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Hybrid models that combine convolutional and transformer blocks offer strong performance in computer vision (CV) tasks but are resource-intensive for edge deployment. Although post-training quantization (PTQ) can help reduce resource…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Shaibal Saha , Lanyu Xu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are crucial for computer vision tasks on resource-constrained devices. Quantization effectively compresses these models, reducing storage size and energy cost. However, in modern depthwise-separable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Lukas Meiner , Jens Mehnert , Alexandru Paul Condurache

Hardware accelerator for convolution neural network (CNNs) enables real time applications of artificial intelligence technology. However, most of the accelerators only support dense CNN computations or suffers complex control to support…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Kuo-Wei Chang , Tian-Sheuan Chang

Fast k-Nearest Neighbor search over real-valued vector spaces (KNN) is an important algorithmic task for information retrieval and recommendation systems. We present a method for using reduced precision to represent vectors through…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Anthony Ko , Iman Keivanloo , Vihan Lakshman , Eric Schkufza

This work introduces pyramidal convolution (PyConv), which is capable of processing the input at multiple filter scales. PyConv contains a pyramid of kernels, where each level involves different types of filters with varying size and depth,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Ionut Cosmin Duta , Li Liu , Fan Zhu , Ling Shao

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) has become more popular choice for various tasks such as computer vision, speech recognition and natural language processing. Thanks to their large computational capability and throughput, GPUs ,which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Natan Liss , Chaim Baskin , Avi Mendelson , Alex M. Bronstein , Raja Giryes

Conventional deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) apply convolution operators uniformly in space across all feature maps for hundreds of layers - this incurs a high computational cost for real-time applications. For many problems such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Mengye Ren , Andrei Pokrovsky , Bin Yang , Raquel Urtasun

Quantum-inspired neural network is one of the interesting researches at the junction of the two fields of quantum computing and deep learning. Several models of quantum-inspired neurons with real parameters have been proposed, which are…

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINN) emerged as a powerful tool for solving scientific computing problems, ranging from the solution of Partial Differential Equations to data assimilation tasks. One of the advantages of using PINN is to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-12 Stefano Markidis

In this work, we developed and tested 3 techniques for vector quantization (VQ) based model weight compression. To mitigate codebook collapse and enable end-to-end training, we adopted cosine similarity-based assignment. Building on ideas…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Terry Gou , Puneet Gupta

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) define the current state-of-the-art for image recognition. With their emerging popularity, especially for critical applications like medical image analysis or self-driving cars, confirmability is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Keyang Zhou , Bernhard Kainz

Deep image compression systems mainly contain four components: encoder, quantizer, entropy model, and decoder. To optimize these four components, a joint rate-distortion framework was proposed, and many deep neural network-based methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-27 Zhisheng Zhong , Hiroaki Akutsu , Kiyoharu Aizawa

This paper presents a framework for Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based quality enhancement task, by taking advantage of coding information in the compressed video signal. The motivation is that normative decisions made by the encoder…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-13 Fatemeh Nasiri , Wassim Hamidouche , Luce Morin , Nicolas Dhollande , Gildas Cocherel

Although deep neural networks are highly effective, their high computational and memory costs severely challenge their applications on portable devices. As a consequence, low-bit quantization, which converts a full-precision neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Jiwei Yang , Xu Shen , Jun Xing , Xinmei Tian , Houqiang Li , Bing Deng , Jianqiang Huang , Xiansheng Hua

This paper introduces a post-training quantization~(PTQ) method achieving highly efficient Convolutional Neural Network~ (CNN) quantization with high performance. Previous PTQ methods usually reduce compression error via performing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Chen Lin , Zheyang Li , Bo Peng , Haoji Hu , Wenming Tan , Ye Ren , Shiliang Pu

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), architectures consisting of convolutional layers, have been the standard choice in vision tasks. Recent studies have shown that Vision Transformers (VTs), architectures based on self-attention modules,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Kishaan Jeeveswaran , Senthilkumar Kathiresan , Arnav Varma , Omar Magdy , Bahram Zonooz , Elahe Arani

We propose a new method to create compact convolutional neural networks (CNNs) by exploiting sparse convolutions. Different from previous works that learn sparsity in models, we directly employ hand-crafted kernels with regular sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Chun-Fu Chen , Quanfu Fan , Marco Pistoia , Gwo Giun Lee

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

As neural networks have become more powerful, there has been a rising desire to deploy them in the real world; however, the power and accuracy of neural networks is largely due to their depth and complexity, making them difficult to deploy,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Olivia Weng

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are able to attain better visual recognition performance than fully connected neural networks despite having much fewer parameters due to their parameter sharing principle. Modern architectures usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Ilke Cugu , Emre Akbas