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This paper is on improving the training of binary neural networks in which both activations and weights are binary. While prior methods for neural network binarization binarize each filter independently, we propose to instead parametrize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Adrian Bulat , Jean Kossaifi , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Maja Pantic

Artificial neural networks can be trained with relatively low-precision floating-point and fixed-point arithmetic, using between one and 16 bits. Previous works have focused on relatively wide-but-shallow, feed-forward networks. We…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Benjamin Graham

Adder Neural Network (AdderNet) provides a new way for developing energy-efficient neural networks by replacing the expensive multiplications in convolution with cheaper additions (i.e.l1-norm). To achieve higher hardware efficiency, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Ying Nie , Kai Han , Haikang Diao , Chuanjian Liu , Enhua Wu , Yunhe Wang

Inference time, model size, and accuracy are critical for deploying deep neural network models. Numerous research efforts have been made to compress neural network models with faster inference and higher accuracy. Pruning and quantization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Dan Liu , Xue Liu

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

Quantization is a technique for creating efficient Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), which involves performing computations and storing tensors at lower bit-widths than f32 floating point precision. Quantization reduces model size and inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Eliska Kloberdanz , Wei Le

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) produce state-of-art performance on many machine learning tasks but their demand on resources in terms of memory and computational power are often high. Therefore, there is a great interest in optimizing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Joachim Ott , Zhouhan Lin , Ying Zhang , Shih-Chii Liu , Yoshua Bengio

Recent work in network quantization has substantially reduced the time and space complexity of neural network inference, enabling their deployment on embedded and mobile devices with limited computational and memory resources. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Bichen Wu , Yanghan Wang , Peizhao Zhang , Yuandong Tian , Peter Vajda , Kurt Keutzer

Model stealing attacks have become a serious concern for deep learning models, where an attacker can steal a trained model by querying its black-box API. This can lead to intellectual property theft and other security and privacy risks. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Kacem Khaled , Mouna Dhaouadi , Felipe Gohring de Magalhães , Gabriela Nicolescu

Neural networks provide state-of-the-art results for most machine learning tasks. Unfortunately, neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples: given an input $x$ and any target classification $t$, it is possible to find a new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Nicholas Carlini , David Wagner

Model quantization is a widely used technique to compress and accelerate deep neural network (DNN) inference, especially when deploying to edge or IoT devices with limited computation capacity and power consumption budget. The uniform bit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Tao Wang , Junsong Wang , Chang Xu , Chao Xue

We present LBW-Net, an efficient optimization based method for quantization and training of the low bit-width convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Specifically, we quantize the weights to zero or powers of two by minimizing the Euclidean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Penghang Yin , Shuai Zhang , Yingyong Qi , Jack Xin

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are showing tremendous success on realistic image classification tasks. Notably, their accuracy is similar to the state-of-the-art accuracy obtained by full-precision models tailored to edge devices. In this…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Franyell Silfa , Jose Maria Arnau , Antonio González

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

Binary Neural Network (BNN) shows its predominance in reducing the complexity of deep neural networks. However, it suffers severe performance degradation. One of the major impediments is the large quantization error between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Mingbao Lin , Rongrong Ji , Zihan Xu , Baochang Zhang , Yan Wang , Yongjian Wu , Feiyue Huang , Chia-Wen Lin

Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) provide principled uncertainty quantification but suffer from substantial computational and memory overhead compared to deterministic networks. While quantization techniques have successfully reduced resource…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Hendrik Borras , Yong Wu , Bernhard Klein , Holger Fröning

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Jinhee Kim , Jae Jun An , Kang Eun Jeon , Jong Hwan Ko

Recent one-shot Neural Architecture Search algorithms rely on training a hardware-agnostic super-network tailored to a specific task and then extracting efficient sub-networks for different hardware platforms. Popular approaches separate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Sharath Nittur Sridhar , Maciej Szankin , Fang Chen , Sairam Sundaresan , Anthony Sarah

While neural networks have been remarkably successful in a wide array of applications, implementing them in resource-constrained hardware remains an area of intense research. By replacing the weights of a neural network with quantized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Jinjie Zhang , Yixuan Zhou , Rayan Saab

Quantization is widely applied in machine learning to reduce computational and storage costs for both data and models. Considering that classification tasks are fundamental to the field, it is crucial to investigate how quantization impacts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Weizhi Lu , Mingrui Chen , Weiyu Li