The #publications in network pruning and sparse neural networks can be obtained via this link. Clicking on the "More" option in the publication year filter on the left of the page, we can get the specific #publication per year since 1967.
Specifically, we
- search in full data with condition:
(((sparse OR sparsity) AND compression) OR pruning) AND ((neural network) OR (deep learning)) - filter the results by limiting the fields of research to
4602 Artificial Intelligence OR 4603 Computer Vision and Multimedia Computation OR 4611 Machine Learning OR 4606 Distributed Computing and System Software - filter the results by limiting the publication type to
Proceeding
Here is the screenshot of the website.

