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Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are neural networks which use binary weights and activations instead of the typical 32-bit floating point values. They have reduced model sizes and allow for efficient inference on mobile or embedded devices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Joseph Bethge , Christian Bartz , Haojin Yang , Ying Chen , Christoph Meinel

Deep neural networks have been proven to be highly effective tools in various domains, yet their computational and memory costs restrict them from being widely deployed on portable devices. The recent rapid increase of edge computing…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have recently achieved impressive success across a wide range of real-world vision and language processing tasks, spanning from image classification to many other downstream vision tasks, such as object…

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Binary Neural Networks (BNNs), which constrain both weights and activations to binary values, offer substantial reductions in computational complexity, memory footprint, and energy consumption. These advantages make them particularly well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Luca Colombo , Fabrizio Pittorino , Daniele Zambon , Carlo Baldassi , Manuel Roveri , Cesare Alippi

Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) have become a principal approach to alleviate overconfident predictions in deep learning, but they often suffer from scaling issues due to a large number of distribution parameters. In this paper, we discover…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Shiye Lei , Zhuozhuo Tu , Leszek Rutkowski , Feng Zhou , Li Shen , Fengxiang He , Dacheng Tao

We introduce a method to train Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) - neural networks with binary weights and activations at run-time. At training-time the binary weights and activations are used for computing the parameters gradients. During…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Matthieu Courbariaux , Itay Hubara , Daniel Soudry , Ran El-Yaniv , Yoshua Bengio

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) achieve human level performance in many image analytics tasks but DNNs are mostly deployed to GPU platforms that consume a considerable amount of power. New hardware platforms using lower precision arithmetic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Antonio Jimeno Yepes , Jianbin Tang , Benjamin Scott Mashford

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) have garnered significant attention due to their immense potential for deployment on edge devices. However, the non-differentiability of the quantization function poses a challenge for the optimization of BNNs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Xinquan Chen , Junqi Gao , Biqing Qi , Dong Li , Yiang Luo , Fangyuan Li , Pengfei Li

This paper shows how to train binary networks to within a few percent points ($\sim 3-5 \%$) of the full precision counterpart. We first show how to build a strong baseline, which already achieves state-of-the-art accuracy, by combining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Brais Martinez , Jing Yang , Adrian Bulat , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

This paper describes a CNN where all CNN style 2D convolution operations that lower to matrix matrix multiplication are fully binary. The network is derived from a common building block structure that is consistent with a constructive proof…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Arthur J. Redfern , Lijun Zhu , Molly K. Newquist

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

Weight and activation binarization is an effective approach to deep neural network compression and can accelerate the inference by leveraging bitwise operations. Although many binarization methods have improved the accuracy of the model by…

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Computer vision on low-power edge devices enables applications including search-and-rescue and security. State-of-the-art computer vision algorithms, such as Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), are too large for inference on low-power edge…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) can be made hardware-efficient by reducing the numerical precision of the weights and activations of the network and by improving the network's resilience to noise. However, this gain in efficiency often comes at…

Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) are a class of deep neural networks designed to utilize minimal computational resources, which drives their popularity across various applications. Recent studies highlight the potential of mapping BNN model…

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In this work, we study the binary neural networks (BNNs) of which both the weights and activations are binary (i.e., 1-bit representation). Feature representation is critical for deep neural networks, while in BNNs, the features only differ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Ping Xue , Yang Lu , Jingfei Chang , Xing Wei , Zhen Wei

Recently, the deep convolutional neural network (CNN) has made remarkable progress in single image super resolution(SISR). However, blindly using the residual structure and dense structure to extract features from LR images, can cause the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Xiaopeng Sun , Wen Lu , Rui Wang , Furui Bai

Binary neural networks (BNN) have been studied extensively since they run dramatically faster at lower memory and power consumption than floating-point networks, thanks to the efficiency of bit operations. However, contemporary BNNs whose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Shilin Zhu , Xin Dong , Hao Su

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) can drastically reduce memory size and accesses by applying bit-wise operations instead of standard arithmetic operations. Therefore it could significantly improve the efficiency and lower the energy…

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