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The main goal of this work is to improve the efficiency of training binary neural networks, which are low latency and low energy networks. The main contribution of this work is the proposal of two solutions comprised of topology changes and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Federico Fontana

Binarized neural networks, or BNNs, show great promise in edge-side applications with resource limited hardware, but raise the concerns of reduced accuracy. Motivated by the complex neural networks, in this paper we introduce complex…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Yanfei Li , Tong Geng , Ang Li , Huimin Yu

While binary neural networks (BNNs) offer significant benefits in terms of speed, memory and energy, they encounter substantial accuracy degradation in challenging tasks compared to their real-valued counterparts. Due to the binarization of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Xulong Shi , Caiyi Sun , Zhi Qi , Liu Hao , Xiaodong Yang

In this paper, we propose to train convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with both binarized weights and activations, leading to quantized models specifically} for mobile devices with limited power capacity and computation resources.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Bohan Zhuang , Chunhua Shen , Mingkui Tan , Lingqiao Liu , Ian Reid

Federated Learning (FL) preserves privacy by distributing training across devices. However, using DNNs is computationally intensive at the low-powered edge during inference. Edge deployment demands models that simultaneously optimize memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Nitin Priyadarshini Shankar , Soham Lahiri , Sheetal Kalyani , Saurav Prakash

Big neural networks trained on large datasets have advanced the state-of-the-art for a large variety of challenging problems, improving performance by a large margin. However, under low memory and limited computational power constraints,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Adrian Bulat , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Jean Kossaifi , Maja Pantic

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

The current standard for a variety of computer vision tasks using smaller numbers of labelled training examples is to fine-tune from weights pre-trained on a large image classification dataset such as ImageNet. The application of transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Jo Plested , Xuyang Shen , Tom Gedeon

We introduce a novel scheme to train binary convolutional neural networks (CNNs) -- CNNs with weights and activations constrained to {-1,+1} at run-time. It has been known that using binary weights and activations drastically reduce memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Xiaofan Lin , Cong Zhao , Wei Pan

The computation and storage requirements for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are usually high. This issue limits their deployability on ubiquitous computing devices such as smart phones, wearables and autonomous drones. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Hande Alemdar , Vincent Leroy , Adrien Prost-Boucle , Frédéric Pétrot

Recent trends show recognition accuracy increasing even more profoundly. Inference process of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) has a large number of parameters, requires a large amount of computation, and can be very slow. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Ryuji Kamiya , Takayoshi Yamashita , Mitsuru Ambai , Ikuro Sato , Yuji Yamauchi , Hironobu Fujiyoshi

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

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

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

Transfer learning with models pretrained on ImageNet has become a standard practice in computer vision. Transfer learning refers to fine-tuning pretrained weights of a neural network on a downstream task, typically unrelated to ImageNet.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xander Coetzer , Arné Schreuder , Anna Sergeevna Bosman

A well-trained deep neural network is shown to gain capability of simultaneously restoring two kinds of images, which are completely destroyed by two distinct scattering medias respectively. The network, based on the U-net architecture, can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-21 Mu Yang , Zheng-Hao Liu , Ze-Di Cheng , Jin-Shi Xu , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

Recent research has shown that one can train a neural network with binary weights and activations at train time by augmenting the weights with a high-precision continuous latent variable that accumulates small changes from stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Alexander G. Anderson , Cory P. Berg

This work proposes deep network models and learning algorithms for unsupervised and supervised binary hashing. Our novel network design constrains one hidden layer to directly output the binary codes. This addresses a challenging issue in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Thanh-Toan Do , Anh-Dzung Doan , Ngai-Man Cheung

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

The binary neural network, largely saving the storage and computation, serves as a promising technique for deploying deep models on resource-limited devices. However, the binarization inevitably causes severe information loss, and even…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Haotong Qin , Ruihao Gong , Xianglong Liu , Xiao Bai , Jingkuan Song , Nicu Sebe