Awesome Pruning

A curated list of neural network pruning and related resources. Inspired by awesome-deep-vision, awesome-adversarial-machine-learning, awesome-deep-learning-papers and Awesome-NAS.

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Type of Pruning
A Survey on Filter Pruning
2023 Venues
2022 Venues
2021 Venues
2020 Venues
2019 Venues
2018 Venues
2017 Venues
2016 Venues
2015 Venues

Type of Pruning

Type	`F`	`W`	`S`	`Other`
Explanation	Filter pruning	Weight pruning	Special Networks	other types

A Survey on Filter Pruning

A survey of structured pruning can be found at this link: arxiv. The related papers are categorized as below:

2023

Title	Venue	Type	Code
Revisiting Pruning at Initialization Through the Lens of Ramanujan Graph	ICLR	`W`	PyTorch(Author)(Releasing)
Unmasking the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: What's Encoded in a Winning Ticket's Mask?	ICLR	`W`	-
Bit-Pruning: A Sparse Multiplication-Less Dot-Product	ICLR	`W`	Code Deleted
NTK-SAP: Improving neural network pruning by aligning training dynamics	ICLR	`W`	-
A Unified Framework for Soft Threshold Pruning	ICLR	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
CrAM: A Compression-Aware Minimizer	ICLR	`W`	-
Trainability Preserving Neural Pruning	ICLR	`F`	-
DFPC: Data flow driven pruning of coupled channels without data	ICLR	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
TVSPrune - Pruning Non-discriminative filters via Total Variation separability of intermediate representations without fine tuning	ICLR	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
HomoDistil: Homotopic Task-Agnostic Distillation of Pre-trained Transformers	ICLR	`F`	-
MECTA: Memory-Economic Continual Test-Time Model Adaptation	ICLR	`F`	-
DepthFL : Depthwise Federated Learning for Heterogeneous Clients	ICLR	`F`	-
OTOv2: Automatic, Generic, User-Friendly	ICLR	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Over-parameterized Model Optimization with Polyak-Lojasiewicz Condition	ICLR	`F`	-
Pruning Deep Neural Networks from a Sparsity Perspective	ICLR	`WF`	PyTorch(Author)
Holistic Adversarially Robust Pruning	ICLR	`WF`	-
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Retraining	ICLR	`WF`	PyTorch(Author)
Symmetric Pruning in Quantum Neural Networks	ICLR	`S`	-
Rethinking Graph Lottery Tickets: Graph Sparsity Matters	ICLR	`S`	-
Joint Edge-Model Sparse Learning is Provably Efficient for Graph Neural Networks	ICLR	`S`	-
Searching Lottery Tickets in Graph Neural Networks: A Dual Perspective	ICLR	`S`	-
Diffusion Models for Causal Discovery via Topological Ordering	ICLR	`S`	-
A General Framework For Proving The Equivariant Strong Lottery Ticket Hypothesis	ICLR	`Other`	-
Sparsity May Cry: Let Us Fail (Current) Sparse Neural Networks Together!	ICLR	`Other`	-
Minimum Variance Unbiased N:M Sparsity for the Neural Gradients	ICLR	`Other`	-

