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For efficient neural network inference, it is desirable to achieve state-of-the-art accuracy with the simplest networks requiring the least computation, memory, and power. Quantizing networks to lower precision is a powerful technique for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Deepika Bablani , Jeffrey L. Mckinstry , Steven K. Esser , Rathinakumar Appuswamy , Dharmendra S. Modha

Quantizing deep neural networks is an effective method for reducing memory consumption and improving inference speed, and is thus useful for implementation in resource-constrained devices. However, it is still hard for extremely low-bit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Kohei Yamamoto

Quantized Neural Networks (QNNs), which use low bitwidth numbers for representing parameters and performing computations, have been proposed to reduce the computation complexity, storage size and memory usage. In QNNs, parameters and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Shuchang Zhou , Yuzhi Wang , He Wen , Qinyao He , Yuheng Zou

To achieve the low latency, high throughput, and energy efficiency benefits of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), reducing the memory and compute requirements when running on a neuromorphic hardware is an important step. Neuromorphic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Hin Wai Lui , Emre Neftci

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are quantized for efficient inference on resource-constrained platforms. However, training deep learning models with low-precision weights and activations involves a demanding optimization task, which calls for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Ziang Long , Penghang Yin , Jack Xin

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have closer dynamics to the brain than current deep neural networks. Their low power consumption and sample efficiency make these networks interesting. Recently, several deep convolutional spiking neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Shahriar Rezghi Shirsavar , Mohammad-Reza A. Dehaqani

The promise of Deep Neural Network (DNN) powered Internet of Thing (IoT) devices has motivated a tremendous demand for automated solutions to enable fast development and deployment of efficient (1) DNNs equipped with instantaneous…

Enabling low precision implementations of deep learning models, without considerable performance degradation, is necessary in resource and latency constrained settings. Moreover, exploiting the differences in sensitivity to quantization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Ignacio Hounie , Juan Elenter , Alejandro Ribeiro

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

The deployment of deep neural networks on edge devices is a challenging task due to the increasing complexity of state-of-the-art models, requiring efforts to reduce model size and inference latency. Recent studies explore models operating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Jinhee Kim , Seoyeon Yoon , Taeho Lee , Joo Chan Lee , Kang Eun Jeon , Jong Hwan Ko

Deep neural networks are gaining in popularity as they are used to generate state-of-the-art results for a variety of computer vision and machine learning applications. At the same time, these networks have grown in depth and complexity in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Soheil Hashemi , Nicholas Anthony , Hokchhay Tann , R. Iris Bahar , Sherief Reda

Modern CNN are typically based on floating point linear algebra based implementations. Recently, reduced precision NN have been gaining popularity as they require significantly less memory and computational resources compared to floating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Jiang Su , Nicholas J. Fraser , Giulio Gambardella , Michaela Blott , Gianluca Durelli , David B. Thomas , Philip Leong , Peter Y. K. Cheung

The growing demand for machine learning applications in the context of the Internet of Things calls for new approaches to optimize the use of limited compute and memory resources. Despite significant progress that has been made w.r.t.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Karsten Schrödter , Jan Stenkamp , Nina Herrmann , Fabian Gieseke

We propose Multiplier-less INTeger (MINT) quantization, a uniform quantization scheme that efficiently compresses weights and membrane potentials in spiking neural networks (SNNs). Unlike previous SNN quantization methods, MINT quantizes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Ruokai Yin , Yuhang Li , Abhishek Moitra , Priyadarshini Panda

Quantized neural network (NN) with a reduced bit precision is an effective solution to reduces the computational and memory resource requirements and plays a vital role in machine learning. However, it is still challenging to avoid the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Xiaobin Li , Hongxu Jiang , Shuangxi Huang , Fangzheng Tian

We propose Scalable Mechanistic Neural Network (S-MNN), an enhanced neural network framework designed for scientific machine learning applications involving long temporal sequences. By reformulating the original Mechanistic Neural Network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Jiale Chen , Dingling Yao , Adeel Pervez , Dan Alistarh , Francesco Locatello

Spiking neural network (SNN) has attracted much attention due to their powerful spatio-temporal information representation ability. Capsule Neural Network (CapsNet) does well in assembling and coupling features at different levels. Here, we…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Dongcheng Zhao , Yang Li , Yi Zeng , Jihang Wang , Qian Zhang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are seen as an energy-efficient alternative to traditional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), but the performance gap remains a challenge. While this gap is narrowing through ANN-to-SNN conversion, substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Ziqing Wang , Yuetong Fang , Jiahang Cao , Hongwei Ren , Renjing Xu

Previous studies dominantly target at self-supervised learning on real-valued networks and have achieved many promising results. However, on the more challenging binary neural networks (BNNs), this task has not yet been fully explored in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Zhiqiang Shen , Zechun Liu , Jie Qin , Lei Huang , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Marios Savvides

We present an overview of techniques for quantizing convolutional neural networks for inference with integer weights and activations. Per-channel quantization of weights and per-layer quantization of activations to 8-bits of precision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi