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Deep Neural Networks (DNN) represent a performance-hungry application. Floating-Point (FP) and custom floating-point-like arithmetic satisfies this hunger. While there is need for speed, inference in DNNs does not seem to have any need for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Christoph Lauter , Anastasia Volkova

Importance sampling is widely used to improve the efficiency of deep neural network (DNN) training by reducing the variance of gradient estimators. However, efficiently assessing the variance reduction relative to uniform sampling remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Takuro Kutsuna

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are currently widely used for many artificial intelligence (AI) applications including computer vision, speech recognition, and robotics. While DNNs deliver state-of-the-art accuracy on many AI tasks, it comes at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Vivienne Sze , Yu-Hsin Chen , Tien-Ju Yang , Joel Emer

State-of-the-art neural language models represented by Transformers are becoming increasingly complex and expensive for practical applications. Low-bit deep neural network quantization techniques provides a powerful solution to dramatically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Junhao Xu , Shoukang Hu , Jianwei Yu , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

Motivated by the gap between theoretical optimal approximation rates of deep neural networks (DNNs) and the accuracy realized in practice, we seek to improve the training of DNNs. The adoption of an adaptive basis viewpoint of DNNs leads to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Eric C. Cyr , Mamikon A. Gulian , Ravi G. Patel , Mauro Perego , Nathaniel A. Trask

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) enable efficient deep learning by saving on storage and computational costs. However, as the size of neural networks continues to grow, meeting computational requirements remains a challenge. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Matt Gorbett , Hossein Shirazi , Indrakshi Ray

This paper tackles the problem of training a deep convolutional neural network with both low-precision weights and low-bitwidth activations. Optimizing a low-precision network is very challenging since the training process can easily get…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-05 Bohan Zhuang , Chunhua Shen , Mingkui Tan , Lingqiao Liu , Ian Reid

Energy and resource efficient training of DNNs will greatly extend the applications of deep learning. However, there are three major obstacles which mandate accurate calculation in high precision. In this paper, we tackle two of them…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Hyunsun Park , Jun Haeng Lee , Youngmin Oh , Sangwon Ha , Seungwon Lee

For Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to become useful in safety-critical applications, such as self-driving cars and disease diagnosis, they must be stable to perturbations in input and model parameters. Characterizing the sensitivity of a DNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Naman Maheshwari , Nicholas Malaya , Scott Moe , Jaydeep P. Kulkarni , Sudhanva Gurumurthi

We introduce a quantization-aware training algorithm that guarantees avoiding numerical overflow when reducing the precision of accumulators during inference. We leverage weight normalization as a means of constraining parameters during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Ian Colbert , Alessandro Pappalardo , Jakoba Petri-Koenig

Training Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) can be computationally demanding, particularly when dealing with large models. Recent work has aimed to mitigate this computational challenge by introducing 8-bit floating-point (FP8) formats for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Sami Ben Ali , Silviu-Ioan Filip , Olivier Sentieys

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) produce state-of-art performance on many machine learning tasks but their demand on resources in terms of memory and computational power are often high. Therefore, there is a great interest in optimizing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Joachim Ott , Zhouhan Lin , Ying Zhang , Shih-Chii Liu , Yoshua Bengio

Deep neural networks are gaining in popularity as they are used to generate state-of-the-art results for a variety of computer vision and machine learning applications. At the same time, these networks have grown in depth and complexity in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Soheil Hashemi , Nicholas Anthony , Hokchhay Tann , R. Iris Bahar , Sherief Reda

Recent advances in image data processing through machine learning and especially deep neural networks (DNNs) allow for new optimization and performance-enhancement schemes for radiation detectors and imaging hardware through data-endowed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-02-23 S. Lin , S. Ning , H. Zhu , T. Zhou , C. L. Morris , S. Clayton , M. Cherukara , R. T. Chen , Z. Wang

Low precision weights, activations, and gradients have been proposed as a way to improve the computational efficiency and memory footprint of deep neural networks. Recently, low precision networks have even shown to be more robust to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Griffin Lacey , Graham W. Taylor , Shawki Areibi

Fixed-point optimization of deep neural networks plays an important role in hardware based design and low-power implementations. Many deep neural networks show fairly good performance even with 2- or 3-bit precision when quantized weights…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Sungho Shin , Yoonho Boo , Wonyong Sung

Quantization of weights and activations in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is a powerful technique for network compression, and has enjoyed significant attention and success. However, much of the inference-time benefit of quantization is…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Andrew Anderson , David Gregg

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely employed in modern computer vision algorithms, where the input image is convolved iteratively by many kernels to extract the knowledge behind it. However, with the depth of convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Chih-Ting Liu , Yi-Heng Wu , Yu-Sheng Lin , Shao-Yi Chien

Deep-neural-network-based image reconstruction has demonstrated promising performance in medical imaging for under-sampled and low-dose scenarios. However, it requires large amount of memory and extensive time for the training. It is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Dufan Wu , Kyungsang Kim , Quanzheng Li

Processing visual data on mobile devices has many applications, e.g., emergency response and tracking. State-of-the-art computer vision techniques rely on large Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) that are usually too power-hungry to be deployed on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ishmeet Kaur , Adwaita Janardhan Jadhav