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Multi-bit quantization networks enable flexible deployment of deep neural networks by supporting multiple precision levels within a single model. However, existing approaches suffer from significant training overhead as full-dataset updates…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are neural networks that aim to process graph data, capturing the relationships and interactions between nodes using the message-passing mechanism. GNN quantization has emerged as a promising approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Chenyu Liu , Haige Li , Luca Rossi

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

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) typically require massive amount of computation resource in inference tasks for computer vision applications. Quantization can significantly reduce DNN computation and storage by decreasing the bitwidth of…

We investigate the compression of deep neural networks by quantizing their weights and activations into multiple binary bases, known as multi-bit networks (MBNs), which accelerate the inference and reduce the storage for the deployment on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Zhongnan Qu , Zimu Zhou , Yun Cheng , Lothar Thiele

We study the problem of compressing recurrent neural networks (RNNs). In particular, we focus on the compression of RNN acoustic models, which are motivated by the goal of building compact and accurate speech recognition systems which can…

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Binary neural networks (BNNs), where both weights and activations are binarized into 1 bit, have been widely studied in recent years due to its great benefit of highly accelerated computation and substantially reduced memory footprint that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Zhuo Su , Linpu Fang , Deke Guo , Dewen Hu , Matti Pietikäinen , Li Liu

Training neural networks requires significant computational resources and energy. Methods like mixed-precision and quantization-aware training reduce bit usage, yet they still depend heavily on computationally expensive gradient-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Noa Cohen , Omkar Joglekar , Dotan Di Castro , Vladimir Tchuiev , Shir Kozlovsky , Michal Moshkovitz

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Jun Nishikawa , Ryoji Ikegaya

Quantizing deep neural networks ,reducing the precision (bit-width) of their computations, can remarkably decrease memory usage and accelerate processing, making these models more suitable for large-scale medical imaging applications with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Chongyu Qu , Ritchie Zhao , Ye Yu , Bin Liu , Tianyuan Yao , Junchao Zhu , Bennett A. Landman , Yucheng Tang , Yuankai Huo

We consider the problem of deep neural net compression by quantization: given a large, reference net, we want to quantize its real-valued weights using a codebook with $K$ entries so that the training loss of the quantized net is minimal.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán , Yerlan Idelbayev

Efficient model inference is an important and practical issue in the deployment of deep neural network on resource constraint platforms. Network quantization addresses this problem effectively by leveraging low-bit representation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Tianshu Chu , Qin Luo , Jie Yang , Xiaolin Huang

Recently, transformer has achieved remarkable performance on a variety of computer vision applications. Compared with mainstream convolutional neural networks, vision transformers are often of sophisticated architectures for extracting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Zhenhua Liu , Yunhe Wang , Kai Han , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao

Network quantization is a powerful technique to compress convolutional neural networks. The quantization granularity determines how to share the scaling factors in weights, which affects the performance of network quantization. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Zhihang Yuan , Yiqi Chen , Chenhao Xue , Chenguang Zhang , Qiankun Wang , Guangyu Sun

Model quantization and compression is widely used techniques to reduce usage of computing resource at inference time. While state-of-the-art works have been achieved reasonable accuracy with higher bit such as 4bit or 8bit, but still it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Arnav Kundu , Chungkuk Yoo , Srijan Mishra , Minsik Cho , Saurabh Adya

As soon as abstract mathematical computations were adapted to computation on digital computers, the problem of efficient representation, manipulation, and communication of the numerical values in those computations arose. Strongly related…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Amir Gholami , Sehoon Kim , Zhen Dong , Zhewei Yao , Michael W. Mahoney , Kurt Keutzer

Quantization using a small number of bits shows promise for reducing latency and memory usage in deep neural networks. However, most quantization methods cannot readily handle complicated functions such as exponential and square root, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-27 Yangyang Chang , Gerald E. Sobelman

Network quantization generally converts full-precision weights and/or activations into low-bit fixed-point values in order to accelerate an inference process. Recent approaches to network quantization further discretize the gradients into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Dohyung Kim , Junghyup Lee , Jeimin Jeon , Jaehyeon Moon , Bumsub Ham

Deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) on resource-constrained edge devices like the Raspberry Pi presents challenges in computational efficiency, power consumption, and response latency. This paper explores quantization-based optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Mahsa Ardakani , Jinendra Malekar , Ramtin Zand

Low-bit quantization of network weights and activations can drastically reduce the memory footprint, complexity, energy consumption and latency of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). However, low-bit quantization can also cause a considerable drop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Ghouthi Boukli Hacene , Lukas Mauch , Stefan Uhlich , Fabien Cardinaux