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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

The large computing and memory cost of deep neural networks (DNNs) often precludes their use in resource-constrained devices. Quantizing the parameters and operations to lower bit-precision offers substantial memory and energy savings for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Clemens JS Schaefer , Siddharth Joshi , Shan Li , Raul Blazquez

This work introduces Directed-Evolution (DE) method for sparsification of neural networks, where the relevance of parameters to the network accuracy is directly assessed and the parameters that produce the least effect on accuracy when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Luiz M Franca-Neto

Mixed-precision Deep Neural Networks achieve the energy efficiency and throughput needed for hardware deployment, particularly when the resources are limited, without sacrificing accuracy. However, the optimal per-layer bit precision that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Mariam Rakka , Mohammed E. Fouda , Pramod Khargonekar , Fadi Kurdahi

We propose a novel value-aware quantization which applies aggressively reduced precision to the majority of data while separately handling a small amount of large data in high precision, which reduces total quantization errors under very…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Eunhyeok Park , Sungjoo Yoo , Peter Vajda

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

Sparse training is a natural idea to accelerate the training speed of deep neural networks and save the memory usage, especially since large modern neural networks are significantly over-parameterized. However, most of the existing methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Xiao Zhou , Weizhong Zhang , Zonghao Chen , Shizhe Diao , Tong Zhang

Low-bit quantization has become widespread for compressing image super-resolution (SR) models for edge deployment, which allows advanced SR models to enjoy compact low-bit parameters and efficient integer/bitwise constructions for storage…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Kai Liu , Haotong Qin , Yong Guo , Xin Yuan , Linghe Kong , Guihai Chen , Yulun Zhang

Efficient inference is critical for deploying deep learning models on edge AI devices. Low-bit quantization (e.g., 3- and 4-bit) with fixed-point arithmetic improves efficiency, while low-power memory technologies like analog nonvolatile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Anmol Biswas , Raghav Singhal , Sivakumar Elangovan , Shreyas Sabnis , Udayan Ganguly

Network quantization generally converts full-precision weights and/or activations into low-bit fixed-point values in order to accelerate an inference process. Recent approaches to network quantization further discretize the gradients into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Dohyung Kim , Junghyup Lee , Jeimin Jeon , Jaehyeon Moon , Bumsub Ham

Addressing the computational challenges inherent in training large-scale deep neural networks remains a critical endeavor in contemporary machine learning research. While previous efforts have focused on enhancing training efficiency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Xiao Shou , Debarun Bhattacharjya , Yanna Ding , Chen Zhao , Rui Li , Jianxi Gao

Under limited data setting, GANs often struggle to navigate and effectively exploit the input latent space. Consequently, images generated from adjacent variables in a sparse input latent space may exhibit significant discrepancies in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jian Wang , Xin Lan , Jizhe Zhou , Yuxin Tian , Jiancheng Lv

Neural network quantization is frequently used to optimize model size, latency and power consumption for on-device deployment of neural networks. In many cases, a target bit-width is set for an entire network, meaning every layer get…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Nilesh Prasad Pandey , Markus Nagel , Mart van Baalen , Yin Huang , Chirag Patel , Tijmen Blankevoort

Efficient deep neural network (DNN) inference on mobile or embedded devices typically involves quantization of the network parameters and activations. In particular, mixed precision networks achieve better performance than networks with…

In recent years, great progress has been made in a variety of application domains thanks to the development of increasingly deeper neural networks. Unfortunately, the huge number of units of these networks makes them expensive both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Jose M. Alvarez , Mathieu Salzmann

Deep neural networks achieve state-of-the-art results on several tasks while increasing in complexity. It has been shown that neural networks can be pruned during training by imposing sparsity inducing regularizers. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-12 Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi , Tim Genewein , Dan Zhang , Thomas Brox , Volker Fischer

Since model quantization helps to reduce the model size and computation latency, it has been successfully applied in many applications of mobile phones, embedded devices and smart chips. The mixed-precision quantization model can match…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Qigong Sun , Licheng Jiao , Yan Ren , Xiufang Li , Fanhua Shang , Fang Liu

The use of low-bit quantization has emerged as an indispensable technique for enabling the efficient training of large-scale models. Despite its widespread empirical success, a rigorous theoretical understanding of its impact on learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-17 Dechen Zhang , Junwei Su , Difan Zou

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

Quantization for deep neural networks have afforded models for edge devices that use less on-board memory and enable efficient low-power inference. In this paper, we present a comparison of model-parameter driven quantization approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Prateeth Nayak , David Zhang , Sek Chai