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Although Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved impressive results, their high computational costs pose a significant barrier to wide application. To enhance inference efficiency, most existing approaches can be categorized as…

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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have advanced rapidly within the unified Transformer architecture, yet their deployment on resource-constrained devices remains challenging due to high computational complexity. While pruning has emerged as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zimeng Wu , Yunhong Wang , Donghao Wang , Jiaxin Chen

This paper presents a novel differentiable method for unstructured weight pruning of deep neural networks. Our learned-threshold pruning (LTP) method learns per-layer thresholds via gradient descent, unlike conventional methods where they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Kambiz Azarian , Yash Bhalgat , Jinwon Lee , Tijmen Blankevoort

As we push the boundaries of performance in various vision tasks, the models grow in size correspondingly. To keep up with this growth, we need very aggressive pruning techniques for efficient inference and deployment on edge devices.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Xinglong Sun , Barath Lakshmanan , Maying Shen , Shiyi Lan , Jingde Chen , Jose Alvarez

While convolutional neural networks (CNN) have achieved impressive performance on various classification/recognition tasks, they typically consist of a massive number of parameters. This results in significant memory requirement as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Pravendra Singh , Vinay Kumar Verma , Piyush Rai , Vinay P. Namboodiri

In this article, we explore the challenges and evolution of two key technologies in the current field of AI: Vision Transformer model and Large Language Model (LLM). Vision Transformer captures global information by splitting images into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Yicong Li , Xing Guo , Haohua Du

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown strong capabilities on diverse multimodal tasks. However, the large number of visual tokens output by the vision encoder severely hinders inference efficiency, and prior studies have shown that many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Jingqi Xu , Jingxi Lu , Chenghao Li , Sreetama Sarkar , Peter A. Beerel

The increasing computational demands of modern neural networks present deployment challenges on resource-constrained devices. Network pruning offers a solution to reduce model size and computational cost while maintaining performance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Xiang Meng , Wenyu Chen , Riade Benbaki , Rahul Mazumder

Fine-tuning and inference with large Language Models (LM) are generally known to be expensive. Parameter-efficient fine-tuning over pretrained LMs reduces training memory by updating a small number of LM parameters but does not improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Bowen Zhao , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Qingqing Cao

Despite the promising results of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), their application on devices with limited resources is still a big challenge; this is mainly due to the huge memory and computation requirements of the CNN. To counter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Csanád Sándor , Szabolcs Pável , Lehel Csató

Encoding input coordinates with sinusoidal functions into multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) has proven effective for implicit neural representations (INRs) of low-dimensional signals, enabling the modeling of high-frequency details. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Diana Aldana , João Paulo Lima , Daniel Csillag , Daniel Perazzo , Haoan Feng , Luiz Velho , Tiago Novello

Approximate linear programming (ALP) is an efficient approach to solving large factored Markov decision processes (MDPs). The main idea of the method is to approximate the optimal value function by a set of basis functions and optimize…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-06-18 Branislav Kveton , Milos Hauskrecht

Large language models (LLMs) excel at language understanding and generation, but their enormous computational and memory requirements hinder deployment. Compression offers a potential solution to mitigate these constraints. However, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Huanrong Liu , Chunlin Tian , Xuyang Wei , Qingbiao Li , Li Li

In this paper, we present Vision Permutator, a conceptually simple and data efficient MLP-like architecture for visual recognition. By realizing the importance of the positional information carried by 2D feature representations, unlike…

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Understanding and shaping the behaviour of Large Language Models (LLMs) is increasingly important as applications become more powerful and more frequently adopted. This paper introduces a machine unlearning method specifically designed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Nicholas Pochinkov , Nandi Schoots

Channel pruning is one of the major compression approaches for deep neural networks. While previous pruning methods have mostly focused on identifying unimportant channels, channel pruning is considered as a special case of neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Xiangcheng Liu , Jian Cao , Hongyi Yao , Wenyu Sun , Yuan Zhang

The high computational demands of Large Language Models (LLMs) motivate methods that reduce parameter count and accelerate inference. In response, model pruning emerges as an effective strategy, yet current methods typically focus on a…

Structured pruning is one of the representative techniques for compressing large language models (LLMs) to reduce GPU memory consumption and accelerate inference speed. It offers significant practical value in improving the efficiency of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Yiheng Liu , Junhao Ning , Sichen Xia , Xiaohui Gao , Ning Qiang , Bao Ge , Junwei Han , Xintao Hu

Although 3D Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are essential for most learning based applications involving dense 3D data, their applicability is limited due to excessive memory and computational requirements. Compressing such networks by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Zhiwei Xu , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Vibhav Vineet , Richard Hartley

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a range of multimodal tasks. However, their inference efficiency is constrained by the large number of visual tokens processed during decoding. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Yu Meng , Kaiyuan Li , Chenran Huang , Chen Gao , Xinlei Chen , Yong Li , Xiaoping Zhang