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For successful deployment of deep neural networks on highly--resource-constrained devices (hearing aids, earbuds, wearables), we must simplify the types of operations and the memory/power resources used during inference. Completely avoiding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Shumeet Baluja , David Marwood , Michele Covell , Nick Johnston

Recent results show that deep neural networks achieve excellent performance even when, during training, weights are quantized and projected to a binary representation. Here, we show that this is just the tip of the iceberg: these same…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-08 Paul Merolla , Rathinakumar Appuswamy , John Arthur , Steve K. Esser , Dharmendra Modha

Despite the notable success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in solving complex tasks, the training process still remains considerable challenges. A primary obstacle is the substantial time required for training, particularly as high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Viet Hoang Pham , Hyo-Sung Ahn

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have achieved state-of-the-art results in a wide range of tasks, with the best results obtained with large training sets and large models. In the past, GPUs enabled these breakthroughs because of their greater…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Matthieu Courbariaux , Yoshua Bengio , Jean-Pierre David

Stochastic binary hidden units in a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) network give at least three potential benefits when compared to deterministic MLP networks. (1) They allow to learn one-to-many type of mappings. (2) They can be used in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-10 Tapani Raiko , Mathias Berglund , Guillaume Alain , Laurent Dinh

Neural networks have been able to achieve groundbreaking accuracy at tasks conventionally considered only doable by humans. Using stochastic gradient descent, optimization in many dimensions is made possible, albeit at a relatively high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Hirsh R. Agarwal , Andrew Huang

Multiplications are responsible for most of the computational cost involved in neural network training and inference. Recent research has thus looked for ways to reduce the cost associated with them. Inspired by Mogami (2020), we replace…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Atli Kosson , Martin Jaggi

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

This paper presents a new method for pre-training neural networks that can decrease the total training time for a neural network while maintaining the final performance, which motivates its use on deep neural networks. By partitioning the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Conrado S. Miranda , Fernando J. Von Zuben

The largely successful method of training neural networks is to learn their weights using some variant of stochastic gradient descent (SGD). Here, we show that the solutions found by SGD can be further improved by ensembling a subset of the…

Neural networks with binary weights are computation-efficient and hardware-friendly, but their training is challenging because it involves a discrete optimization problem. Surprisingly, ignoring the discrete nature of the problem and using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Xiangming Meng , Roman Bachmann , Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan

To reduce memory footprint and run-time latency, techniques such as neural network pruning and binarization have been explored separately. However, it is unclear how to combine the best of the two worlds to get extremely small and efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Yinghao Xu , Xin Dong , Yudian Li , Hao Su

The high computation, memory, and power budgets of inferring convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are major bottlenecks of model deployment to edge computing platforms, e.g., mobile devices and IoT. Moreover, training CNNs is time and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Mostafa Elhoushi , Zihao Chen , Farhan Shafiq , Ye Henry Tian , Joey Yiwei Li

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are quantized for efficient inference on resource-constrained platforms. However, training deep learning models with low-precision weights and activations involves a demanding optimization task, which calls for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Ziang Long , Penghang Yin , Jack Xin

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

A particle filtering approach is suggested for the training of multi-layer neural networks without utilizing gradients calculation. The network weights are considered to be the components of the estimated state-vector of a noise driven…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Isaac Yaesh , Natan Grinfeld

We present a global algorithm for training multilayer neural networks in this Letter. The algorithm is focused on controlling the local fields of neurons induced by the input of samples by random adaptations of the synaptic weights. Unlike…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hong Zhao , Tao Jin

The increasing complexity of deep learning architectures is resulting in training time requiring weeks or even months. This slow training is due in part to vanishing gradients, in which the gradients used by back-propagation are extremely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Bharat Singh , Soham De , Yangmuzi Zhang , Thomas Goldstein , Gavin Taylor

In this short note, we propose a new method for quantizing the weights of a fully trained neural network. A simple deterministic pre-processing step allows us to quantize network layers via memoryless scalar quantization while preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Johannes Maly , Rayan Saab

Neural Networks are function approximators that have achieved state-of-the-art accuracy in numerous machine learning tasks. In spite of their great success in terms of accuracy, their large training time makes it difficult to use them for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Abhishek Sinha , Mausoom Sarkar , Aahitagni Mukherjee , Balaji Krishnamurthy