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Artificial Neural Network (ANN)-based inference on battery-powered devices can be made more energy-efficient by restricting the synaptic weights to be binary, hence eliminating the need to perform multiplications. An alternative, emerging,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Hyeryung Jang , Nicolas Skatchkovsky , Osvaldo Simeone

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) have emerged as a promising solution for reducing the memory footprint and compute costs of deep neural networks, but they suffer from quality degradation due to the lack of freedom as activations and weights…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Changhun Lee , Hyungjun Kim , Eunhyeok Park , Jae-Joon Kim

Spiking neural network (SNN) is a brain-inspired model which has more spatio-temporal information processing capacity and computational energy efficiency. However, with the increasing depth of SNNs, the memory problem caused by the weights…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Changqing Xu , Yijian Pei , Zili Wu , Yi Liu , Yintang Yang

In this work, we propose stochastic Binary Spiking Neural Network (sBSNN) composed of stochastic spiking neurons and binary synapses (stochastic only during training) that computes probabilistically with one-bit precision for…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Minsuk Koo , Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan , Yong Shim , Kaushik Roy

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a biologically inspired approach to computer vision that can lead to more efficient processing of visual data with reduced energy consumption. However, maintaining homeostasis within these networks is…

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We introduce a method to train Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) - neural networks with binary weights and activations at run-time and when computing the parameters' gradient at train-time. We conduct two sets of experiments, each based on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-11 Itay Hubara , Daniel Soudry , Ran El Yaniv

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a promising alternative to conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), demonstrating comparable performance in both visual and linguistic tasks while offering the advantage of improved…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Changze Lv , Tianlong Li , Wenhao Liu , Yufei Gu , Jianhan Xu , Cenyuan Zhang , Muling Wu , Xiaoqing Zheng , Xuanjing Huang

Load balancing (LB) is a challenging issue in the hybrid light fidelity (LiFi) and wireless fidelity (WiFi) networks (HLWNets), due to the nature of heterogeneous access points (APs). Machine learning has the potential to provide a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-11 Han Ji , Qiang Wang , Stephen J. Redmond , Iman Tavakkolnia , Xiping Wu

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are promising to deliver accuracy comparable to conventional deep neural networks at a fraction of the cost in terms of memory and energy. In this paper, we introduce the XNOR Neural Engine (XNE), a fully…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Francesco Conti , Pasquale Davide Schiavone , Luca Benini

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

Recent works on Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) have made promising progress in narrowing the accuracy gap of BNNs to their 32-bit counterparts. However, the accuracy gains are often based on specialized model designs using additional 32-bit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Nianhui Guo , Joseph Bethge , Haojin Yang , Kai Zhong , Xuefei Ning , Christoph Meinel , Yu Wang

Spiking Neural Network (SNN) is the third generation of Neural Network (NN) mimicking the natural behavior of the brain. By processing based on binary input/output, SNNs offer lower complexity, higher density and lower power consumption.…

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Domain specific neural network accelerators have garnered attention because of their improved energy efficiency and inference performance compared to CPUs and GPUs. Such accelerators are thus well suited for resource-constrained embedded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Febin P. Sunny , Asif Mirza , Mahdi Nikdast , Sudeep Pasricha

Computing-in-memory (CIM) has attracted significant attentions in recent years due to its massive parallelism and low power consumption. However, current CIM designs suffer from large area overhead of small CIM macros and bad programmablity…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Shu-Hung Kuo , Tian-Sheuan Chang

Binarized neural networks (BNNs) are gaining interest in the deep learning community due to their significantly lower computational and memory cost. They are particularly well suited to reconfigurable logic devices, which contain an…

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Due to the massive parallel computing capability and outstanding image and signal processing performance, cellular neural network (CNN) is one promising type of non-Boolean computing system that can outperform the traditional digital logic…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Chenyun Pan , Azad Naeemi

In this paper, we leverage the efficiency of Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) to learn complex state transition models of planning domains with discretized factored state and action spaces. In order to directly exploit this transition…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Buser Say , Scott Sanner

The size of deep neural networks (DNNs) grows rapidly as the complexity of the machine learning algorithm increases. To satisfy the requirement of computation and memory of DNN training, distributed deep learning based on model parallelism…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Letian Zhao , Rui Xu , Tianqi Wang , Teng Tian , Xiaotian Wang , Wei Wu , Chio-in Ieong , Xi Jin

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are receiving an upsurge of attention for bringing power-hungry deep learning towards edge devices. The traditional wisdom in this space is to employ sign() for binarizing featuremaps. We argue and illustrate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Sieger Falkena , Hadi Jamali-Rad , Jan van Gemert

We propose a novel dual physics-informed neural network for topology optimization (DPNN-TO), which merges physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) with the traditional SIMP-based topology optimization (TO) algorithm. This approach leverages…

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