2022

Title	Venue	Type	Code
Parameter-Efficient Masking Networks	NeurIPS	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
"Lossless" Compression of Deep Neural Networks: A High-dimensional Neural Tangent Kernel Approach	NeurIPS	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
Losses Can Be Blessings: Routing Self-Supervised Speech Representations Towards Efficient Multilingual and Multitask Speech Processing	NeurIPS	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
Models Out of Line: A Fourier Lens on Distribution Shift Robustness	NeurIPS	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
Robust Binary Models by Pruning Randomly-initialized Networks	NeurIPS	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
Rare Gems: Finding Lottery Tickets at Initialization	NeurIPS	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
Optimal Brain Compression: A Framework for Accurate Post-Training Quantization and Pruning	NeurIPS	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
Pruning’s Effect on Generalization Through the Lens of Training and Regularization	NeurIPS	`W`	-
Back Razor: Memory-Efficient Transfer Learning by Self-Sparsified Backpropagation	NeurIPS	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
Analyzing Lottery Ticket Hypothesis from PAC-Bayesian Theory Perspective	NeurIPS	`W`	-
Sparse Winning Tickets are Data-Efficient Image Recognizers	NeurIPS	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
Lottery Tickets on a Data Diet: Finding Initializations with Sparse Trainable Networks	NeurIPS	`W`	-
Weighted Mutual Learning with Diversity-Driven Model Compression	NeurIPS	`F`	-
SInGE: Sparsity via Integrated Gradients Estimation of Neuron Relevance	NeurIPS	`F`	-
Data-Efficient Structured Pruning via Submodular Optimization	NeurIPS	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Structural Pruning via Latency-Saliency Knapsack	NeurIPS	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Recall Distortion in Neural Network Pruning and the Undecayed Pruning Algorithm	NeurIPS	`WF`	-
Pruning Neural Networks via Coresets and Convex Geometry: Towards No Assumptions	NeurIPS	`WF`	-
Controlled Sparsity via Constrained Optimization or: How I Learned to Stop Tuning Penalties and Love Constraints	NeurIPS	`WF`	PyTorch(Author)
Advancing Model Pruning via Bi-level Optimization	NeurIPS	`WF`	PyTorch(Author)
Emergence of Hierarchical Layers in a Single Sheet of Self-Organizing Spiking Neurons	NeurIPS	`S`	-
CryptoGCN: Fast and Scalable Homomorphically Encrypted Graph Convolutional Network Inference	NeurIPS	`S`	PyTorch(Author)(Releasing)
Transform Once: Efficient Operator Learning in Frequency Domain	NeurIPS	`Other`	PyTorch(Author)(Releasing)
Most Activation Functions Can Win the Lottery Without Excessive Depth	NeurIPS	`Other`	PyTorch(Author)
Pruning has a disparate impact on model accuracy	NeurIPS	`Other`	-
Model Preserving Compression for Neural Networks	NeurIPS	`Other`	PyTorch(Author)
Prune Your Model Before Distill It	ECCV	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
FedLTN: Federated Learning for Sparse and Personalized Lottery Ticket Networks	ECCV	`W`	-
FairGRAPE: Fairness-Aware GRAdient Pruning mEthod for Face Attribute Classification	ECCV	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
SuperTickets: Drawing Task-Agnostic Lottery Tickets from Supernets via Jointly Architecture Searching and Parameter Pruning	ECCV	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Ensemble Knowledge Guided Sub-network Search and Fine-Tuning for Filter Pruning	ECCV	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
CPrune: Compiler-Informed Model Pruning for Efficient Target-Aware DNN Execution	ECCV	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Soft Masking for Cost-Constrained Channel Pruning	ECCV	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Filter Pruning via Feature Discrimination in Deep Neural Networks	ECCV	`F`	-
Disentangled Differentiable Network Pruning	ECCV	`F`	-
Interpretations Steered Network Pruning via Amortized Inferred Saliency Maps	ECCV	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Bayesian Optimization with Clustering and Rollback for CNN Auto Pruning	ECCV	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Multi-granularity Pruning for Model Acceleration on Mobile Devices	ECCV	`WF`	-
Exploring Lottery Ticket Hypothesis in Spiking Neural Networks	ECCV	`S`	PyTorch(Author)
Towards Ultra Low Latency Spiking Neural Networks for Vision and Sequential Tasks Using Temporal Pruning	ECCV	`S`	-
Recent Advances on Neural Network Pruning at Initialization	IJCAI	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
FedDUAP: Federated Learning with Dynamic Update and Adaptive Pruning Using Shared Data on the Server	IJCAI	`F`	-
On the Channel Pruning using Graph Convolution Network for Convolutional Neural Network Acceleration	IJCAI	`F`	-
Pruning-as-Search: Efficient Neural Architecture Search via Channel Pruning and Structural Reparameterization	IJCAI	`F`	-
Neural Network Pruning by Cooperative Coevolution	IJCAI	`F`	-
