Shihao Zhang

Shihao Zhang, Rayan Saab

Deep neural networks have achieved state-of-the-art performance across numerous applications, but their high memory and computational demands present significant challenges, particularly in resource-constrained environments. Model compression techniques, such as low-rank approximation, offer a promising solution by reducing the size and complexity of these networks while only minimally sacrificing accuracy. In this paper, we develop an analytical framework for data-driven post-training low-rank compression. We prove three recovery theorems under progressively weaker assumptions about the approximate low-rank structure of activations, modeling deviations via noise. Our results represent a step toward explaining why data-driven low-rank compression methods outperform data-agnostic approaches and towards theoretically grounded compression algorithms that reduce inference costs while maintaining performance.

Shihao Zhang, Huazhu Fu, Yanwu Xu et al.

Retinal image segmentation plays an important role in automatic disease diagnosis. This task is very challenging because the complex structure and texture information are mixed in a retinal image, and distinguishing the information is difficult. Existing methods handle texture and structure jointly, which may lead biased models toward recognizing textures and thus results in inferior segmentation performance. To address it, we propose a segmentation strategy that seeks to separate structure and texture components and significantly improve the performance. To this end, we design a structure-texture demixing network (STD-Net) that can process structures and textures differently and better. Extensive experiments on two retinal image segmentation tasks (i.e., blood vessel segmentation, optic disc and cup segmentation) demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.