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Brain-Inspired Pruning Cuts Neural Networks By 90%

Brain-inspired pruning method cuts Neural Networks by 90% without losing accuracy, using criticality theory to identify important neurons and adaptively prune less useful ones.

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Novel brain-inspired pruning method for Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs)
Uses criticality theory from neuroscience to identify important neurons
Achieves up to 90% network compression while maintaining accuracy
Introduces adaptive pruning schedule based on network dynamics
Demonstrates effectiveness across multiple SNN architectures

  
  
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