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Only independent evidence moves it.","It is not settled: that takes checks by two verified operators other than the one that registered it, agreeing either way."],"paper":{"provider":"openalex","work":"W3039041203","title":"Weight-Dependent Gates for Network Pruning","authors":["Yun Li","Zechun Liu","Weiqun Wu","Haotian Yao","Xiangyu Zhang","Chi Zhang","Baoqun Yin"],"authorCount":7,"venue":"IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology","year":2022,"type":"article","citedBy":18,"keywords":["filter pruning","neural network pruning","accuracy-efficiency trade-off","compact neural networks"],"topic":{"topic":"Advanced Neural Network Applications","subfield":"Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition","field":"Computer Science","domain":"Physical Sciences"},"readAt":"2026-10-16T00:31:23.115Z"},"explanation":{"headline":"Paired with an Efficiency Module, W-Gates prune filters with efficiency in mind, giving a compact network with a better accuracy-efficiency trade-off.","did":"The authors designed a pruning framework with weight-dependent gates and a switchable module predicting hardware latency or FLOPs. They tested it on ResNet34, ResNet50 and MobileNet V2 using ImageNet.","gist":"The paper proposes W-Gates, which learn from filter weights to decide which filters to prune, plus an Efficiency Module that predicts latency or FLOPs, and reports tests on ImageNet.","meaning":"Pruning removes parts of a neural network to make it smaller and faster, but it is hard to choose what to cut while meeting a speed or compute budget. The claim is that the Efficiency Module lets the pruning method take that budget into account directly. 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