Lining Li

Dr. Lining Li


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Academic Career Length

2Years (2025-Present)

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23 May 2025 in International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
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LLLining Li
Lining Li
RRRong Ren
Rong Ren
JDJun Dong
Jun Dong
BZBing Zhang
Bing Zhang
XKXu Kang
Xu Kang

25 April 2025 in Mathematics
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LLLining Li
Lining Li
FCFenglin Cen
Fenglin Cen
QFQuan Feng
Quan Feng
JXJi Xu
Ji Xu
In resource-constrained mobile systems, efficiently handling incrementally added tasks under dynamically evolving requirements is a critical challenge. To address this, we propose aggregate pruning (AP), a framework that combines pruning with filter aggregation to optimize deep neural networks for continuous incremental multi-task learning (MTL). The approach reduces redundancy by dynamically pruning and aggregating similar filters across tasks, ensuring efficient use of computational resources while maintaining high task-specific performance. The aggregation strategy enables effective filter sharing across tasks, significantly reducing model complexity. Additionally, an adaptive mechanism is incorporated into AP to adjust filter sharing based on task similarity, further enhancing efficiency. Experiments on different backbone networks, including LeNet, VGG, ResNet, and so on, show that AP achieves substantial parameter reduction and computational savings with minimal accuracy loss, outperforming existing pruning methods and even surpassing non-pruning MTL techniques. The architecture-agnostic design of AP also enables potential extensions to complex architectures like graph neural networks (GNNs), offering a promising solution for incremental multi-task GNNs.