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In training neural networks, it is common practice to use partial gradients computed over batches, mostly very small subsets of the training set. This approach is motivated by the argument that such a partial gradient is close to the true…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Jan Spörer , Bernhard Bermeitinger , Tomas Hrycej , Niklas Limacher , Siegfried Handschuh

A low precision deep neural network training technique for producing sparse, ternary neural networks is presented. The technique incorporates hard- ware implementation costs during training to achieve significant model compression for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Julian Faraone , Nicholas Fraser , Giulio Gambardella , Michaela Blott , Philip H. W. Leong

Low precision training is one of the most popular strategies for deploying the deep model on limited hardware resources. Fixed point implementation of DCNs has the potential to alleviate complexities and facilitate potential deployment on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Zehua Cheng , Weiyang Wang , Yan Pan , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Large-scale convolutional neural networks (CNNs) suffer from very long training times, spanning from hours to weeks, limiting the productivity and experimentation of deep learning practitioners. As networks grow in size and complexity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Aditya Rajagopal , Diederik Adriaan Vink , Stylianos I. Venieris , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

Neural networks offer high-accuracy solutions to a range of problems, but are costly to run in production systems because of computational and memory requirements during a forward pass. Given a trained network, we propose a techique called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Michele Pratusevich

Reduced numerical precision is a common technique to reduce computational cost in many Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). While it has been observed that DNNs are resilient to small errors and noise, no general result exists that is capable of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-04 Zhaoqi Li , Yu Ma , Catalina Vajiac , Yunkai Zhang

This paper presents by simulation how approximate multipliers can be utilized to enhance the training performance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Approximate multipliers have significantly better performance in terms of speed,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Issam Hammad , Kamal El-Sankary , Jason Gu

We introduce the concept of dynamically growing a neural network during training. In particular, an untrainable deep network starts as a trainable shallow network and newly added layers are slowly, organically added during training, thereby…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Leslie N. Smith , Emily M. Hand , Timothy Doster

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have provided brilliant performance across various tasks. However, this success often comes at the cost of unnecessarily large model sizes, high computational demands, and substantial memory footprints.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Shaharyar Ahmed Khan Tareen , Filza Khan Tareen

The commitment to single-precision floating-point arithmetic is widespread in the deep learning community. To evaluate whether this commitment is justified, the influence of computing precision (single and double precision) on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Tomas Hrycej , Bernhard Bermeitinger , Siegfried Handschuh

Deep Learning Accelerators are prone to faults which manifest in the form of errors in Neural Networks. Fault Tolerance in Neural Networks is crucial in real-time safety critical applications requiring computation for long durations. Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Vasisht Duddu , D. Vijay Rao , Valentina E. Balas

Large-scale deep neural networks (DNN) have been successfully used in a number of tasks from image recognition to natural language processing. They are trained using large training sets on large models, making them computationally and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Sek Chai , Aswin Raghavan , David Zhang , Mohamed Amer , Tim Shields

Training deep neural networks may be challenging in real world data. Using models as black-boxes, even with transfer learning, can result in poor generalization or inconclusive results when it comes to small datasets or specific…

This paper tackles the problem of training a deep convolutional neural network of both low-bitwidth weights and activations. Optimizing a low-precision network is very challenging due to the non-differentiability of the quantizer, which may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Bohan Zhuang , Jing Liu , Mingkui Tan , Lingqiao Liu , Ian Reid , Chunhua Shen

Scientific machine learning (SciML) has emerged as a versatile approach to address complex computational science and engineering problems. Within this field, physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) and deep operator networks (DeepONets)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Joel Hayford , Jacob Goldman-Wetzler , Eric Wang , Lu Lu

Learning with neural networks relies on the complexity of the representable functions, but more importantly, the particular assignment of typical parameters to functions of different complexity. Taking the number of activation regions as a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-17 Hanna Tseran , Guido Montúfar

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely studied in various applications. A DNN consists of layers of neurons that compute affine combinations, apply nonlinear operations, and produce corresponding activations. The rectified linear unit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Navid Aftabi , Nima Moradi , Fatemeh Mahroo

This paper shows how to train binary networks to within a few percent points ($\sim 3-5 \%$) of the full precision counterpart. We first show how to build a strong baseline, which already achieves state-of-the-art accuracy, by combining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Brais Martinez , Jing Yang , Adrian Bulat , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

We develop a new method for regularising neural networks. We learn a probability distribution over the activations of all layers of the model and then insert imputed values into the network during training. We obtain a posterior for an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Matthew Willetts , Alexander Camuto , Stephen Roberts , Chris Holmes

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) produce state-of-art performance on many machine learning tasks but their demand on resources in terms of memory and computational power are often high. Therefore, there is a great interest in optimizing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Joachim Ott , Zhouhan Lin , Ying Zhang , Shih-Chii Liu , Yoshua Bengio