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Neural network quantization enables the deployment of large models on resource-constrained devices. Current post-training quantization methods fall short in terms of accuracy for INT4 (or lower) but provide reasonable accuracy for INT8 (or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Yury Nahshan , Brian Chmiel , Chaim Baskin , Evgenii Zheltonozhskii , Ron Banner , Alex M. Bronstein , Avi Mendelson

Quantization Aware Training (QAT) is a neural network quantization technique that compresses model size and improves operational efficiency while effectively maintaining model performance. The paradigm of QAT is to introduce fake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Wenqiang Zhou , Zhendong Yu , Xinyu Liu , Jiaming Yang , Rong Xiao , Tao Wang , Chenwei Tang , Jiancheng Lv

Post-training quantization (PTQ) is a technique used to optimize and reduce the memory footprint and computational requirements of machine learning models. It has been used primarily for neural networks. For Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI)…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Hubert Cecotti , Dalvir Dhaliwal , Hardip Singh , Yogesh Kumar Meena

Efficient machine learning implementations optimized for inference in hardware have wide-ranging benefits, depending on the application, from lower inference latency to higher data throughput and reduced energy consumption. Two popular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Benjamin Hawks , Javier Duarte , Nicholas J. Fraser , Alessandro Pappalardo , Nhan Tran , Yaman Umuroglu

Neural network quantization is widely used to reduce model inference complexity in real-world deployments. However, traditional integer quantization suffers from accuracy degradation when adapting to various dynamic ranges. Recent research…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Zhuoyi Zhang , Yunchen Zhang , Gonglei Shi , Yu Shen , Ruihao Gong , Xiaoxu Xia , Qi Zhang , Lewei Lu , Xianglong Liu

While neural networks have advanced the frontiers in many machine learning applications, they often come at a high computational cost. Reducing the power and latency of neural network inference is vital to integrating modern networks into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Sangeetha Siddegowda , Marios Fournarakis , Markus Nagel , Tijmen Blankevoort , Chirag Patel , Abhijit Khobare

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and their quantized counterparts are vulnerable to extraction attacks, posing a significant threat of IP theft. Yet, the robustness of quantized models against these attacks is little studied compared to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Kacem Khaled , Felipe Gohring de Magalhães , Gabriela Nicolescu

Quantization has emerged as an essential technique for deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on devices with limited resources. However, quantized models exhibit vulnerabilities when exposed to various noises in real-world applications.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Yisong Xiao , Tianyuan Zhang , Shunchang Liu , Haotong Qin

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. Further, these adversarial examples are found to be transferable from the source network in which they are crafted to a black-box target network. As the trend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Abhishek Shrestha , Jürgen Großmann

Recent advancements in machine learning achieved by Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been significant. While demonstrating high accuracy, DNNs are associated with a huge number of parameters and computations, which leads to high memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Babak Rokh , Ali Azarpeyvand , Alireza Khanteymoori

State-space models (SSMs) have recently gained attention in deep learning for their ability to efficiently model long-range dependencies, making them promising candidates for edge-AI applications. In this paper, we analyze the effects of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Leo Zhao , Tristan Torchet , Melika Payvand , Laura Kriener , Filippo Moro

Quantization is wildly taken as a model compression technique, which obtains efficient models by converting floating-point weights and activations in the neural network into lower-bit integers. Quantization has been proven to work well on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Lingran Zhao , Zhen Dong , Kurt Keutzer

Quantization is a promising approach for reducing the inference time and memory footprint of neural networks. However, most existing quantization methods require access to the original training dataset for retraining during quantization.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-29 Yaohui Cai , Zhewei Yao , Zhen Dong , Amir Gholami , Michael W. Mahoney , Kurt Keutzer

This paper examines the use of Quantized Neural Networks (QNNs) for two resource-constrained scientific applications: automated calibration of semi-conductor quantum bits (qubits) and scientific particle detectors. We evaluate the…

Neural networks with low-precision weights and activations offer compelling efficiency advantages over their full-precision equivalents. The two most frequently discussed benefits of quantization are reduced memory consumption, and a faster…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Angus Galloway , Graham W. Taylor , Medhat Moussa

Post-Training Quantization (PTQ) and Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) represent two mainstream model quantization approaches. However, PTQ often leads to unacceptable performance degradation in quantized models, while QAT imposes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Xinhao Wang , Zhiwei Lin , Zhongyu Xia , Yongtao Wang

This study explores the quantisation-aware training (QAT) on time series Transformer models. We propose a novel adaptive quantisation scheme that dynamically selects between symmetric and asymmetric schemes during the QAT phase. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Tianheng Ling , Chao Qian , Lukas Einhaus , Gregor Schiele

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

Transformers are the backbone of powerful foundation models for many Vision and Natural Language Processing tasks. But their compute and memory/storage footprint is large, and so, serving such models is expensive often requiring high-end…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Harshavardhan Adepu , Zhanpeng Zeng , Li Zhang , Vikas Singh

Transformer-based models have made remarkable advancements in various NLP areas. Nevertheless, these models often exhibit vulnerabilities when confronted with adversarial attacks. In this paper, we explore the effect of quantization on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Seyed Parsa Neshaei , Yasaman Boreshban , Gholamreza Ghassem-Sani , Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel