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The paper aims to investigate relevant computational issues of deep neural network architectures with an eye to the interaction between the optimization algorithm and the classification performance. In particular, we aim to analyze the…

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While advancements in quantization have significantly reduced the computational costs of inference in deep learning, training still predominantly relies on complex floating-point arithmetic. Low-precision fixed-point training presents a…

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As the parameters of Large Language Models (LLMs) have scaled to hundreds of billions, the demand for efficient training methods -- balancing faster computation and reduced memory usage without sacrificing accuracy -- has become more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Kaan Ozkara , Tao Yu , Youngsuk Park

Today's high performance deep learning architectures involve large models with numerous parameters. Low precision numerics has emerged as a popular technique to reduce both the compute and memory requirements of these large models. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Asit Mishra , Debbie Marr

The high computational and parameter complexity of neural networks makes their training very slow and difficult to deploy on energy and storage-constrained computing systems. Many network complexity reduction techniques have been proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Charbel Sakr , Naresh Shanbhag

Deep neural networks (DNN) are powerful models for many pattern recognition tasks, yet their high computational complexity and memory requirement limit them to applications on high-performance computing platforms. In this paper, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Lukas Mauch , Bin Yang

Efforts to reduce the numerical precision of computations in deep learning training have yielded systems that aggressively quantize weights and activations, yet employ wide high-precision accumulators for partial sums in inner-product…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Charbel Sakr , Naigang Wang , Chia-Yu Chen , Jungwook Choi , Ankur Agrawal , Naresh Shanbhag , Kailash Gopalakrishnan

Deep neural networks have achieved great success both in computer vision and natural language processing tasks. However, mostly state-of-art methods highly rely on external training or computing to improve the performance. To alleviate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Ming Yan , Xueli Xiao , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Yi Pan

With the increasing size of Deep Neural Network (DNN) models, the high memory space requirements and computational complexity have become an obstacle for efficient DNN implementations. To ease this problem, using reduced-precision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Jinming Lu , Siyuan Lu , Zhisheng Wang , Chao Fang , Jun Lin , Zhongfeng Wang , Li Du

Learn in-situ is a growing trend for Edge AI. Training deep neural network (DNN) on edge devices is challenging because both energy and memory are constrained. Low precision training helps to reduce the energy cost of a single training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Tian Huang , Tao Luo , Joey Tianyi Zhou

Given the current trend of increasing size and complexity of machine learning architectures, it has become of critical importance to identify new approaches to improve the computational efficiency of model training. In this context, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Badreddine Noune , Philip Jones , Daniel Justus , Dominic Masters , Carlo Luschi

Low-precision deep neural network (DNN) training has gained tremendous attention as reducing precision is one of the most effective knobs for boosting DNNs' training time/energy efficiency. In this paper, we attempt to explore low-precision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yonggan Fu , Han Guo , Meng Li , Xin Yang , Yining Ding , Vikas Chandra , Yingyan Celine Lin

Deep neural networks with lots of parameters are typically used for large-scale computer vision tasks such as image classification. This is a result of using dense matrix multiplications and convolutions. However, sparse computations are…

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Recent breakthroughs in computer vision make use of large deep neural networks, utilizing the substantial speedup offered by GPUs. For applications running on limited hardware, however, high precision real-time processing can still be a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Oran Shayer , Dan Levi , Ethan Fetaya

We propose a novel technique for faster deep neural network training which systematically applies sample-based approximation to the constituent tensor operations, i.e., matrix multiplications and convolutions. We introduce new sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Menachem Adelman , Kfir Y. Levy , Ido Hakimi , Mark Silberstein

Training deep neural networks results in strong learned representations that show good generalization capabilities. In most cases, training involves iterative modification of all weights inside the network via back-propagation. In Extreme…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Amir Rosenfeld , John K. Tsotsos

Training Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) can be computationally demanding, particularly when dealing with large models. Recent work has aimed to mitigate this computational challenge by introducing 8-bit floating-point (FP8) formats for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Sami Ben Ali , Silviu-Ioan Filip , Olivier Sentieys

Deep learning has been wildly successful in practice and most state-of-the-art machine learning methods are based on neural networks. Lacking, however, is a rigorous mathematical theory that adequately explains the amazing performance of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-03 Rahul Parhi , Robert D. Nowak

The highly non-linear nature of deep neural networks causes them to be susceptible to adversarial examples and have unstable gradients which hinders interpretability. However, existing methods to solve these issues, such as adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Suraj Srinivas , Kyle Matoba , Himabindu Lakkaraju , Francois Fleuret

Deep neural networks have shown great success in many diverse fields. The training of these networks can take significant amounts of time, compute and energy. As datasets get larger and models become more complex, the exploration of model…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Siddharth Samsi , Michael Jones , Mark M. Veillette