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Quantization is a technique for reducing deep neural networks (DNNs) training and inference times, which is crucial for training in resource constrained environments or applications where inference is time critical. State-of-the-art (SOTA)…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated their effectiveness in a wide range of computer vision tasks, with the state-of-the-art results obtained through complex and deep structures that require intensive computation and memory.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Ahmad Shawahna , Sadiq M. Sait , Aiman El-Maleh , Irfan Ahmad

Operating deep neural networks (DNNs) on devices with limited resources requires the reduction of their memory as well as computational footprint. Popular reduction methods are network quantization or pruning, which either reduce the word…

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have shown significant advantages in a wide variety of domains. However, DNNs are becoming computationally intensive and energy hungry at an exponential pace, while at the same time, there is a vast demand for…

Recurrent neural networks have shown excellent performance in many applications, however they require increased complexity in hardware or software based implementations. The hardware complexity can be much lowered by minimizing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Sungho Shin , Kyuyeon Hwang , Wonyong Sung

While neural networks have been remarkably successful in a wide array of applications, implementing them in resource-constrained hardware remains an area of intense research. By replacing the weights of a neural network with quantized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Jinjie Zhang , Yixuan Zhou , Rayan Saab

In this paper, we compress convolutional neural network (CNN) weights post-training via transform quantization. Previous CNN quantization techniques tend to ignore the joint statistics of weights and activations, producing sub-optimal CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Sean I. Young , Wang Zhe , David Taubman , Bernd Girod

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

Quantization of the weights and activations is one of the main methods to reduce the computational footprint of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) training. Current methods enable 4-bit quantization of the forward phase. However, this constitutes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Brian Chmiel , Ron Banner , Elad Hoffer , Hilla Ben Yaacov , Daniel Soudry

Quantization and pruning are core techniques used to reduce the inference costs of deep neural networks. State-of-the-art quantization techniques are currently applied to both the weights and activations; however, pruning is most often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Xinyu Zhang , Ian Colbert , Ken Kreutz-Delgado , Srinjoy Das

Deploying federated learning (FL) over wireless networks with resource-constrained devices requires balancing between accuracy, energy efficiency, and precision. Prior art on FL often requires devices to train deep neural networks (DNNs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Minsu Kim , Walid Saad , Mohammad Mozaffari , Merouane Debbah

In today's era of smart cyber-physical systems, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have become ubiquitous due to their state-of-the-art performance in complex real-world applications. The high computational complexity of these networks, which…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Giuseppe Maria Sarda , Alberto Marchisio , Guido Masera , Maurizio Martina , Muhammad Shafique

Energy efficient implementations and deployments of Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have been of great interest due to the possibility of developing artificial systems that can achieve the computational powers and energy efficiency of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Clemens JS Schaefer , Pooria Taheri , Mark Horeni , Siddharth Joshi

Deep Neural Networks reached state-of-the-art performance across numerous domains, but this progress has come at the cost of increasingly large and over-parameterized models, posing serious challenges for deployment on resource-constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Dario Malchiodi , Mattia Ferraretto , Marco Frasca

Deep neural network (DNN) accelerators received considerable attention in past years due to saved energy compared to mainstream hardware. Low-voltage operation of DNN accelerators allows to further reduce energy consumption significantly,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-12 David Stutz , Nandhini Chandramoorthy , Matthias Hein , Bernt Schiele

Quantization of weights of deep neural networks (DNN) has proven to be an effective solution for the purpose of implementing DNNs on edge devices such as mobiles, ASICs and FPGAs, because they have no sufficient resources to support…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Tianyu Zhang , Lei Zhu , Qian Zhao , Kilho Shin

We consider the problem of deep neural net compression by quantization: given a large, reference net, we want to quantize its real-valued weights using a codebook with $K$ entries so that the training loss of the quantized net is minimal.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán , Yerlan Idelbayev

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

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