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Data-free quantization (DFQ) recovers the performance of quantized network (Q) without the original data, but generates the fake sample via a generator (G) by learning from full-precision network (P), which, however, is totally independent…

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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

Data-free quantization aims to achieve model quantization without accessing any authentic sample. It is significant in an application-oriented context involving data privacy. Converting noise vectors into synthetic samples through a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Jixing Li , Xiaozhou Guo , Benzhe Dai , Guoliang Gong , Min Jin , Gang Chen , Wenyu Mao , Huaxiang Lu

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

Contemporary deep learning, characterized by the training of cumbersome neural networks on massive datasets, confronts substantial computational hurdles. To alleviate heavy data storage burdens on limited hardware resources, numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Muquan Li , Dongyang Zhang , Qiang Dong , Xiurui Xie , Ke Qin

Deep learning has made remarkable progress recently, largely due to the availability of large, well-labeled datasets. However, the training on such datasets elevates costs and computational demands. To address this, various techniques like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Zhenghao Zhao , Yuzhang Shang , Junyi Wu , Yan Yan

Zero-shot quantization (ZSQ) using synthetic data is a key approach for post-training quantization (PTQ) under privacy and security constraints. However, existing data generation methods often struggle to effectively generate data suitable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Lior Dikstein , Ariel Lapid , Arnon Netzer , Hai Victor Habi

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

Quantization approximates a deep network model with floating-point numbers by the one with low bit width numbers, in order to accelerate inference and reduce computation. Quantizing a model without access to the original data, zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Yan Luo , Yangcheng Gao , Zhao Zhang , Haijun Zhang , Mingliang Xu , Meng Wang

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

Data-Free Quantization (DFQ) enables the quantization of Vision Transformers (ViTs) without requiring access to data, allowing for the deployment of ViTs on devices with limited resources. In DFQ, the quantization model must be calibrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yujia Tong , Jingling Yuan , Tian Zhang , Jianquan Liu , Chuang Hu

Data-free quantization (DFQ) is a technique that creates a lightweight network from its full-precision counterpart without the original training data, often through a synthetic dataset. Although several DFQ methods have been proposed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Kanghyun Choi , Hye Yoon Lee , Dain Kwon , SunJong Park , Kyuyeun Kim , Noseong Park , Jonghyun Choi , Jinho Lee

Data-free model stealing involves replicating the functionality of a target model into a substitute model without accessing the target model's structure, parameters, or training data. The adversary can only access the target model's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Gaozheng Pei , Shaojie lyu , Ke Ma , Pinci Yang , Qianqian Xu , Yingfei Sun

This paper introduces Distribution-Flexible Subset Quantization (DFSQ), a post-training quantization method for super-resolution networks. Our motivation for developing DFSQ is based on the distinctive activation distributions of current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Yunshan Zhong , Mingbao Lin , Jingjing Xie , Yuxin Zhang , Fei Chao , Rongrong Ji

Quantization of deep neural networks (DNN) has been proven effective for compressing and accelerating DNN models. Data-free quantization (DFQ) is a promising approach without the original datasets under privacy-sensitive and confidential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Cong Guo , Yuxian Qiu , Jingwen Leng , Xiaotian Gao , Chen Zhang , Yunxin Liu , Fan Yang , Yuhao Zhu , Minyi Guo

To obtain lower inference latency and less memory footprint of deep neural networks, model quantization has been widely employed in deep model deployment, by converting the floating points to low-precision integers. However, previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Yangcheng Gao , Zhao Zhang , Richang Hong , Haijun Zhang , Jicong Fan , Shuicheng Yan

Model quantization is a promising approach to compress deep neural networks and accelerate inference, making it possible to be deployed on mobile and edge devices. To retain the high performance of full-precision models, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Yuang Liu , Wei Zhang , Jun Wang

Quantization is a widely adopted technique for deep neural networks to reduce the memory and computational resources required. However, when quantized, most models would need a suitable calibration process to keep their performance intact,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Athanasios Masouris , Mansi Sharma , Adrian Boguszewski , Alexander Kozlov , Zhuo Wu , Raymond Lo

Utility and privacy are two crucial measurements of the quality of synthetic tabular data. While significant advancements have been made in privacy measures, generating synthetic samples with high utility remains challenging. To enhance the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Oriel Perets , Nadav Rappoport

Post-training quantization (PTQ) improves efficiency but struggles with limited calibration data, especially under privacy constraints. Data-free quantization (DFQ) mitigates this by generating synthetic images using generative models such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Jiwoong Park , Chaeun Lee , Yongseok Choi , Sein Park , Deokki Hong , Jungwook Choi
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