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This paper considers a convolutional neural network transformation that reduces computation complexity and thus speedups neural network processing. Usage of convolutional neural networks (CNN) is the standard approach to image recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Elena Limonova , Alexander Sheshkus , Dmitry Nikolaev

To design fast neural networks, many works have been focusing on reducing the number of floating-point operations (FLOPs). We observe that such reduction in FLOPs, however, does not necessarily lead to a similar level of reduction in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Jierun Chen , Shiu-hong Kao , Hao He , Weipeng Zhuo , Song Wen , Chul-Ho Lee , S. -H. Gary Chan

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have a major impact on our society because of the numerous services they provide. On the other hand, they require considerable computing power. To satisfy these requirements, it is possible to use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Alireza Ghaffari , Yvon Savaria

CNNs have been shown to maintain reasonable classification accuracy when quantized to lower precisions. Quantizing to sub 8-bit activations and weights can result in accuracy falling below an acceptable threshold. Techniques exist for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Philip Colangelo , Nasibeh Nasiri , Asit Mishra , Eriko Nurvitadhi , Martin Margala , Kevin Nealis

Kernel size selection in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is a critical but often overlooked design decision that affects receptive field, feature extraction, computational cost, and model accuracy. This paper proposes the Best Kernel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Shreyas Rajeev , B Sathish Babu

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been utilised in many image and video processing applications. The convolution operator, also known as a spatial filter, is usually a linear operation, but this linearity compromises essential…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Nelson Campos , Eran Edirisinghe , Salva Chesnokov , Daniel Larkin

In recent years deep learning algorithms have shown extremely high performance on machine learning tasks such as image classification and speech recognition. In support of such applications, various FPGA accelerator architectures have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Xinyu Zhang , Srinjoy Das , Ojash Neopane , Ken Kreutz-Delgado

In this paper, we propose a novel Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture for learning multi-scale feature representations with good tradeoffs between speed and accuracy. This is achieved by using a multi-branch network, which has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Chun-Fu Chen , Quanfu Fan , Neil Mallinar , Tom Sercu , Rogerio Feris

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been shown to achieve optimal approximation and estimation error rates (in minimax sense) in several function classes. However, previous analyzed optimal CNNs are unrealistically wide and difficult…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-15 Kenta Oono , Taiji Suzuki

Convolutional neural network (CNN) has been widely used for vision-based tasks. Due to the high computational complexity and memory storage requirement, it is hard to directly deploy a full-precision CNN on embedded devices. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Yixing Li , Fengbo Ren

To reduce the computational cost of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on resource-constrained devices, structured pruning approaches have shown promise in lowering floating-point operations (FLOPs) without substantial drops in accuracy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Lukas Meiner , Jens Mehnert , Alexandru Paul Condurache

We propose a novel Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) compression algorithm based on coreset representations of filters. We exploit the redundancies extant in the space of CNN weights and neuronal activations (across samples) in order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Abhimanyu Dubey , Moitreya Chatterjee , Narendra Ahuja

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have revolutionized the world of computer vision over the last few years, pushing image classification beyond human accuracy. The computational effort of today's CNNs requires power-hungry parallel…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Renzo Andri , Lukas Cavigelli , Davide Rossi , Luca Benini

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have a large number of variables and hence suffer from a complexity problem for their implementation. Different methods and techniques have developed to alleviate the problem of CNN's complexity, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Kamran Chitsaz , Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi , Shahram Shirani

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely used in deep learning applications, e.g. visual systems, robotics etc. However, existing software solutions are not efficient. Therefore, many hardware accelerators have been proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Sasindu Wijeratne , Sandaruwan Jayaweera , Mahesh Dananjaya , Ajith Pasqual

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in a wide range of applications. However, deeper CNN models, which are usually computation consuming, are widely required for complex Artificial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Chaoyang Zhu , Kejie Huang , Shuyuan Yang , Ziqi Zhu , Hejia Zhang , Haibin Shen

Attention-based neural networks have become pervasive in many AI tasks. Despite their excellent algorithmic performance, the use of the attention mechanism and feed-forward network (FFN) demands excessive computational and memory resources,…

Since the breakthrough performance of AlexNet in 2012, convolutional neural networks (convnets) have grown into extremely powerful vision models. Deep learning researchers have used convnets to perform vision tasks with accuracy that was…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Andrew Lavin

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely deployed in the fields of computer vision and pattern recognition because of their high accuracy. However, large convolution operations are computing-intensive that often requires a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-10 Lin Bai , Yiming Zhao , Xinming Huang

After the tremendous success of convolutional neural networks in image classification, object detection, speech recognition, etc., there is now rising demand for deployment of these compute-intensive ML models on tightly power constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Lukas Cavigelli , Luca Benini