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This paper introduces neural architecture search (NAS) for the automatic discovery of end-to-end keyword spotting (KWS) models in limited resource environments. We employ a differentiable NAS approach to optimize the structure of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-15 David Peter , Wolfgang Roth , Franz Pernkopf

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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Binarization is a powerful compression technique for neural networks, significantly reducing FLOPs, but often results in a significant drop in model performance. To address this issue, partial binarization techniques have been developed,…

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Binary neural networks are the extreme case of network quantization, which has long been thought of as a potential edge machine learning solution. However, the significant accuracy gap to the full-precision counterparts restricts their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Nianhui Guo , Joseph Bethge , Christoph Meinel , Haojin Yang

The widespread deployment of Infrared Small-Target Detection (IRSTD) algorithms on edge devices necessitates the exploration of model compression techniques. Binarized neural networks (BNNs) are distinguished by their exceptional efficiency…

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In the low-bit quantization field, training Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) is the extreme solution to ease the deployment of deep models on resource-constrained devices, having the lowest storage cost and significantly cheaper bit-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Yikai Wang , Yi Yang , Fuchun Sun , Anbang Yao

Binary neural networks (BNNs) have demonstrated their ability to solve complex tasks with comparable accuracy as full-precision deep neural networks (DNNs), while also reducing computational power and storage requirements and increasing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Riccardo Schiavone , Maria A. Zuluaga

Neural network binarization accelerates deep models by quantizing their weights and activations into 1-bit. However, there is still a huge performance gap between Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) and their full-precision (FP) counterparts. As…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Yuzhang Shang , Dan Xu , Ziliang Zong , Liqiang Nie , Yan Yan

The Keyword Spotting (KWS) task involves continuous audio stream monitoring to detect predefined words, requiring low energy devices for continuous processing. Neuromorphic devices effectively address this energy challenge. However, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Sidi Yaya Arnaud Yarga , Sean U. N. Wood

Keyword spotting (KWS) has become an indispensable part of many intelligent devices surrounding us, as audio is one of the most efficient ways of interacting with these devices. The accuracy and performance of KWS solutions have been the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Mehmet Gorkem Ulkar , Osman Erman Okman

This paper introduces neural architecture search (NAS) for the automatic discovery of small models for keyword spotting (KWS) in limited resource environments. We employ a differentiable NAS approach to optimize the structure of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-21 David Peter , Wolfgang Roth , Franz Pernkopf

Keyword spotting (KWS) is essential for voice-driven applications, demanding both accuracy and efficiency. Traditional ASR-based KWS methods, such as greedy and beam search, explore the entire search space without explicitly prioritizing…

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Binarized neural networks, or BNNs, show great promise in edge-side applications with resource limited hardware, but raise the concerns of reduced accuracy. Motivated by the complex neural networks, in this paper we introduce complex…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Yanfei Li , Tong Geng , Ang Li , Huimin Yu

Binary neural networks (BNNs), where both weights and activations are binarized into 1 bit, have been widely studied in recent years due to its great benefit of highly accelerated computation and substantially reduced memory footprint that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Zhuo Su , Linpu Fang , Deke Guo , Dewen Hu , Matti Pietikäinen , Li Liu

Binarization is an extreme network compression approach that provides large computational speedups along with energy and memory savings, albeit at significant accuracy costs. We investigate the question of where to binarize inputs at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Ameya Prabhu , Vishal Batchu , Rohit Gajawada , Sri Aurobindo Munagala , Anoop Namboodiri

Keyword Spotting plays a critical role in enabling hands-free interaction for battery-powered edge devices. Few-Shot Keyword Spotting (FS-KWS) addresses the scalability and adaptability challenges of traditional systems by enabling…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-09 Alican Gok , Oguzhan Buyuksolak , Osman Erman Okman , Murat Saraclar

Non-invasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are beginning to benefit from large, public benchmarks. However, current benchmarks target relatively simple, foundational tasks like Speech Detection and Phoneme Classification, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Gereon Elvers , Gilad Landau , Oiwi Parker Jones

For binary neural networks (BNNs) to become the mainstream on-device computer vision algorithm, they must achieve a superior speed-vs-accuracy tradeoff than 8-bit quantization and establish a similar degree of general applicability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Guhong Nie , Lirui Xiao , Menglong Zhu , Dongliang Chu , Yue Shen , Peng Li , Kang Yang , Li Du , Bo Chen

Significant computational cost and memory requirements for deep neural networks (DNNs) make it difficult to utilize DNNs in resource-constrained environments. Binary neural network (BNN), which uses binary weights and binary activations,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Hyungjun Kim , Yulhwa Kim , Sungju Ryu , Jae-Joon Kim

We present Bifocal RNN-T, a new variant of the Recurrent Neural Network Transducer (RNN-T) architecture designed for improved inference time latency on speech recognition tasks. The architecture enables a dynamic pivot for its runtime…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-05 Jonathan Macoskey , Grant P. Strimel , Ariya Rastrow