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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

How can we accurately quantize a pre-trained model without any data? Quantization algorithms are widely used for deploying neural networks on resource-constrained edge devices. Zero-shot Quantization (ZSQ) addresses the crucial and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Minjun Kim , Jongjin Kim , U Kang

Network quantization has proven to be a powerful approach to reduce the memory and computational demands of deep learning models for deployment on resource-constrained devices. However, traditional quantization methods often rely on access…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Minjun Kim , Jaehyeon Choi , Jongkeun Lee , Wonjin Cho , U Kang

Quantization is a key technique to reduce network size and computational complexity by representing the network parameters with a lower precision. Traditional quantization methods rely on access to original training data, which is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Changhao Li , Xinrui Chen , Ji Wang , Kang Zhao , Jianfei Chen

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

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

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

Zero-shot quantization aims to learn a quantized model from a pre-trained full-precision model with no access to original real training data. The common idea in zero-shot quantization approaches is to generate synthetic data for quantizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Dung Hoang-Anh , Cuong Pham Trung Le , Jianfei Cai , Thanh-Toan Do

Quantizing the floating-point weights and activations of deep convolutional neural networks to fixed-point representation yields reduced memory footprints and inference time. Recently, efforts have been afoot towards zero-shot quantization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Prasen Kumar Sharma , Arun Abraham , Vikram Nelvoy Rajendiran

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

Zero-shot quantization is a promising approach for developing lightweight deep neural networks when data is inaccessible owing to various reasons, including cost and issues related to privacy. By exploiting the learned parameters ($\mu$ and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Yongkweon Jeon , Chungman Lee , Ho-young Kim

Quantization is a promising approach for reducing memory overhead and accelerating inference, especially in large pre-trained language model (PLM) scenarios. While having no access to original training data due to security and privacy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Miaoxi Zhu , Qihuang Zhong , Li Shen , Liang Ding , Juhua Liu , Bo Du , Dacheng Tao

Model quantization is considered as a promising method to greatly reduce the resource requirements of deep neural networks. To deal with the performance drop induced by quantization errors, a popular method is to use training data to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Kanghyun Choi , Hye Yoon Lee , Deokki Hong , Joonsang Yu , Noseong Park , Youngsok Kim , Jinho Lee

Quantization is a promising approach for reducing the inference time and memory footprint of neural networks. However, most existing quantization methods require access to the original training dataset for retraining during quantization.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-29 Yaohui Cai , Zhewei Yao , Zhen Dong , Amir Gholami , Michael W. Mahoney , Kurt Keutzer

Model quantization is a widely used technique to compress and accelerate deep neural network (DNN) inference. Emergent DNN hardware accelerators begin to support mixed precision (1-8 bits) to further improve the computation efficiency,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Kuan Wang , Zhijian Liu , Yujun Lin , Ji Lin , Song Han

Inference for state-of-the-art deep neural networks is computationally expensive, making them difficult to deploy on constrained hardware environments. An efficient way to reduce this complexity is to quantize the weight parameters and/or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Julian Faraone , Nicholas Fraser , Michaela Blott , Philip H. W. Leong

Transductive zero-shot learning (T-ZSL) which could alleviate the domain shift problem in existing ZSL works, has received much attention recently. However, an open problem in T-ZSL: how to effectively make use of unseen-class samples for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Liu Bo , Qiulei Dong , Zhanyi Hu

Model quantization is a widely used technique to compress and accelerate deep neural network (DNN) inference. Emergent DNN hardware accelerators begin to support mixed precision (1-8 bits) to further improve the computation efficiency,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Kuan Wang , Zhijian Liu , Yujun Lin , Ji Lin , Song Han

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes by generalizing the knowledge, i.e., visual and semantic relationships, obtained from seen classes, where image augmentation techniques are commonly applied to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Zhi Chen , Pengfei Zhang , Jingjing Li , Sen Wang , Zi Huang

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
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