei Li , Luca Benini , Kamil Adamczewski

Quantization and pruning are two effective Deep Neural Networks model compression methods. In this paper, we propose Automatic Prune Binarization (APB), a novel compression technique combining quantization with pruning. APB enhances the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Franco Maria Nardini , Cosimo Rulli , Salvatore Trani , Rossano Venturini

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool to learn from graph-structured data. A paramount example of such data is the brain, which operates as a network, from the micro-scale of neurons, to the macro-scale of regions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Ahmed ElGazzar , Rajat Thomas , Guido van Wingen

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated strong performance on a wide variety of tasks due to their ability to model non-uniform structured data. Despite their promise, there exists little research exploring methods to make them more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Shyam A. Tailor , Javier Fernandez-Marques , Nicholas D. Lane

Neural Machine Translation (NMT), like many other deep learning domains, typically suffers from over-parameterization, resulting in large storage sizes. This paper examines three simple magnitude-based pruning schemes to compress NMT…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-07-01 Abigail See , Minh-Thang Luong , Christopher D. Manning

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have achieved impressive performance on the wide variety of tasks (classification, detection, etc.) across multiple domains at the cost of high computational and memory requirements. Thus, leveraging CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Pravendra Singh , Vinay Sameer Raja Kadi , Nikhil Verma , Vinay P. Namboodiri

In this work, we propose a heuristic genetic algorithm (GA) for pruning convolutional neural networks (CNNs) according to the multi-objective trade-off among error, computation and sparsity. In our experiments, we apply our approach to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Chao Li , Boyu Diao , Yongjun Xu