Structured pruning for deep convolutional neural networks: A survey

Y He, L **ao - IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The remarkable performance of deep Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is generally
attributed to their deeper and wider architectures, which can come with significant …

A simple and effective pruning approach for large language models

M Sun, Z Liu, A Bair, JZ Kolter - arxiv preprint arxiv:2306.11695, 2023 - arxiv.org
As their size increases, Large Languages Models (LLMs) are natural candidates for network
pruning methods: approaches that drop a subset of network weights while striving to …

What is the state of neural network pruning?

D Blalock, JJ Gonzalez Ortiz… - … of machine learning …, 2020 - proceedings.mlsys.org
Neural network pruning---the task of reducing the size of a network by removing parameters--
-has been the subject of a great deal of work in recent years. We provide a meta-analysis of …

Similarity-preserving knowledge distillation

F Tung, G Mori - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF international …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract Knowledge distillation is a widely applicable technique for training a student neural
network under the guidance of a trained teacher network. For example, in neural network …

Filter pruning via geometric median for deep convolutional neural networks acceleration

Y He, P Liu, Z Wang, Z Hu… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Previous works utilized" smaller-norm-less-important" criterion to prune filters with smaller
norm values in a convolutional neural network. In this paper, we analyze this norm-based …

Variational convolutional neural network pruning

C Zhao, B Ni, J Zhang, Q Zhao… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We propose a variational Bayesian scheme for pruning convolutional neural networks in
channel level. This idea is motivated by the fact that deterministic value based pruning …

Learning filter pruning criteria for deep convolutional neural networks acceleration

Y He, Y Ding, P Liu, L Zhu… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Filter pruning has been widely applied to neural network compression and acceleration.
Existing methods usually utilize pre-defined pruning criteria, such as Lp-norm, to prune …

Methods for pruning deep neural networks

S Vadera, S Ameen - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Towards compact cnns via collaborative compression

Y Li, S Lin, J Liu, Q Ye, M Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Channel pruning and tensor decomposition have received extensive attention in
convolutional neural network compression. However, these two techniques are traditionally …

Fairgrape: Fairness-aware gradient pruning method for face attribute classification

X Lin, S Kim, J Joo - European Conference on Computer Vision, 2022 - Springer
Existing pruning techniques preserve deep neural networks' overall ability to make correct
predictions but could also amplify hidden biases during the compression process. We …