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Recently published methods enable training of bitwise neural networks which allow reduced representation of down to a single bit per weight. We present a method that exploits ensemble decisions based on multiple stochastically sampled…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Sebastian Vogel , Christoph Schorn , Andre Guntoro , Gerd Ascheid

A lot of recent progress has been made in ultra low-bit quantization, promising significant improvements in latency, memory footprint and energy consumption on edge devices. Quantization methods such as Learned Step Size Quantization can…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have gained significant traction in the field of machine learning, particularly due to their high accuracy in visual recognition. Recent works have pushed the performance of GPU implementations of CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Roberto DiCecco , Griffin Lacey , Jasmina Vasiljevic , Paul Chow , Graham Taylor , Shawki Areibi

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

A novel energy-efficient edge computing paradigm is proposed for real-time deep learning-based image upsampling applications. State-of-the-art deep learning solutions for image upsampling are currently trained using either resize or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Ian Colbert , Ken Kreutz-Delgado , Srinjoy Das

In the wake of the success of convolutional neural networks in image classification, object recognition, speech recognition, etc., the demand for deploying these compute-intensive ML models on embedded and mobile systems with tight power…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Lukas Cavigelli , Georg Rutishauser , Luca Benini

Deep Learning is increasingly being adopted by industry for computer vision applications running on embedded devices. While Convolutional Neural Networks' accuracy has achieved a mature and remarkable state, inference latency and throughput…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Miguel de Prado , Nuria Pazos , Luca Benini

We present an approach to adaptively utilize deep neural networks in order to reduce the evaluation time on new examples without loss of accuracy. Rather than attempting to redesign or approximate existing networks, we propose two schemes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Tolga Bolukbasi , Joseph Wang , Ofer Dekel , Venkatesh Saligrama

Research has shown that convolutional neural networks contain significant redundancy, and high classification accuracy can be obtained even when weights and activations are reduced from floating point to binary values. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-22 Yaman Umuroglu , Nicholas J. Fraser , Giulio Gambardella , Michaela Blott , Philip Leong , Magnus Jahre , Kees Vissers

This paper presents Flash, an optimized private inference (PI) hybrid protocol utilizing both homomorphic encryption (HE) and secure two-party computation (2PC), which can reduce the end-to-end PI latency for deep CNN models less than 1…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Hyeri Roh , Jinsu Yeo , Yeongil Ko , Gu-Yeon Wei , David Brooks , Woo-Seok Choi

Recent years have witnessed the great advance of deep learning in a variety of vision tasks. Many state-of-the-art deep neural networks suffer from large size and high complexity, which makes it difficult to deploy in resource-limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Zhengguang Zhou , Wengang Zhou , Xutao Lv , Xuan Huang , Xiaoyu Wang , Houqiang Li

During the past few years, interest in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has risen constantly, thanks to their excellent performance on a wide range of recognition and classification tasks. However, they suffer from the high level of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Arash Ardakani , Carlo Condo , Warren J. Gross

Spatial-wise dynamic convolution has become a promising approach to improving the inference efficiency of deep networks. By allocating more computation to the most informative pixels, such an adaptive inference paradigm reduces the spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Yizeng Han , Zhihang Yuan , Yifan Pu , Chenhao Xue , Shiji Song , Guangyu Sun , Gao Huang

In recent years, large language models have demonstrated remarkable performance across various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, deploying these models for real-world applications often requires efficient inference solutions…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Ditto PS , Jithin VG , Adarsh MS

The inherent heavy computation of deep neural networks prevents their widespread applications. A widely used method for accelerating model inference is quantization, by replacing the input operands of a network using fixed-point values.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Hongwei Xie , Shuo Zhang , Huanghao Ding , Yafei Song , Baitao Shao , Conggang Hu , Ling Cai , Mingyang Li

Deep neural networks (DNN) are powerful models for many pattern recognition tasks, yet their high computational complexity and memory requirement limit them to applications on high-performance computing platforms. In this paper, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Lukas Mauch , Bin Yang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with large kernels, drawing inspiration from the key operations of vision transformers (ViTs), have demonstrated impressive performance in various vision-based applications. To address the issue of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Miaoxin Wang , Xiao Wu , Jun Lin , Zhongfeng Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown great potential in reasoning tasks through test-time scaling methods like self-consistency with majority voting. However, this approach often leads to diminishing returns in accuracy and high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Yichao Fu , Xuewei Wang , Yuandong Tian , Jiawei Zhao

There are many applications scenarios for which the computational performance and memory footprint of the prediction phase of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) needs to be optimized. Binary Neural Networks (BDNNs) have been shown to be an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Fabrizio Pedersoli , George Tzanetakis , Andrea Tagliasacchi

As state of the art neural networks (NNs) continue to grow in size, their resource-efficient implementation becomes ever more important. In this paper, we introduce a compression scheme that reduces the number of computations required for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Hans Rosenberger , Rodrigo Fischer , Johanna S. Fröhlich , Ali Bereyhi , Ralf R. Müller