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PRUNING OF CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS USING INTERPRETABILITY OF KOLMOGOROV-ARNOLD NETWORKS

The paper addresses the pressing scientific and technical problem of over-parameterization in deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), which hinders their effective deployment in Edge AI systems. Traditional compression methods, such as magnitude-based pruning, often remove functionally important components as they fail to account for the semantic contribution of filters to the final decision. This study proposes a novel structural pruning method leveraging the interpretability of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN). A hybrid CNN-KAN architecture is developed, where the KAN layer acts as an "interpretable bottleneck," enabling the analysis of convolutional feature importance through learned B-spline coefficients. A mathematical importance criterion based on the maximum weighted L2-norm of spline coefficients is formalized. An iterative pruning algorithm with adaptive fine-tuning is developed. Experimental studies on the CIFAR-10 dataset demonstrate that the proposed method achieves a compression ratio of 1.33× (reducing parameters from 11.2 million to 8.4 million) while maintaining an accuracy of 90.68%. This result outperforms classical pruning by 1.56% and is competitive with know

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