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The instability in GAN training has been a long-standing problem despite remarkable research efforts. We identify that instability issues stem from difficulties of performing feature matching with mini-batch statistics, due to a fragile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Yang Zhao , Chunyuan Li , Ping Yu , Jianfeng Gao , Changyou Chen

Post-training quantization (PTQ) is a practical path to deploy large diffusion models, but quantization noise can accumulate over the denoising trajectory and degrade generation quality. We propose Q-Drift, a principled sampler-side…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Sooyoung Ryu , Mathieu Salzmann , Saqib Javed

Post-training quantization is an effective method for reducing the serving cost of large language models, where the standard approach is to use a round-to-nearest quantization level scheme. However, this often introduces large errors due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Ziteng Sun , Adrian Benton , Samuel Kushnir , Asher Trockman , Vikas Singh , Suhas Diggavi , Ananda Theertha Suresh

Quantization-aware training (QAT) is a leading technique for improving the accuracy of quantized neural networks. Previous work has shown that decomposing training into a full-precision (FP) phase followed by a QAT phase yields superior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Aleksandr Dremov , David Grangier , Angelos Katharopoulos , Awni Hannun

Robotic cloth untangling requires progressively disentangling fabric by adapting pulling actions to changing contact and tension conditions. Because large-scale real-world training is impractical due to cloth damage and hardware wear,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yoshihisa Tsurumine , Yuki Kadokawa , Kohei Hayashi , Christian Diehm , Takamitsu Matsubara

State-of-the-art deep neural networks are trained with large amounts (millions or even billions) of data. The expensive computation and memory costs make it difficult to train them on limited hardware resources, especially for recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Daquan Zhou , Kai Wang , Jianyang Gu , Xiangyu Peng , Dongze Lian , Yifan Zhang , Yang You , Jiashi Feng

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

Quantizing deep convolutional neural networks for image super-resolution substantially reduces their computational costs. However, existing works either suffer from a severe performance drop in ultra-low precision of 4 or lower bit-widths,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Cheeun Hong , Heewon Kim , Sungyong Baik , Junghun Oh , Kyoung Mu Lee

Diffusion models have shown remarkable performance in image synthesis by progressively estimating a smooth transition from a Gaussian distribution of noise to a real image. Unfortunately, their practical deployment is limited by slow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Dung Anh Hoang , Cuong Pham anh Trung Le , Jianfei Cai , Thanh-Toan Do

We study distributed optimization problems over a network when the communication between the nodes is constrained, and so information that is exchanged between the nodes must be quantized. Recent advances using the distributed gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Thinh T. Doan , Siva Theja Maguluri , Justin Romberg

This PhD thesis combines two of the most exciting research areas of the last decades: quantum computing and machine learning. We introduce dissipative quantum neural networks (DQNNs), which are designed for fully quantum learning tasks, are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Kerstin Beer

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have emerged as the state-of-the-art architecture for video generation, yet their computational and memory demands hinder practical deployment. While post-training quantization (PTQ) presents a promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Zhiteng Li , Hanxuan Li , Junyi Wu , Kai Liu , Haotong Qin , Linghe Kong , Guihai Chen , Yulun Zhang , Xiaokang Yang

Model quantization is known as a promising method to compress deep neural networks, especially for inferences on lightweight mobile or edge devices. However, model quantization usually requires access to the original training data to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Kanghyun Choi , Deokki Hong , Noseong Park , Youngsok Kim , Jinho Lee

Federated Learning (FL) enables clients to share learning parameters instead of local data, reducing communication overhead. Traditional wireless networks face latency challenges with FL. In contrast, Cell-Free Massive MIMO (CFmMIMO) can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Afsaneh Mahmoudi , Ming Xiao , Emil Björnson

Neural network quantization is becoming an industry standard to efficiently deploy deep learning models on hardware platforms, such as CPU, GPU, TPU, and FPGAs. However, we observe that the conventional quantization approaches are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Ji Lin , Chuang Gan , Song Han

Sampling and quantization are crucial in digital signal processing, but quantization introduces errors, particularly due to distribution mismatch between input signals and quantizers. Existing methods to reduce this error require precise…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-09 Aman Rishal Chemmala , Satish Mulleti

Network quantization is an effective method for the deployment of neural networks on memory and energy constrained mobile devices. In this paper, we propose a Dynamic Network Quantization (DNQ) framework which is composed of two modules: a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Yuhui Xu , Shuai Zhang , Yingyong Qi , Jiaxian Guo , Weiyao Lin , Hongkai Xiong

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in the image and video generation tasks. Nevertheless, they often require a large amount of memory and time overhead during inference, due to the complex network architecture and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Haocheng Huang , Jiaxin Chen , Jinyang Guo , Ruiyi Zhan , Yunhong Wang

Decision-focused learning (DFL), which differentiates through the KKT conditions, has recently emerged as a powerful approach for predict-then-optimize problems. However, under probabilistic settings, DFL faces three major bottlenecks:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Lingkai Kong , Wenhao Mu , Jiaming Cui , Yuchen Zhuang , B. Aditya Prakash , Bo Dai , Chao Zhang

Deep Q-Networks (DQN) is one of the most well-known methods of deep reinforcement learning, which uses deep learning to approximate the action-value function. Solving numerous Deep reinforcement learning challenges such as moving targets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-18 S. Amirreza Badran , Mansoor Rezghi