EasyCompress: Automated Compression for Deep Learning Models

Over the past years the size of deep learning models has been growing consistently. This growth has led to significant improvements in performance, but at the expense of increased computational resource demands. Compression techniques can be used to improve the efficiency of deep learning models by shrinking their size and computational needs,...

Compressing code generation language models on CPUs: Using Group Lasso pruning and post-training quantization

Code generation models have become more popular recently, due to the fact that they assist developers in writing code in a more productive manner. While these large models deliver impressive performance, they require significant computational resources and memory, making them difficult to deploy and expensive to train. Additionally, their large...

CodeGPT on XTC: Compressing a CodeGPT Model Using Hybrid Layer Reduction and Extreme Quantisation through Knowledge Distillation

Large language models are powerful because of their state-of-the-art language processing abilities. But, they come at the cost of being extremely resource-intensive, and are steadily growing in size. As a result, compressing such models for resource- constrained devices is an active and promising re- search area. In spite of their current...

Compressing Digital Illustrative Art for Mobile Games by Means of 2D Triangle Meshes

Many games played on the mobile phone have become large in download size. A significant portion thereof is due to the many textures that are involved. However, many games have art styles that include clean drawings with gradients, solid colors, and hard lines. We observe that these images’ areas may be more efficiently described by interpolating...

Predicting the failure behavior of off-axis composite laminates subjected to dynamic compression loads

In recent times, composite materials are widely applied in the construction industry because of their superior properties compared to traditional materials like steel and concrete. The use of composite materials in defense and infrastructure protective applications to resist high rate dynamic loading conditions has been gaining the interest of a...

Lossy Geometry Compression for High Resolution Voxel Scenes

Representing geometry data as voxels allows for a massive amount of detail that can be rendered in real-time. Storing this type of data as a directed acyclic graph (DAG) has recently led to immense improvements in memory consumption, which is one of the main limitations often associated with voxel-based approaches. We present a method for...

The effect of nodal topology on cellular solid mechanics: A preliminary diagnostic experimental investigation

Additive manufacturing allows material structuring, supporting the fabrication of multiple-level structures or metamaterials. Through the lens of classical stress reduction, nature’s cellular solid structures feature stress-homogenizing nodal topologies. Avian long bones are an example. Research into the mechanics of open cell cellular solids...

Strain Rate Dependent Compression Properties of Carbon-Epoxy Laminates

With increasing usage of fibre-reinforced composites for structural components across the automotive and aerospace industry, it became crucial to understand how this kind of materials behave when subjected to high loading rates, which are encountered in the case of crash events. <br/>The current work presents a study on the effect of the strain...

Analyses and dynamic modelling of the compressor section in a PCC-process for coal-fired power plants with offshore storage

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the main greenhouse gases that contributes to the current climate change. Its increasing share in the Earth atmosphere leads to an increase in global temperature. To prevent the sea level from rising and increased severity of extreme weather, many governments are now trying to reduce their carbon footprint. One...

An Efficient Approach to the Modeling of Compressive Transverse Cracking in Composite Laminates

A wedge-shaped failure mechanism occurs when a composite ply in a laminate is loaded under transverse compression. Because of this, a typical failure model for tensile load cases is not straightforward applicable for compressive load cases. In this paper, a method is described to approximate the compressive behavior using a vertical crack plane....

Shell Structures: A study of the skin

The Skin of a shell structure is used a lot for roof structures, like domes and hypershells in de 60’s. Not very often the skin of the shell flows through the building and will create other transitions between interior and exterior. So the shell is not always a roof or only a thin enclosure. Skin and construction can be integrated or split up in...

High Quality Transmission Of Paper Documents Over Telecommunications Networks

A system is presented for the transmission over telecommunications networks of a document from paper input (scanner) to an electronic output medium, mostly a computer or electronic storage device. The scanning operation has to take place at a high resolution (300 dots per inch), so the emphasis in this report is put on data compression.