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While going deeper has been witnessed to improve the performance of convolutional neural networks (CNN), going smaller for CNN has received increasing attention recently due to its attractiveness for mobile/embedded applications. It remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Zhe Li , Xiaoyu Wang , Xutao Lv , Tianbao Yang

Medical image segmentation, particularly tumor segmentation, is a critical task in medical imaging, with U-Net being a widely adopted convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture for this purpose. However, U-Net's high computational and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-13 Christiaan Boerkamp , Akhil John Thomas

To accelerate the inference of deep neural networks (DNNs), quantization with low-bitwidth numbers is actively researched. A prominent challenge is to quantize the DNN models into low-bitwidth numbers without significant accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Jiajun Zhou , Jiajun Wu , Yizhao Gao , Yuhao Ding , Chaofan Tao , Boyu Li , Fengbin Tu , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Hayden Kwok-Hay So , Ngai Wong

Light-weight convolutional neural networks (CNNs) suffer performance degradation as their low computational budgets constrain both the depth (number of convolution layers) and the width (number of channels) of CNNs, resulting in limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Yinpeng Chen , Xiyang Dai , Mengchen Liu , Dongdong Chen , Lu Yuan , Zicheng Liu

Although the latest high-end smartphone has powerful CPU and GPU, running deeper convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for complex tasks such as ImageNet classification on mobile devices is challenging. To deploy deep CNNs on mobile devices,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Yong-Deok Kim , Eunhyeok Park , Sungjoo Yoo , Taelim Choi , Lu Yang , Dongjun Shin

Quantizing deep networks with adaptive bit-widths is a promising technique for efficient inference across many devices and resource constraints. In contrast to static methods that repeat the quantization process and train different models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Ximeng Sun , Rameswar Panda , Chun-Fu Chen , Naigang Wang , Bowen Pan , Kailash Gopalakrishnan , Aude Oliva , Rogerio Feris , Kate Saenko

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

We consider machine learning applications that train a model by leveraging data distributed over a trusted network, where communication constraints can create a performance bottleneck. A number of recent approaches propose to overcome this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Osama A. Hanna , Yahya H. Ezzeldin , Christina Fragouli , Suhas Diggavi

Neural network quantization is widely used to reduce model inference complexity in real-world deployments. However, traditional integer quantization suffers from accuracy degradation when adapting to various dynamic ranges. Recent research…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Zhuoyi Zhang , Yunchen Zhang , Gonglei Shi , Yu Shen , Ruihao Gong , Xiaoxu Xia , Qi Zhang , Lewei Lu , Xianglong Liu

Deploying 3D graph neural networks (GNNs) that are equivariant to 3D rotations (the group SO(3)) on edge devices is challenging due to their high computational cost. This paper addresses the problem by compressing and accelerating an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Haoyu Zhou , Ping Xue , Hao Zhang , Tianfan Fu

Despite recent advances in architectures for mobile devices, deep learning computational requirements remains prohibitive for most embedded devices. To address that issue, we envision sharing the computational costs of inference between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Juliano S. Assine , Alan Godoy , Eduardo Valle

Quantization of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is a common approach to ease the computational burden involved in the deployment of CNNs, especially on low-resource edge devices. However, fixed-point arithmetic is not natural to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Ido Ben-Yair , Gil Ben Shalom , Moshe Eliasof , Eran Treister

Network quantization is one of the most hardware friendly techniques to enable the deployment of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on low-power mobile devices. Recent network quantization techniques quantize each weight kernel in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Qian Lou , Feng Guo , Lantao Liu , Minje Kim , Lei Jiang

Diffusion transformers (DiT) have demonstrated exceptional performance in video generation. However, their large number of parameters and high computational complexity limit their deployment on edge devices. Quantization can reduce storage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Weilun Feng , Chuanguang Yang , Haotong Qin , Xiangqi Li , Yu Wang , Zhulin An , Libo Huang , Boyu Diao , Zixiang Zhao , Yongjun Xu , Michele Magno

Diffusion models have gained popularity for generating images from textual descriptions. Nonetheless, the substantial need for computational resources continues to present a noteworthy challenge, contributing to time-consuming processes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Hanwen Chang , Haihao Shen , Yiyang Cai , Xinyu Ye , Zhenzhong Xu , Wenhua Cheng , Kaokao Lv , Weiwei Zhang , Yintong Lu , Heng Guo

Deep learning models have shown strong performance in medical image analysis, but deploying them in low-resource clinical environments remains difficult due to computational, memory, and power constraints. This paper presents a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Sumanth Meenan Kanneti , Aryan Shah

Deploying deep neural networks on mobile devices is increasingly important but remains challenging due to limited computing resources. On the other hand, their unified memory architecture and narrower gap between CPU and GPU performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Zhuojin Li , Marco Paolieri , Leana Golubchik

The practical deployment of diffusion models is still hindered by the high memory and computational overhead. Although quantization paves a way for model compression and acceleration, existing methods face challenges in achieving low-bit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Haoxuan Wang , Yuzhang Shang , Zhihang Yuan , Junyi Wu , Junchi Yan , Yan Yan

INT8 quantization has become one of the standard techniques for deploying convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on edge devices to reduce the memory and computational resource usages. By analyzing quantized performances of existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Taehoon Kim , YoungJoon Yoo , Jihoon Yang

Thanks to their improved data efficiency, equivariant neural networks have gained increased interest in the deep learning community. They have been successfully applied in the medical domain where symmetries in the data can be effectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Mirgahney Mohamed , Gabriele Cesa , Taco S. Cohen , Max Welling