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Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) use 1-bit weights and activations to efficiently execute deep convolutional neural networks on edge devices. Nevertheless, the binarization of the first layer is conventionally excluded, as it leads to a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Lorenzo Vorabbi , Davide Maltoni , Stefano Santi

Understanding the inner working mechanism of deep neural networks (DNNs) is essential and important for researchers to design and improve the performance of DNNs. In this work, the entropy analysis is leveraged to study the neurons…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Longwei Wang , Peijie Chen

We explore training Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) as a discrete variable inference problem over a factor graph. We study the behaviour of this conversion in an under-parameterized BNN setting and propose stochastic versions of Belief…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Amir Khoshaman , Giuseppe Castiglione , Christopher Srinivasa

Binarization is an extreme network compression approach that provides large computational speedups along with energy and memory savings, albeit at significant accuracy costs. We investigate the question of where to binarize inputs at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Ameya Prabhu , Vishal Batchu , Rohit Gajawada , Sri Aurobindo Munagala , Anoop Namboodiri

The binary neural network, largely saving the storage and computation, serves as a promising technique for deploying deep models on resource-limited devices. However, the binarization inevitably causes severe information loss, and even…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Haotong Qin , Ruihao Gong , Xianglong Liu , Xiao Bai , Jingkuan Song , Nicu Sebe

We propose to execute deep neural networks (DNNs) with dynamic and sparse graph (DSG) structure for compressive memory and accelerative execution during both training and inference. The great success of DNNs motivates the pursuing of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Liu Liu , Lei Deng , Xing Hu , Maohua Zhu , Guoqi Li , Yufei Ding , Yuan Xie

A deep neural network (DNN) with piecewise linear activations can partition the input space into numerous small linear regions, where different linear functions are fitted. It is believed that the number of these regions represents the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Xiao Zhang , Dongrui Wu

Gaussian Processes (GPs) provide a convenient framework for specifying function-space priors, making them a natural choice for modeling uncertainty. In contrast, Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) offer greater scalability and extendability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Marcin Sendera , Amin Sorkhei , Tomasz Kuśmierczyk

Recently, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) have made unprecedented progress, achieving the accuracy close to, or even better than human-level perception in various tasks. There is a timely need to map the latest software DCNNs to…

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Binarized convolutional neural networks (BCNNs) are widely used to improve memory and computation efficiency of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) for mobile and AI chips based applications. However, current BCNNs are not able to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Chunlei Liu , Wenrui Ding , Xin Xia , Yuan Hu , Baochang Zhang , Jianzhuang Liu , Bohan Zhuang , Guodong Guo

Binarized Neural Networks (BNN) offer efficient implementations for machine learning tasks and facilitate Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning (PPML) by simplifying operations with binary values. Nevertheless, challenges persist in terms of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Benchang Dong , Zhili Chen , Xin Chen , Shiwen Wei , Jie Fu , Huifa Li

Most existing neural network-based approaches for solving stochastic optimal control problems using the associated backward dynamic programming principle rely on the ability to simulate the underlying state variables. However, in some…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-30 Christian Yeo

Recent trends show recognition accuracy increasing even more profoundly. Inference process of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) has a large number of parameters, requires a large amount of computation, and can be very slow. The…

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For the efficient execution of deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) on edge devices, various approaches have been presented which reduce the bit width of the network parameters down to 1 bit. Binarization of the first layer was always…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Robert Dürichen , Thomas Rocznik , Oliver Renz , Christian Peters

In this work we apply deep neural networks to find the non-equilibrium steady state solution to correlated open quantum many-body systems. Motivated by the ongoing search to find more powerful representations of (mixed) quantum states, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Johannes Mellak , Enrico Arrigoni , Wolfgang von der Linden

Energy efficient sampling with probabilistic neurons or p-bits has been demonstrated in the context of Boltzmann machines and it is natural to ask if these approaches can be extended to the field of generative AI where energy costs have…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-28 Lakshmi A. Ghantasala , Ming-Che Li , Risi Jaiswal , Behtash Behin-Aein , Joseph Makin , Shreyas Sen , Supriyo Datta

Diffractive deep neural networks (D2NNs), which perform computation using light instead of electrons, offer a promising pathway toward accelerating artificial intelligence by leveraging the inherent advantages of optics in speed,…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-24 Haoyu Wang , Yanmin Zhu , Tong Fu

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) enable efficient deep learning by saving on storage and computational costs. However, as the size of neural networks continues to grow, meeting computational requirements remains a challenge. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Matt Gorbett , Hossein Shirazi , Indrakshi Ray

Deep learning is one of the most successful and far-reaching strategies used in machine learning today. However, the scale and utility of neural networks is still greatly limited by the current hardware used to train them. These concerns…

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