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The advent of deep learning has considerably accelerated machine learning development. The deployment of deep neural networks at the edge is however limited by their high memory and energy consumption requirements. With new memory…

Weight and activation binarization can efficiently compress deep neural networks and accelerate model inference, but cause severe accuracy degradation. Existing optimization methods for binary neural networks (BNNs) focus on fitting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Ping Xue , Yang Lu , Jingfei Chang , Xing Wei , Zhen Wei

The increasing size of large neural network models, specifically language models and foundational image models, poses deployment challenges, prompting efforts to reduce memory requirements and enhance computational efficiency. These efforts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Eduardo Lobo Lustoda Cabral , Paulo Pirozelli , Larissa Driemeier

Deep neural networks are highly effective at a range of computational tasks. However, they tend to be computationally expensive, especially in vision-related problems, and also have large memory requirements. One of the most effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Ameya Prabhu , Vishal Batchu , Sri Aurobindo Munagala , Rohit Gajawada , Anoop Namboodiri

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have recently demonstrated high-quality results in single-image super-resolution (SR). DCNNs often suffer from over-parametrization and large amounts of redundancy, which results in inefficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Yinglan Ma , Hongyu Xiong , Zhe Hu , Lizhuang Ma

Batch normalization (BN) is a key facilitator and considered essential for state-of-the-art binary neural networks (BNN). However, the BN layer is costly to calculate and is typically implemented with non-binary parameters, leaving a hurdle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Tianlong Chen , Zhenyu Zhang , Xu Ouyang , Zechun Liu , Zhiqiang Shen , Zhangyang Wang

Weight and activation binarization is an effective approach to deep neural network compression and can accelerate the inference by leveraging bitwise operations. Although many binarization methods have improved the accuracy of the model by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Haotong Qin , Ruihao Gong , Xianglong Liu , Mingzhu Shen , Ziran Wei , Fengwei Yu , Jingkuan Song

In this paper, we propose to train a network with binary weights and low-bitwidth activations, designed especially for mobile devices with limited power consumption. Most previous works on quantizing CNNs uncritically assume the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Bohan Zhuang , Chunhua Shen , Ian Reid

In this paper we introduce a novel method for segmentation that can benefit from general semantics of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Our segmentation proposes visually and semantically coherent image segments. We use binary encoding of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Mahdyar Ravanbakhsh , Hossein Mousavi , Moin Nabi , Lucio Marcenaro , Carlo Regazzoni

Binary neural network (BNN) provides a promising solution to deploy parameter-intensive deep single image super-resolution (SISR) models onto real devices with limited storage and computational resources. To achieve comparable performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Zhiqiang Lang , Chongxing Song , Lei Zhang , Wei Wei

This paper shows how to train binary networks to within a few percent points ($\sim 3-5 \%$) of the full precision counterpart. We first show how to build a strong baseline, which already achieves state-of-the-art accuracy, by combining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Brais Martinez , Jing Yang , Adrian Bulat , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful and flexible framework for representation learning on irregular data. As they generalize the operations of classical CNNs on grids to arbitrary topologies, GNNs also bring much of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Mehdi Bahri , Gaétan Bahl , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Low-precision weights and activations in deep neural networks (DNNs) outperform their full-precision counterparts in terms of hardware efficiency. When implemented with low-precision operations, specifically in the extreme case where…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Behnam Ghavami , Mohammad Shahidzadeh , Lesley Shannon , Steve Wilton

This paper presents a storage-efficient learning model titled Recursive Binary Neural Networks for sensing devices having a limited amount of on-chip data storage such as < 100's kilo-Bytes. The main idea of the proposed model is to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Tianchan Guan , Xiaoyang Zeng , Mingoo Seok

We propose methods to train convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with both binarized weights and activations, leading to quantized models that are specifically friendly to mobile devices with limited power capacity and computation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Bohan Zhuang , Chunhua Shen , Mingkui Tan , Peng Chen , Lingqiao Liu , Ian Reid

Binary neural networks have attracted numerous attention in recent years. However, mainly due to the information loss stemming from the biased binarization, how to preserve the accuracy of networks still remains a critical issue. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Mingzhu Shen , Xianglong Liu , Ruihao Gong , Kai Han

Binary representation is desirable for its memory efficiency, computation speed and robustness. In this paper, we propose adjustable bounded rectifiers to learn binary representations for deep neural networks. While hard constraining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Zhirong Wu , Dahua Lin , Xiaoou Tang

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have achieved state-of-the-art results in a wide range of tasks, with the best results obtained with large training sets and large models. In the past, GPUs enabled these breakthroughs because of their greater…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Matthieu Courbariaux , Yoshua Bengio , Jean-Pierre David

In the last ten years, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have formed the basis of deep-learning architectures for most computer vision tasks. However, they are not necessarily optimal. For example, mathematical morphology is known to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Theodore Aouad , Hugues Talbot

While the deployment of neural networks, yielding impressive results, becomes more prevalent in various applications, their interpretability and understanding remain a critical challenge. Network inversion, a technique that aims to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Pirzada Suhail , Supratik Chakraborty , Amit Sethi