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In recent years Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been rapidly developed in various applications, together with increasingly complex architectures. The performance gain of these DNNs generally comes with high computational costs and large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Yiren Zhou , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli , Ngai-Man Cheung , Pascal Frossard

Equivariant Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are essential for physically consistent molecular simulations but suffer from high computational costs and memory bottlenecks, especially with high-order representations. While low-bit quantization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Haoyu Zhou , Ping Xue , Hao Zhang , Tianfan Fu

In low-latency or mobile applications, lower computation complexity, lower memory footprint and better energy efficiency are desired. Many prior works address this need by removing redundant parameters. Parameter quantization replaces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Cheng-Chou Lan

We introduce a method to train Quantized Neural Networks (QNNs) --- neural networks with extremely low precision (e.g., 1-bit) weights and activations, at run-time. At train-time the quantized weights and activations are used for computing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Itay Hubara , Matthieu Courbariaux , Daniel Soudry , Ran El-Yaniv , Yoshua Bengio

Deep networks run with low precision operations at inference time offer power and space advantages over high precision alternatives, but need to overcome the challenge of maintaining high accuracy as precision decreases. Here, we present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Steven K. Esser , Jeffrey L. McKinstry , Deepika Bablani , Rathinakumar Appuswamy , Dharmendra S. Modha

Deep learning algorithms achieve high classification accuracy at the expense of significant computation cost. In order to reduce this cost, several quantization schemes have gained attention recently with some focusing on weight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Jungwook Choi , Pierce I-Jen Chuang , Zhuo Wang , Swagath Venkataramani , Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan , Kailash Gopalakrishnan

Most real-world applications that employ deep neural networks (DNNs) quantize them to low precision to reduce the compute needs. We present a method to improve the robustness of quantized DNNs to white-box adversarial attacks. We first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Saurabh Farkya , Aswin Raghavan , Avi Ziskind

Mixed-precision quantization can potentially achieve the optimal tradeoff between performance and compression rate of deep neural networks, and thus, have been widely investigated. However, it lacks a systematic method to determine the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Huanrui Yang , Lin Duan , Yiran Chen , Hai Li

Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) is a critical technique for deploying deep neural networks on resource-constrained devices. However, existing methods often face two major challenges: the highly non-uniform distribution of activations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Shaohang Jia , Zhiyong Huang , Zhi Yu , Mingyang Hou , Shuai Miao , Han Yang

Model compression has gained a lot of attention due to its ability to reduce hardware resource requirements significantly while maintaining accuracy of DNNs. Model compression is especially useful for memory-intensive recurrent neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Dongsoo Lee , Byeongwook Kim

Quantum machine learning with quantum kernels for classification problems is a growing area of research. Recently, quantum kernel alignment techniques that parameterise the kernel have been developed, allowing the kernel to be trained and…

Deep neural networks have been proven to be highly effective tools in various domains, yet their computational and memory costs restrict them from being widely deployed on portable devices. The recent rapid increase of edge computing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Ayan Shymyrbay , Mohammed E. Fouda , Ahmed Eltawil

Ultra-low-precision inference can sharply reduce memory and latency but often degrades accuracy and relies on specialized hardware. We present SONIQ, a system-optimized, noise-injected quantization framework that learns per-channel mixed…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Cyrus Zhou , Pedro Savarese , Zack Hassman , Vaughn Richard , Michael DiBrino , Michael Maire , Yanjing Li

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

Quantization of neural networks has become common practice, driven by the need for efficient implementations of deep neural networks on embedded devices. In this paper, we exploit an oft-overlooked degree of freedom in most networks - for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Eldad Meller , Alexander Finkelstein , Uri Almog , Mark Grobman

In this paper we present a simple and computationally efficient quantization scheme that enables us to reduce the resolution of the parameters of a neural network from 32-bit floating point values to 8-bit integer values. The proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Raziel Alvarez , Rohit Prabhavalkar , Anton Bakhtin

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are essential for performing advanced tasks on edge or mobile devices, yet their deployment is often hindered by severe resource constraints, including limited memory, energy, and computational power. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Qunyou Liu , Pengbo Yu , Marina Zapater , David Atienza

Deep Neural Networks(DNNs) have many parameters and activation data, and these both are expensive to implement. One method to reduce the size of the DNN is to quantize the pre-trained model by using a low-bit expression for weights and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Jun Nishikawa , Ryoji Ikegaya

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved great success in a wide range of computer vision areas, but the applications to mobile devices is limited due to their high storage and computational cost. Much efforts have been devoted to compress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Yiming Hu , Jianquan Li , Xianlei Long , Shenhua Hu , Jiagang Zhu , Xingang Wang , Qingyi Gu

The role of quantization within implicit/coordinate neural networks is still not fully understood. We note that using a canonical fixed quantization scheme during training produces poor performance at low-rates due to the network weight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Cameron Gordon , Shin-Fang Chng , Lachlan MacDonald , Simon Lucey