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Network quantization, which aims to reduce the bit-lengths of the network weights and activations, has emerged as one of the key ingredients to reduce the size of neural networks for their deployments to resource-limited devices. In order…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Jung Hyun Lee , Jihun Yun , Sung Ju Hwang , Eunho Yang

Next-generation wireless networks, such as edge intelligence and wireless distributed learning, face two critical challenges: communication efficiency and privacy protection. In this work, our focus is on addressing these issues in a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Guangfeng Yan , Tan Li , Tian Lan , Kui Wu , Linqi Song

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are ubiquitous in computer vision and natural language processing, but suffer from high inference cost. This problem can be addressed by quantization, which consists in converting floating point operations into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Edouard Yvinec , Arnaud Dapgony , Matthieu Cord , Kevin Bailly

This paper proposes a deep learning-based denoising method for noisy low-dose computerized tomography (CT) images in the absence of paired training data. The proposed method uses a fidelity-embedded generative adversarial network (GAN) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Hyoung Suk Park , Jineon Baek , Sun Kyoung You , Jae Kyu Choi , Jin Keun Seo

Although post-training quantization (PTQ) provides an efficient numerical compression scheme for deploying large language models (LLMs) on resource-constrained devices, the representativeness and universality of calibration data remain a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Haiyang Xiao , Weiqing Li , Jinyue Guo , Guochao Jiang , Guohua Liu , Yuewei Zhang

Deep neural networks with lower precision weights and operations at inference time have advantages in terms of the cost of memory space and accelerator power. The main challenge associated with the quantization algorithm is maintaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Shih-Ting Lin , Zhaofang Li , Yu-Hsiang Cheng , Hao-Wen Kuo , Chih-Cheng Lu , Kea-Tiong Tang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities but typically require extensive computational resources and memory for inference. Post-training quantization (PTQ) can effectively reduce these demands by storing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Xi Zhang , Xiaolin Wu , Jiamang Wang , Weisi Lin

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are essential for performing advanced tasks on edge or mobile devices, yet their deployment is often hindered by severe resource constraints, including limited memory, energy, and computational power. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Qunyou Liu , Pengbo Yu , Marina Zapater , David Atienza

Federated learning is a machine learning approach that enables multiple devices (i.e., agents) to train a shared model cooperatively without exchanging raw data. This technique keeps data localized on user devices, ensuring privacy and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Dimitrios Kritsiolis , Constantine Kotropoulos

Large language models have achieved significant advancements in complex mathematical reasoning benchmarks, such as MATH. However, their substantial computational requirements present challenges for practical deployment. Model quantization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Zhen Li , Yupeng Su , Runming Yang , Congkai Xie , Zheng Wang , Zhongwei Xie , Ngai Wong , Hongxia Yang

State-of-the-art deep neural networks are trained with large amounts (millions or even billions) of data. The expensive computation and memory costs make it difficult to train them on limited hardware resources, especially for recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Daquan Zhou , Kai Wang , Jianyang Gu , Xiangyu Peng , Dongze Lian , Yifan Zhang , Yang You , Jiashi Feng

As the size of large language models (LLMs) continues to grow, model compression without sacrificing accuracy has become a crucial challenge for deployment. While some quantization methods, such as GPTQ, have made progress in achieving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Liang Li , Qingyuan Li , Bo Zhang , Xiangxiang Chu

In recent years, deep neural networks have been utilized in a wide variety of applications including image generation. In particular, generative adversarial networks (GANs) are able to produce highly realistic pictures as part of tasks such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-20 Hyunsuk Ko , Dae Yeol Lee , Seunghyun Cho , Alan C. Bovik

We introduce GPTAQ, a novel finetuning-free quantization method for compressing large-scale transformer architectures. Unlike the previous GPTQ method, which independently calibrates each layer, we always match the quantized layer's output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Yuhang Li , Ruokai Yin , Donghyun Lee , Shiting Xiao , Priyadarshini Panda

Quantised neural networks (QNNs) shrink models and reduce inference energy through low-bit arithmetic, yet most still depend on a running statistics batch normalisation (BN) layer, preventing true integer-only deployment. Prior attempts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Pengfei Sun , Wenyu Jiang , Piew Yoong Chee , Paul Devos , Dick Botteldooren

Quantization of deep neural networks is a promising approach that reduces the inference cost, making it feasible to run deep networks on resource-restricted devices. Inspired by existing methods, we propose a new framework to learn the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Amir Ardakani , Arash Ardakani , Brett Meyer , James J. Clark , Warren J. Gross

AutoRegressive Visual Generation (ARVG) models retain an architecture compatible with language models, while achieving performance comparable to diffusion-based models. Quantization is commonly employed in neural networks to reduce model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xuewen Liu , Zhikai Li , Jing Zhang , Mengjuan Chen , Qingyi Gu

Quantization of the weights and activations is one of the main methods to reduce the computational footprint of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) training. Current methods enable 4-bit quantization of the forward phase. However, this constitutes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Brian Chmiel , Ron Banner , Elad Hoffer , Hilla Ben Yaacov , Daniel Soudry

Recent advancements in machine learning achieved by Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been significant. While demonstrating high accuracy, DNNs are associated with a huge number of parameters and computations, which leads to high memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Babak Rokh , Ali Azarpeyvand , Alireza Khanteymoori

Deep Learning is moving to edge devices, ushering in a new age of distributed Artificial Intelligence (AI). The high demand of computational resources required by deep neural networks may be alleviated by approximate computing techniques,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Miguel de Prado , Maurizio Denna , Luca Benini , Nuria Pazos