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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

Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) are making significant progress in many research areas where decision-making needs to be accompanied by uncertainty estimation. Being able to quantify uncertainty while making decisions is essential for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Martin Ferianc , Partha Maji , Matthew Mattina , Miguel Rodrigues

Graph Neural Network (GNN) training and inference involve significant challenges of scalability with respect to both model sizes and number of layers, resulting in degradation of efficiency and accuracy for large and deep GNNs. We present…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Shuang Wang , Bahaeddin Eravci , Rustam Guliyev , Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu

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

Compressing large Neural Networks (NN) by quantizing the parameters, while maintaining the performance is highly desirable due to reduced memory and time complexity. In this work, we cast NN quantization as a discrete labelling problem, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Puneet K. Dokania , Richard Hartley , Philip H. S. Torr

Weight quantization is one of the most important techniques of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) model compression method. A recent work using systematic framework of DNN weight quantization with the advanced optimization algorithm ADMM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Sheng Lin , Xiaolong Ma , Shaokai Ye , Geng Yuan , Kaisheng Ma , Yanzhi Wang

The inherent heavy computation of deep neural networks prevents their widespread applications. A widely used method for accelerating model inference is quantization, by replacing the input operands of a network using fixed-point values.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Hongwei Xie , Shuo Zhang , Huanghao Ding , Yafei Song , Baitao Shao , Conggang Hu , Ling Cai , Mingyang Li

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 achieved great success in a wide range of computer vision areas, but the applications to mobile devices is limited due to their high storage and computational cost. Much efforts have been devoted to compress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Yiming Hu , Jianquan Li , Xianlei Long , Shenhua Hu , Jiagang Zhu , Xingang Wang , Qingyi Gu

We consider the problem of distributed feature quantization, where the goal is to enable a pretrained classifier at a central node to carry out its classification on features that are gathered from distributed nodes through communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Osama A. Hanna , Yahya H. Ezzeldin , Tara Sadjadpour , Christina Fragouli , Suhas Diggavi

Neural network quantization methods often involve simulating the quantization process during training, making the trained model highly dependent on the target bit-width and precise way quantization is performed. Robust quantization offers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Moran Shkolnik , Brian Chmiel , Ron Banner , Gil Shomron , Yury Nahshan , Alex Bronstein , Uri Weiser

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved significant advances in a wide range of applications. However, their deployment on resource-constrained devices remains a challenge due to the large number of layers and parameters, which result in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Sara Makenali , Babak Rokh , Ali Azarpeyvand

Inference time, model size, and accuracy are critical for deploying deep neural network models. Numerous research efforts have been made to compress neural network models with faster inference and higher accuracy. Pruning and quantization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Dan Liu , Xue Liu

Low-precision representation of deep neural networks (DNNs) is critical for efficient deployment of deep learning application on embedded platforms, however, converting the network to low precision degrades its performance. Crucially,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Alexander Finkelstein , Uri Almog , Mark Grobman

In the low-bit quantization field, training Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) is the extreme solution to ease the deployment of deep models on resource-constrained devices, having the lowest storage cost and significantly cheaper bit-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Yikai Wang , Yi Yang , Fuchun Sun , Anbang Yao

Reducing bit-widths of weights, activations, and gradients of a Neural Network can shrink its storage size and memory usage, and also allow for faster training and inference by exploiting bitwise operations. However, previous attempts for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Qinyao He , He Wen , Shuchang Zhou , Yuxin Wu , Cong Yao , Xinyu Zhou , Yuheng Zou

While the success of deep neural networks (DNNs) is well-established across a variety of domains, our ability to explain and interpret these methods is limited. Unlike previously proposed local methods which try to explain particular…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-29 Jonathan Ish-Horowicz , Dana Udwin , Seth Flaxman , Sarah Filippi , Lorin Crawford

Currently, deep neural networks are deployed on low-power portable devices by first training a full-precision model using powerful hardware, and then deriving a corresponding low-precision model for efficient inference on such systems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Hao Li , Soham De , Zheng Xu , Christoph Studer , Hanan Samet , Tom Goldstein

Low bit-width integer weights and activations are very important for efficient inference, especially with respect to lower power consumption. We propose Monte Carlo methods to quantize the weights and activations of pre-trained neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Gonçalo Mordido , Matthijs Van Keirsbilck , Alexander Keller

Deep image compression systems mainly contain four components: encoder, quantizer, entropy model, and decoder. To optimize these four components, a joint rate-distortion framework was proposed, and many deep neural network-based methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-27 Zhisheng Zhong , Hiroaki Akutsu , Kiyoharu Aizawa