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Deep learning-based super-resolution (SR) is challenging to implement in resource-constrained edge devices for resolutions beyond full HD due to its high computational complexity and memory bandwidth requirements. This paper introduces an…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Chih-Chia Hsu , Tian-Sheuan Chang

We tackle the problem of producing compact models, maximizing their accuracy for a given model size. A standard solution is to train networks with Quantization Aware Training, where the weights are quantized during training and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Angela Fan , Pierre Stock , Benjamin Graham , Edouard Grave , Remi Gribonval , Herve Jegou , Armand Joulin

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are becoming a promising technique in various domains due to their excellent capabilities in modeling non-Euclidean data. Although a spectrum of accelerators has been proposed to accelerate the inference of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Zeyu Zhu , Fanrong Li , Gang Li , Zejian Liu , Zitao Mo , Qinghao Hu , Xiaoyao Liang , Jian Cheng

As neural networks gain widespread adoption in embedded devices, there is a need for model compression techniques to facilitate deployment in resource-constrained environments. Quantization is one of the go-to methods yielding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Karina Vasquez , Yeshwanth Venkatesha , Abhiroop Bhattacharjee , Abhishek Moitra , Priyadarshini Panda

Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) offer a principled and natural framework for proper uncertainty quantification in the context of deep learning. They address the typical challenges associated with conventional deep learning methods, such as…

Computation · Statistics 2024-11-13 Zahra Moslemi , Yang Meng , Shiwei Lan , Babak Shahbaba

Semantic segmentation has been a major topic in research and industry in recent years. However, due to the computation complexity of pixel-wise prediction and backpropagation algorithm, semantic segmentation has been demanding in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Jiayi Yang , Lei Deng , Yukuan Yang , Yuan Xie , Guoqi Li

We introduce a fast and efficient convolutional neural network, ESPNet, for semantic segmentation of high resolution images under resource constraints. ESPNet is based on a new convolutional module, efficient spatial pyramid (ESP), which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Sachin Mehta , Mohammad Rastegari , Anat Caspi , Linda Shapiro , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

We study spectral algorithms in the setting where kernels are learned from data. We introduce the effective span dimension (ESD), an alignment-sensitive complexity measure that depends jointly on the signal, spectrum, and noise level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Dongming Huang , Zhifan Li , Yicheng Li , Qian Lin

Deep networks run with low precision operations at inference time offer power and space advantages over high precision alternatives, but need to overcome the challenge of maintaining high accuracy as precision decreases. Here, we present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Steven K. Esser , Jeffrey L. McKinstry , Deepika Bablani , Rathinakumar Appuswamy , Dharmendra S. Modha

The training of deep neural networks (DNNs) always requires intensive resources for both computation and data storage. Thus, DNNs cannot be efficiently applied to mobile phones and embedded devices, which severely limits their applicability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Qigong Sun , Xiufang Li , Fanhua Shang , Hongying Liu , Kang Yang , Licheng Jiao , Zhouchen Lin

While offering a principled framework for uncertainty quantification in deep learning, the employment of Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) is still constrained by their increased computational requirements and the convergence difficulties…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Moule Lin , Shuhao Guan , Weipeng Jing , Goetz Botterweck , Andrea Patane

This paper proposes a memory-efficient deep neural network (DNN) framework-based symbol level precoding (SLP). We focus on a DNN with realistic finite precision weights and adopt an unsupervised deep learning (DL) based SLP model…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Abdullahi Mohammad , Christos Masouros , Yiannis Andreopoulos

The complexity of deep neural network algorithms for hardware implementation can be lowered either by scaling the number of units or reducing the word-length of weights. Both approaches, however, can accompany the performance degradation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Sungho Shin , Kyuyeon Hwang , Wonyong Sung

Multi-bit quantization networks enable flexible deployment of deep neural networks by supporting multiple precision levels within a single model. However, existing approaches suffer from significant training overhead as full-dataset updates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Jinhee Kim , Jae Jun An , Kang Eun Jeon , Jong Hwan Ko

Deep learning has become a promising programming paradigm in software development, owing to its surprising performance in solving many challenging tasks. Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly being deployed in practice, but are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Yedi Zhang , Zhe Zhao , Fu Song , Min Zhang , Taolue Chen , Jun Sun

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are amenable to deployment on edge devices and neuromorphic hardware due to their lower dissipation. Recently, SNN-based transformers have garnered significant interest, incorporating attention mechanisms akin…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Boxun Xu , Yufei Song , Peng Li

High performance packet classification is a key component to support scalable network applications like firewalls, intrusion detection, and differentiated services. With ever increasing in the line-rate in core networks, it becomes a great…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Hasibul Jamil , Ning Weng

Quantization is a popular technique used in Deep Neural Networks (DNN) inference to reduce the size of models and improve the overall numerical performance by exploiting native hardware. This paper attempts to conduct an elaborate…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Hyunho Ahn , Tian Chen , Nawras Alnaasan , Aamir Shafi , Mustafa Abduljabbar , Hari Subramoni , Dhabaleswar K. , Panda

Embedding Artificial Intelligence onto low-power devices is a challenging task that has been partly overcome with recent advances in machine learning and hardware design. Presently, deep neural networks can be deployed on embedded targets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Pierre-Emmanuel Novac , Ghouthi Boukli Hacene , Alain Pegatoquet , Benoît Miramond , Vincent Gripon

Quantization of neural networks provides benefits of inference in less compute and memory requirements. Previous work in quantization lack two important aspects which this work provides. First almost all previous work in quantization used a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Zia Badar