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Processing-in-memory (PIM), an increasingly studied neuromorphic hardware, promises orders of energy and throughput improvements for deep learning inference. Leveraging the massively parallel and efficient analog computing inside memories,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Qing Jin , Zhiyu Chen , Jian Ren , Yanyu Li , Yanzhi Wang , Kaiyuan Yang

Quantization of neural networks provides benefits of inference in less compute and memory requirements. Previous work in quantization lack two important aspects which this work provides. First almost all previous work in quantization used a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Zia Badar

Diffusion models (DMs) generate remarkable high quality images via the stochastic denoising process, which unfortunately incurs high sampling time. Post-quantizing the trained diffusion models in fixed bit-widths, e.g., 4 bits on weights…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Rocco Manz Maruzzelli , Basile Lewandowski , Lydia Y. Chen

Quantizing neural networks is one of the most effective methods for achieving efficient inference on mobile and embedded devices. In particular, mixed precision quantized (MPQ) networks, whose layers can be quantized to different bitwidths,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Jorn Peters , Marios Fournarakis , Markus Nagel , Mart van Baalen , Tijmen Blankevoort

We propose a joint feature compression and transmission scheme for efficient inference at the wireless network edge. Our goal is to enable efficient and reliable inference at the edge server assuming limited computational resources at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Mikolaj Jankowski , Deniz Gunduz , Krystian Mikolajczyk

We propose a simple but effective data-driven channel pruning algorithm, which compresses deep neural networks in a differentiable way by exploiting the characteristics of operations. The proposed approach makes a joint consideration of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Minsoo Kang , Bohyung Han

Deep neural networks (DNNs) can be made hardware-efficient by reducing the numerical precision of the weights and activations of the network and by improving the network's resilience to noise. However, this gain in efficiency often comes at…

Quantizing a Deep Neural Network (DNN) model to be used on a custom accelerator with efficient fixed-point hardware implementations, requires satisfying many stringent hardware-friendly quantization constraints to train the model. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Sungmin Bae , Piotr Zielinski , Satrajit Chatterjee

This paper presents a novel network compression framework Kernel Quantization (KQ), targeting to efficiently convert any pre-trained full-precision convolutional neural network (CNN) model into a low-precision version without significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Zhongzhi Yu , Yemin Shi , Tiejun Huang , Yizhou Yu

Quantization is a technique used in deep neural networks (DNNs) to increase execution performance and hardware efficiency. Uniform post-training quantization (PTQ) methods are common, since they can be implemented efficiently in hardware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Gil Shomron , Freddy Gabbay , Samer Kurzum , Uri Weiser

Brain-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) leverage sparse spikes to encode information and operate in an asynchronous event-driven manner, offering a highly energy-efficient paradigm for machine intelligence. However, the current SNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Wenjie Wei , Malu Zhang , Zijian Zhou , Ammar Belatreche , Yimeng Shan , Yu Liang , Honglin Cao , Jieyuan Zhang , Yang Yang

Convolutional neural networks are prevailing in deep learning tasks. However, they suffer from massive cost issues when working on mobile devices. Network pruning is an effective method of model compression to handle such problems. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Zhaofeng Si , Honggang Qi , Xiaoyu Song

Low-bit quantization of network weights and activations can drastically reduce the memory footprint, complexity, energy consumption and latency of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). However, low-bit quantization can also cause a considerable drop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Ghouthi Boukli Hacene , Lukas Mauch , Stefan Uhlich , Fabien Cardinaux

In this work, we propose an effective scheme (called DP-Net) for compressing the deep neural networks (DNNs). It includes a novel dynamic programming (DP) based algorithm to obtain the optimal solution of weight quantization and an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Dingcheng Yang , Wenjian Yu , Ao Zhou , Haoyuan Mu , Gary Yao , Xiaoyi Wang

We investigate the compression of deep neural networks by quantizing their weights and activations into multiple binary bases, known as multi-bit networks (MBNs), which accelerate the inference and reduce the storage for the deployment on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Zhongnan Qu , Zimu Zhou , Yun Cheng , Lothar Thiele

Besides accuracy, the model size of convolutional neural networks (CNN) models is another important factor considering limited hardware resources in practical applications. For example, employing deep neural networks on mobile systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Huixin Zhan , Wei-Ming Lin , Yongcan Cao

Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC) is emerging as a promising approach for edge AI, offering a balance between accuracy and efficiency. However, current HDC-based applications often rely on high-precision models and/or encoding matrices to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Nilesh Prasad Pandey , Shriniwas Kulkarni , David Wang , Onat Gungor , Flavio Ponzina , Tajana Rosing

We introduce a Power-of-Two low-bit post-training quantization(PTQ) method for deep neural network that meets hardware requirements and does not call for long-time retraining. Power-of-Two quantization can convert the multiplication…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Hongyi Yao , Pu Li , Jian Cao , Xiangcheng Liu , Chenying Xie , Bingzhang Wang

Model quantization reduces neural network parameter precision to achieve compression, but often compromises accuracy. Existing post-training quantization (PTQ) methods employ iterative parameter updates to preserve accuracy under high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zekang Zheng , Haokun Li , Yaofo Chen , Mingkui Tan , Qing Du

Multi-hop all-reduce is the de facto backbone of large model training. As the training scale increases, the network often becomes a bottleneck, motivating reducing the volume of transmitted data. Accordingly, recent systems demonstrated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Wenchen Han , Shay Vargaftik , Michael Mitzenmacher , Ran Ben Basat