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Binary neural networks (BNNs), where both weights and activations are binarized into 1 bit, have been widely studied in recent years due to its great benefit of highly accelerated computation and substantially reduced memory footprint that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Zhuo Su , Linpu Fang , Deke Guo , Dewen Hu , Matti Pietikäinen , Li Liu

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown appealing performance on various computer vision tasks in recent years. This motivates people to deploy CNNs to realworld applications. However, most of state-of-art CNNs require large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Qinghao Hu , Peisong Wang , Jian Cheng

Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) promise improved generalization under covariate shift by providing principled probabilistic representations of epistemic uncertainty. However, weight-based BNNs often struggle with high computational…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-13 Trung Trinh , Markus Heinonen , Luigi Acerbi , Samuel Kaski

We introduce an algorithm where the individual bits representing the weights of a neural network are learned. This method allows training weights with integer values on arbitrary bit-depths and naturally uncovers sparse networks, without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Cristian Ivan

Modeling natural phenomena with artificial neural networks (ANNs) often provides highly accurate predictions. However, ANNs often suffer from over-parameterization, complicating interpretation and raising uncertainty issues. Bayesian neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-14 Eirik Høyheim , Lars Skaaret-Lund , Solve Sæbø , Aliaksandr Hubin

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs), which constrain both weights and activations to binary values, offer substantial reductions in computational complexity, memory footprint, and energy consumption. These advantages make them particularly well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Luca Colombo , Fabrizio Pittorino , Daniele Zambon , Carlo Baldassi , Manuel Roveri , Cesare Alippi

Binary neural networks (BNNs) have received ever-increasing popularity for their great capability of reducing storage burden as well as quickening inference time. However, there is a severe performance drop compared with real-valued…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Sheng Xu , Yanjing Li , Teli Ma , Mingbao Lin , Hao Dong , Baochang Zhang , Peng Gao , Jinhu Lv

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are difficult to train, and suffer from drop of accuracy. It appears in practice that BNNs fail to train in the absence of Batch Normalization (BatchNorm) layer. We find the main role of BatchNorm is to avoid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Eyyüb Sari , Mouloud Belbahri , Vahid Partovi Nia

Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) have been long considered an ideal, yet unscalable solution for improving the robustness and the predictive uncertainty of deep neural networks. While they could capture more accurately the posterior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Gianni Franchi , Andrei Bursuc , Emanuel Aldea , Severine Dubuisson , Isabelle Bloch

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are quantized for efficient inference on resource-constrained platforms. However, training deep learning models with low-precision weights and activations involves a demanding optimization task, which calls for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Ziang Long , Penghang Yin , Jack Xin

Binary Spiking Neural Networks (BSNNs) offer promising efficiency advantages for resource-constrained computing. However, their training algorithms often require substantial memory overhead due to latent weights storage and temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yu Liang , Yu Yang , Wenjie Wei , Ammar Belatreche , Shuai Wang , Malu Zhang , Yang Yang

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) have emerged as a promising solution for reducing the memory footprint and compute costs of deep neural networks, but they suffer from quality degradation due to the lack of freedom as activations and weights…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Changhun Lee , Hyungjun Kim , Eunhyeok Park , Jae-Joon Kim

Binary neural networks (BNNs) have attracted broad research interest due to their efficient storage and computational ability. Nevertheless, a significant challenge of BNNs lies in handling discrete constraints while ensuring bit entropy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Mingbao Lin , Rongrong Ji , Zihan Xu , Baochang Zhang , Fei Chao , Chia-Wen Lin , Ling Shao

The quantization of weights to binary states in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) can replace resource-hungry multiply accumulate operations with simple accumulations. Such Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) exhibit greatly reduced resource and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Corey Lammie , Olga Krestinskaya , Alex James , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

This paper tackles the problem of training a deep convolutional neural network of both low-bitwidth weights and activations. Optimizing a low-precision network is very challenging due to the non-differentiability of the quantizer, which may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Bohan Zhuang , Jing Liu , Mingkui Tan , Lingqiao Liu , Ian Reid , Chunhua Shen

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

Optimizing deep neural networks (DNNs) often suffers from the ill-conditioned problem. We observe that the scaling-based weight space symmetry property in rectified nonlinear network will cause this negative effect. Therefore, we propose to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Lei Huang , Xianglong Liu , Bo Lang , Bo Li

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) represent a fundamentally connectionnist and distributed approach to computing, and as such they differ from classical computers that utilize the von Neumann architecture. This has revived research interest…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Anas Skalli , Mirko Goldmann , Nasibeh Haghighi , Stephan Reitzenstein , James A. Lott , Daniel Brunner

A distribution shift between the training and test data can severely harm performance of machine learning models. Importance weighting addresses this issue by assigning different weights to data points during training. We argue that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-17 Floris Holstege , Bram Wouters , Noud van Giersbergen , Cees Diks

Compact neural networks are essential for affordable and power efficient deep learning solutions. Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) take compactification to the extreme by constraining both weights and activations to two levels, $\{+1, -1\}$.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Vishnu Raj , Nancy Nayak , Sheetal Kalyani