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Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) can significantly accelerate the inference time of a neural network by replacing its expensive floating-point arithmetic with bitwise operations. Most existing solutions, however, do not fully optimize data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 L. Vorabbi , D. Maltoni , S. Santi

While binary neural networks (BNNs) offer significant benefits in terms of speed, memory and energy, they encounter substantial accuracy degradation in challenging tasks compared to their real-valued counterparts. Due to the binarization of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Xulong Shi , Caiyi Sun , Zhi Qi , Liu Hao , Xiaodong Yang

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…

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Deep learning (DL) has recently changed the development of intelligent systems and is widely adopted in many real-life applications. Despite their various benefits and potentials, there is a high demand for DL processing in different…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Chunyu Yuan , Sos S. Agaian

We introduce a method to train Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) - neural networks with binary weights and activations at run-time. At training-time the binary weights and activations are used for computing the parameters gradients. During…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Matthieu Courbariaux , Itay Hubara , Daniel Soudry , Ran El-Yaniv , Yoshua Bengio

Binarized Neural Network (BNN) removes bitwidth redundancy in classical CNN by using a single bit (-1/+1) for network parameters and intermediate representations, which has greatly reduced the off-chip data transfer and storage overhead.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Cheng Fu , Shilin Zhu , Hao Su , Ching-En Lee , Jishen Zhao

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) significantly reduce computational complexity and memory usage in machine and deep learning by representing weights and activations with just one bit. However, most existing training algorithms for BNNs rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Luca Colombo , Fabrizio Pittorino , Manuel Roveri

Deep neural networks are highly effective at a range of computational tasks. However, they tend to be computationally expensive, especially in vision-related problems, and also have large memory requirements. One of the most effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Ameya Prabhu , Vishal Batchu , Sri Aurobindo Munagala , Rohit Gajawada , Anoop Namboodiri

In low-latency or mobile applications, lower computation complexity, lower memory footprint and better energy efficiency are desired. Many prior works address this need by removing redundant parameters. Parameter quantization replaces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Cheng-Chou Lan

VPR is a fundamental task for autonomous navigation as it enables a robot to localize itself in the workspace when a known location is detected. Although accuracy is an essential requirement for a VPR technique, computational and energy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Bruno Ferrarini , Michael Milford , Klaus D. McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs), neural networks with weights and activations constrained to -1(0) and +1, are an alternative to deep neural networks which offer faster training, lower memory consumption and lightweight models, ideal for use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Kinshuk Dua

Based on the assumption that there exists a neural network that efficiently represents a set of Boolean functions between all binary inputs and outputs, we propose a process for developing and deploying neural networks whose weight…

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Binary neural networks have attracted tremendous attention due to the efficiency for deploying them on mobile devices. Since the weak expression ability of binary weights and features, their accuracy is usually much lower than that of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Mingzhu Shen , Kai Han , Chunjing Xu , Yunhe Wang

Binary neural network (BNN) provides a promising solution to deploy parameter-intensive deep single image super-resolution (SISR) models onto real devices with limited storage and computational resources. To achieve comparable performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Zhiqiang Lang , Chongxing Song , Lei Zhang , Wei Wei

Verifying and explaining the behavior of neural networks is becoming increasingly important, especially when they are deployed in safety-critical applications. In this paper, we study verification problems for Binarized Neural Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Yedi Zhang , Zhe Zhao , Guangke Chen , Fu Song , Taolue Chen

Deep neural networks for image super-resolution (SR) have demonstrated superior performance. However, the large memory and computation consumption hinders their deployment on resource-constrained devices. Binary neural networks (BNNs),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Renjie Wei , Zechun Liu , Yuchen Fan , Runsheng Wang , Ru Huang , Meng Li

In the low-bit quantization field, training Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) is the extreme solution to ease the deployment of deep models on resource-constrained devices, having the lowest storage cost and significantly cheaper bit-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Yikai Wang , Yi Yang , Fuchun Sun , Anbang Yao

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown appealing performance on various computer vision tasks in recent years. This motivates people to deploy CNNs to realworld applications. However, most of state-of-art CNNs require large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Qinghao Hu , Peisong Wang , Jian Cheng

Network binarization is a promising hardware-aware direction for creating efficient deep models. Despite its memory and computational advantages, reducing the accuracy gap between binary models and their real-valued counterparts remains an…

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