arXiv AI July 3, 2026 By Tasnim Shahriar

Do Newer Lightweight CNNs Perform Better Under Resource Constraints? A Controlled Multigenerational Study of Architecture, Initialization, Training Budget, and Efficiency

arXiv:2607. 01984v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Newer lightweight convolutional neural networks are often presented as improving predictive performance and deployment efficiency, but such claims require controlled evaluation.

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Jul 2

Comparative Analysis of Lightweight CNNs for Resource-Constrained Devices: Predictive Performance, Efficiency Trade-offs, and Initialization Effects

arXiv:2505. 03303v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Lightweight convolutional neural networks are often compared using results obtained with different training recipes, input settings, and pretrained checkpoints.

By Tasnim Shahriar

fine-tuning benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jul 1

A Reproducible Benchmark of Lightweight CNNs: Accuracy, Efficiency, and the Impact of Pretrained Initialization

arXiv:2505. 03303v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Lightweight convolutional neural networks are often compared using results obtained with different training recipes, input settings, and pretrained checkpoints.

By Tasnim Shahriar

fine-tuning benchmarks

arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 20

Learning Faster without Deeper Networks: A*-Inspired Batch Selection for Efficient CNN Training

arXiv:2607. 15745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Common practice when training Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is to use randomly shuffled mini-batches.

By Anxhelo Shehu, Enes Stastoli, Arben Cela

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arXiv AI

Aug 7

APQF: Agentic Profiling-Guided Structured Pruning and Mixed-Precision Quantization with Adaptive Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2608. 05499v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern deep neural networks achieve strong performance, but their scale makes them costly and slow, especially on resource-constrained edge devices.

By Sadegh Jafari, Mohiuddin Bilwal, Fan Zhou, Brian Gelder, Ali Jannesari

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 9

Latency-Constrained DNN Architecture Learning for Edge Systems using Zerorized Batch Normalization

arXiv:2607. 06922v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep learning applications have been widely adopted on edge devices, to mitigate the privacy and latency issues of accessing cloud servers.

By Shuo Huai, Di Liu, Hao Kong, Weichen Liu, Ravi Subramaniam, Christian Makaya, Qian Lin

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Jul 10

Less Data, Faster Convergence: Goal-Driven Data Optimization for Multimodal Instruction Tuning

arXiv:2603. 12478v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal instruction tuning is often compute-inefficient because training budgets are spread across large mixed image-video pools whose utility is highly uneven.

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