Q-CapsNets: A Specialized Framework for Quantizing Capsule Networks
Abstract
Capsule Networks (CapsNets), recently proposed by the Google Brain team, have superior learning capabilities in machine learning tasks, like image classification, compared to the traditional CNNs. However, CapsNets require extremely intense computations and are difficult to be deployed in their original form at the resource-constrained edge devices. This paper makes the first attempt to quantize CapsNet models, to enable their efficient edge implementations, by developing a specialized quantization framework for CapsNets. We evaluate our framework for several benchmarks. On a deep CapsNet model for the CIFAR10 dataset, the framework reduces the memory footprint by 6.2x, with only 0.15% accuracy loss. We will open-source our framework at https://git.io/JvDIF in August 2020.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2004.07116,
title = {Q-CapsNets: A Specialized Framework for Quantizing Capsule Networks},
author = {Alberto Marchisio and Beatrice Bussolino and Alessio Colucci and Maurizio Martina and Guido Masera and Muhammad Shafique},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.07116},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication at Design Automation Conference 2020 (DAC 2020)