English
Related papers

Related papers: Bitwise Neural Networks

200 papers

Significant success has been reported recently using deep neural networks for classification. Such large networks can be computationally intensive, even after training is over. Implementing these trained networks in hardware chips with a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-10-25 Daniel Soudry , Ron Meir

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

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs), known to be one among the effectively compact network architectures, have achieved great outcomes in the visual tasks. Designing efficient binary architectures is not trivial due to the binary nature of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Hai Phan , Zechun Liu , Dang Huynh , Marios Savvides , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Zhiqiang Shen

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer an energy-efficient paradigm for machine intelligence, but their continued scaling poses challenges for resource-limited deployment. Despite recent advances in binary SNNs, the storage and computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Wenjie Wei , Malu Zhang , Jieyuan Zhang , Ammar Belatreche , Shuai Wang , Yimeng Shan , Hanwen Liu , Honglin Cao , Guoqing Wang , Yang Yang , Haizhou Li

The increasing size of large neural network models, specifically language models and foundational image models, poses deployment challenges, prompting efforts to reduce memory requirements and enhance computational efficiency. These efforts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Eduardo Lobo Lustoda Cabral , Paulo Pirozelli , Larissa Driemeier

The quantization of weights to binary states in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) can replace resource-hungry multiply accumulate operations with simple accumulations. Such Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) exhibit greatly reduced resource and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Corey Lammie , Olga Krestinskaya , Alex James , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

Low bit-width weights and activations are an effective way of combating the increasing need for both memory and compute power of Deep Neural Networks. In this work, we present a probabilistic training method for Neural Network with both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Jorn W. T. Peters , Max Welling

Binary neural networks utilize 1-bit quantized weights and activations to reduce both the model's storage demands and computational burden. However, advanced binary architectures still incorporate millions of inefficient and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Ruichen Ma , Guanchao Qiao , Yian Liu , Liwei Meng , Ning Ning , Yang Liu , Shaogang Hu

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Mohammad Ghasemzadeh , Mohammad Samragh , Farinaz Koushanfar

We present a novel optimization strategy for training neural networks which we call "BitNet". The parameters of neural networks are usually unconstrained and have a dynamic range dispersed over all real values. Our key idea is to limit the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Aswin Raghavan , Mohamed Amer , Sek Chai , Graham Taylor

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs), which constrain both weights and activations to binary values, offer substantial reductions in computational complexity, memory footprint, and energy consumption. These advantages make them particularly well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Luca Colombo , Fabrizio Pittorino , Daniele Zambon , Carlo Baldassi , Manuel Roveri , Cesare Alippi

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

Reducing computational costs is an important issue for development of embedded systems. Binary-weight Neural Networks (BNNs), in which weights are binarized and activations are quantized, are employed to reduce computational costs of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Tse-Wei Chen , Wei Tao , Dongyue Zhao , Kazuhiro Mima , Tadayuki Ito , Kinya Osa , Masami Kato

Binary Neural Network (BNN) converts full-precision weights and activations into their extreme 1-bit counterparts, making it particularly suitable for deployment on lightweight mobile devices. While binary neural networks are typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Jun Chen , Jingyang Xiang , Tianxin Huang , Xiangrui Zhao , Yong Liu

Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) provide a tool to estimate the uncertainty of a neural network by considering a distribution over weights and sampling different models for each input. In this paper, we propose a method for uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Illia Oleksiienko , Dat Thanh Tran , Alexandros Iosifidis

In low-latency or mobile applications, lower computation complexity, lower memory footprint and better energy efficiency are desired. Many prior works address this need by removing redundant parameters. Parameter quantization replaces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Cheng-Chou Lan

Binary Neural Network (BNN) shows its predominance in reducing the complexity of deep neural networks. However, it suffers severe performance degradation. One of the major impediments is the large quantization error between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Mingbao Lin , Rongrong Ji , Zihan Xu , Baochang Zhang , Yan Wang , Yongjian Wu , Feiyue Huang , Chia-Wen Lin

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become state-of-the art for computer vision and other signal processing tasks due to their superior accuracy. In recent years, large efforts have been made to reduce the computational costs of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Mario Fischer , Juergen Wassner

Feedforward neural networks (FNNs) can be viewed as non-linear regression models, where covariates enter the model through a combination of weighted summations and non-linear functions. Although these models have some similarities to the…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-02 Andrew McInerney , Kevin Burke

We study embedded Binarized Neural Networks (eBNNs) with the aim of allowing current binarized neural networks (BNNs) in the literature to perform feedforward inference efficiently on small embedded devices. We focus on minimizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Bradley McDanel , Surat Teerapittayanon , H. T. Kung