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Quantization is essential to simplify DNN inference in edge applications. Existing uniform and non-uniform quantization methods, however, exhibit an inherent conflict between the representing range and representing resolution, and thereby…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 Liu Fangxin , Zhao Wenbo , Wang Yanzhi , Dai Changzhi , Jiang Li

Model quantization can reduce the model size and computational latency, it has become an essential technique for the deployment of deep neural networks on resourceconstrained hardware (e.g., mobile phones and embedded devices). The existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Qigong Sun , Yan Ren , Licheng Jiao , Xiufang Li , Fanhua Shang , Fang Liu

In deep neural networks (DNNs), there are a huge number of weights and multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) operations. Accordingly, it is challenging to apply DNNs on resource-constrained platforms, e.g., mobile phones. Quantization is a method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Wenhao Sun , Grace Li Zhang , Huaxi Gu , Bing Li , Ulf Schlichtmann

With unprecedented rapid development, deep neural networks (DNNs) have deeply influenced almost all fields. However, their heavy computation costs and model sizes are usually unacceptable in real-world deployment. Model quantization, an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Kai Liu , Qian Zheng , Kaiwen Tao , Zhiteng Li , Haotong Qin , Wenbo Li , Yong Guo , Xianglong Liu , Linghe Kong , Guihai Chen , Yulun Zhang , Xiaokang Yang

Deploying quantized deep neural network (DNN) models with resource adaptation capabilities on ubiquitous Internet of Things (IoT) devices to provide high-quality AI services can leverage the benefits of compression and meet multi-scenario…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jianhang Xie , Chuntao Ding , Xiaqing Li , Shenyuan Ren , Yidong Li , Zhichao Lu

The deployment of Quantized Neural Networks (QNNs) on resource-constrained edge devices, such as microcontrollers (MCUs), introduces fundamental challenges in balancing model performance, computational complexity, and memory constraints.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Hamza A. Abushahla , Dara Varam , Ariel Justine N. Panopio , Mohamed I. AlHajri

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have gained considerable attention in the past decades due to their astounding performance in different applications, such as natural language modeling, self-driving assistance, and source code understanding.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Qiang Hu , Yuejun Guo , Maxime Cordy , Xiaofei Xie , Wei Ma , Mike Papadakis , Yves Le Traon

With the proliferation of deep convolutional neural network (CNN) algorithms for mobile processing, limited precision quantization has become an essential tool for CNN efficiency. Consequently, various works have sought to design fixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Stone Yun , Alexander Wong

The quantized neural networks (QNNs) can be useful for neural network acceleration and compression, but during the training process they pose a challenge: how to propagate the gradient of loss function through the graph flow with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Jun Chen , Yong Liu , Hao Zhang , Shengnan Hou , Jian Yang

Quantization is essential for reducing the computational cost and memory usage of deep neural networks, enabling efficient inference on low-precision hardware. Despite the growing adoption of uniform and floating-point quantization schemes,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-19 Mehmet Aktukmak , Daniel Huang , Ke Ding

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are computationally and memory intensive, which makes their hardware implementation a challenging task especially for resource constrained devices such as IoT nodes. To address this challenge, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Mohammed F. Tolba , Huruy Tekle Tesfai , Hani Saleh , Baker Mohammad , Mahmoud Al-Qutayri

Inference for state-of-the-art deep neural networks is computationally expensive, making them difficult to deploy on constrained hardware environments. An efficient way to reduce this complexity is to quantize the weight parameters and/or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Julian Faraone , Nicholas Fraser , Michaela Blott , Philip H. W. Leong

We investigate the compression of deep neural networks by quantizing their weights and activations into multiple binary bases, known as multi-bit networks (MBNs), which accelerate the inference and reduce the storage for the deployment on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Zhongnan Qu , Zimu Zhou , Yun Cheng , Lothar Thiele

Conventional multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations have long dominated computation time for deep neural networks (DNNs), espcially convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Recently, product quantization (PQ) has been applied to these workloads,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Ahmed F. AbouElhamayed , Angela Cui , Javier Fernandez-Marques , Nicholas D. Lane , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah

State-of-the-art neural language models represented by Transformers are becoming increasingly complex and expensive for practical applications. Low-bit deep neural network quantization techniques provides a powerful solution to dramatically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Junhao Xu , Shoukang Hu , Jianwei Yu , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

This work is substituted by the paper in arXiv:2011.14066. Stochastic gradient descent is the de facto algorithm for training deep neural networks (DNNs). Despite its popularity, it still requires fine tuning in order to achieve its best…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-02 Vatsal Shah , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Sujay Sanghavi

Neural network quantization procedure is the necessary step for porting of neural networks to mobile devices. Quantization allows accelerating the inference, reducing memory consumption and model size. It can be performed without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Alexander Goncharenko , Andrey Denisov , Sergey Alyamkin , Evgeny Terentev

Neural network quantization enables the deployment of models on edge devices. An essential requirement for their hardware efficiency is that the quantizers are hardware-friendly: uniform, symmetric, and with power-of-two thresholds. To the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Hai Victor Habi , Reuven Peretz , Elad Cohen , Lior Dikstein , Oranit Dror , Idit Diamant , Roy H. Jennings , Arnon Netzer

Recent advancements in machine learning achieved by Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been significant. While demonstrating high accuracy, DNNs are associated with a huge number of parameters and computations, which leads to high memory…

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