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Neural network quantization is frequently used to optimize model size, latency and power consumption for on-device deployment of neural networks. In many cases, a target bit-width is set for an entire network, meaning every layer get…

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Continual learning of deep neural networks is a key requirement for scaling them up to more complex applicative scenarios and for achieving real lifelong learning of these architectures. Previous approaches to the problem have considered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Jary Pomponi , Simone Scardapane , Vincenzo Lomonaco , Aurelio Uncini

We study the problem of training and certifying adversarially robust quantized neural networks (QNNs). Quantization is a technique for making neural networks more efficient by running them using low-bit integer arithmetic and is therefore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Mathias Lechner , Đorđe Žikelić , Krishnendu Chatterjee , Thomas A. Henzinger , Daniela Rus

Neural network quantization has become an important research area due to its great impact on deployment of large models on resource constrained devices. In order to train networks that can be effectively discretized without loss of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Christos Louizos , Matthias Reisser , Tijmen Blankevoort , Efstratios Gavves , Max Welling

The number of parameters in deep neural networks (DNNs) is rapidly increasing to support complicated tasks and to improve model accuracy. Correspondingly, the amount of computations and required memory footprint increase as well.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Yongkweon Jeon , Baeseong Park , Se Jung Kwon , Byeongwook Kim , Jeongin Yun , Dongsoo Lee

With the advantages of high-speed parallel processing, quantum computers can efficiently solve large-scale complex optimization problems in future networks. However, due to the uncertain qubit fidelity and quantum channel noise, distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Napat Ngoenriang , Minrui Xu , Jiawen Kang , Dusit Niyato , Han Yu , Xuemin , Shen

Inference for state-of-the-art deep neural networks is computationally expensive, making them difficult to deploy on constrained hardware environments. An efficient way to reduce this complexity is to quantize the weight parameters and/or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Julian Faraone , Nicholas Fraser , Michaela Blott , Philip H. W. Leong

In recent years, huge progress has been made on learning neural implicit representations from multi-view images for 3D reconstruction. As an additional input complementing coordinates, using sinusoidal functions as positional encodings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Sijia Jiang , Jing Hua , Zhizhong Han

Medical image classification is a critical task in healthcare, enabling accurate and timely diagnosis. However, deploying deep learning models on resource-constrained edge devices presents significant challenges due to computational and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Mahsa Lavaei , Zahra Abadi , Salar Beigzad , Alireza Maleki

Deploying neural networks on the edge has become increasingly important as deep learning is being applied in an increasing amount of applications. At the edge computing hardware typically has limited resources disallowing to run neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Quinten Van Baelen , Peter Karsmakers

Recent advances in neural networks have led to significant computational and memory demands, spurring interest in one-bit weight compression to enable efficient inference on resource-constrained devices. However, the theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Danil Akhtiamov , Reza Ghane , Babak Hassibi

Quantized deep neural networks (QDNNs) are necessary for low-power, high throughput, and embedded applications. Previous studies mostly focused on developing optimization methods for the quantization of given models. However, quantization…

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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

Artificial neural networks can be trained with relatively low-precision floating-point and fixed-point arithmetic, using between one and 16 bits. Previous works have focused on relatively wide-but-shallow, feed-forward networks. We…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Benjamin Graham

In the past years, the application of neural networks as an alternative to classical numerical methods to solve Partial Differential Equations has emerged as a potential paradigm shift in this century-old mathematical field. However, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Winfried van den Dool , Tijmen Blankevoort , Max Welling , Yuki M. Asano

Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNN) have demonstrated impressive performance in various computer vision tasks. However, high performance hardware is typically indispensable for the application of CNN models due to the high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Jiaxiang Wu , Cong Leng , Yuhang Wang , Qinghao Hu , Jian Cheng

Quantization is a widely used compression method that effectively reduces redundancies in over-parameterized neural networks. However, existing quantization techniques for deep neural networks often lack a comprehensive error analysis due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Jinjie Zhang , Rayan Saab

We propose a natural quantization of a standard neural network, where the neurons correspond to qubits and the activation functions are implemented via quantum gates and measurements. The simplest quantized neural network corresponds to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Richard Barney , Djamil Lakhdar-Hamina , Victor Galitski

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are state-of-the-art in numerous computer vision tasks such as object classification and detection. However, the large amount of parameters they contain leads to a high computational complexity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Ghouthi Boukli Hacene , Vincent Gripon , Matthieu Arzel , Nicolas Farrugia , Yoshua Bengio

While machine learning is traditionally a resource intensive task, embedded systems, autonomous navigation and the vision of the Internet-of-Things fuel the interest in resource efficient approaches. These approaches require a carefully…