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The remarkable performance of modern deep neural networks (DNNs) is largely driven by their massive scale, often comprising tens to hundreds of millions-or even billions-of parameters. However, such a scale incurs substantial storage and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Mingyuan Wang , Yangzi Guo , Sida Liu , Yuhang Liu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are reported to be overparametrized. The search for optimal (minimal) and sufficient architecture is an NP-hard problem as the hyperparameter space for possible network configurations is vast. Here, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Tin Barisin , Illia Horenko

Pruning methods have recently grown in popularity as an effective way to reduce the size and computational complexity of deep neural networks. Large numbers of parameters can be removed from trained models with little discernible loss in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Tim Whitaker , Darrell Whitley

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

The existing convolutional neural network pruning algorithms can be divided into two categories: coarse-grained clipping and fine-grained clipping. This paper proposes a coarse and fine-grained automatic pruning algorithm, which can achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Jingfei Chang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are usually over-parameterized to increase the likelihood of getting adequate initial weights by random initialization. Consequently, trained DNNs have many redundancies which can be pruned from the model to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Lukas Enderich , Fabian Timm , Wolfram Burgard

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success in various graph-based tasks (e.g., node classification or link prediction). Despite their triumphs, GNNs still face challenges such as long training and inference times,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Chu-Yuan Wei , Shun-Yao Liu , Sheng-Da Zhuo , Chang-Dong Wang , Shu-Qiang Huang , Mohsen Guizani

Deep artificial neural networks require a large corpus of training data in order to effectively learn, where collection of such training data is often expensive and laborious. Data augmentation overcomes this issue by artificially inflating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Luke Taylor , Geoff Nitschke

Exploring deep convolutional neural networks of high efficiency and low memory usage is very essential for a wide variety of machine learning tasks. Most of existing approaches used to accelerate deep models by manipulating parameters or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Chuanjian Liu , Yunhe Wang , Kai Han , Chunjing Xu , Chang Xu

Model pruning has become a useful technique that improves the computational efficiency of deep learning, making it possible to deploy solutions in resource-limited scenarios. A widely-used practice in relevant work assumes that a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Jianbo Ye , Xin Lu , Zhe Lin , James Z. Wang

Lightweight model design has become an important direction in the application of deep learning technology, pruning is an effective mean to achieve a large reduction in model parameters and FLOPs. The existing neural network pruning methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Zhuangzhi Chen , Jingyang Xiang , Yao Lu , Qi Xuan , Xiaoniu Yang

Most neural network pruning methods, such as filter-level and layer-level prunings, prune the network model along one dimension (depth, width, or resolution) solely to meet a computational budget. However, such a pruning policy often leads…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Wenxiao Wang , Minghao Chen , Shuai Zhao , Long Chen , Jinming Hu , Haifeng Liu , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He , Wei Liu

Neural networks have long strived to emulate the learning capabilities of the human brain. While deep neural networks (DNNs) draw inspiration from the brain in neuron design, their training methods diverge from biological foundations.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Joseph Bingham , Saman Zonouz , Dvir Aran

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are usually over-parameterized, causing excessive memory and interconnection cost on the hardware platform. Existing pruning approaches remove secondary parameters at the end of training to reduce the model size;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Gokul Krishnan , Xiaocong Du , Yu Cao

Many state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms use large scale convolutional neural networks (CNNs) as basic building blocks. These CNNs are known for their huge number of parameters, high redundancy in weights, and tremendous computing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Qiangui Huang , Kevin Zhou , Suya You , Ulrich Neumann

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have begun to have a pervasive impact on various applications of machine learning. However, the problem of finding an optimal DNN architecture for large applications is challenging. Common approaches go for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Xiaoliang Dai , Hongxu Yin , Niraj K. Jha

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

It has been observed in practice that applying pruning-at-initialization methods to neural networks and training the sparsified networks can not only retain the testing performance of the original dense models, but also sometimes even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Hongru Yang , Yingbin Liang , Xiaojie Guo , Lingfei Wu , Zhangyang Wang

We develop an algorithm for systematic design of a large artificial neural network using a progression property. We find that some non-linear functions, such as the rectifier linear unit and its derivatives, hold the property. The…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Saikat Chatterjee , Alireza M. Javid , Mostafa Sadeghi , Partha P. Mitra , Mikael Skoglund

Works on lottery ticket hypothesis (LTH) and single-shot network pruning (SNIP) have raised a lot of attention currently on post-training pruning (iterative magnitude pruning), and before-training pruning (pruning at initialization). The…