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With the development of deep neural networks, the size of network models becomes larger and larger. Model compression has become an urgent need for deploying these network models to mobile or embedded devices. Model quantization is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Wen-Pu Cai , Wu-Jun Li

Model quantization is a widely used technique to compress and accelerate deep neural network (DNN) inference, especially when deploying to edge or IoT devices with limited computation capacity and power consumption budget. The uniform bit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Tao Wang , Junsong Wang , Chang Xu , Chao Xue

The deployment of Quantized Neural Networks (QNNs) on resource-constrained edge devices, such as microcontrollers (MCUs), introduces fundamental challenges in balancing model performance, computational complexity, and memory constraints.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Hamza A. Abushahla , Dara Varam , Ariel Justine N. Panopio , Mohamed I. AlHajri

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have gained considerable attention in the past decades due to their astounding performance in different applications, such as natural language modeling, self-driving assistance, and source code understanding.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Qiang Hu , Yuejun Guo , Maxime Cordy , Xiaofei Xie , Wei Ma , Mike Papadakis , Yves Le Traon

Quantization is emerging as an efficient approach to promote hardware-friendly deep learning and run deep neural networks on resource-limited hardware. However, it still causes a significant decrease to the network in accuracy. We summarize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Haotong Qin

Quantized neural networks with low-bit weights and activations are attractive for developing AI accelerators. However, the quantization functions used in most conventional quantization methods are non-differentiable, which increases the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Zhaohui Yang , Yunhe Wang , Kai Han , Chunjing Xu , Chao Xu , Dacheng Tao , Chang Xu

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

Deep neural networks have been applied in many applications exhibiting extraordinary abilities in the field of computer vision. However, complex network architectures challenge efficient real-time deployment and require significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Tailin Liang , John Glossner , Lei Wang , Shaobo Shi , Xiaotong Zhang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful machine learning models and have succeeded in various artificial intelligence tasks. Although various architectures and modules for the DNNs have been proposed, selecting and designing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Shinichi Shirakawa , Yasushi Iwata , Youhei Akimoto

Recent studies have shown that deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. To this end, many defense approaches that attempt to improve the robustness of DNNs have been proposed. In a separate and yet related area,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Adnan Siraj Rakin , Jinfeng Yi , Boqing Gong , Deliang Fan

Deep Neural Networks(DNNs) have many parameters and activation data, and these both are expensive to implement. One method to reduce the size of the DNN is to quantize the pre-trained model by using a low-bit expression for weights and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Jun Nishikawa , Ryoji Ikegaya

This paper addresses a challenging problem - how to reduce energy consumption without incurring performance drop when deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) at the inference stage. In order to alleviate the computation and storage burdens,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Xue Geng , Jie Fu , Bin Zhao , Jie Lin , Mohamed M. Sabry Aly , Christopher Pal , Vijay Chandrasekhar

Neural networks (NNs) have been extremely successful across many tasks in machine learning. Quantization of NN weights has become an important topic due to its impact on their energy efficiency, inference time and deployment on hardware.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Burak Bartan , Mert Pilanci

We consider the problem of deep neural net compression by quantization: given a large, reference net, we want to quantize its real-valued weights using a codebook with $K$ entries so that the training loss of the quantized net is minimal.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán , Yerlan Idelbayev

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

This paper tackles the problem of training a deep convolutional neural network of both low-bitwidth weights and activations. Optimizing a low-precision network is very challenging due to the non-differentiability of the quantizer, which may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Bohan Zhuang , Jing Liu , Mingkui Tan , Lingqiao Liu , Ian Reid , Chunhua Shen

Quantum convolutional neural networks (QCNNs) represent a promising approach in quantum machine learning, paving new directions for both quantum and classical data analysis. This approach is particularly attractive due to the absence of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-06 Changwon Lee , Israel F. Araujo , Dongha Kim , Junghan Lee , Siheon Park , Ju-Young Ryu , Daniel K. Park

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have proven to be a powerful state-of-the-art method for image classification tasks. One drawback however is the high computational complexity and high memory consumption of CNNs which makes them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Rishabh Goyal , Joaquin Vanschoren , Victor van Acht , Stephan Nijssen

This work targets the automated minimum-energy optimization of Quantized Neural Networks (QNNs) - networks using low precision weights and activations. These networks are trained from scratch at an arbitrary fixed point precision. At…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Bert Moons , Koen Goetschalckx , Nick Van Berckelaer , Marian Verhelst

The increasing amount of data processed on edge and the demand for reducing the energy consumption for large neural network architectures have initiated the transition from traditional von Neumann architectures towards in-memory computing…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-09-27 O. Krestinskaya , L. Zhang , K. N. Salama