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Quantization is a technique used in deep neural networks (DNNs) to increase execution performance and hardware efficiency. Uniform post-training quantization (PTQ) methods are common, since they can be implemented efficiently in hardware…

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Semantic segmentation has been a major topic in research and industry in recent years. However, due to the computation complexity of pixel-wise prediction and backpropagation algorithm, semantic segmentation has been demanding in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Jiayi Yang , Lei Deng , Yukuan Yang , Yuan Xie , Guoqi Li

Quantization is an effective technique to reduce memory footprint, inference latency, and power consumption of deep learning models. However, existing quantization methods suffer from accuracy degradation compared to full-precision (FP)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Zheng Wang , Juncheng B Li , Shuhui Qu , Florian Metze , Emma Strubell

The ever-increasing computational complexity of deep learning models makes their training and deployment difficult on various cloud and edge platforms. Replacing floating-point arithmetic with low-bit integer arithmetic is a promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Alireza Ghaffari , Marzieh S. Tahaei , Mohammadreza Tayaranian , Masoud Asgharian , Vahid Partovi Nia

Quantization of Deep Neural Network (DNN) activations is a commonly used technique to reduce compute and memory demands during DNN inference, which can be particularly beneficial on resource-constrained devices. To achieve high accuracy,…

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To accelerate the inference of deep neural networks (DNNs), quantization with low-bitwidth numbers is actively researched. A prominent challenge is to quantize the DNN models into low-bitwidth numbers without significant accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Jiajun Zhou , Jiajun Wu , Yizhao Gao , Yuhao Ding , Chaofan Tao , Boyu Li , Fengbin Tu , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Hayden Kwok-Hay So , Ngai Wong

A growing number of applications implement predictive functions using deep learning models, which require heavy use of compute and memory. One popular technique for increasing resource efficiency is 8-bit integer quantization, in which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Animesh Jain , Shoubhik Bhattacharya , Masahiro Masuda , Vin Sharma , Yida Wang

Quantization has become a predominant approach for model compression, enabling deployment of large models trained on GPUs onto smaller form-factor devices for inference. Quantization-aware training (QAT) optimizes model parameters with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Zheng Wang , Juncheng B Li , Shuhui Qu , Florian Metze , Emma Strubell

Deep Neural Networks(DNNs) have many parameters and activation data, and these both are expensive to implement. One method to reduce the size of the DNN is to quantize the pre-trained model by using a low-bit expression for weights and…

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Model quantization reduces neural network parameter precision to achieve compression, but often compromises accuracy. Existing post-training quantization (PTQ) methods employ iterative parameter updates to preserve accuracy under high…

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Deep Learning Architectures employ heavy computations and bulk of the computational energy is taken up by the convolution operations in the Convolutional Neural Networks. The objective of our proposed work is to reduce the energy…

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In deep neural networks (DNNs), there are a huge number of weights and multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) operations. Accordingly, it is challenging to apply DNNs on resource-constrained platforms, e.g., mobile phones. Quantization is a method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Wenhao Sun , Grace Li Zhang , Huaxi Gu , Bing Li , Ulf Schlichtmann

The large computing and memory cost of deep neural networks (DNNs) often precludes their use in resource-constrained devices. Quantizing the parameters and operations to lower bit-precision offers substantial memory and energy savings for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Clemens JS Schaefer , Siddharth Joshi , Shan Li , Raul Blazquez

Post-training quantization for reducing the storage of deep neural network models has been demonstrated to be an effective way in various tasks. However, low-bit quantization while maintaining model accuracy is a challenging problem. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Bingtao Yang , Yujia Wang , Mengzhi Jiao , Hongwei Huo

This research aims to optimize intricate learning models by implementing quantization and bit-depth optimization techniques. The objective is to significantly cut time complexity while preserving model efficiency, thus addressing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Mitul Goswami , Romit Chatterjee

The resource requirements of deep neural networks (DNNs) pose significant challenges to their deployment on edge devices. Common approaches to address this issue are pruning and mixed-precision quantization, which lead to latency and memory…

With unprecedented rapid development, deep neural networks (DNNs) have deeply influenced almost all fields. However, their heavy computation costs and model sizes are usually unacceptable in real-world deployment. Model quantization, an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Kai Liu , Qian Zheng , Kaiwen Tao , Zhiteng Li , Haotong Qin , Wenbo Li , Yong Guo , Xianglong Liu , Linghe Kong , Guihai Chen , Yulun Zhang , Xiaokang Yang

This paper addresses a challenging problem - how to reduce energy consumption without incurring performance drop when deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) at the inference stage. In order to alleviate the computation and storage burdens,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Xue Geng , Jie Fu , Bin Zhao , Jie Lin , Mohamed M. Sabry Aly , Christopher Pal , Vijay Chandrasekhar

Quantization plays a critical role in digital signal processing systems, allowing the representation of continuous amplitude signals with a finite number of bits. However, accurately representing signals requires a large number of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-30 Xing Zhang , Haiyang Zhang , Nimrod Glazer , Oded Cohen , Eliya Reznitskiy , Shlomi Savariego , Moshe Namer , Yonina C. Eldar