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We present APQ for efficient deep learning inference on resource-constrained hardware. Unlike previous methods that separately search the neural architecture, pruning policy, and quantization policy, we optimize them in a joint manner. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Tianzhe Wang , Kuan Wang , Han Cai , Ji Lin , Zhijian Liu , Song Han

Adversarial Training (AT) is one of the most effective methods for developing robust deep neural networks (DNNs). However, AT faces a trade-off problem between clean accuracy and adversarial robustness. In this work, we reveal a surprising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Yanyun Wang , Qingqing Ye , Li Liu , Zi Liang , Haibo Hu

Fully quantized training (FQT) accelerates the training of deep neural networks by quantizing the activations, weights, and gradients into lower precision. To explore the ultimate limit of FQT (the lowest achievable precision), we make a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Chang Gao , Jianfei Chen , Kang Zhao , Jiaqi Wang , Liping Jing

Post-training quantization is a representative technique for compressing neural networks, making them smaller and more efficient for deployment on edge devices. However, an inaccessible user dataset often makes it difficult to ensure the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Donghyun Lee , Minkyoung Cho , Seungwon Lee , Joonho Song , Changkyu Choi

Lately, post-training quantization methods have gained considerable attention, as they are simple to use, and require only a small unlabeled calibration set. This small dataset cannot be used to fine-tune the model without significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Itay Hubara , Yury Nahshan , Yair Hanani , Ron Banner , Daniel Soudry

Deep neural networks are widely used in machine learning applications. However, the deployment of large neural networks models can be difficult to deploy on mobile devices with limited power budgets. To solve this problem, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Chenzhuo Zhu , Song Han , Huizi Mao , William J. Dally

Despite the success of CNN models on a variety of Image classification and segmentation tasks, their extensive computational and storage demands pose considerable challenges for real-world deployment on resource-constrained devices.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Ahmed Luqman , Khuzemah Qazi , Murray Patterson , Malik Jahan Khan , Imdadullah Khan

Data quantization learns encoding results of data with certain requirements, and provides a broad perspective of many real-world applications to data handling. Nevertheless, the results of encoder is usually limited to multivariate inputs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Miao Cheng , Ah Chung Tsoi

Mixed Precision Quantization (MPQ) has become an essential technique for optimizing neural network by determining the optimal bitwidth per layer. Existing MPQ methods, however, face a major hurdle: they require a computationally expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Lianbo Ma , Jianlun Ma , Yuee Zhou , Guoyang Xie , Qiang He , Zhichao Lu

One approach to reducing the massive costs of large language models (LLMs) is the use of quantized or sparse representations for training or deployment. While post-training compression methods are very popular, the question of obtaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Andrei Panferov , Jiale Chen , Soroush Tabesh , Roberto L. Castro , Mahdi Nikdan , Dan Alistarh

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are known as state-of-the-art techniques in Machine Learning (ML) and have achieved outstanding results in data-intensive applications, such as recognition, classification, and segmentation. These networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Pooneh Safayenikoo , Ismail Akturk

To more efficiently address image compressed sensing (CS) problems, we present a novel content-aware scalable network dubbed CASNet which collectively achieves adaptive sampling rate allocation, fine granular scalability and high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Bin Chen , Jian Zhang

Parameterized Quantum Circuits (PQC) are promising towards quantum advantage on near-term quantum hardware. However, due to the large quantum noises (errors), the performance of PQC models has a severe degradation on real quantum devices.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Hanrui Wang , Jiaqi Gu , Yongshan Ding , Zirui Li , Frederic T. Chong , David Z. Pan , Song Han

Quantization has become a popular technique to compress neural networks and reduce compute cost, but most prior work focuses on studying quantization without changing the network size. Many real-world applications of neural networks have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 AmirAli Abdolrashidi , Lisa Wang , Shivani Agrawal , Jonathan Malmaud , Oleg Rybakov , Chas Leichner , Lukasz Lew

Data quantization is an effective method to accelerate neural network training and reduce power consumption. However, it is challenging to perform low-bit quantized training: the conventional equal-precision quantization will lead to either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Ruoyang Liu , Chenhan Wei , Yixiong Yang , Wenxun Wang , Huazhong Yang , Yongpan Liu

Modern neural networks have the capacity to overfit noisy labels frequently found in real-world datasets. Although great progress has been made, existing techniques are limited in providing theoretical guarantees for the performance of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Baharan Mirzasoleiman , Kaidi Cao , Jure Leskovec

Current quantization-aware training (QAT) methods primarily focus on enhancing the performance of quantized models on in-distribution (I.D) data, while overlooking the potential performance degradation on out-of-distribution (OOD) data. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jiacheng Jiang , Yuan Meng , Chen Tang , Han Yu , Qun Li , Zhi Wang , Wenwu Zhu

As machine learning inferences increasingly move to edge devices, adapting to diverse computational capabilities, hardware, and memory constraints becomes more critical. Instead of relying on a pre-trained model fixed for all future…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Xiangchen Li , Saeid Ghafouri , Bo Ji , Hans Vandierendonck , Deepu John , Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos

Recently proposed methods for 1-bit and 1.58-bit quantization aware training investigate the performance and behavior of these methods in the context of large language models, finding state-of-the-art performance for models with more than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jacob Nielsen , Peter Schneider-Kamp

Post-training quantization (PTQ) is a neural network compression technique that converts a full-precision model into a quantized model using lower-precision data types. Although it can help reduce the size and computational cost of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Jiawei Liu , Lin Niu , Zhihang Yuan , Dawei Yang , Xinggang Wang , Wenyu Liu