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Previous studies dominantly target at self-supervised learning on real-valued networks and have achieved many promising results. However, on the more challenging binary neural networks (BNNs), this task has not yet been fully explored in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Zhiqiang Shen , Zechun Liu , Jie Qin , Lei Huang , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Marios Savvides

Binary neural network (BNN) is an extreme quantization version of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with all features and weights mapped to just 1-bit. Although BNN saves a lot of memory and computation demand to make CNN applicable on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Xulong Shi , Zhi Qi , Jiaxuan Cai , Keqi Fu , Yaru Zhao , Zan Li , Xuanyu Liu , Hao Liu

Binary Neural Network (BNN) represents convolution weights with 1-bit values, which enhances the efficiency of storage and computation. This paper is motivated by a previously revealed phenomenon that the binary kernels in successful BNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yikai Wang , Wenbing Huang , Yinpeng Dong , Fuchun Sun , Anbang Yao

Measuring Efficiency in neural network system development is an open research problem. This paper presents an experimental framework to measure the training efficiency of a neural architecture. To demonstrate our approach, we analyze the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Eduardo Cueto-Mendoza , John D. Kelleher

Binary neural networks (BNN) have been studied extensively since they run dramatically faster at lower memory and power consumption than floating-point networks, thanks to the efficiency of bit operations. However, contemporary BNNs whose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Shilin Zhu , Xin Dong , Hao Su

For most deep learning algorithms training is notoriously time consuming. Since most of the computation in training neural networks is typically spent on floating point multiplications, we investigate an approach to training that eliminates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-29 Zhouhan Lin , Matthieu Courbariaux , Roland Memisevic , Yoshua Bengio

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs), which constrain both weights and activations to binary values, offer substantial reductions in computational complexity, memory footprint, and energy consumption. These advantages make them particularly well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Luca Colombo , Fabrizio Pittorino , Daniele Zambon , Carlo Baldassi , Manuel Roveri , Cesare Alippi

Neural networks have been successfully used for classification tasks in a rapidly growing number of practical applications. Despite their popularity and widespread use, there are still many aspects of training and classification that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Ewout van den Berg

Modern neural networks often have great expressive power and can be trained to overfit the training data, while still achieving a good test performance. This phenomenon is referred to as "benign overfitting". Recently, there emerges a line…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Yuan Cao , Zixiang Chen , Mikhail Belkin , Quanquan Gu

Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) augment deep networks with uncertainty quantification by Bayesian treatment of the network weights. However, such models face the challenge of Bayesian inference in a high-dimensional and usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Zhijie Deng , Yucen Luo , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

Neural networks have achieved dramatic improvements in recent years and depict the state-of-the-art methods for many real-world tasks nowadays. One drawback is, however, that many of these models are overparameterized, which makes them both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Vinnie Ko , Stefan Oehmcke , Fabian Gieseke

Deep neural networks have achieved impressive results in computer vision and machine learning. Unfortunately, state-of-the-art networks are extremely compute and memory intensive which makes them unsuitable for mW-devices such as IoT…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Renzo Andri , Lukas Cavigelli , Davide Rossi , Luca Benini

The ubiquity of neural networks (NNs) in real-world applications, from healthcare to natural language processing, underscores their immense utility in capturing complex relationships within high-dimensional data. However, NNs come with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Chang Yue , Niraj K. Jha

Regularization is a set of techniques that are used to improve the generalization ability of deep neural networks. In this paper, we introduce weight compander (WC), a novel effective method to improve generalization by reparameterizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Rinor Cakaj , Jens Mehnert , Bin Yang

Training a neural network is synonymous with learning the values of the weights. By contrast, we demonstrate that randomly weighted neural networks contain subnetworks which achieve impressive performance without ever training the weight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Vivek Ramanujan , Mitchell Wortsman , Aniruddha Kembhavi , Ali Farhadi , Mohammad Rastegari

Neural networks are trained by choosing an architecture and training the parameters. The choice of architecture is often by trial and error or with Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods. While NAS provides some automation, it often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Zitong Huang , Mansooreh Montazerin , Ajitesh Srivastava

It is known belief propagation decoding variants of LDPC codes can be unrolled easily as neural networks after assigning differed weights to message passing edges flexibly. In this paper we focus on how to determine these weights, in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Guangwen Li , Xiao Yu

We study neural network training (NNT): optimizing a neural network's parameters to minimize the training loss over a given dataset. NNT has been studied extensively under theoretic lenses, mainly on two-layer networks with linear or ReLU…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Ilan Doron-Arad

Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) offer robust uncertainty quantification in model predictions, but training them presents a significant computational challenge. This is mainly due to the problem of sampling multimodal posterior distributions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Ratneel Deo , Scott Sisson , Jody M. Webster , Rohitash Chandra

Binary Neural Networks~(BNNs) have been proven to be highly effective for deploying deep neural networks on mobile and embedded platforms. Most existing works focus on minimizing quantization errors, improving representation ability, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Jingyang Xiang , Zuohui Chen , Siqi Li , Qing Wu , Yong Liu