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Finite Scalar Quantization (FSQ) offers simplified training but suffers from residual magnitude decay in multi-stage settings, where subsequent stages receive exponentially weaker signals. We propose Robust Residual Finite Scalar…

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The theoretical efficiency of classical shadow tomography is predicated on a perfect Haar-random unitary ensemble, yet this mathematical ideal remains physically unattainable in near-term hardware. Here, we report the experimental discovery…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Attila Baumann , Zsolt Kis , János Koltai , Gábor Vattay

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

Quantum Image Processing (QIP) is a field that aims to utilize the benefits of quantum computing for manipulating and analyzing images. However, QIP faces two challenges: the limitation of qubits and the presence of noise in a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Yifan Zhou , Yan Shing Liang

A prominent technique for reducing the memory footprint of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) without decreasing the accuracy significantly is quantization. However, the state-of-the-art only focus on employing the weight quantization directly…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra , Muhammad Shafique

Deep Learning methods have been adopted in mobile networks, especially for network management automation where they provide means for advanced machine cognition. Deep learning methods utilize cutting-edge hardware and software tools,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Marton Kajo , Stephen S. Mwanje , Benedek Schultz , Georg Carle

Scientific imaging often involves long acquisition times to obtain high-quality data, especially when probing complex, heterogeneous systems. However, reducing acquisition time to increase throughput inevitably introduces significant noise…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Petrus H. Zwart , Tamas Varga , Odeta Qafoku , James A. Sethian

In this short note, we propose a new method for quantizing the weights of a fully trained neural network. A simple deterministic pre-processing step allows us to quantize network layers via memoryless scalar quantization while preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Johannes Maly , Rayan Saab

Quantization has emerged as an essential technique for deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on devices with limited resources. However, quantized models exhibit vulnerabilities when exposed to various noises in real-world applications.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Yisong Xiao , Aishan Liu , Tianyuan Zhang , Haotong Qin , Jinyang Guo , Xianglong Liu

Purpose: Many useful image quality metrics for evaluating linear image reconstruction techniques do not apply to or are difficult to interpret for non-linear image reconstruction. The vast majority of metrics employed for evaluating…

Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) utilizes MRI signal phase to estimate local tissue susceptibility, which has been shown useful to provide novel image contrast and as biomarkers of abnormal tissue. QSM requires addressing a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-06-03 Juan Liu , Kevin M. Koch

Mixed-precision quantization (MPQ) is crucial for deploying deep neural networks on resource-constrained devices, but finding the optimal bit-width for each layer represents a complex combinatorial optimization problem. Current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Mehmet Emre Akbulut , Hazem Hesham Yousef Shalby , Fabrizio Pittorino , Manuel Roveri

Quality control (QC) in medical image analysis is time-consuming and laborious, leading to increased interest in automated methods. However, what is deemed suitable quality for algorithmic processing may be different from human-perceived…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Richard Shaw , Carole H. Sudre , Sebastien Ourselin , M. Jorge Cardoso

Searching for a weak signal at an unknown frequency is a canonical task in experiments probing fundamental physics such as gravitational-wave observatories and ultra-light dark matter haloscopes. These state-of-the-art sensors are limited…

Network quantization has proven to be a powerful approach to reduce the memory and computational demands of deep learning models for deployment on resource-constrained devices. However, traditional quantization methods often rely on access…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Minjun Kim , Jaehyeon Choi , Jongkeun Lee , Wonjin Cho , U Kang

Zero-shot quantization (ZSQ) is promising for compressing and accelerating deep neural networks when the data for training full-precision models are inaccessible. In ZSQ, network quantization is performed using synthetic samples, thus, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Huantong Li , Xiangmiao Wu , Fanbing Lv , Daihai Liao , Thomas H. Li , Yonggang Zhang , Bo Han , Mingkui Tan

Quantized neural networks can be viewed as a chain of noisy channels, where rounding in each layer reduces capacity as bit-width shrinks; the floating-point (FP) checkpoint sets the maximum input rate. We track capacity dynamics as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Sergey Salishev , Ian Akhremchik

Quantized compressive sensing (QCS) deals with the problem of representing compressive signal measurements with finite precision representation, i.e., a mandatory process in any practical sensor design. To characterize the signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Chunlei Xu , Vincent Schellekens , Laurent Jacques

Quantization is of significance for compressing the over-parameterized deep neural models and deploying them on resource-limited devices. Fixed-precision quantization suffers from performance drop due to the limited numerical representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Chen Tang , Yuan Meng , Jiacheng Jiang , Shuzhao Xie , Rongwei Lu , Xinzhu Ma , Zhi Wang , Wenwu Zhu

Quantile regression, based on check loss, is a widely used inferential paradigm in Econometrics and Statistics. The conditional quantiles provide a robust alternative to classical conditional means, and also allow uncertainty quantification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Anuj Tambwekar , Anirudh Maiya , Soma Dhavala , Snehanshu Saha