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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

We propose a simultaneous learning and pruning algorithm capable of identifying and eliminating irrelevant structures in a neural network during the early stages of training. Thus, the computational cost of subsequent training iterations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Valentin Frank Ingmar Guenter , Athanasios Sideris

Pruning is one of the predominant approaches for compressing deep neural networks (DNNs). Lately, coresets (provable data summarizations) were leveraged for pruning DNNs, adding the advantage of theoretical guarantees on the trade-off…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Murad Tukan , Loay Mualem , Alaa Maalouf

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

Pruning - that is, setting a significant subset of the parameters of a neural network to zero - is one of the most popular methods of model compression. Yet, several recent works have raised the issue that pruning may induce or exacerbate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Eugenia Iofinova , Alexandra Peste , Dan Alistarh

In image Super-Resolution (SR), relying on large datasets for training is a double-edged sword. While offering rich training material, they also demand substantial computational and storage resources. In this work, we analyze dataset…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Brian B. Moser , Federico Raue , Andreas Dengel

Neural networks are commonly trained in highly overparameterized regimes, yet empirical evidence consistently shows that many parameters become redundant during learning. Most existing pruning approaches impose sparsity through explicit…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Zubair Shah , Noaman Khan

Weight pruning is an effective technique to reduce the model size and inference time for deep neural networks in real-world deployments. However, since magnitudes and relative importance of weights are very different for different layers of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Xiao Zhou , Weizhong Zhang , Hang Xu , Tong Zhang

Pruning neural networks has regained interest in recent years as a means to compress state-of-the-art deep neural networks and enable their deployment on resource-constrained devices. In this paper, we propose a robust compressive learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 George Retsinas , Athena Elafrou , Georgios Goumas , Petros Maragos

Multi-bit quantization networks enable flexible deployment of deep neural networks by supporting multiple precision levels within a single model. However, existing approaches suffer from significant training overhead as full-dataset updates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Jinhee Kim , Jae Jun An , Kang Eun Jeon , Jong Hwan Ko

Coreset selection methods have shown promise in reducing the training data size while maintaining model performance for data-efficient machine learning. However, as many datasets suffer from biases that cause models to learn spurious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Amaya Dharmasiri , William Yang , Polina Kirichenko , Lydia Liu , Olga Russakovsky

Many failures in deep continual and reinforcement learning are associated with increasing magnitudes of the weights, making them hard to change and potentially causing overfitting. While many methods address these learning failures, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Mohamed Elsayed , Qingfeng Lan , Clare Lyle , A. Rupam Mahmood

Current methods for pruning neural network weights iteratively apply magnitude-based pruning on the model weights and re-train the resulting model to recover lost accuracy. In this work, we show that such strategies do not allow for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Suraj Srinivas , Andrey Kuzmin , Markus Nagel , Mart van Baalen , Andrii Skliar , Tijmen Blankevoort

Neural networks tend to achieve better accuracy with training if they are larger -- even if the resulting models are overparameterized. Nevertheless, carefully removing such excess parameters before, during, or after training may also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Xin Yu , Thiago Serra , Srikumar Ramalingam , Shandian Zhe

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have a large number of parameters and take significantly large hardware resources to compute, so edge devices struggle to run high-level networks. This paper proposes a novel method to reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Athul Shibu , Abhishek Kumar , Heechul Jung , Dong-Gyu Lee

Network pruning is an effective method to reduce the computational expense of over-parameterized neural networks for deployment on low-resource systems. Recent state-of-the-art techniques for retraining pruned networks such as weight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Duong H. Le , Binh-Son Hua

With the ever increasing data deluge and the success of deep neural networks, the research of distributed deep learning has become pronounced. Two common approaches to achieve this distributed learning is synchronous and asynchronous weight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Debasrita Chakraborty , Ashish Ghosh

Neural network pruning is a popular technique used to reduce the inference costs of modern, potentially overparameterized, networks. Starting from a pre-trained network, the process is as follows: remove redundant parameters, retrain, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Lucas Liebenwein , Cenk Baykal , Brandon Carter , David Gifford , Daniela Rus

Neural networks are easier to optimise when they have many more weights than are required for modelling the mapping from inputs to outputs. This suggests a two-stage learning procedure that first learns a large net and then prunes away…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Aidan N. Gomez , Ivan Zhang , Siddhartha Rao Kamalakara , Divyam Madaan , Kevin Swersky , Yarin Gal , Geoffrey E. Hinton

Neural network compression has gained increasing attention in recent years, particularly in computer vision applications, where the need for model reduction is crucial for overcoming deployment constraints. Pruning is a widely used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Baptiste Bauvin , Loïc Baret , Ola Ahmad