Dynamic Sensitivity Filter Pruning using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning For DCNN's

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Hauptverfasser: Chowdhury, Iftekhar Haider, Syed, Zaed Ikbal, Dhrubo, Ahmed Faizul Haque, Qayum, Mohammad Abdul
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author Chowdhury, Iftekhar Haider
Syed, Zaed Ikbal
Dhrubo, Ahmed Faizul Haque
Qayum, Mohammad Abdul
author_facet Chowdhury, Iftekhar Haider
Syed, Zaed Ikbal
Dhrubo, Ahmed Faizul Haque
Qayum, Mohammad Abdul
contents Deep Convolutional Neural Networks have achieved state of the art performance across various computer vision tasks, however their practical deployment is limited by computational and memory overhead. This paper introduces Differential Sensitivity Fusion Pruning, a novel single shot filter pruning framework that focuses on evaluating the stability and redundancy of filter importance scores across multiple criteria. Differential Sensitivity Fusion Pruning computes a differential sensitivity score for each filter by fusing the discrepancies among gradient based sensitivity, first order Taylor expansion, and KL divergence of activation distributions. An exponential scaling mechanism is applied to emphasize filters with inconsistent importance across metrics, identifying candidates that are structurally unstable or less critical to the model performance. Unlike iterative or reinforcement learning based pruning strategies, Differential Sensitivity Fusion Pruning is efficient and deterministic, requiring only a single forward-backward pass for scoring and pruning. Extensive experiments across varying pruning rates between 50 to 70 percent demonstrate that Differential Sensitivity Fusion Pruning significantly reduces model complexity, achieving over 80 percent Floating point Operations Per Seconds reduction while maintaining high accuracy. For instance, at 70 percent pruning, our approach retains up to 98.23 percent of baseline accuracy, surpassing traditional heuristics in both compression and generalization. The proposed method presents an effective solution for scalable and adaptive Deep Convolutional Neural Networks compression, paving the way for efficient deployment on edge and mobile platforms.
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spellingShingle Dynamic Sensitivity Filter Pruning using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning For DCNN's
Chowdhury, Iftekhar Haider
Syed, Zaed Ikbal
Dhrubo, Ahmed Faizul Haque
Qayum, Mohammad Abdul
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks have achieved state of the art performance across various computer vision tasks, however their practical deployment is limited by computational and memory overhead. This paper introduces Differential Sensitivity Fusion Pruning, a novel single shot filter pruning framework that focuses on evaluating the stability and redundancy of filter importance scores across multiple criteria. Differential Sensitivity Fusion Pruning computes a differential sensitivity score for each filter by fusing the discrepancies among gradient based sensitivity, first order Taylor expansion, and KL divergence of activation distributions. An exponential scaling mechanism is applied to emphasize filters with inconsistent importance across metrics, identifying candidates that are structurally unstable or less critical to the model performance. Unlike iterative or reinforcement learning based pruning strategies, Differential Sensitivity Fusion Pruning is efficient and deterministic, requiring only a single forward-backward pass for scoring and pruning. Extensive experiments across varying pruning rates between 50 to 70 percent demonstrate that Differential Sensitivity Fusion Pruning significantly reduces model complexity, achieving over 80 percent Floating point Operations Per Seconds reduction while maintaining high accuracy. For instance, at 70 percent pruning, our approach retains up to 98.23 percent of baseline accuracy, surpassing traditional heuristics in both compression and generalization. The proposed method presents an effective solution for scalable and adaptive Deep Convolutional Neural Networks compression, paving the way for efficient deployment on edge and mobile platforms.
title Dynamic Sensitivity Filter Pruning using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning For DCNN's
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05446