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Quantized neural network (NN) with a reduced bit precision is an effective solution to reduces the computational and memory resource requirements and plays a vital role in machine learning. However, it is still challenging to avoid the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Xiaobin Li , Hongxu Jiang , Shuangxi Huang , Fangzheng Tian

We aim at demonstrating the influence of diversity in the ensemble of CNNs on the detection of black-box adversarial instances and hardening the generation of white-box adversarial attacks. To this end, we propose an ensemble of diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Mahdieh Abbasi , Arezoo Rajabi , Christian Gagne , Rakesh B. Bobba

Stochastic Neural Networks (SNNs) that inject noise into their hidden layers have recently been shown to achieve strong robustness against adversarial attacks. However, existing SNNs are usually heuristically motivated, and often rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Panagiotis Eustratiadis , Henry Gouk , Da Li , Timothy Hospedales

Quantization is a promising technique for reducing the bit-width of deep models to improve their runtime performance and storage efficiency, and thus becomes a fundamental step for deployment. In real-world scenarios, quantized models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Qun Li , Yuan Meng , Chen Tang , Jiacheng Jiang , Zhi Wang

Adversarial examples are perturbed inputs that are designed (from a deep learning network's (DLN) parameter gradients) to mislead the DLN during test time. Intuitively, constraining the dimensionality of inputs or parameters of a network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Priyadarshini Panda , Indranil Chakraborty , Kaushik Roy

In recent years Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been rapidly developed in various applications, together with increasingly complex architectures. The performance gain of these DNNs generally comes with high computational costs and large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Yiren Zhou , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli , Ngai-Man Cheung , Pascal Frossard

This work proposes a unified three-stage framework that produces a quantized DNN with balanced fault and attack robustness. The first stage improves attack resilience via fine-tuning that desensitizes feature representations to small input…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) can be made hardware-efficient by reducing the numerical precision of the weights and activations of the network and by improving the network's resilience to noise. However, this gain in efficiency often comes at…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are well known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs). In previous studies, the use of models encrypted with a secret key was demonstrated to be robust against white-box attacks, but not against black-box…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Ryota Iijima , Sayaka Shiota , Hitoshi Kiya

Recent advancements in machine learning achieved by Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been significant. While demonstrating high accuracy, DNNs are associated with a huge number of parameters and computations, which leads to high memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Babak Rokh , Ali Azarpeyvand , Alireza Khanteymoori

Mixed precision quantization has become an important technique for optimizing the execution of deep neural networks (DNNs). Certified robustness, which provides provable guarantees about a model's ability to withstand different adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yuchen Yang , Yifan Zhao , Shubham Ugare , Gagandeep Singh , Sasa Misailovic

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and their quantized counterparts are vulnerable to extraction attacks, posing a significant threat of IP theft. Yet, the robustness of quantized models against these attacks is little studied compared to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Kacem Khaled , Felipe Gohring de Magalhães , Gabriela Nicolescu

Hardware-friendly network quantization (e.g., binary/uniform quantization) can efficiently accelerate the inference and meanwhile reduce memory consumption of the deep neural networks, which is crucial for model deployment on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Ruihao Gong , Xianglong Liu , Shenghu Jiang , Tianxiang Li , Peng Hu , Jiazhen Lin , Fengwei Yu , Junjie Yan

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

Deep neural network (DNN) quantization for fast, efficient inference has been an important tool in limiting the cost of machine learning (ML) model inference. Quantization-specific model development techniques such as regularization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Stone Yun , Alexander Wong

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated their great potential in recent years, exceeding the per-formance of human experts in a wide range of applications. Due to their large sizes, however, compressiontechniques such as weight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Wentao Chen , Hailong Qiu , Jian Zhuang , Chutong Zhang , Yu Hu , Qing Lu , Tianchen Wang , Yiyu Shi , Meiping Huang , Xiaowe Xu

Despite the efficacy on a variety of computer vision tasks, deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, limiting their applications in security-critical systems. Recent works have shown the possibility of generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Ziang Yan , Yiwen Guo , Changshui Zhang

Quantized neural networks (NN) are the common standard to efficiently deploy deep learning models on tiny hardware platforms. However, we notice that quantized NNs are as vulnerable to adversarial attacks as the full-precision models. With…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Lorena Qendro , Sangwon Ha , René de Jong , Partha Maji

Quantization is emerging as an efficient approach to promote hardware-friendly deep learning and run deep neural networks on resource-limited hardware. However, it still causes a significant decrease to the network in accuracy. We summarize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Haotong Qin

Low-bit quantization of network weights and activations can drastically reduce the memory footprint, complexity, energy consumption and latency of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). However, low-bit quantization can also cause a considerable drop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Ghouthi Boukli Hacene , Lukas Mauch , Stefan Uhlich , Fabien Cardinaux