SPDY: Accurate Pruning with Speedup Guarantees	ICML	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
Sparse Double Descent: Where Network Pruning Aggravates Overfitting	ICML	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
The Combinatorial Brain Surgeon: Pruning Weights That Cancel One Another in Neural Networks	ICML	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
Linearity Grafting: Relaxed Neuron Pruning Helps Certifiable Robustness	ICML	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Winning the Lottery Ahead of Time: Efficient Early Network Pruning	ICML	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Topology-Aware Network Pruning using Multi-stage Graph Embedding and Reinforcement Learning	ICML	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Fast Lossless Neural Compression with Integer-Only Discrete Flows	ICML	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
DepthShrinker: A New Compression Paradigm Towards Boosting Real-Hardware Efficiency of Compact Neural Networks	ICML	`Other`	PyTorch(Author)
PAC-Net: A Model Pruning Approach to Inductive Transfer Learning	ICML	`Other`	-
Neural Network Pruning Denoises the Features and Makes Local Connectivity Emerge in Visual Tasks	ICML	`Other`	PyTorch(Author)
Interspace Pruning: Using Adaptive Filter Representations To Improve Training of Sparse CNNs	CVPR	`W`	-
Masking Adversarial Damage: Finding Adversarial Saliency for Robust and Sparse Network	CVPR	`W`	-
When To Prune? A Policy Towards Early Structural Pruning	CVPR	`F`	-
Fire Together Wire Together: A Dynamic Pruning Approach With Self-Supervised Mask PredictionFire Together Wire Together: A Dynamic Pruning Approach With Self-Supervised Mask Prediction	CVPR	`F`	-
Revisiting Random Channel Pruning for Neural Network Compression	CVPR	`F`	PyTorch(Author)(Releasing)
Learning Bayesian Sparse Networks With Full Experience Replay for Continual Learning	CVPR	`F`	-
DECORE: Deep Compression With Reinforcement Learning	CVPR	`F`	-
CHEX: CHannel EXploration for CNN Model Compression	CVPR	`F`	-
Compressing Models With Few Samples: Mimicking Then Replacing	CVPR	`F`	PyTorch(Author)(Releasing)
Contrastive Dual Gating: Learning Sparse Features With Contrastive Learning	CVPR	`WF`	-
DiSparse: Disentangled Sparsification for Multitask Model Compression	CVPR	`Other`	PyTorch(Author)
Learning Pruning-Friendly Networks via Frank-Wolfe: One-Shot, Any-Sparsity, And No Retraining	ICLR (Spotlight)	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
On Lottery Tickets and Minimal Task Representations in Deep Reinforcement Learning	ICLR (Spotlight)	`W`	-
An Operator Theoretic View On Pruning Deep Neural Networks	ICLR	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
Effective Model Sparsification by Scheduled Grow-and-Prune Methods	ICLR	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
Signing the Supermask: Keep, Hide, Invert	ICLR	`W`	-
How many degrees of freedom do we need to train deep networks: a loss landscape perspective	ICLR	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
Dual Lottery Ticket Hypothesis	ICLR	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
Peek-a-Boo: What (More) is Disguised in a Randomly Weighted Neural Network, and How to Find It Efficiently	ICLR	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
Sparsity Winning Twice: Better Robust Generalization from More Efficient Training	ICLR	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
SOSP: Efficiently Capturing Global Correlations by Second-Order Structured Pruning	ICLR (Spotlight)	`F`	PyTorch(Author)(Releasing)
Pixelated Butterfly: Simple and Efficient Sparse training for Neural Network Models	ICLR (Spotlight)	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Revisit Kernel Pruning with Lottery Regulated Grouped Convolutions	ICLR	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Plant 'n' Seek: Can You Find the Winning Ticket?	ICLR	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Proving the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis for Convolutional Neural Networks	ICLR	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
On the Existence of Universal Lottery Tickets	ICLR	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Training Structured Neural Networks Through Manifold Identification and Variance Reduction	ICLR	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Learning Efficient Image Super-Resolution Networks via Structure-Regularized Pruning	ICLR	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Prospect Pruning: Finding Trainable Weights at Initialization using Meta-Gradients	ICLR	`WF`	PyTorch(Author)
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Random Pruning: Return of the Most Naive Baseline for Sparse Training	ICLR	`Other`	PyTorch(Author)
Prune and Tune Ensembles: Low-Cost Ensemble Learning with Sparse Independent Subnetworks	AAAI	`W`	-
Prior Gradient Mask Guided Pruning-Aware Fine-Tuning	AAAI	`F`	-
Convolutional Neural Network Compression through Generalized Kronecker Product Decomposition	AAAI	`Other`	-

