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Simon A. Rella, Yuliya A. Kulikova, Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis, Fyodor A. Kondrashov
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Laura Casas, Pablo Saenz-Agudelo, David Villegas-Rios, Xabier Irigoien, Fran Saborido-Rey
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Cong Li, Sabin Lessard
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Yashraj Chavhan, Sarthak Malusare, Sutirth Dey
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Qiaoyu Wu, Yiming Ma, Xinhui Wang, Siyu Yu, Xu Zhao, Xiaoyuan Yan, Xiaojun Zhang
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Matthew J. Melissa, Benjamin H. Good, Daniel S. Fisher, Michael M. Desai
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Summary: This paper introduces a novel joint weight pruning and quantization framework based on ADMM-NN. It demonstrates that structured pruning has greater potential in terms of both storage and computation efficiency. Studying DNN inference acceleration with structured sparsity is key.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING SYSTEMS
(2022)
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Michael N. Weedon, Samuel E. Jones, Jacqueline M. Lane, Jiwon Lee, Hanna M. Ollila, Amy Dawes, Jess Tyrrell, Robin N. Beaumont, Timo Partonen, Ilona Merikanto, Stephen S. Rich, Jerome Rotter, Timothy M. Frayling, Martin K. Rutter, Susan Redline, Tamar Sofer, Richa Saxena, Andrew R. Wood
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Mrudula Sane, Gaurav D. Diwan, Bhoomika A. Bhat, Lindi M. Wahl, Deepa Agashe
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2023)
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