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It’s important to be gentle with the delicate berries.

Break out the leather gloves, heavy long sleeve shirt or coat, pruners and head out to your raspberry patch. Proper routine ...

Abstract: Modern deep neural networks, particularly recent large language models, come with massive model sizes that require significant computational and storage ...

Abstract: A challenge of channel pruning is designing efficient and effective criteria to select channels to prune. A widely used criterion is minimal performance degeneration, e.g., loss changes ...

Pruning is done for a variety of reasons: to thin, train, and rejuvenate crowded growth, to promote bigger harvests or more flowers, to control disease by removing infected wood, and to encourage ...

January feels like a write-off month in the garden, but it isn’t. This is when you quietly set up the whole year. While everything looks dead and muddy, you can be doing the boring, unglamorous jobs ...

If you’re looking for an outdoor job to crack on with, there are plenty of plants to prune in January. So it’s time to clean off your secateurs and start snipping. Most plants are dormant this month, ...

January in Minnesota may feel like a gardening lull, but it’s prime time for one important task: dormant pruning. When trees and shrubs are bare, it’s easier to see their structure and make clean cuts ...