2021

Title	Venue	Type	Code
Validating the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis with Inertial Manifold Theory	NeurIPS	`W`	-
The Elastic Lottery Ticket Hypothesis	NeurIPS	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
Sanity Checks for Lottery Tickets: Does Your Winning Ticket Really Win the Jackpot?	NeurIPS	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
Why Lottery Ticket Wins? A Theoretical Perspective of Sample Complexity on Sparse Neural Networks	NeurIPS	`W`	-
You are caught stealing my winning lottery ticket! Making a lottery ticket claim its ownership	NeurIPS	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
Pruning Randomly Initialized Neural Networks with Iterative Randomization	NeurIPS	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
Sparse Training via Boosting Pruning Plasticity with Neuroregeneration	NeurIPS	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
AC/DC: Alternating Compressed/DeCompressed Training of Deep Neural Networks	NeurIPS	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
A Winning Hand: Compressing Deep Networks Can Improve Out-of-Distribution Robustness	NeurIPS	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
Rethinking the Pruning Criteria for Convolutional Neural Network	NeurIPS	`F`	-
Only Train Once: A One-Shot Neural Network Training And Pruning Framework	NeurIPS	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
CHIP: CHannel Independence-based Pruning for Compact Neural Networks	NeurIPS	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
RED : Looking for Redundancies for Data-FreeStructured Compression of Deep Neural Networks	NeurIPS	`F`	-
Compressing Neural Networks: Towards Determining the Optimal Layer-wise Decomposition	NeurIPS	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Sparse Flows: Pruning Continuous-depth Models	NeurIPS	`WF`	PyTorch(Author)
Scaling Up Exact Neural Network Compression by ReLU Stability	NeurIPS	`S`	PyTorch(Author)
Discriminator in GAN Compression: A Generator-discriminator Cooperative Compression Scheme	NeurIPS	`S`	PyTorch(Author)
Heavy Tails in SGD and Compressibility of Overparametrized Neural Networks	NeurIPS	`Other`	PyTorch(Author)
ResRep: Lossless CNN Pruning via Decoupling Remembering and Forgetting	ICCV	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Achieving on-Mobile Real-Time Super-Resolution with Neural Architecture and Pruning Search	ICCV	`F`	-
GDP: Stabilized Neural Network Pruning via Gates with Differentiable Polarization	ICCV	`F`	-
Auto Graph Encoder-Decoder for Neural Network Pruning	ICCV	`F`	-
Exploration and Estimation for Model Compression	ICCV	`F`	-
Sub-Bit Neural Networks: Learning To Compress and Accelerate Binary Neural Networks	ICCV	`Other`	PyTorch(Author)
On the Predictability of Pruning Across Scales	ICML	`W`	-
A Probabilistic Approach to Neural Network Pruning	ICML	`F`	-
Accelerate CNNs from Three Dimensions: A Comprehensive Pruning Framework	ICML	`F`	-
Group Fisher Pruning for Practical Network Compression	ICML	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Towards Compact CNNs via Collaborative Compression	CVPR	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Permute, Quantize, and Fine-tune: Efficient Compression of Neural Networks	CVPR	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
NPAS: A Compiler-aware Framework of Unified Network Pruning andArchitecture Search for Beyond Real-Time Mobile Acceleration	CVPR	`F`	-
Network Pruning via Performance Maximization	CVPR	`F`	-
Convolutional Neural Network Pruning with Structural Redundancy Reduction	CVPR	`F`	-
Manifold Regularized Dynamic Network Pruning	CVPR	`F`	-
Joint-DetNAS: Upgrade Your Detector with NAS, Pruning and Dynamic Distillation	CVPR	`FO`	-
Content-Aware GAN Compression	CVPR	`S`	PyTorch(Author)
Multi-Prize Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Accurate Binary Neural Networks by Pruning A Randomly Weighted Network	ICLR	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
Layer-adaptive Sparsity for the Magnitude-based Pruning	ICLR	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
Pruning Neural Networks at Initialization: Why Are We Missing the Mark?	ICLR	`W`	-
Robust Pruning at Initialization	ICLR	`W`	-
A Gradient Flow Framework For Analyzing Network Pruning	ICLR	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Neural Pruning via Growing Regularization	ICLR	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
ChipNet: Budget-Aware Pruning with Heaviside Continuous Approximations	ICLR	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Network Pruning That Matters: A Case Study on Retraining Variants	ICLR	`F`	PyTorch(Author)

