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We introduce a novel scheme to train binary convolutional neural networks (CNNs) -- CNNs with weights and activations constrained to {-1,+1} at run-time. It has been known that using binary weights and activations drastically reduce memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Xiaofan Lin , Cong Zhao , Wei Pan

Quantization is widely employed in both cloud and edge systems to reduce the memory occupation, latency, and energy consumption of deep neural networks. In particular, mixed-precision quantization, i.e., the use of different bit-widths for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Matteo Risso , Alessio Burrello , Luca Benini , Enrico Macii , Massimo Poncino , Daniele Jahier Pagliari

Quantized neural networks (QNNs) are among the main approaches for deploying deep neural networks on low resource edge devices. Training QNNs using different levels of precision throughout the network (dynamic quantization) typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Benjamin J. Bodner , Gil Ben Shalom , Eran Treister

Depth factorization and quantization have emerged as two of the principal strategies for designing efficient deep convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures tailored for low-power inference on the edge. However, there is still little…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Stone Yun , Alexander Wong

Efficient machine learning implementations optimized for inference in hardware have wide-ranging benefits, depending on the application, from lower inference latency to higher data throughput and reduced energy consumption. Two popular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Benjamin Hawks , Javier Duarte , Nicholas J. Fraser , Alessandro Pappalardo , Nhan Tran , Yaman Umuroglu

Training deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) is a time consuming task that may take weeks to complete. In this article we propose a novel, theoretically founded method for reducing CNN training time without incurring any loss in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-13 Pedro Porto Buarque de Gusmão , Gianluca Francini , Skjalg Lepsøy , Enrico Magli

Owing to flexible architectures of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), CNNs are successfully used for image denoising. However, they suffer from the following drawbacks: (i) deep network architecture is very difficult to train. (ii)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Chunwei Tian , Yong Xu , Lunke Fei , Junqian Wang , Jie Wen , Nan Luo

Current Deep Learning approaches have been very successful using convolutional neural networks (CNN) trained on large graphical processing units (GPU)-based computers. Three limitations of this approach are: 1) they are based on a simple…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Thomas E. Potok , Catherine Schuman , Steven R. Young , Robert M. Patton , Federico Spedalieri , Jeremy Liu , Ke-Thia Yao , Garrett Rose , Gangotree Chakma

Deploying federated learning (FL) over wireless networks with resource-constrained devices requires balancing between accuracy, energy efficiency, and precision. Prior art on FL often requires devices to train deep neural networks (DNNs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Minsu Kim , Walid Saad , Mohammad Mozaffari , Merouane Debbah

Low-precision weights and activations in deep neural networks (DNNs) outperform their full-precision counterparts in terms of hardware efficiency. When implemented with low-precision operations, specifically in the extreme case where…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Behnam Ghavami , Mohammad Shahidzadeh , Lesley Shannon , Steve Wilton

Pruning and quantization are proven methods for improving the performance and storage efficiency of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Pruning removes near-zero weights in tensors and masks weak connections between neurons in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Yuan Wen , David Gregg

Benefit from large-scale training datasets, deep Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs) have achieved impressive results in face recognition(FR). However, tremendous scale of datasets inevitably lead to noisy data, which obviously reduce the…

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Deep learning has become a promising programming paradigm in software development, owing to its surprising performance in solving many challenging tasks. Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly being deployed in practice, but are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Yedi Zhang , Zhe Zhao , Fu Song , Min Zhang , Taolue Chen , Jun Sun

Adversarial examples have emerged as a significant threat to machine learning algorithms, especially to the convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In this paper, we propose two quantization-based defense mechanisms, Constant Quantization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Faiq Khalid , Hassan Ali , Hammad Tariq , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Semeen Rehman , Rehan Ahmed , Muhammad Shafique

Due to the advent of modern embedded systems and mobile devices with constrained resources, there is a great demand for incredibly efficient deep neural networks for machine learning purposes. There is also a growing concern of privacy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Priyank Kalgaonkar , Mohamed El-Sharkawy

Efficient deep neural network (DNN) inference on mobile or embedded devices typically involves quantization of the network parameters and activations. In particular, mixed precision networks achieve better performance than networks with…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains, but their performance can be severely degraded by noisy or corrupted training data. Conventional noise mitigation methods often rely on explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Deliang Jin , Gang Chen , Shuo Feng , Yufeng Ling , Haoran Zhu

Network quantization is an effective solution to compress deep neural networks for practical usage. Existing network quantization methods cannot sufficiently exploit the depth information to generate low-bit compressed network. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Yuhui Xu , Yongzhuang Wang , Aojun Zhou , Weiyao Lin , Hongkai Xiong

Energy efficiency and memory footprint of a convolutional neural network (CNN) implemented on a CNN inference accelerator depend on many factors, including a weight quantization strategy (i.e., data types and bit-widths) and mapping (i.e.,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Jan Klhufek , Miroslav Safar , Vojtech Mrazek , Zdenek Vasicek , Lukas Sekanina

While classical convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have revolutionized image classification, the emergence of quantum computing presents new opportunities for enhancing neural network architectures. Quantum CNNs (QCNNs) leverage quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Peter Röseler , Oliver Schaudt , Helmut Berg , Christian Bauckhage , Matthias Koch