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We introduce a method to train Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) - neural networks with binary weights and activations at run-time. At training-time the binary weights and activations are used for computing the parameters gradients. During…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Matthieu Courbariaux , Itay Hubara , Daniel Soudry , Ran El-Yaniv , Yoshua Bengio

In the low-bit quantization field, training Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) is the extreme solution to ease the deployment of deep models on resource-constrained devices, having the lowest storage cost and significantly cheaper bit-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Yikai Wang , Yi Yang , Fuchun Sun , Anbang Yao

We introduce a method to train Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) - neural networks with binary weights and activations at run-time and when computing the parameters' gradient at train-time. We conduct two sets of experiments, each based on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-11 Itay Hubara , Daniel Soudry , Ran El Yaniv

In this paper, we propose a low-power hardware for efficient deployment of binarized neural networks (BNNs) that have been trained for physiological datasets. BNNs constrain weights and feature-map to 1 bit, can pack in as many 1-bit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-28 Morteza Hosseini , Hirenkumar Paneliya , Uttej Kallakuri , Mohit Khatwani , Tinoosh Mohsenin

Neural network binarization accelerates deep models by quantizing their weights and activations into 1-bit. However, there is still a huge performance gap between Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) and their full-precision (FP) counterparts. As…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Yuzhang Shang , Dan Xu , Ziliang Zong , Liqiang Nie , Yan Yan

Over past years, the philosophy for designing the artificial intelligence algorithms has significantly shifted towards automatically extracting the composable systems from massive data volumes. This paradigm shift has been expedited by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Navid Khoshavi , Connor Broyles , Yu Bi

Applications of Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are promising for embedded systems with hard constraints on computing power. Contrary to conventional neural networks with the floating-point datatype, BNNs use binarized weights and activations…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Mahdi Zahedi , Taha Shahroodi , Stephan Wong , Said Hamdioui

State-of-the-art convolutional neural networks are enormously costly in both compute and memory, demanding massively parallel GPUs for execution. Such networks strain the computational capabilities and energy available to embedded and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Jeng-Hau Lin , Tianwei Xing , Ritchie Zhao , Zhiru Zhang , Mani Srivastava , Zhuowen Tu , Rajesh K. Gupta

Convolutional neural networks have recently achieved significant breakthroughs in various image classification tasks. However, they are computationally expensive,which can make their feasible mplementation on embedded and low-power devices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Mir Khan , Heikki Huttunen , Jani Boutellier

While hardware implementations of inference routines for Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) are plentiful, current realizations of efficient BNN hardware training accelerators, suitable for Internet of Things (IoT) edge devices, leave much to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Corey Lammie , Wei Xiang , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

Neural network hardware is considered an essential part of future edge devices. In this paper, we propose a binary-weight spiking neural network (BW-SNN) hardware architecture for low-power real-time object classification on edge platforms.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-16 Pai-Yu Tan , Po-Yao Chuang , Yen-Ting Lin , Cheng-Wen Wu , Juin-Ming Lu

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

Edge AI applications increasingly require models that can learn and adapt on-device with minimal energy budget. Traditional deep learning models, while powerful, are often overparameterized, energy-hungry, and dependent on cloud…

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While there is a large body of research on efficient processing of deep neural networks (DNNs), ultra-low-latency realization of these models for applications with stringent, sub-microsecond latency requirements continues to be an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Mahdi Nazemi , Arash Fayyazi , Amirhossein Esmaili , Atharva Khare , Soheil Nazar Shahsavani , Massoud Pedram

Binary neural networks (BNNs) are an attractive solution for developing and deploying deep neural network (DNN)-based applications in resource constrained devices. Despite their success, BNNs still suffer from a fixed and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Riccardo Schiavone , Francesco Galati , Maria A. Zuluaga

Quantization of weights and activations in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is a powerful technique for network compression, and has enjoyed significant attention and success. However, much of the inference-time benefit of quantization is…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Andrew Anderson , David Gregg

Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are now widely used in various computer vision applications, its huge resource demanding on parameter storage and computation makes the deployment on mobile and embedded devices difficult.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Zhe Xu , Ray C. C. Cheung

Ternary Neural Networks (TNNs) have received much attention due to being potentially orders of magnitude faster in inference, as well as more power efficient, than full-precision counterparts. However, 2 bits are required to encode the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Peng Chen , Bohan Zhuang , Chunhua Shen

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

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have gained immense success in cognitive applications and greatly pushed today's artificial intelligence forward. The biggest challenge in executing DNNs is their extremely data-extensive computations. The…

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