2020

Title	Venue	Type	Code
Optimal Lottery Tickets via Subset Sum: Logarithmic Over-Parameterization is Sufficient	NeurIPS	`W`	-
Winning the Lottery with Continuous Sparsification	NeurIPS	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
HYDRA: Pruning Adversarially Robust Neural Networks	NeurIPS	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
Logarithmic Pruning is All You Need	NeurIPS	`W`	-
Directional Pruning of Deep Neural Networks	NeurIPS	`W`	-
Movement Pruning: Adaptive Sparsity by Fine-Tuning	NeurIPS	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
Sanity-Checking Pruning Methods: Random Tickets can Win the Jackpot	NeurIPS	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
Neuron Merging: Compensating for Pruned Neurons	NeurIPS	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Neuron-level Structured Pruning using Polarization Regularizer	NeurIPS	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
SCOP: Scientific Control for Reliable Neural Network Pruning	NeurIPS	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Storage Efficient and Dynamic Flexible Runtime Channel Pruning via Deep Reinforcement Learning	NeurIPS	`F`	-
The Generalization-Stability Tradeoff In Neural Network Pruning	NeurIPS	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Greedy Optimization Provably Wins the Lottery: Logarithmic Number of Winning Tickets is Enough	NeurIPS	`WF`	-
Pruning Filter in Filter	NeurIPS	`Other`	PyTorch(Author)
Position-based Scaled Gradient for Model Quantization and Pruning	NeurIPS	`Other`	PyTorch(Author)
Bayesian Bits: Unifying Quantization and Pruning	NeurIPS	`Other`	-
Pruning neural networks without any data by iteratively conserving synaptic flow	NeurIPS	`Other`	PyTorch(Author)
Meta-Learning with Network Pruning	ECCV	`W`	-
Accelerating CNN Training by Pruning Activation Gradients	ECCV	`W`	-
EagleEye: Fast Sub-net Evaluation for Efficient Neural Network Pruning	ECCV (Oral)	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
DSA: More Efficient Budgeted Pruning via Differentiable Sparsity Allocation	ECCV	`F`	-
DHP: Differentiable Meta Pruning via HyperNetworks	ECCV	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
DA-NAS: Data Adapted Pruning for Efficient Neural Architecture Search S	ECCV	`Other`	-
Differentiable Joint Pruning and Quantization for Hardware Efficiency	ECCV	`Other`	-
Channel Pruning via Automatic Structure Search	IJCAI	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Adversarial Neural Pruning with Latent Vulnerability Suppression	ICML	`W`	-
Proving the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Pruning is All You Need	ICML	`W`	-
Network Pruning by Greedy Subnetwork Selection	ICML	`F`	-
Operation-Aware Soft Channel Pruning using Differentiable Masks	ICML	`F`	-
DropNet: Reducing Neural Network Complexity via Iterative Pruning	ICML	`F`	-
Soft Threshold Weight Reparameterization for Learnable Sparsity	ICML	`WF`	Pytorch(Author)
Structured Compression by Weight Encryption for Unstructured Pruning and Quantization	CVPR	`W`	-
Automatic Neural Network Compression by Sparsity-Quantization Joint Learning: A Constrained Optimization-Based Approach	CVPR	`W`	-
Towards Efficient Model Compression via Learned Global Ranking	CVPR (Oral)	`F`	Pytorch(Author)
HRank: Filter Pruning using High-Rank Feature Map	CVPR (Oral)	`F`	Pytorch(Author)
Neural Network Pruning with Residual-Connections and Limited-Data	CVPR (Oral)	`F`	-
DMCP: Differentiable Markov Channel Pruning for Neural Networks	CVPR (Oral)	`F`	TensorFlow(Author)
Group Sparsity: The Hinge Between Filter Pruning and Decomposition for Network Compression	CVPR	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Few Sample Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Network Compression	CVPR	`F`	-
Discrete Model Compression With Resource Constraint for Deep Neural Networks	CVPR	`F`	-
Learning Filter Pruning Criteria for Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Acceleration	CVPR	`F`	-
APQ: Joint Search for Network Architecture, Pruning and Quantization Policy	CVPR	`F`	-
Multi-Dimensional Pruning: A Unified Framework for Model Compression	CVPR (Oral)	`WF`	-
A Signal Propagation Perspective for Pruning Neural Networks at Initialization	ICLR (Spotlight)	`W`	-
ProxSGD: Training Structured Neural Networks under Regularization and Constraints	ICLR	`W`	TF+PT(Author)
One-Shot Pruning of Recurrent Neural Networks by Jacobian Spectrum Evaluation	ICLR	`W`	-
Lookahead: A Far-sighted Alternative of Magnitude-based Pruning	ICLR	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
Data-Independent Neural Pruning via Coresets	ICLR	`W`	-
Provable Filter Pruning for Efficient Neural Networks	ICLR	`F`	-
Dynamic Model Pruning with Feedback	ICLR	`WF`	-
Comparing Rewinding and Fine-tuning in Neural Network Pruning	ICLR (Oral)	`WF`	TensorFlow(Author)
AutoCompress: An Automatic DNN Structured Pruning Framework for Ultra-High Compression Rates	AAAI	`F`	-
Reborn filters: Pruning convolutional neural networks with limited data	AAAI	`F`	-
DARB: A Density-Aware Regular-Block Pruning for Deep Neural Networks	AAAI	`Other`	-
Pruning from Scratch	AAAI	`Other`	-

