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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

The optimization of over-parameterized deep neural networks represents a large-scale, high-dimensional, and strongly non-convex decision problem that challenges existing optimization frameworks. Current evolutionary and gradient-based…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Zak Khan , Azam Asilian Bidgoli

We propose a new formulation for pruning convolutional kernels in neural networks to enable efficient inference. We interleave greedy criteria-based pruning with fine-tuning by backpropagation - a computationally efficient procedure that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Pavlo Molchanov , Stephen Tyree , Tero Karras , Timo Aila , Jan Kautz

Channel-based pruning has achieved significant successes in accelerating deep convolutional neural network, whose pipeline is an iterative three-step procedure: ranking, pruning and fine-tuning. However, this iterative procedure is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Zi Wang , Chengcheng Li , Dali Wang , Xiangyang Wang , Hairong Qi

In many computer vision tasks, we expect a particular behavior of the output with respect to rotations of the input image. If this relationship is explicitly encoded, instead of treated as any other variation, the complexity of the problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Diego Marcos , Michele Volpi , Nikos Komodakis , Devis Tuia

Learning rotation-invariant distinctive features is a fundamental requirement for point cloud registration. Existing methods often use rotation-sensitive networks to extract features, while employing rotation augmentation to learn an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Runzhao Yao , Shaoyi Du , Wenting Cui , Canhui Tang , Chengwu Yang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) allow for parameter sharing and translational equivariance by using convolutional kernels in their linear layers. By restricting these kernels to be SO(3)-steerable, CNNs can further improve parameter…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-20 Ivan Diaz , Mario Geiger , Richard Iain McKinley

This paper presents an efficient technique to prune deep and/or wide convolutional neural network models by eliminating redundant features (or filters). Previous studies have shown that over-sized deep neural network models tend to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Babajide O. Ayinde , Jacek M. Zurada

In recent years, deep neural networks have achieved great success in the field of computer vision. However, it is still a big challenge to deploy these deep models on resource-constrained embedded devices such as mobile robots, smart phones…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Yiming Hu , Siyang Sun , Jianquan Li , Xingang Wang , Qingyi Gu

In this paper, we propose to train convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with both binarized weights and activations, leading to quantized models specifically} for mobile devices with limited power capacity and computation resources.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Bohan Zhuang , Chunhua Shen , Mingkui Tan , Lingqiao Liu , Ian Reid

Soft, porous mechanical metamaterials exhibit pattern transformations that may have important applications in soft robotics, sound reduction and biomedicine. To design these innovative materials, it is important to be able to simulate them…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-14 Fleur Hendriks , Vlado Menkovski , Martin Doškář , Marc G. D. Geers , Ondřej Rokoš

Various applications in the field of autonomous driving are based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), especially for processing camera data. The optimization of such CNNs is a major challenge in continuous development. Newly learned…

We propose a semantic segmentation model that exploits rotation and reflection symmetries. We demonstrate significant gains in sample efficiency due to increased weight sharing, as well as improvements in robustness to symmetry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Jasper Linmans , Jim Winkens , Bastiaan S. Veeling , Taco S. Cohen , Max Welling

This work investigates use of equivariant neural networks as efficient and high-performance frameworks for image reconstruction and denoising in nuclear medicine. Our work aims to tackle limitations of conventional Convolutional Neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-03 Amirreza Hashemi , Yuemeng Feng , Arman Rahmim , Hamid Sabet

This paper presents RadioGUNet, a UNet-based deep learning framework for pathloss estimation in wireless communication. Unlike other frameworks, it leverages group equivariant convolutional networks, which are known to increase the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Ziyue Yang , Feng Liu , Yifei Jin , Konstantinos Vandikas

Performance of neural networks can be significantly improved by encoding known invariance for particular tasks. Many image classification tasks, such as those related to cellular imaging, exhibit invariance to rotation. We present a novel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-01 Benjamin Chidester , Minh N. Do , Jian Ma

The high computation, memory, and power budgets of inferring convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are major bottlenecks of model deployment to edge computing platforms, e.g., mobile devices and IoT. Moreover, training CNNs is time and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Mostafa Elhoushi , Zihao Chen , Farhan Shafiq , Ye Henry Tian , Joey Yiwei Li

In social media networks a small number of highly influential users can drive large scale changes in discourse across multiple communities. Small shifts in the behavior of these users are often sufficient to propagate widely throughout the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Shaif Chowdhury , Soham Biren Katlariwala , Devleena Kashyap

Network pruning is one of the most dominant methods for reducing the heavy inference cost of deep neural networks. Existing methods often iteratively prune networks to attain high compression ratio without incurring significant loss in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Duong H. Le , Trung-Nhan Vo , Nam Thoai

Learning and reasoning about 3D molecular structures with varying size is an emerging and important challenge in machine learning and especially in drug discovery. Equivariant Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) can simultaneously leverage the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Tuan Le , Frank Noé , Djork-Arné Clevert