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ReBNet: Residual Binarized Neural Network

Machine Learning 2018-03-29 v3 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Neural and Evolutionary Computing

Abstract

This paper proposes ReBNet, an end-to-end framework for training reconfigurable binary neural networks on software and developing efficient accelerators for execution on FPGA. Binary neural networks offer an intriguing opportunity for deploying large-scale deep learning models on resource-constrained devices. Binarization reduces the memory footprint and replaces the power-hungry matrix-multiplication with light-weight XnorPopcount operations. However, binary networks suffer from a degraded accuracy compared to their fixed-point counterparts. We show that the state-of-the-art methods for optimizing binary networks accuracy, significantly increase the implementation cost and complexity. To compensate for the degraded accuracy while adhering to the simplicity of binary networks, we devise the first reconfigurable scheme that can adjust the classification accuracy based on the application. Our proposition improves the classification accuracy by representing features with multiple levels of residual binarization. Unlike previous methods, our approach does not exacerbate the area cost of the hardware accelerator. Instead, it provides a tradeoff between throughput and accuracy while the area overhead of multi-level binarization is negligible.

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@article{arxiv.1711.01243,
  title  = {ReBNet: Residual Binarized Neural Network},
  author = {Mohammad Ghasemzadeh and Mohammad Samragh and Farinaz Koushanfar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.01243},
  year   = {2018}
}

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To Appear In The 26th IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines

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