2019

Title	Venue	Type	Code
Deconstructing Lottery Tickets: Zeros, Signs, and the Supermask	NeurIPS	`W`	TensorFlow(Author)
One ticket to win them all: generalizing lottery ticket initializations across datasets and optimizers	NeurIPS	`W`	-
Global Sparse Momentum SGD for Pruning Very Deep Neural Networks	NeurIPS	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
AutoPrune: Automatic Network Pruning by Regularizing Auxiliary Parameters	NeurIPS	`W`	-
Network Pruning via Transformable Architecture Search	NeurIPS	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Gate Decorator: Global Filter Pruning Method for Accelerating Deep Convolutional Neural Networks	NeurIPS	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Model Compression with Adversarial Robustness: A Unified Optimization Framework	NeurIPS	`Other`	PyTorch(Author)
Adversarial Robustness vs Model Compression, or Both?	ICCV	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
MetaPruning: Meta Learning for Automatic Neural Network Channel Pruning	ICCV	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Accelerate CNN via Recursive Bayesian Pruning	ICCV	`F`	-
Learning Filter Basis for Convolutional Neural Network Compression	ICCV	`Other`	-
Co-Evolutionary Compression for Unpaired Image Translation	ICCV	`S`	-
COP: Customized Deep Model Compression via Regularized Correlation-Based Filter-Level Pruning	IJCAI	`F`	Tensorflow(Author)
Filter Pruning via Geometric Median for Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Acceleration	CVPR (Oral)	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Towards Optimal Structured CNN Pruning via Generative Adversarial Learning	CVPR	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Centripetal SGD for Pruning Very Deep Convolutional Networks with Complicated Structure	CVPR	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
On Implicit Filter Level Sparsity in Convolutional Neural Networks, Extension1, Extension2	CVPR	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Structured Pruning of Neural Networks with Budget-Aware Regularization	CVPR	`F`	-
Importance Estimation for Neural Network Pruning	CVPR	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
OICSR: Out-In-Channel Sparsity Regularization for Compact Deep Neural Networks	CVPR	`F`	-
Variational Convolutional Neural Network Pruning	CVPR	`F`	-
Partial Order Pruning: for Best Speed/Accuracy Trade-off in Neural Architecture Search	CVPR	`Other`	TensorFlow(Author)
Collaborative Channel Pruning for Deep Networks	ICML	`F`	-
Approximated Oracle Filter Pruning for Destructive CNN Width Optimization github	ICML	`F`	-
EigenDamage: Structured Pruning in the Kronecker-Factored Eigenbasis	ICML	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks	ICLR (Best)	`W`	TensorFlow(Author)
SNIP: Single-shot Network Pruning based on Connection Sensitivity	ICLR	`W`	TensorFLow(Author)
Dynamic Channel Pruning: Feature Boosting and Suppression	ICLR	`F`	TensorFlow(Author)
Rethinking the Value of Network Pruning	ICLR	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Dynamic Sparse Graph for Efficient Deep Learning	ICLR	`F`	CUDA(3rd)

