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Zero-shot quantization (ZSQ) enables neural network compression without original training data, making it a promising solution for restricted data access scenarios. To compensate for the lack of data, recent ZSQ methods typically rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Inpyo Hong , Youngwan Jo , Hyojeong Lee , Sunghyun Ahn , Kijung Lee , Sanghyun Park

Neural network quantization is an effective way to compress deep models and improve their execution latency and energy efficiency, so that they can be deployed on mobile or embedded devices. Existing quantization methods require original…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Shoukai Xu , Haokun Li , Bohan Zhuang , Jing Liu , Jiezhang Cao , Chuangrun Liang , Mingkui Tan

Learning to synthesize data has emerged as a promising direction in zero-shot quantization (ZSQ), which represents neural networks by low-bit integer without accessing any of the real data. In this paper, we observe an interesting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Yunshan Zhong , Mingbao Lin , Gongrui Nan , Jianzhuang Liu , Baochang Zhang , Yonghong Tian , Rongrong Ji

Network quantization is an essential procedure in deep learning for development of efficient fixed-point inference models on mobile or edge platforms. However, as datasets grow larger and privacy regulations become stricter, data sharing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Yoojin Choi , Jihwan Choi , Mostafa El-Khamy , Jungwon Lee

Quantization is a popular technique that $transforms$ the parameter representation of a neural network from floating-point numbers into lower-precision ones ($e.g.$, 8-bit integers). It reduces the memory footprint and the computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Sanghyun Hong , Michael-Andrei Panaitescu-Liess , Yiğitcan Kaya , Tudor Dumitraş

Generative data-free quantization emerges as a practical compression approach that quantizes deep neural networks to low bit-width without accessing the real data. This approach generates data utilizing batch normalization (BN) statistics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Haotong Qin , Yifu Ding , Xiangguo Zhang , Jiakai Wang , Xianglong Liu , Jiwen Lu

Quantization for deep neural networks have afforded models for edge devices that use less on-board memory and enable efficient low-power inference. In this paper, we present a comparison of model-parameter driven quantization approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Prateeth Nayak , David Zhang , Sek Chai

Quantization has emerged as one of the most prevalent approaches to compress and accelerate neural networks. Recently, data-free quantization has been widely studied as a practical and promising solution. It synthesizes data for calibrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Xiangguo Zhang , Haotong Qin , Yifu Ding , Ruihao Gong , Qinghua Yan , Renshuai Tao , Yuhang Li , Fengwei Yu , Xianglong Liu

A common problem with most zero and few-shot learning approaches is they suffer from bias towards seen classes resulting in sub-optimal performance. Existing efforts aim to utilize unlabeled images from unseen classes (i.e transductive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Gaurav Bhatt , Shivam Chandhok , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Quantization of neural networks provides benefits of inference in less compute and memory requirements. Previous work in quantization lack two important aspects which this work provides. First almost all previous work in quantization used a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Zia Badar

Model quantization is a widely used technique to compress and accelerate deep neural network (DNN) inference, especially when deploying to edge or IoT devices with limited computation capacity and power consumption budget. The uniform bit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Tao Wang , Junsong Wang , Chang Xu , Chao Xue

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated strong performance on a wide variety of tasks due to their ability to model non-uniform structured data. Despite their promise, there exists little research exploring methods to make them more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Shyam A. Tailor , Javier Fernandez-Marques , Nicholas D. Lane

We show that robustness to post-training quantization (PTQ) is a transferable direction in weight space. We call this direction the quantization vector: extracted from a donor task by simple weight-space arithmetic, it can be used to patch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Daniele Solombrino , Antonio Andrea Gargiulo , Alessandro Zirilli , Luca Zhou , Adrian Robert Minut , Emanuele Rodolà

We introduce a data-free quantization method for deep neural networks that does not require fine-tuning or hyperparameter selection. It achieves near-original model performance on common computer vision architectures and tasks. 8-bit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Markus Nagel , Mart van Baalen , Tijmen Blankevoort , Max Welling

Most existing zero-shot learning methods consider the problem as a visual semantic embedding one. Given the demonstrated capability of Generative Adversarial Networks(GANs) to generate images, we instead leverage GANs to imagine unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Yizhe Zhu , Mohamed Elhoseiny , Bingchen Liu , Xi Peng , Ahmed Elgammal

Deep neural networks, while achieving remarkable success across diverse tasks, demand significant resources, including computation, GPU memory, bandwidth, storage, and energy. Network quantization, as a standard compression and acceleration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Minghao Fu , Hao Yu , Jie Shao , Junjie Zhou , Ke Zhu , Jianxin Wu

There is a rising interest in further exploring the zero-shot learning potential of large pre-trained language models (PLMs). A new paradigm called data-generation-based zero-shot learning has achieved impressive success. In this paradigm,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Jiahui Gao , Renjie Pi , Yong Lin , Hang Xu , Jiacheng Ye , Zhiyong Wu , Weizhong Zhang , Xiaodan Liang , Zhenguo Li , Lingpeng Kong

A major obstacle to the wide-spread adoption of neural retrieval models is that they require large supervised training sets to surpass traditional term-based techniques, which are constructed from raw corpora. In this paper, we propose an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Ji Ma , Ivan Korotkov , Yinfei Yang , Keith Hall , Ryan McDonald

A modern paradigm for generalization in machine learning and AI consists of pre-training a task-agnostic foundation model, generally obtained using self-supervised and multimodal contrastive learning. The resulting representations can be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-03 Ronak Mehta , Zaid Harchaoui

To adopt convolutional neural networks (CNN) for a range of resource-constrained targets, it is necessary to compress the CNN models by performing quantization, whereby precision representation is converted to a lower bit representation. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Jemin Lee , Misun Yu , Yongin Kwon , Taeho Kim