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Running Deep Neural Network (DNN) models on devices with limited computational capability is a challenge due to large compute and memory requirements. Quantized Neural Networks (QNNs) have emerged as a potential solution to this problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Yaman Umuroglu , Magnus Jahre

As deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly used in safety-critical applications, there is a growing concern for their reliability. Even highly trained, high-performant networks are not 100% accurate. However, it is very difficult to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Eduard Pinconschi , Divya Gopinath , Rui Abreu , Corina S. Pasareanu

Post-training quantization (PTQ) is a popular method for compressing deep neural networks (DNNs) without modifying their original architecture or training procedures. Despite its effectiveness and convenience, the reliability of PTQ methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Zhihang Yuan , Jiawei Liu , Jiaxiang Wu , Dawei Yang , Qiang Wu , Guangyu Sun , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang , Bingzhe Wu

The large computing and memory cost of deep neural networks (DNNs) often precludes their use in resource-constrained devices. Quantizing the parameters and operations to lower bit-precision offers substantial memory and energy savings for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Clemens JS Schaefer , Siddharth Joshi , Shan Li , Raul Blazquez

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are state-of-the-art algorithms for multiple applications, spanning from image classification to speech recognition. While providing excellent accuracy, they often have enormous compute and memory requirements.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Ussama Zahid , Giulio Gambardella , Nicholas J. Fraser , Michaela Blott , Kees Vissers

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely used in many artificial intelligence (AI) tasks. However, deploying them brings significant challenges due to the huge cost of memory, energy, and computation. To address these challenges,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Xue Geng , Zhe Wang , Chunyun Chen , Qing Xu , Kaixin Xu , Chao Jin , Manas Gupta , Xulei Yang , Zhenghua Chen , Mohamed M. Sabry Aly , Jie Lin , Min Wu , Xiaoli Li

Quantized neural networks (QNNs) are increasingly used for efficient deployment of deep learning models on resource-constrained platforms, such as mobile devices and edge computing systems. While quantization reduces model size and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Amira Guesmi , Bassem Ouni , Muhammad Shafique

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 2023-08-07 Yisong Xiao , Aishan Liu , Tianyuan Zhang , Haotong Qin , Jinyang Guo , Xianglong Liu

Bringing deep neural networks (DNNs) into safety critical applications such as automated driving, medical imaging and finance, requires a thorough treatment of the model's uncertainties. Training deep neural networks is already resource…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Julian Burghoff , Robin Chan , Hanno Gottschalk , Annika Muetze , Tobias Riedlinger , Matthias Rottmann , Marius Schubert

It is necessary to develop efficient DNNs deployed on edge devices with limited computation resources. However, the compressed networks often execute new tasks in the target domain, which is different from the source domain where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Lulan Shen , Ali Edalati , Brett Meyer , Warren Gross , James J. Clark

Signal processing, communications, and control have traditionally relied on classical statistical modeling techniques. Such model-based methods utilize mathematical formulations that represent the underlying physics, prior information and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Nir Shlezinger , Jay Whang , Yonina C. Eldar , Alexandros G. Dimakis

The recent advances in deep neural networks (DNNs) make them attractive for embedded systems. However, it can take a long time for DNNs to make an inference on resource-constrained computing devices. Model compression techniques can address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Qing Qin , Jie Ren , Jialong Yu , Ling Gao , Hai Wang , Jie Zheng , Yansong Feng , Jianbin Fang , Zheng Wang

Quantization is one of the most applied Deep Neural Network (DNN) compression strategies, when deploying a trained DNN model on an embedded system or a cell phone. This is owing to its simplicity and adaptability to a wide range of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Ahmed Haj Yahmed , Houssem Ben Braiek , Foutse Khomh , Sonia Bouzidi , Rania Zaatour

Efficient deep neural network (DNN) inference on mobile or embedded devices typically involves quantization of the network parameters and activations. In particular, mixed precision networks achieve better performance than networks with…

Despite their unprecedented success, DNNs are notoriously fragile to small shifts in data distribution, demanding effective testing techniques that can assess their dependability. Despite recent advances in DNN testing, there is a lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Sondess Missaoui , Simos Gerasimou , Nikolaos Matragkas

Advances in deep neural network (DNN) based molecular property prediction have recently led to the development of models of remarkable accuracy and generalization ability, with graph convolution neural networks (GCNNs) reporting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Gabriele Scalia , Colin A. Grambow , Barbara Pernici , Yi-Pei Li , William H. Green

Although weight and activation quantization is an effective approach for Deep Neural Network (DNN) compression and has a lot of potentials to increase inference speed leveraging bit-operations, there is still a noticeable gap in terms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Dongqing Zhang , Jiaolong Yang , Dongqiangzi Ye , Gang Hua

The many successes of deep neural networks (DNNs) over the past decade have largely been driven by computational scale rather than insights from biological intelligence. Here, we explore if these trends have also carried concomitant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Thomas Fel , Ivan Felipe , Drew Linsley , Thomas Serre

Recently, an extensive amount of research has been focused on compressing and accelerating Deep Neural Networks (DNN). So far, high compression rate algorithms require part of the training dataset for a low precision calibration, or a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Matan Haroush , Itay Hubara , Elad Hoffer , Daniel Soudry

This paper proposes Quantizable DNNs, a special type of DNNs that can flexibly quantize its bit-width (denoted as `bit modes' thereafter) during execution without further re-training. To simultaneously optimize for all bit modes, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Kunyuan Du , Ya Zhang , Haibing Guan