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Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) enable efficient deep learning by saving on storage and computational costs. However, as the size of neural networks continues to grow, meeting computational requirements remains a challenge. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Matt Gorbett , Hossein Shirazi , Indrakshi Ray

Binary neural networks (BNNs) have been widely adopted to reduce the computational cost and memory storage on edge-computing devices by using one-bit representation for activations and weights. However, as neural networks become…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Quang Hieu Vo , Linh-Tam Tran , Sung-Ho Bae , Lok-Won Kim , Choong Seon Hong

Neural networks have recently been proposed for multi-label classification because they are able to capture and model label dependencies in the output layer. In this work, we investigate limitations of BP-MLL, a neural network (NN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Jinseok Nam , Jungi Kim , Eneldo Loza Mencía , Iryna Gurevych , Johannes Fürnkranz

This paper proposes a generic formulation that significantly expedites the training and deployment of image classification models, particularly under the scenarios of many image categories and high feature dimensions. As a defining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Fumin Shen , Yadong Mu , Wei Liu , Yang Yang , Heng Tao Shen

Backpropagation (BP) is widely used for calculating gradients in deep neural networks (DNNs). Applied often along with stochastic gradient descent (SGD) or its variants, BP is considered as a de-facto choice in a variety of machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Ziang Li , Yiwen Guo , Haodi Liu , Changshui Zhang

Binary neural network (BNN) provides a promising solution to deploy parameter-intensive deep single image super-resolution (SISR) models onto real devices with limited storage and computational resources. To achieve comparable performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Zhiqiang Lang , Chongxing Song , Lei Zhang , Wei Wei

We propose methods to train convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with both binarized weights and activations, leading to quantized models that are specifically friendly to mobile devices with limited power capacity and computation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Bohan Zhuang , Chunhua Shen , Mingkui Tan , Peng Chen , Lingqiao Liu , Ian Reid

We introduce a novel scheme to train binary convolutional neural networks (CNNs) -- CNNs with weights and activations constrained to {-1,+1} at run-time. It has been known that using binary weights and activations drastically reduce memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Xiaofan Lin , Cong Zhao , Wei Pan

Binarized neural networks (BNNs) are feedforward neural networks with binary weights and activation functions. In the context of using a BNN for classification, the verification problem seeks to determine whether a small perturbation of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Woojin Kim , James R. Luedtke

Binary Neural Networks (BiNNs), which employ single-bit precision weights, have emerged as a promising solution to reduce memory usage and power consumption while maintaining competitive performance in large-scale systems. However, training…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Luca Nepote , Alix Lhéritier , Nicolas Bondoux , Marios Kountouris , Maurizio Filippone

Neural networks (NN) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in various applications. Unfortunately in applications where training data is insufficient, they are often prone to overfitting. One effective way to alleviate this problem is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Hao Wang , Xingjian Shi , Dit-Yan Yeung

Learning binary representation is essential to large-scale computer vision tasks. Most existing algorithms require a separate quantization constraint to learn effective hashing functions. In this work, we present Direct Binary Embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Liu Liu , Alireza Rahimpour , Ali Taalimi , Hairong Qi

Recently, the deep neural network (derived from the artificial neural network) has attracted many researchers' attention by its outstanding performance. However, since this network requires high-performance GPUs and large storage, it is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Song Wang , Dongchun Ren , Li Chen , Wei Fan , Jun Sun , Satoshi Naoi

Previous work has shown that it is possible to train deep neural networks with low precision weights and activations. In the extreme case it is even possible to constrain the network to binary values. The costly floating point…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Sam Leroux , Steven Bohez , Tim Verbelen , Bert Vankeirsbilck , Pieter Simoens , Bart Dhoedt

Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Out (MIMO) detection is an important problem in modern wireless communication systems. While traditional Belief Propagation (BP) detectors perform poorly on loopy graphs, the recent Graph Neural Networks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Hongyi Li , Junxiang Wang , Yongchao Wang

The artificial neural network is a popular framework in machine learning. To empower individual neurons, we recently suggested that the current type of neurons could be upgraded to 2nd order counterparts, in which the linear operation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Fenglei Fan , Wenxiang Cong , Ge Wang

For most deep learning algorithms training is notoriously time consuming. Since most of the computation in training neural networks is typically spent on floating point multiplications, we investigate an approach to training that eliminates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-29 Zhouhan Lin , Matthieu Courbariaux , Roland Memisevic , Yoshua Bengio

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs), where weights and activations are constrained to binary values (+1, -1), are a highly efficient alternative to traditional neural networks. Unfortunately, typical BNNs, while binarizing linear layers…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Yuval Harary , Almog Sharoni , Esteban Garzón , Marco Lanuzza , Adam Teman , Leonid Yavits

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) show great promise for real-world embedded devices. As one of the critical steps to achieve a powerful BNN, the scale factor calculation plays an essential role in reducing the performance gap to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Sheng Xu , Yanjing Li , Tiancheng Wang , Teli Ma , Baochang Zhang , Peng Gao , Yu Qiao , Jinhu Lv , Guodong Guo

Deep neural networks are highly effective at a range of computational tasks. However, they tend to be computationally expensive, especially in vision-related problems, and also have large memory requirements. One of the most effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Ameya Prabhu , Vishal Batchu , Sri Aurobindo Munagala , Rohit Gajawada , Anoop Namboodiri