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Deep neural networks (DNNs) are essential for performing advanced tasks on edge or mobile devices, yet their deployment is often hindered by severe resource constraints, including limited memory, energy, and computational power. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Qunyou Liu , Pengbo Yu , Marina Zapater , David Atienza

We introduce a distributed quantum-classical framework that synergizes photonic quantum neural networks (QNNs) with matrix-product-state (MPS) mapping to achieve parameter-efficient training of classical neural networks. By leveraging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Kuan-Cheng Chen , Chen-Yu Liu , Yu Shang , Felix Burt , Kin K. Leung

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…

This PhD thesis combines two of the most exciting research areas of the last decades: quantum computing and machine learning. We introduce dissipative quantum neural networks (DQNNs), which are designed for fully quantum learning tasks, are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Kerstin Beer

The growing computational demands of classical neural networks have intensified the search for energy-efficient and powerful computational alternatives. Quantum neural networks (QNNs) implemented on integrated photonic platforms offer a…

Quantized neural networks (QNNs) are increasingly used for efficient deployment of deep learning models on resource-constrained platforms, such as mobile devices and edge computing systems. While quantization reduces model size and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Amira Guesmi , Bassem Ouni , Muhammad Shafique

Medical images are characterized by intricate and complex features, requiring interpretation by physicians with medical knowledge and experience. Classical neural networks can reduce the workload of physicians, but can only handle these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yangyang Li , Zhengya Qia , Yuelin Lia , Haorui Yanga , Ronghua Shanga , Licheng Jiaoa

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

Neural networks have established as a generic and powerful means to approach challenging problems such as image classification, object detection or decision making. Their successful employment foots on an enormous demand of compute. The…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Thomas B. Preußer , Giulio Gambardella , Nicholas Fraser , Michaela Blott

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely used in many artificial intelligence (AI) tasks. However, deploying them brings significant challenges due to the huge cost of memory, energy, and computation. To address these challenges,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Xue Geng , Zhe Wang , Chunyun Chen , Qing Xu , Kaixin Xu , Chao Jin , Manas Gupta , Xulei Yang , Zhenghua Chen , Mohamed M. Sabry Aly , Jie Lin , Min Wu , Xiaoli Li

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are state-of-the-art in numerous computer vision tasks such as object classification and detection. However, the large amount of parameters they contain leads to a high computational complexity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Ghouthi Boukli Hacene , Vincent Gripon , Matthieu Arzel , Nicolas Farrugia , Yoshua Bengio

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved great success in a variety of machine learning (ML) applications, delivering high-quality inferencing solutions in computer vision, natural language processing, and virtual reality, etc. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Xiaofan Zhang , Yao Chen , Cong Hao , Sitao Huang , Yuhong Li , Deming Chen

Quantum optimization is the most mature quantum computing technology to date, providing a promising approach towards efficiently solving complex combinatorial problems. Methods such as adiabatic quantum computing (AQC) have been employed in…

Distributed deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to reduce the computational burden of mobile devices and decrease the end-to-end inference latency in edge computing scenarios. While distributed DNNs have been studied, to the best of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Milin Zhang , Mohammad Abdi , Jonathan Ashdown , Francesco Restuccia

Recent advancements in QML and SNNs have generated considerable excitement, promising exponential speedups and brain-like energy efficiency to revolutionize AI. However, this paper argues that they are unlikely to displace DNNs in the near…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Takehiro Ishikawa

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

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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Salman Abdul Khaliq , Rehan Hafiz

There is a growing demand to deploy computation-intensive deep learning (DL) models on resource-constrained mobile devices for real-time intelligent applications. Equipped with a variety of processing units such as CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Sicong Liu , Wentao Zhou , Zimu Zhou , Bin Guo , Minfan Wang , Cheng Fang , Zheng Lin , Zhiwen Yu

Neural network accelerators have been widely applied to edge devices for complex tasks like object tracking, image recognition, etc. Previous works have explored the quantization technologies in related lightweight accelerator designs to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Yuhao Liu , Salim Ullah , Akash Kumar

With recent advancements in deep neural networks (DNNs), we are able to solve traditionally challenging problems. Since DNNs are compute intensive, consumers, to deploy a service, need to rely on expensive and scarce compute resources in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Ramyad Hadidi , Jiashen Cao , Micheal S. Ryoo , Hyesoon Kim