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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

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

Network binarization is a promising hardware-aware direction for creating efficient deep models. Despite its memory and computational advantages, reducing the accuracy gap between binary models and their real-valued counterparts remains an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Adrian Bulat , Brais Martinez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Recent research has shown that one can train a neural network with binary weights and activations at train time by augmenting the weights with a high-precision continuous latent variable that accumulates small changes from stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Alexander G. Anderson , Cory P. Berg

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

Binary Neural Networks~(BNNs) have been proven to be highly effective for deploying deep neural networks on mobile and embedded platforms. Most existing works focus on minimizing quantization errors, improving representation ability, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Jingyang Xiang , Zuohui Chen , Siqi Li , Qing Wu , Yong Liu

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) use 1-bit weights and activations to efficiently execute deep convolutional neural networks on edge devices. Nevertheless, the binarization of the first layer is conventionally excluded, as it leads to a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Lorenzo Vorabbi , Davide Maltoni , Stefano Santi

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

Binary neural networks (BNNs) have received increasing attention due to their superior reductions of computation and memory. Most existing works focus on either lessening the quantization error by minimizing the gap between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Zihan Xu , Mingbao Lin , Jianzhuang Liu , Jie Chen , Ling Shao , Yue Gao , Yonghong Tian , Rongrong Ji

Optimization of Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) currently relies on real-valued latent weights to accumulate small update steps. In this paper, we argue that these latent weights cannot be treated analogously to weights in real-valued…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Koen Helwegen , James Widdicombe , Lukas Geiger , Zechun Liu , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Roeland Nusselder

Binary Neural Network (BNN) represents convolution weights with 1-bit values, which enhances the efficiency of storage and computation. This paper is motivated by a previously revealed phenomenon that the binary kernels in successful BNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yikai Wang , Wenbing Huang , Yinpeng Dong , Fuchun Sun , Anbang Yao

Neural networks with binary weights are computation-efficient and hardware-friendly, but their training is challenging because it involves a discrete optimization problem. Surprisingly, ignoring the discrete nature of the problem and using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Xiangming Meng , Roman Bachmann , Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan

For binary neural networks (BNNs) to become the mainstream on-device computer vision algorithm, they must achieve a superior speed-vs-accuracy tradeoff than 8-bit quantization and establish a similar degree of general applicability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Guhong Nie , Lirui Xiao , Menglong Zhu , Dongliang Chu , Yue Shen , Peng Li , Kang Yang , Li Du , Bo Chen

Deep neural networks have significantly improved performance on a range of tasks with the increasing demand for computational resources, leaving deployment on low-resource devices (with limited memory and battery power) infeasible. Binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Aaqib Saeed

Binary neural networks (BNNs) are an attractive solution for developing and deploying deep neural network (DNN)-based applications in resource constrained devices. Despite their success, BNNs still suffer from a fixed and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Riccardo Schiavone , Francesco Galati , Maria A. Zuluaga

Binary neural networks are the extreme case of network quantization, which has long been thought of as a potential edge machine learning solution. However, the significant accuracy gap to the full-precision counterparts restricts their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Nianhui Guo , Joseph Bethge , Christoph Meinel , Haojin Yang

Binary Spiking Neural Networks (BSNNs) inherit the eventdriven paradigm of SNNs, while also adopting the reduced storage burden of binarization techniques. These distinct advantages grant BSNNs lightweight and energy-efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Yu Liang , Wenjie Wei , Ammar Belatreche , Honglin Cao , Zijian Zhou , Shuai Wang , Malu Zhang , Yang Yang

In this paper, we propose Binarized Change Detection (BiCD), the first binary neural network (BNN) designed specifically for change detection. Conventional network binarization approaches, which directly quantize both weights and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Kaijie Yin , Zhiyuan Zhang , Shu Kong , Tian Gao , Chengzhong Xu , Hui Kong

Modern neural networks tend to be overconfident on unseen, noisy or incorrectly labelled data and do not produce meaningful uncertainty measures. Bayesian deep learning aims to address this shortcoming with variational approximations (such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-28 Nick Pawlowski , Andrew Brock , Matthew C. H. Lee , Martin Rajchl , Ben Glocker

The single-layer feedforward neural network with random weights is a recurring motif in the neural networks literature. The advantage of these networks is their simplified training, which reduces to solving a ridge-regression problem. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 M. Andrecut