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Conventional multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations have long dominated computation time for deep neural networks (DNNs), espcially convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Recently, product quantization (PQ) has been applied to these workloads,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Ahmed F. AbouElhamayed , Angela Cui , Javier Fernandez-Marques , Nicholas D. Lane , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah

Deep Neural Networks reached state-of-the-art performance across numerous domains, but this progress has come at the cost of increasingly large and over-parameterized models, posing serious challenges for deployment on resource-constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Dario Malchiodi , Mattia Ferraretto , Marco Frasca

Convolutional neural networks require significant memory bandwidth and storage for intermediate computations, apart from substantial computing resources. Neural network quantization has significant benefits in reducing the amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Ron Banner , Yury Nahshan , Elad Hoffer , Daniel Soudry

Neural network quantization procedure is the necessary step for porting of neural networks to mobile devices. Quantization allows accelerating the inference, reducing memory consumption and model size. It can be performed without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Alexander Goncharenko , Andrey Denisov , Sergey Alyamkin , Evgeny Terentev

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated their effectiveness in a wide range of computer vision tasks, with the state-of-the-art results obtained through complex and deep structures that require intensive computation and memory.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Ahmad Shawahna , Sadiq M. Sait , Aiman El-Maleh , Irfan Ahmad

Prevailing quantization techniques in Learned Image Compression (LIC) typically employ a static, uniform bit-width across all layers, failing to adapt to the highly diverse data distributions and sensitivity characteristics inherent in LIC…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Youneng Bao , Yulong Cheng , Yiping Liu , Yichen Yang , Peng Qin , Mu Li , Yongsheng Liang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved extraordinary performance in various application domains. To support diverse DNN models, efficient implementations of DNN inference on edge-computing platforms, e.g., ASICs, FPGAs, and embedded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Sung-En Chang , Yanyu Li , Mengshu Sun , Runbin Shi , Hayden K. -H. So , Xuehai Qian , Yanzhi Wang , Xue Lin

Quantization is an effective approach to reduce the memory footprint and inference cost of large language models (LLMs), yet maintaining performance in the ultra-low-bit regime remains challenging. Existing post-training methods often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Phong Nam Huu Nguyen , Khoi M. Le , Cong-Duy T Nguyen , Anh Tuan Luu , Thong Thanh Nguyen , Tho Quan

Deep learning-based face recognition models follow the common trend in deep neural networks by utilizing full-precision floating-point networks with high computational costs. Deploying such networks in use-cases constrained by computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer , Arjan Kuijper

Quantization lowers memory usage, computational requirements, and latency by utilizing fewer bits to represent model weights and activations. In this work, we investigate the generalization properties of quantized neural networks, a…

Deploying quantized deep neural network (DNN) models with resource adaptation capabilities on ubiquitous Internet of Things (IoT) devices to provide high-quality AI services can leverage the benefits of compression and meet multi-scenario…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jianhang Xie , Chuntao Ding , Xiaqing Li , Shenyuan Ren , Yidong Li , Zhichao Lu

In this paper we study the effects of quantization in DNN training. We hypothesize that weight quantization is a form of regularization and the amount of regularization is correlated with the quantization level (precision). We confirm our…

We introduce a quantization-aware training algorithm that guarantees avoiding numerical overflow when reducing the precision of accumulators during inference. We leverage weight normalization as a means of constraining parameters during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Ian Colbert , Alessandro Pappalardo , Jakoba Petri-Koenig

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks, wherein, a model gets fooled by applying slight perturbations on the input. With the advent of Internet-of-Things and the necessity to enable intelligence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Priyadarshini Panda

Quantization is widely employed in both cloud and edge systems to reduce the memory occupation, latency, and energy consumption of deep neural networks. In particular, mixed-precision quantization, i.e., the use of different bit-widths for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Matteo Risso , Alessio Burrello , Luca Benini , Enrico Macii , Massimo Poncino , Daniele Jahier Pagliari

Quantization is commonly used in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to reduce the storage and computational complexity by decreasing the arithmetical precision of activations and weights, a.k.a. tensors. Efficient hardware architectures employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Bahareh Khabbazan , Marc Riera , Antonio González

Improving the hardware efficiency of deep neural network (DNN) accelerators with techniques such as quantization and sparsity enhancement have shown an immense promise. However, their inference accuracy in non-ideal real-world settings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Akul Malhotra , Sumeet Kumar Gupta

Learning convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with low bitwidth is challenging because performance may drop significantly after quantization. Prior arts often discretize the network weights by carefully tuning hyper-parameters of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Chaofan Tao , Rui Lin , Quan Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang , Ping Luo , Ngai Wong

Permanent faults induced due to imperfections in the manufacturing process of Deep Neural Network (DNN) accelerators are a major concern, as they negatively impact the manufacturing yield of the chip fabrication process. Fault-aware…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Muhammad Shafique

Low-precision weights and activations in deep neural networks (DNNs) outperform their full-precision counterparts in terms of hardware efficiency. When implemented with low-precision operations, specifically in the extreme case where…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Behnam Ghavami , Mohammad Shahidzadeh , Lesley Shannon , Steve Wilton