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The complexity of deep neural network algorithms for hardware implementation can be much lowered by optimizing the word-length of weights and signals. Direct quantization of floating-point weights, however, does not show good performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-08 Wonyong Sung , Sungho Shin , Kyuyeon Hwang

Efficient deep neural network (DNN) models equipped with compact operators (e.g., depthwise convolutions) have shown great potential in reducing DNNs' theoretical complexity (e.g., the total number of weights/operations) while maintaining a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yonggan Fu , Haichuan Yang , Jiayi Yuan , Meng Li , Cheng Wan , Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi , Vikas Chandra , Yingyan Celine Lin

This paper introduces deep neural networks (DNNs) as add-on blocks to baseline feedback control systems to enhance tracking performance of arbitrary desired trajectories. The DNNs are trained to adapt the reference signals to the feedback…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Siqi Zhou , Mohamed K. Helwa , Angela P. Schoellig

The deep neural network (DNN) based AI applications on the edge require both low-cost computing platforms and high-quality services. However, the limited memory, computing resources, and power budget of the edge devices constrain the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Yao Chen , Cole Hawkins , Kaiqi Zhang , Zheng Zhang , Cong Hao

Low-precision DNNs have been extensively explored in order to reduce the size of DNN models for edge devices. Recently, the posit numerical format has shown promise for DNN data representation and compute with ultra-low precision in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Hamed F. Langroudi , Zachariah Carmichael , David Pastuch , Dhireesha Kudithipudi

Mobile devices run deep learning models for various purposes, such as image classification and speech recognition. Due to the resource constraints of mobile devices, researchers have focused on either making a lightweight deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Taeho Kim , Yongin Kwon , Jemin Lee , Taeho Kim , Sangtae Ha

By replacing standard non-linearities with polynomial activations, Polynomial Neural Networks (PNNs) are pivotal for applications such as privacy-preserving inference via Homomorphic Encryption (HE). However, training PNNs effectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Forsad Al Hossain , Tauhidur Rahman

Fault detection in rotating machinery is a complex task, particularly in small and heterogeneous dataset scenarios. Variability in sensor placement, machinery configurations, and structural differences further increase the complexity of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Praveen Chopra , Himanshu Kumar , Sandeep Yadav

We present any-precision deep neural networks (DNNs), which are trained with a new method that allows the learned DNNs to be flexible in numerical precision during inference. The same model in runtime can be flexibly and directly set to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Haichao Yu , Haoxiang Li , Honghui Shi , Thomas S. Huang , Gang Hua

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have shown significant advantages in a wide variety of domains. However, DNNs are becoming computationally intensive and energy hungry at an exponential pace, while at the same time, there is a vast demand for…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are currently widely used for many artificial intelligence (AI) applications including computer vision, speech recognition, and robotics. While DNNs deliver state-of-the-art accuracy on many AI tasks, it comes at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Vivienne Sze , Yu-Hsin Chen , Tien-Ju Yang , Joel Emer

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are increasingly used in a variety of applications, many of them with substantial safety and security concerns. This paper introduces DeepCheck, a new approach for validating DNNs based on core ideas from program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Divya Gopinath , Kaiyuan Wang , Mengshi Zhang , Corina S. Pasareanu , Sarfraz Khurshid

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been deployed in myriad machine learning applications. However, advances in their accuracy are often achieved with increasingly complex and deep network architectures. These large, deep models are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Wenhan Xia , Hongxu Yin , Niraj K. Jha

Analog computing has reemerged as a promising avenue for accelerating deep neural networks (DNNs) due to its potential to overcome the energy efficiency and scalability challenges posed by traditional digital architectures. However,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Cansu Demirkiran , Lakshmi Nair , Darius Bunandar , Ajay Joshi

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) use spatio-temporal spike patterns to represent and transmit information, which is not only biologically realistic but also suitable for ultra-low-power event-driven neuromorphic implementation. Motivated by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Malu Zhang , Jiadong Wang , Burin Amornpaisannon , Zhixuan Zhang , VPK Miriyala , Ammar Belatreche , Hong Qu , Jibin Wu , Yansong Chua , Trevor E. Carlson , Haizhou Li

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) capture the information processing mechanism of the brain by taking advantage of spiking neurons, such as the Leaky Integrate-and-Fire (LIF) model neuron, which incorporates temporal dynamics and transmits…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Zexiang Yi , Jing Lian , Yunliang Qi , Zhaofei Yu , Huajin Tang , Yide Ma , Jizhao Liu

Emerging intelligent embedded devices rely on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to be able to interact with the real-world environment. This interaction comes with the ability to retrain DNNs, since environmental conditions change continuously in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Reza Hojabr , Kamyar Givaki , Kossar Pourahmadi , Parsa Nooralinejad , Ahmad Khonsari , Dara Rahmati , M. Hassan Najafi

We introduce a method to train Quantized Neural Networks (QNNs) --- neural networks with extremely low precision (e.g., 1-bit) weights and activations, at run-time. At train-time the quantized weights and activations are used for computing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Itay Hubara , Matthieu Courbariaux , Daniel Soudry , Ran El-Yaniv , Yoshua Bengio

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) significantly reduce computational complexity and memory usage in machine and deep learning by representing weights and activations with just one bit. However, most existing training algorithms for BNNs rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Luca Colombo , Fabrizio Pittorino , Manuel Roveri

This paper works on Binary Neural Networks (BNNs), a promising avenue for efficient deep learning, offering significant reductions in computational overhead and memory footprint to full precision networks. However, the challenge of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Federico Fontana , Romeo Lanzino , Anxhelo Diko , Gian Luca Foresti , Luigi Cinque