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Quantization emerges as one of the most promising compression technologies for deploying efficient large models for various real time application in recent years. Considering that the storage and IO of weights take up the vast majority of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Yi Guo , Fanliu Kong , Xiaoyang Li , Hui Li , Wei Chen , Xiaogang Tian , Jinping Cai , Yang Zhang , Shouda Liu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have recently achieved great success in many visual recognition tasks. However, existing deep neural network models are computationally expensive and memory intensive, hindering their deployment in devices with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Yu Cheng , Duo Wang , Pan Zhou , Tao Zhang

While model compression is increasingly important because of large neural network size, compression-aware training is challenging as it needs sophisticated model modifications and longer training time.In this paper, we introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Dongsoo Lee , Se Jung Kwon , Byeongwook Kim , Jeongin Yun , Baeseong Park , Yongkweon Jeon

We propose a modularization method that decomposes a deep neural network (DNN) into small modules from a functionality perspective and recomposes them into a new model for some other task. Decomposed modules are expected to have the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Hiroaki Kingetsu , Kenichi Kobayashi , Taiji Suzuki

Hardware-friendly network quantization (e.g., binary/uniform quantization) can efficiently accelerate the inference and meanwhile reduce memory consumption of the deep neural networks, which is crucial for model deployment on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Ruihao Gong , Xianglong Liu , Shenghu Jiang , Tianxiang Li , Peng Hu , Jiazhen Lin , Fengwei Yu , Junjie Yan

Post-training quantization (PTQ) is a popular method for compressing deep neural networks (DNNs) without modifying their original architecture or training procedures. Despite its effectiveness and convenience, the reliability of PTQ methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Zhihang Yuan , Jiawei Liu , Jiaxiang Wu , Dawei Yang , Qiang Wu , Guangyu Sun , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang , Bingzhe Wu

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved significant advances in a wide range of applications. However, their deployment on resource-constrained devices remains a challenge due to the large number of layers and parameters, which result in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Sara Makenali , Babak Rokh , Ali Azarpeyvand

Model quantization is a promising method for accelerating and compressing diffusion models. Nevertheless, since post-training quantization (PTQ) fails catastrophically at low-bit cases, quantization-aware training (QAT) is essential.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Xuewen Liu , Zhikai Li , Minhao Jiang , Mengjuan Chen , Jianquan Li , Qingyi Gu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are nowadays ubiquitous in many domains such as computer vision. However, due to their high latency, the deployment of DNNs hinges on the development of compression techniques such as quantization which consists…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Edouard Yvinec , Arnaud Dapogny , Matthieu Cord , Kevin Bailly

Model quantization is a widely used technique to compress and accelerate deep neural network (DNN) inference. Emergent DNN hardware accelerators begin to support mixed precision (1-8 bits) to further improve the computation efficiency,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Kuan Wang , Zhijian Liu , Yujun Lin , Ji Lin , Song Han

Deep Learning Architectures employ heavy computations and bulk of the computational energy is taken up by the convolution operations in the Convolutional Neural Networks. The objective of our proposed work is to reduce the energy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Salman Abdul Khaliq , Rehan Hafiz

Deep Neural Networks have achieved remarkable success relying on the developing availability of GPUs and large-scale datasets with increasing network depth and width. However, due to the expensive computation and intensive memory,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-07 E Zhenqian , Gao Weiguo

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

As edge devices become prevalent, deploying Deep Neural Networks (DNN) on edge devices has become a critical issue. However, DNN requires a high computational resource which is rarely available for edge devices. To handle this, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Jangho Kim , Simyung Chang , Nojun Kwak

Reducing the size of neural network models is a critical step in moving AI from a cloud-centric to an edge-centric (i.e. on-device) compute paradigm. This shift from cloud to edge is motivated by a number of factors including reduced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Micah Gorsline , James Smith , Cory Merkel

Operating deep neural networks (DNNs) on devices with limited resources requires the reduction of their memory as well as computational footprint. Popular reduction methods are network quantization or pruning, which either reduce the word…

Designing neural architectures is a fundamental step in deep learning applications. As a partner technique, model compression on neural networks has been widely investigated to gear the needs that the deep learning algorithms could be run…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Yukang Chen , Gaofeng Meng , Qian Zhang , Xinbang Zhang , Liangchen Song , Shiming Xiang , Chunhong Pan

Similar to convolution neural networks, recurrent neural networks (RNNs) typically suffer from over-parameterization. Quantizing bit-widths of weights and activations results in runtime efficiency on hardware, yet it often comes at the cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Supriya Kapur , Asit Mishra , Debbie Marr

Model quantization is a widely used technique to compress and accelerate deep neural network (DNN) inference. Emergent DNN hardware accelerators begin to support mixed precision (1-8 bits) to further improve the computation efficiency,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Kuan Wang , Zhijian Liu , Yujun Lin , Ji Lin , Song Han

State-of-the-art deep neural networks are trained with large amounts (millions or even billions) of data. The expensive computation and memory costs make it difficult to train them on limited hardware resources, especially for recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Daquan Zhou , Kai Wang , Jianyang Gu , Xiangyu Peng , Dongze Lian , Yifan Zhang , Yang You , Jiashi Feng