Deep network pruning: A comparative study on CNNs in face recognition

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Fernando Alonso-Fernandez, Kevin Hernandez-Diaz, Jose Maria Buades Rubio, Prayag Tiwari, Josef Bigün

Published: 2025, Last Modified: 14 Nov 2025Pattern Recognit. Lett. 2025EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: Highlights•We summarize works in CNN network pruning applied to face recognition.•We apply a Taylor score-based network pruning method to three CNNs of different sizes.•We analyse impact on performance, parameters, embeddings, layers, and activations.