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Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is a popular model in computer vision and has the advantage of making good use of the correlation information of data. However, CNN is challenging to learn efficiently if the given dimension of data or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 Seunghyeok Oh , Jaeho Choi , Joongheon Kim

Quantization-aware training (QAT) is typically performed for a single target numeric format, while practical deployments often need to choose numerical precision at inference time based on hardware support or runtime constraints. We study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Zifei Xu , Sayeh Sharify , Hesham Mostafa

The deployment of Quantized Neural Networks (QNN) on advanced microcontrollers requires optimized software to exploit digital signal processing (DSP) extensions of modern instruction set architectures (ISA). As such, recent research…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Nazareno Bruschi , Angelo Garofalo , Francesco Conti , Giuseppe Tagliavini , Davide Rossi

Quantum convolutional neural networks (QCNNs) are quantum circuits for characterizing complex quantum states. They have been proposed for recognizing quantum phases of matter at low sampling cost and have been designed for condensed matter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Leon C. Sander , Nathan A. McMahon , Petr Zapletal , Michael J. Hartmann

Quantization is a technique to reduce the computation and memory cost of DNN models, which are getting increasingly large. Existing quantization solutions use fixed-point integer or floating-point types, which have limited benefits, as both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Cong Guo , Chen Zhang , Jingwen Leng , Zihan Liu , Fan Yang , Yunxin Liu , Minyi Guo , Yuhao Zhu

Recent advancements in model pruning have focused on developing new algorithms and improving upon benchmarks. However, the practical application of these algorithms across various models and platforms remains a significant challenge. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Dongdong Ren , Wenbin Li , Tianyu Ding , Lei Wang , Qi Fan , Jing Huo , Hongbing Pan , Yang Gao

A prominent technique for reducing the memory footprint of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) without decreasing the accuracy significantly is quantization. However, the state-of-the-art only focus on employing the weight quantization directly…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra , Muhammad Shafique

Quantum neural networks combine quantum computing with advanced data-driven methods, offering promising applications in quantum machine learning. However, the optimal paradigm for balancing trainability and expressivity in QNNs remains an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Hongshun Yao , Xia Liu , Mingrui Jing , Guangxi Li , Xin Wang

Signal compression based on implicit neural representation (INR) is an emerging technique to represent multimedia signals with a small number of bits. While INR-based signal compression achieves high-quality reconstruction for relatively…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Takuya Fujihashi , Toshiaki Koike-Akino

In this paper we introduce ShiftCNN, a generalized low-precision architecture for inference of multiplierless convolutional neural networks (CNNs). ShiftCNN is based on a power-of-two weight representation and, as a result, performs only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Denis A. Gudovskiy , Luca Rigazio

This work targets the commonly used FPGA (field-programmable gate array) devices as the hardware platform for DNN edge computing. We focus on DNN quantization as the main model compression technique. The novelty of this work is: We use a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Sung-En Chang , Yanyu Li , Mengshu Sun , Yanzhi Wang , Xue Lin

Quantization techniques commonly reduce the inference costs of neural networks by restricting the precision of weights and activations. Recent studies show that also reducing the precision of the accumulator can further improve hardware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Ian Colbert , Alessandro Pappalardo , Jakoba Petri-Koenig , Yaman Umuroglu

Quantum machine learning (QML) holds promise for computational advantage, yet progress on real-world tasks is hindered by classical preprocessing and noisy devices. We introduce ViT-QCNN-FT, a hybrid framework that integrates a fine-tuned…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Mingzhu Wang , Yun Shang

Instantaneous and on demand accuracy-efficiency trade-off has been recently explored in the context of neural networks slimming. In this paper, we propose a flexible quantization strategy, termed Switchable Precision neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Luis Guerra , Bohan Zhuang , Ian Reid , Tom Drummond

Neural networks in the real domain have been studied for a long time and achieved promising results in many vision tasks for recent years. However, the extensions of the neural network models in other number fields and their potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Xuanyu Zhu , Yi Xu , Hongteng Xu , Changjian Chen

With the beginning of the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era, quantum neural network (QNN) has recently emerged as a solution for the problems that classical neural networks cannot solve. Moreover, QCNN is attracting attention as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Hankyul Baek , Won Joon Yun , Joongheon Kim

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved extraordinary performance in various application domains. To support diverse DNN models, efficient implementations of DNN inference on edge-computing platforms, e.g., ASICs, FPGAs, and embedded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Sung-En Chang , Yanyu Li , Mengshu Sun , Runbin Shi , Hayden K. -H. So , Xuehai Qian , Yanzhi Wang , Xue Lin

Neural network-based algorithms have garnered considerable attention in condensed matter physics for their ability to learn complex patterns from very high dimensional data sets towards classifying complex long-range patterns of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Ian MacCormack , Conor Delaney , Alexey Galda , Nidhi Aggarwal , Prineha Narang

Medical images are characterized by intricate and complex features, requiring interpretation by physicians with medical knowledge and experience. Classical neural networks can reduce the workload of physicians, but can only handle these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yangyang Li , Zhengya Qia , Yuelin Lia , Haorui Yanga , Ronghua Shanga , Licheng Jiaoa

With the development of deep neural networks, the size of network models becomes larger and larger. Model compression has become an urgent need for deploying these network models to mobile or embedded devices. Model quantization is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Wen-Pu Cai , Wu-Jun Li