2018

Title	Venue	Type	Code
Frequency-Domain Dynamic Pruning for Convolutional Neural Networks	NeurIPS	`W`	-
Discrimination-aware Channel Pruning for Deep Neural Networks	NeurIPS	`F`	TensorFlow(Author)
Learning Sparse Neural Networks via Sensitivity-Driven Regularization	NeurIPS	`WF`	-
Constraint-Aware Deep Neural Network Compression	ECCV	`W`	SkimCaffe(Author)
A Systematic DNN Weight Pruning Framework using Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers	ECCV	`W`	Caffe(Author)
Amc: Automl for model compression and acceleration on mobile devices	ECCV	`F`	TensorFlow(3rd)
Data-Driven Sparse Structure Selection for Deep Neural Networks	ECCV	`F`	MXNet(Author)
Coreset-Based Neural Network Compression	ECCV	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Soft Filter Pruning for Accelerating Deep Convolutional Neural Networks	IJCAI	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Accelerating Convolutional Networks via Global & Dynamic Filter Pruning	IJCAI	`F`	-
Weightless: Lossy weight encoding for deep neural network compression	ICML	`W`	-
Compressing Neural Networks using the Variational Information Bottleneck	ICML	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Deep k-Means: Re-Training and Parameter Sharing with Harder Cluster Assignments for Compressing Deep Convolutions	ICML	`Other`	PyTorch(Author)
CLIP-Q: Deep Network Compression Learning by In-Parallel Pruning-Quantization	CVPR	`W`	-
“Learning-Compression” Algorithms for Neural Net Pruning	CVPR	`W`	-
PackNet: Adding Multiple Tasks to a Single Network by Iterative Pruning	CVPR	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
NISP: Pruning Networks using Neuron Importance Score Propagation	CVPR	`F`	-
To prune, or not to prune: exploring the efficacy of pruning for model compression	ICLR	`W`	-
Rethinking the Smaller-Norm-Less-Informative Assumption in Channel Pruning of Convolution Layers	ICLR	`F`	TensorFlow(Author), PyTorch(3rd)

2017

Title	Venue	Type	Code
Net-Trim: Convex Pruning of Deep Neural Networks with Performance Guarantee	NeurIPS	`W`	TensorFlow(Author)
Learning to Prune Deep Neural Networks via Layer-wise Optimal Brain Surgeon	NeurIPS	`W`	PyTorch(Author)
Runtime Neural Pruning	NeurIPS	`F`	-
Structured Bayesian Pruning via Log-Normal Multiplicative Noise	NeurIPS	`F`	-
Bayesian Compression for Deep Learning	NeurIPS	`F`	-
ThiNet: A Filter Level Pruning Method for Deep Neural Network Compression	ICCV	`F`	Caffe(Author), PyTorch(3rd)
Channel pruning for accelerating very deep neural networks	ICCV	`F`	Caffe(Author)
Learning Efficient Convolutional Networks Through Network Slimming	ICCV	`F`	PyTorch(Author)
Variational Dropout Sparsifies Deep Neural Networks	ICML	`W`	-
Combined Group and Exclusive Sparsity for Deep Neural Networks	ICML	`WF`	-
Designing Energy-Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks using Energy-Aware Pruning	CVPR	`W`	-
Pruning Filters for Efficient ConvNets	ICLR	`F`	PyTorch(3rd)
Pruning Convolutional Neural Networks for Resource Efficient Inference	ICLR	`F`	TensorFlow(3rd)

2016

Title	Venue	Type	Code
Dynamic Network Surgery for Efficient DNNs	NeurIPS	`W`	Caffe(Author)
Learning the Number of Neurons in Deep Networks	NeurIPS	`F`	-
Deep Compression: Compressing Deep Neural Networks with Pruning, Trained Quantization and Huffman Coding	ICLR (Best)	`W`	Caffe(Author)