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This paper presents a novel approach to neural network pruning by integrating a graph-based observation space into an AutoML framework to address the limitations of existing methods. Traditional pruning approaches often depend on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Dieter Balemans , Thomas Huybrechts , Jan Steckel , Siegfried Mercelis

Deep neural networks achieve state-of-the-art results on several tasks while increasing in complexity. It has been shown that neural networks can be pruned during training by imposing sparsity inducing regularizers. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-12 Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi , Tim Genewein , Dan Zhang , Thomas Brox , Volker Fischer

Affective computing systems are increasingly embedded in pervasive and interactive environments, such as adaptive games, assistive technologies, and resource-constrained platforms, where computational efficiency must be balanced with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Kosmas Pinitas , Konstantinos Katsifis

Modern neural network architectures typically have many millions of parameters and can be pruned significantly without substantial loss in effectiveness which demonstrates they are over-parameterized. The contribution of this work is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-09 Yaniv Shulman

Pruning encompasses a range of techniques aimed at increasing the sparsity of neural networks (NNs). These techniques can generally be framed as minimizing a loss function subject to an $L_0$ norm constraint. This paper introduces CoNNect,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Christian Franssen , Jinyang Jiang , Yijie Peng , Bernd Heidergott

Parameter pruning is a promising approach for CNN compression and acceleration by eliminating redundant model parameters with tolerable performance loss. Despite its effectiveness, existing regularization-based parameter pruning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Huan Wang , Qiming Zhang , Yuehai Wang , Haoji Hu

This paper presents a dynamic network rewiring (DNR) method to generate pruned deep neural network (DNN) models that are robust against adversarial attacks yet maintain high accuracy on clean images. In particular, the disclosed DNR method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Souvik Kundu , Mahdi Nazemi , Peter A. Beerel , Massoud Pedram

Recent advances in automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech enhancement have led to a widespread assumption that improving perceptual audio quality should directly benefit recognition accuracy. In this work, we rigorously examine…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Akif Islam , Raufun Nahar , Md. Ekramul Hamid

Prior works have shown that neural networks can be heavily pruned while preserving performance, but the impact of pruning on model interpretability remains unclear. In this work, we investigate how magnitude-based pruning followed by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Sanish Suwal , Dipkamal Bhusal , Michael Clifford , Nidhi Rastogi

The pruning objective has recently extended beyond accuracy and sparsity to robustness in language models. Despite this, existing methods struggle to enhance robustness against adversarial attacks when continually increasing model sparsity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Jianwei Li , Qi Lei , Wei Cheng , Dongkuan Xu

Surface reconstruction with preservation of geometric features is a challenging computer vision task. Despite significant progress in implicit shape reconstruction, state-of-the-art mesh extraction methods often produce aliased,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Natalia Soboleva , Olga Gorbunova , Maria Ivanova , Evgeny Burnaev , Matthias Nießner , Denis Zorin , Alexey Artemov

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are becoming a common presence in many applications and services, due to their superior recognition accuracy. They are increasingly being used on mobile devices, many times just by porting large models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Valentin Radu , Kuba Kaszyk , Yuan Wen , Jack Turner , Jose Cano , Elliot J. Crowley , Bjorn Franke , Amos Storkey , Michael O'Boyle

As a deep learning model typically contains millions of trainable weights, there has been a growing demand for a more efficient network structure with reduced storage space and improved run-time efficiency. Pruning is one of the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Qisheng He , Weisong Shi , Ming Dong

For many applications, utilizing DNNs (Deep Neural Networks) requires their implementation on a target architecture in an optimized manner concerning energy consumption, memory requirement, throughput, etc. DNN compression is used to reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Muhammad Sabih , Frank Hannig , Juergen Teich

Structured pruning is a standard tool for compressing deep neural networks, but its practical performance depends on how sparsity is allocated across layers. We propose FAIR-Pruner, a search-free framework for adaptive layer-wise structured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Chenqing Lin , Mostafa Hussien , Chengyao Yu , Bingyi Jing , Ruixing Ming , Kim Khoa Nguyen , Mohamed Cheriet

Neural networks have achieved remarkable performance in various application domains. Nevertheless, a large number of weights in pre-trained deep neural networks prohibit them from being deployed on smartphones and embedded systems. It is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Shibo Yao , Dantong Yu , Ioannis Koutis

Transformer encoders are widely deployed in large-scale web services for natural language understanding tasks such as text classification, semantic retrieval, and content ranking. However, their high inference latency and memory consumption…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Zeli Su , Ziyin Zhang , Wenzheng Zhang , Zhou Liu , Guixian Xu , Wentao Zhang

We propose Absum, which is a regularization method for improving adversarial robustness of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Although CNNs can accurately recognize images, recent studies have shown that the convolution operations in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-20 Sekitoshi Kanai , Yasutoshi Ida , Yasuhiro Fujiwara , Masanori Yamada , Shuichi Adachi

Deep learning models, especially convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have shown considerable promise for biomedical signals such as EEG-based seizure detection. However, these models come with challenges, primarily due to their size and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Mounvik K , N Harshit

Neuron pruning is widely used to reduce the computational cost and parameter footprint of large language models, yet it remains unclear whether neurons in task-specific models contribute uniformly to task performance. In this work, we…