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Binary neural network (BNN) is an extreme quantization version of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with all features and weights mapped to just 1-bit. Although BNN saves a lot of memory and computation demand to make CNN applicable on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Xulong Shi , Zhi Qi , Jiaxuan Cai , Keqi Fu , Yaru Zhao , Zan Li , Xuanyu Liu , Hao Liu

Reducing bit-widths of weights, activations, and gradients of a Neural Network can shrink its storage size and memory usage, and also allow for faster training and inference by exploiting bitwise operations. However, previous attempts for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Qinyao He , He Wen , Shuchang Zhou , Yuxin Wu , Cong Yao , Xinyu Zhou , Yuheng Zou

The paper evaluates three variants of the Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) in recurrent neural networks (RNN) by reducing parameters in the update and reset gates. We evaluate the three variant GRU models on MNIST and IMDB datasets and show that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Rahul Dey , Fathi M. Salem

Sequence learning is dominated by Transformers and parallelizable recurrent neural networks (RNNs) such as state-space models, yet learning long-term dependencies remains challenging, and state-of-the-art designs trade power consumption for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Julien Brandoit , Arthur Fyon , Damien Ernst , Guillaume Drion

In this work, we study the 1-bit convolutional neural networks (CNNs), of which both the weights and activations are binary. While being efficient, the classification accuracy of the current 1-bit CNNs is much worse compared to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Zechun Liu , Baoyuan Wu , Wenhan Luo , Xin Yang , Wei Liu , Kwang-Ting Cheng

This paper proposes an efficient bitwise solution to the single-channel source separation task. Most dictionary-based source separation algorithms rely on iterative update rules during the run time, which becomes computationally costly…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Lijiang Guo , Minje Kim

A key enabler of deploying convolutional neural networks on resource-constrained embedded systems is the binary neural network (BNN). BNNs save on memory and simplify computation by binarizing both features and weights. Unfortunately,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Floran de Putter , Henk Corporaal

We present a method to train self-binarizing neural networks, that is, networks that evolve their weights and activations during training to become binary. To obtain similar binary networks, existing methods rely on the sign activation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Fayez Lahoud , Radhakrishna Achanta , Pablo Márquez-Neila , Sabine Süsstrunk

This paper proposes a novel binarized weight network (BT) for a resource-efficient neural structure. The proposed model estimates a binary representation of weights by taking into account the approximation error with an additional term.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Savas Ozkan , Gozde Bozdagi Akar

Binarized convolutional neural networks (BCNNs) are widely used to improve memory and computation efficiency of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) for mobile and AI chips based applications. However, current BCNNs are not able to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Chunlei Liu , Wenrui Ding , Xin Xia , Yuan Hu , Baochang Zhang , Jianzhuang Liu , Bohan Zhuang , Guodong Guo

With the emergence of massively parallel processing units, parallelization has become a desirable property for new sequence models. The ability to parallelize the processing of sequences with respect to the sequence length during training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Florent De Geeter , Gaspard Lambrechts , Damien Ernst , Guillaume Drion

We introduce a method to train Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) - neural networks with binary weights and activations at run-time. At training-time the binary weights and activations are used for computing the parameters gradients. During…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Matthieu Courbariaux , Itay Hubara , Daniel Soudry , Ran El-Yaniv , Yoshua Bengio

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) significantly reduce computational complexity and memory usage in machine and deep learning by representing weights and activations with just one bit. However, most existing training algorithms for BNNs rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Luca Colombo , Fabrizio Pittorino , Manuel Roveri

Binary neural networks (BNNs) have been widely adopted to reduce the computational cost and memory storage on edge-computing devices by using one-bit representation for activations and weights. However, as neural networks become…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Quang Hieu Vo , Linh-Tam Tran , Sung-Ho Bae , Lok-Won Kim , Choong Seon Hong

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have been widely applied to deal with temporal problems, such as flood forecasting and financial data processing. On the one hand, traditional RNNs models amplify the gradient issue due to the strict time…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Jin Wang , Yongsong Zou , Se-Jung Lim

Binarization is an extreme network compression approach that provides large computational speedups along with energy and memory savings, albeit at significant accuracy costs. We investigate the question of where to binarize inputs at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Ameya Prabhu , Vishal Batchu , Rohit Gajawada , Sri Aurobindo Munagala , Anoop Namboodiri

There is a significant performance gap between Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) and floating point Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). We propose to improve the binary training method, by introducing a new regularization function that encourages…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Sajad Darabi , Mouloud Belbahri , Matthieu Courbariaux , Vahid Partovi Nia

The current success of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) usually relies on loading the entire attributed graph for processing, which may not be satisfied with limited memory resources, especially when the attributed graph is large. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Junfu Wang , Yuanfang Guo , Liang Yang , Yunhong Wang

This paper introduces a new Dynamic Gated Recurrent Neural Network (DG-RNN) for compute-efficient speech enhancement models running on resource-constrained hardware platforms. It leverages the slow evolution characteristic of RNN hidden…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Longbiao Cheng , Ashutosh Pandey , Buye Xu , Tobi Delbruck , Shih-Chii Liu

While hardware implementations of inference routines for Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) are plentiful, current realizations of efficient BNN hardware training accelerators, suitable for Internet of Things (IoT) edge devices, leave much to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Corey Lammie , Wei Xiang , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi