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most citedAn Experimental Study of the Impact of Pre-training on the Pruning of a Convolutional Neural Network

14 citations · 14 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CV2023

A Recipe for Efficient SBIR Models: Combining Relative Triplet Loss with Batch Normalization and Knowledge Distillation

Omar Seddati, Nathan Hubens, Stéphane Dupont +1

Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (SBIR) is a crucial task in multimedia retrieval, where the goal is to retrieve a set of images that match a given sketch query. Researchers have alrea…

cs.CV2023

Induced Feature Selection by Structured Pruning

Nathan Hubens, Victor Delvigne, Matei Mancas +3

The advent of sparsity inducing techniques in neural networks has been of a great help in the last few years. Indeed, those methods allowed to find lighter and faster networks, abl…

cs.LG2022

FasterAI: A Lightweight Library for Creating Sparse Neural Networks

Nathan Hubens

FasterAI is a PyTorch-based library, aiming to facilitate the utilization of deep neural networks compression techniques such as sparsification, pruning, knowledge distillation, or…

cs.CV2022

Improve Convolutional Neural Network Pruning by Maximizing Filter Variety

Nathan Hubens, Matei Mancas, Bernard Gosselin +2

Neural network pruning is a widely used strategy for reducing model storage and computing requirements. It allows to lower the complexity of the network by introducing sparsity in…

cs.CV2022

Towards Lightweight Neural Animation : Exploration of Neural Network Pruning in Mixture of Experts-based Animation Models

Antoine Maiorca, Nathan Hubens, Sohaib Laraba +1

In the past few years, neural character animation has emerged and offered an automatic method for animating virtual characters. Their motion is synthesized by a neural network. Con…

cs.CV2022

Where Is My Mind (looking at)? Predicting Visual Attention from Brain Activity

Victor Delvigne, Noé Tits, Luca La Fisca +5

Visual attention estimation is an active field of research at the crossroads of different disciplines: computer vision, artificial intelligence and medicine. One of the most common…

cs.CV2021★ 14 cited

An Experimental Study of the Impact of Pre-training on the Pruning of a Convolutional Neural Network

Nathan Hubens, Matei Mancas, Bernard Gosselin +2

In recent years, deep neural networks have known a wide success in various application domains. However, they require important computational and memory resources, which severely h…

cs.CV2021

One-Cycle Pruning: Pruning ConvNets Under a Tight Training Budget

Nathan Hubens, Matei Mancas, Bernard Gosselin +2

Introducing sparsity in a neural network has been an efficient way to reduce its complexity while keeping its performance almost intact. Most of the time, sparsity is introduced us…

cs.CV2019

Modulated Self-attention Convolutional Network for VQA

Jean-Benoit Delbrouck, Antoine Maiorca, Nathan Hubens +1

As new data-sets for real-world visual reasoning and compositional question answering are emerging, it might be needed to use the visual feature extraction as a end-to-end process…