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Although large-scale self-supervised learning (SSL) models like WavLM have achieved state-of-the-art performance in speech processing, their significant size impedes deployment on resource-constrained devices. While structured pruning is a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Junyi Peng , Lin Zhang , Jiangyu Han , Oldřich Plchot , Johan Rohdin , Themos Stafylakis , Shuai Wang , Jan Černocký

Compressing neural networks without retraining is vital for deployment at scale. We study calibration-free compression through the lens of projection geometry: structured pruning is an axis-aligned projection, whereas model folding performs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Olga Saukh , Dong Wang , Haris Šikić , Yun Cheng , Lothar Thiele

Neural network pruning serves as a critical technique for enhancing the efficiency of deep learning models. Unlike unstructured pruning, which only sets specific parameters to zero, structured pruning eliminates entire channels, thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Xun Wang , John Rachwan , Stephan Günnemann , Bertrand Charpentier

Feature embeddings are one of the most essential steps when training deep learning based Click-Through Rate prediction models, which map high-dimensional sparse features to dense embedding vectors. Classic human-crafted embedding size…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Tesi Xiao , Xia Xiao , Ming Chen , Youlong Chen

Multi-vector visual retrievers (e.g., ColPali-style late interaction models) deliver strong accuracy, but scale poorly because each page yields thousands of vectors, making indexing and search increasingly expensive. We present Visual RAG…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Ara Yeroyan

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate impressive capabilities, their substantial computational and memory requirements pose significant barriers to practical deployment. Current parameter reduction techniques primarily…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yiran Huang , Lukas Thede , Massimiliano Mancini , Wenjia Xu , Zeynep Akata

Structured pruning is an effective approach for compressing large pre-trained neural networks without significantly affecting their performance. However, most current structured pruning methods do not provide any performance guarantees, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Marwa El Halabi , Suraj Srinivas , Simon Lacoste-Julien

Structured weight pruning is a representative model compression technique of DNNs for hardware efficiency and inference accelerations. Previous works in this area leave great space for improvement since sparse structures with combinations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Zhengang Li , Yifan Gong , Xiaolong Ma , Sijia Liu , Mengshu Sun , Zheng Zhan , Zhenglun Kong , Geng Yuan , Yanzhi Wang

Structured pruning is an effective compression technique to reduce the computation of neural networks, which is usually achieved by adding perturbations to reduce network parameters at the cost of slightly increasing training loss. A more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Yinchuan Li , Xiaofeng Liu , Yunfeng Shao , Qing Wang , Yanhui Geng

Volumetric data compression is critical in fields like medical imaging, scientific simulation, and entertainment. We introduce a structure-free neural compression method combining Fourierfeature encoding with selective voxel sampling,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Leona Žůrková , Petr Strakoš , Michal Kravčenko , Tomáš Brzobohatý , Lubomír Říha

We propose a framework for compressing state-of-the-art Single Shot MultiBox Detector (SSD). The framework addresses compression in the following stages: Sparsity Induction, Filter Selection, and Filter Pruning. In the Sparsity Induction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Pravendra Singh , Manikandan R , Neeraj Matiyali , Vinay P. Namboodiri

The high computational costs of video super-resolution (VSR) models hinder their deployment on resource-limited devices, (e.g., smartphones and drones). Existing VSR models contain considerable redundant filters, which drag down the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Bin Xia , Jingwen He , Yulun Zhang , Yitong Wang , Yapeng Tian , Wenming Yang , Luc Van Gool

Since high resolution remote sensing image classification often requires a relatively high computation complexity, lightweight models tend to be practical and efficient. Model pruning is an effective method for model compression. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Guangwenjie Zou , Liang Yao , Fan Liu , Chuanyi Zhang , Xin Li , Ning Chen , Shengxiang Xu , Jun Zhou

The recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly improved language understanding and generation capabilities. However, it is difficult to deploy LLMs on resource-constrained edge devices due to their high…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Haotian Zheng , Jinke Ren , Yushan Sun , Ruichen Zhang , Wenbo Zhang , Zhen Li , Dusit Niyato , Shuguang Cui , Yatong Han

Structured pruning is a promising approach to create smaller, faster large language models. However, existing methods typically rely on computing the gradient via backward passes, which can inflate memory requirements and compute costs. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Steven Kolawole , Lucio Dery , Jean-François Kagy , Virginia Smith , Graham Neubig , Ameet Talwalkar

This paper introduces Syntactic Attention Pruning (SAP), a novel method for effectively pruning attention heads in Transformer models. Unlike conventional approaches that rely solely on mathematical analysis of model weights and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Tzu-Yun Lee , Ding-Yong Hong , Jan-Jan Wu

Structured pruning is a well-established technique for compressing neural networks, making it suitable for deployment in resource-limited edge devices. This paper presents an efficient Loss-Aware Automatic Selection of Structured Pruning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Deepak Ghimire , Kilho Lee , Seong-heum Kim

In recent years, semantic segmentation has flourished in various applications. However, the high computational cost remains a significant challenge that hinders its further adoption. The filter pruning method for structured network slimming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Dongyue Wu , Zilin Guo , Li Yu , Nong Sang , Changxin Gao

While Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) demonstrate exceptional multi-modal capabilities, the quadratic computational cost of processing high-resolution visual tokens remains a critical bottleneck. Though recent token reduction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Surendra Pathak , Bo Han

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