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Quantized CNN inference on ultra-low-power MCUs incurs unnecessary computations in neurons that produce saturated output values. These values are too extreme and are eventually clamped to the boundaries allowed by the neuron. Often times,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-27 Shiming Li , Luca Mottola , Yuan Yao , Stefanos Kaxiras

Convolutional Neural Networks have achieved unprecedented success in image classification, recognition, or detection applications. However, their large-scale deployment in embedded devices is still limited by the huge computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Xuecan Yang , Sumanta Chaudhuri , Laurence Likforman , Lirida Naviner

In this paper, we first identify activation shift, a simple but remarkable phenomenon in a neural network in which the preactivation value of a neuron has non-zero mean that depends on the angle between the weight vector of the neuron and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Takuro Kutsuna

Increasing demands for understanding the internal behavior of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have led to remarkable improvements in explanation methods. Particularly, several class activation mapping (CAM) based methods, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Hyungsik Jung , Youngrock Oh

Many deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) make incorrect predictions on adversarial samples obtained by imperceptible perturbations of clean samples. We hypothesize that this is caused by a failure to suppress unusual signals within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Qiyang Zhao , Lewis D Griffin

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) filter the input data using a series of spatial convolution operators with compactly supported stencils and point-wise nonlinearities. Commonly, the convolution operators couple features from all…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Eran Treister , Lars Ruthotto , Michal Sharoni , Sapir Zafrani , Eldad Haber

Feed-forward, fully-connected Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) or the so-called Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) are well-known universal approximators. However, their learning performance varies significantly depending on the function or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Serkan Kiranyaz , Turker Ince , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj

Traditional methods for motion estimation estimate the motion field F between a pair of images as the one that minimizes a predesigned cost function. In this paper, we propose a direct method and train a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-25 Aria Ahmadi , Ioannis Patras

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have emerged as a fundamental technology for machine learning. High performance and extreme energy efficiency are critical for deployments of CNNs in a wide range of situations, especially mobile…

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art results on many visual recognition tasks. However, current CNN models still exhibit a poor ability to be invariant to spatial transformations of images. Intuitively, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Xu Shen , Xinmei Tian , Anfeng He , Shaoyan Sun , Dacheng Tao

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) filter the input data using spatial convolution operators with compact stencils. Commonly, the convolution operators couple features from all channels, which leads to immense computational cost in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Jonathan Ephrath , Lars Ruthotto , Eldad Haber , Eran Treister

One of the main challenges in Zero-Shot Learning of visual categories is gathering semantic attributes to accompany images. Recent work has shown that learning from textual descriptions, such as Wikipedia articles, avoids the problem of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-28 Jimmy Ba , Kevin Swersky , Sanja Fidler , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

This paper presents an algorithm for analytically calculating the weights and thresholds of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) without using standard training procedures. The algorithm enables the determination of CNN parameters based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Polad Geidarov

We present LBW-Net, an efficient optimization based method for quantization and training of the low bit-width convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Specifically, we quantize the weights to zero or powers of two by minimizing the Euclidean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Penghang Yin , Shuai Zhang , Yingyong Qi , Jack Xin

The convolutional neural network (CNN) learns the same object in different positions in images, which can improve the recognition accuracy of the model. An implication of this is that CNN may know where the object is. The usefulness of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Nan Yang , Laicheng Zhong , Fan Huang , Dong Yuan , Wei Bao

A promising alternative to the computationally expensive Neural Architecture Search (NAS) involves the development of Zero Cost Proxies (ZCPs), which correlate well with trained performance, but can be computed through a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Richard Goldman , Varun Komperla , Thomas Ploetz , Harish Haresamudram

It is well known that attention mechanisms can effectively improve the performance of many CNNs including object detectors. Instead of refining feature maps prevalently, we reduce the prohibitive computational complexity by a novel attempt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Hefei Ling , Yangyang Qin , Li Zhang , Yuxuan Shi , Ping Li

In this paper we present a class of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) called non-overlapping CNNs in the study of approximation capabilities of CNNs. We prove that such networks with sigmoidal activation function are capable of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Weike Chang

Convolutional neural networks were the standard for solving many computer vision tasks until recently, when Transformers of MLP-based architectures have started to show competitive performance. These architectures typically have a vast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Peter Kocsis , Peter Súkeník , Guillem Brasó , Matthias Nießner , Laura Leal-Taixé , Ismail Elezi

We discuss several modifications and extensions over the previous proposed Cnvlutin (CNV) accelerator for convolutional and fully-connected layers of Deep Learning Network. We first describe different encodings of the activations that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Patrick Judd , Alberto Delmas , Sayeh Sharify , Andreas Moshovos