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This paper presents a novel framework combining group equivariant convolutional neural networks (G-CNNs) with equivariant-aware structured pruning to produce compact, transformation-invariant models for resource-constrained environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Mohammed Alnemari

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated extraordinarily good performance in many computer vision tasks. The increasing size of CNN models, however, prevents them from being widely deployed to devices with limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Guan Li , Junpeng Wang , Han-Wei Shen , Kaixin Chen , Guihua Shan , Zhonghua Lu

Deep neural networks are strongly over-parameterized, often containing far more weights than required for their task. Although such redundancy can aid optimization, it leads to inefficient deployment and high computational cost, motivating…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-18 Diego Pesce , Yang-Hui He , Guido Caldarelli

A well-trained Convolutional Neural Network can easily be pruned without significant loss of performance. This is because of unnecessary overlap in the features captured by the network's filters. Innovations in network architecture such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Aaditya Prakash , James Storer , Dinei Florencio , Cha Zhang

As a popular channel pruning method for convolutional neural networks (CNNs), network slimming (NS) has a three-stage process: (1) it trains a CNN with $\ell_1$ regularization applied to the scaling factors of the batch normalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Kevin Bui , Fanghui Xue , Fredrick Park , Yingyong Qi , Jack Xin

In Machine Learning, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are a very powerful tool, broadly used in many applications. Often, the selected (deep) architectures include many layers, and therefore a large amount of parameters, which makes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Matteo Cacciola , Antonio Frangioni , Xinlin Li , Andrea Lodi

Filter pruning is one of the most effective ways to accelerate and compress convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In this work, we propose a global filter pruning algorithm called Gate Decorator, which transforms a vanilla CNN module by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Zhonghui You , Kun Yan , Jinmian Ye , Meng Ma , Ping Wang

Pruning methods can considerably reduce the size of artificial neural networks without harming their performance. In some cases, they can even uncover sub-networks that, when trained in isolation, match or surpass the test accuracy of their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Franco Pellegrini , Giulio Biroli

We introduce and analyze a new technique for model reduction for deep neural networks. While large networks are theoretically capable of learning arbitrarily complex models, overfitting and model redundancy negatively affects the prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Alireza Aghasi , Afshin Abdi , Nam Nguyen , Justin Romberg

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved impressive performance in many computer vision tasks. However, their large model sizes require heavy computational resources, making pruning redundant filters from existing pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Kiran Purohit , Anurag Reddy Parvathgari , Sourangshu Bhattacharya

A typical deep neural network (DNN) has a large number of trainable parameters. Choosing a network with proper capacity is challenging and generally a larger network with excessive capacity is trained. Pruning is an established approach to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Hojjat Salehinejad , Shahrokh Valaee

Popular network pruning algorithms reduce redundant information by optimizing hand-crafted models, and may cause suboptimal performance and long time in selecting filters. We innovatively introduce adaptive exemplar filters to simplify the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Mingbao Lin , Rongrong Ji , Shaojie Li , Yan Wang , Yongjian Wu , Feiyue Huang , Qixiang Ye

Many real-time tasks, such as human-computer interaction, require fast and efficient facial gender classification. Although deep CNN nets have been very effective for a multitude of classification tasks, their high space and time demands…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Qing Tian , Tal Arbel , James J. Clark

Transformer-based pre-trained language models have significantly improved the performance of various natural language processing (NLP) tasks in the recent years. While effective and prevalent, these models are usually prohibitively large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Dongkuan Xu , Ian E. H. Yen , Jinxi Zhao , Zhibin Xiao

Recent empirical works show that large deep neural networks are often highly redundant and one can find much smaller subnetworks without a significant drop of accuracy. However, most existing methods of network pruning are empirical and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Mao Ye , Chengyue Gong , Lizhen Nie , Denny Zhou , Adam Klivans , Qiang Liu

Deep learning architectures with a huge number of parameters are often compressed using pruning techniques to ensure computational efficiency of inference during deployment. Despite multitude of empirical advances, there is a lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Rupam Acharyya , Ankani Chattoraj , Boyu Zhang , Shouman Das , Daniel Stefankovic

As deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly deployed on edge devices, optimizing models for constrained computational resources is critical. Existing auto-pruning methods face challenges due to the diversity of DNN models, various…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Lixian Jing , Jianpeng Qi , Junyu Dong , Yanwei Yu

We propose a novel algorithm for combined unit and layer pruning of deep neural networks that functions during training and without requiring a pre-trained network to apply. Our algorithm optimally trades-off learning accuracy and pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Valentin Frank Ingmar Guenter , Athanasios Sideris

This paper presents a survey of methods for pruning deep neural networks. It begins by categorising over 150 studies based on the underlying approach used and then focuses on three categories: methods that use magnitude based pruning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Sunil Vadera , Salem Ameen

Recently, neural network compression schemes like channel pruning have been widely used to reduce the model size and computational complexity of deep neural network (DNN) for applications in power-constrained scenarios such as embedded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Jiandong Mu , Mengdi Wang , Feiwen Zhu , Jun Yang , Wei Lin , Wei Zhang