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We present a novel optimization strategy for training neural networks which we call "BitNet". The parameters of neural networks are usually unconstrained and have a dynamic range dispersed over all real values. Our key idea is to limit the…

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Despite the growing popularity of deep learning technologies, high memory requirements and power consumption are essentially limiting their application in mobile and IoT areas. While binary convolutional networks can alleviate these…

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Binary Neural Networks (BNNs), which constrain both weights and activations to binary values, offer substantial reductions in computational complexity, memory footprint, and energy consumption. These advantages make them particularly well…

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Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) have gained extensive attention for their superior inferencing efficiency and compression ratio compared to traditional full-precision networks. However, due to the unique characteristics of BNNs, designing a…

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The rapidly decreasing computation and memory cost has recently driven the success of many applications in the field of deep learning. Practical applications of deep learning in resource-limited hardware, such as embedded devices and smart…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Chunlei Liu , Wenrui Ding , Xin Xia , Baochang Zhang , Jiaxin Gu , Jianzhuang Liu , Rongrong Ji , David Doermann

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated their great potential in recent years, exceeding the per-formance of human experts in a wide range of applications. Due to their large sizes, however, compressiontechniques such as weight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Wentao Chen , Hailong Qiu , Jian Zhuang , Chutong Zhang , Yu Hu , Qing Lu , Tianchen Wang , Yiyu Shi , Meiping Huang , Xiaowe Xu

Though deep neural network models exhibit outstanding performance for various applications, their large model size and extensive floating-point operations render deployment on mobile computing platforms a major challenge, and, in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Huming Qiu , Hua Ma , Zhi Zhang , Yifeng Zheng , Anmin Fu , Pan Zhou , Yansong Gao , Derek Abbott , Said F. Al-Sarawi

While going deeper has been witnessed to improve the performance of convolutional neural networks (CNN), going smaller for CNN has received increasing attention recently due to its attractiveness for mobile/embedded applications. It remains…

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Fully convolutional neural networks give accurate, per-pixel prediction for input images and have applications like semantic segmentation. However, a typical FCN usually requires lots of floating point computation and large run-time memory,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-02 He Wen , Shuchang Zhou , Zhe Liang , Yuxiang Zhang , Dieqiao Feng , Xinyu Zhou , Cong Yao

Binary neural network (BNN) provides a promising solution to deploy parameter-intensive deep single image super-resolution (SISR) models onto real devices with limited storage and computational resources. To achieve comparable performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Zhiqiang Lang , Chongxing Song , Lei Zhang , Wei Wei

The high computation, memory, and power budgets of inferring convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are major bottlenecks of model deployment to edge computing platforms, e.g., mobile devices and IoT. Moreover, training CNNs is time and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Mostafa Elhoushi , Zihao Chen , Farhan Shafiq , Ye Henry Tian , Joey Yiwei Li

Binary neural networks, i.e., neural networks whose parameters and activations are constrained to only two possible values, offer a compelling avenue for the deployment of deep learning models on energy- and memory-limited devices. However,…

To reduce the resource demand of neural network (NN) inference systems, it has been proposed to use approximate memory, in which the supply voltage and the timing parameters are tuned trading accuracy with energy consumption and…

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning setting that enables many devices to jointly train a shared global model without the need to reveal their data to a central server. However, FL involves a frequent exchange of…

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CNNs have made an undeniable impact on computer vision through the ability to learn high-capacity models with large annotated training sets. One of their remarkable properties is the ability to transfer knowledge from a large source dataset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Yu-Xiong Wang , Deva Ramanan , Martial Hebert

Being able to learn from complex data with phase information is imperative for many signal processing applications. Today' s real-valued deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown efficiency in latent information analysis but fall short when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Hongwu Peng , Shanglin Zhou , Scott Weitze , Jiaxin Li , Sahidul Islam , Tong Geng , Ang Li , Wei Zhang , Minghu Song , Mimi Xie , Hang Liu , Caiwen Ding

Our goal is to design architectures that retain the groundbreaking performance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for landmark localization and at the same time are lightweight, compact and suitable for applications with limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Adrian Bulat , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

It is always well believed that Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) could drastically accelerate the inference efficiency by replacing the arithmetic operations in float-valued Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) with bit-wise operations. Nevertheless,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Jianhao Zhang , Yingwei Pan , Ting Yao , He Zhao , Tao Mei

Ternary and binary neural networks enable multiplication-free computation and promise multiple orders of magnitude efficiency gains over full-precision networks if implemented on specialized hardware. However, since both the parameter and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Zechun Liu , Barlas Oguz , Aasish Pappu , Yangyang Shi , Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved remarkable success across a wide range of machine learning tasks by leveraging hierarchical feature learning through deep architectures. However, the large number of layers and millions of…

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