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In this paper, we propose a low-power hardware for efficient deployment of binarized neural networks (BNNs) that have been trained for physiological datasets. BNNs constrain weights and feature-map to 1 bit, can pack in as many 1-bit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-28 Morteza Hosseini , Hirenkumar Paneliya , Uttej Kallakuri , Mohit Khatwani , Tinoosh Mohsenin

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

We introduce a method to train Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) - neural networks with binary weights and activations at run-time. At training-time the binary weights and activations are used for computing the parameters gradients. During…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Matthieu Courbariaux , Itay Hubara , Daniel Soudry , Ran El-Yaniv , Yoshua Bengio

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Zhihao Lin , Yongtao Wang , Jinhe Zhang , Xiaojie Chu , Haibin Ling

Traditional network embedding primarily focuses on learning a continuous vector representation for each node, preserving network structure and/or node content information, such that off-the-shelf machine learning algorithms can be easily…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Daokun Zhang , Jie Yin , Xingquan Zhu , Chengqi Zhang

Binary neural network (BNN) is an extreme quantization version of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with all features and weights mapped to just 1-bit. Although BNN saves a lot of memory and computation demand to make CNN applicable on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Xulong Shi , Zhi Qi , Jiaxuan Cai , Keqi Fu , Yaru Zhao , Zan Li , Xuanyu Liu , Hao Liu

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs), where weights and activations are constrained to binary values (+1, -1), are a highly efficient alternative to traditional neural networks. Unfortunately, typical BNNs, while binarizing linear layers…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Yuval Harary , Almog Sharoni , Esteban Garzón , Marco Lanuzza , Adam Teman , Leonid Yavits

Binary Neural Networks enable smart IoT devices, as they significantly reduce the required memory footprint and computational complexity while retaining a high network performance and flexibility. This paper presents ChewBaccaNN, a 0.7…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-01 Renzo Andri , Geethan Karunaratne , Lukas Cavigelli , Luca Benini

Sparse neural networks can greatly facilitate the deployment of neural networks on resource-constrained platforms as they offer compact model sizes while retaining inference accuracy. Because of the sparsity in parameter matrices, sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Febin Sunny , Mahdi Nikdast , Sudeep Pasricha

We introduce Larq Compute Engine, the world's fastest Binarized Neural Network (BNN) inference engine, and use this framework to investigate several important questions about the efficiency of BNNs and to design a new state-of-the-art BNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Tom Bannink , Arash Bakhtiari , Adam Hillier , Lukas Geiger , Tim de Bruin , Leon Overweel , Jelmer Neeven , Koen Helwegen

Convolutional neural network (CNN) has been widely used for vision-based tasks. Due to the high computational complexity and memory storage requirement, it is hard to directly deploy a full-precision CNN on embedded devices. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Yixing Li , Fengbo Ren

Despite foreseeing tremendous speedups over conventional deep neural networks, the performance advantage of binarized neural networks (BNNs) has merely been showcased on general-purpose processors such as CPUs and GPUs. In fact, due to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Ang Li , Simon Su

Binary neural networks (BNNs) are increasingly deployed in edge computing applications due to their low hardware complexity and high energy efficiency. However, verifying the robustness of BNNs against input perturbations, including…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Rahul Singh , Seyran Saeedi , Zheng Zhang

While hardware implementations of inference routines for Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) are plentiful, current realizations of efficient BNN hardware training accelerators, suitable for Internet of Things (IoT) edge devices, leave much to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Corey Lammie , Wei Xiang , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

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

To speedup Deep Neural Networks (DNN) accelerator design and enable effective implementation, we propose HybridDNN, a framework for building high-performance hybrid DNN accelerators and delivering FPGA-based hardware implementations. Novel…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Hanchen Ye , Xiaofan Zhang , Zhize Huang , Gengsheng Chen , Deming Chen

Application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) implementations for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been adopted in many systems because of their higher classification speed. However, although they may be characterized by better accuracy,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Ruizhou Ding , Zeye Liu , Rongye Shi , Diana Marculescu , R. D. Blanton

Neural network hardware is considered an essential part of future edge devices. In this paper, we propose a binary-weight spiking neural network (BW-SNN) hardware architecture for low-power real-time object classification on edge platforms.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-16 Pai-Yu Tan , Po-Yao Chuang , Yen-Ting Lin , Cheng-Wen Wu , Juin-Ming Lu

Deep neural networks ( DNNs ) are becoming a key enabling technology for many application domains. However, on-device inference on battery-powered, resource-constrained embedding systems is often infeasible due to prohibitively long…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Vicent Sanz Marco , Ben Taylor , Zheng Wang , Yehia Elkhatib