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With the development of mobile and edge computing, the demand for low-bit quantized models on edge devices is increasing to achieve efficient deployment. To enhance the performance, it is often necessary to retrain the quantized models…

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While adversarial training methods have significantly improved the robustness of deep neural networks against norm-bounded adversarial perturbations, the generalization gap between their performance on training and test data is considerably…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved great success in a wide range of computer vision areas, but the applications to mobile devices is limited due to their high storage and computational cost. Much efforts have been devoted to compress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Yiming Hu , Jianquan Li , Xianlei Long , Shenhua Hu , Jiagang Zhu , Xingang Wang , Qingyi Gu

Adversarial training often suffers from a robustness-accuracy trade-off, where achieving high robustness comes at the cost of accuracy. One approach to mitigate this trade-off is leveraging invariance regularization, which encourages model…

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Training Deep Neural Networks is complicated by the fact that the distribution of each layer's inputs changes during training, as the parameters of the previous layers change. This slows down the training by requiring lower learning rates…

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Catastrophic forgetting(CF) is a significant challenge in continual learning (CL). In regularization-based approaches to mitigate CF, modifications to important training parameters are penalized in subsequent tasks using an appropriate loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Sahil Nokhwal , Nirman Kumar

For on-device automatic speech recognition (ASR), quantization aware training (QAT) is ubiquitous to achieve the trade-off between model predictive performance and efficiency. Among existing QAT methods, one major drawback is that the…

Modern RAN operate in highly dynamic and heterogeneous environments, where hand-tuned, rule-based RRM algorithms often underperform. While RL can surpass such heuristics in constrained settings, the diversity of deployments and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Burak Demirel , Yu Wang , Cristian Tatino , Pablo Soldati

When training neural networks with simulated quantization, we observe that quantized weights can, rather unexpectedly, oscillate between two grid-points. The importance of this effect and its impact on quantization-aware training (QAT) are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Markus Nagel , Marios Fournarakis , Yelysei Bondarenko , Tijmen Blankevoort

Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) is a critical technique for deploying deep neural networks on resource-constrained devices. However, existing methods often face two major challenges: the highly non-uniform distribution of activations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Shaohang Jia , Zhiyong Huang , Zhi Yu , Mingyang Hou , Shuai Miao , Han Yang

We propose a physics-aware Consistency Training (CT) method that accelerates sampling in Diffusion Models with physical constraints. Our approach leverages a two-stage strategy: (1) learning the noise-to-data mapping via CT, and (2)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Che-Chia Chang , Chen-Yang Dai , Te-Sheng Lin , Ming-Chih Lai , Chieh-Hsin Lai

Regularization is a fundamental technique to prevent over-fitting and to improve generalization performances by constraining a model's complexity. Current Deep Networks heavily rely on regularizers such as Data-Augmentation (DA) or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Randall Balestriero , Leon Bottou , Yann LeCun

Neural image compression has been shown to outperform traditional image codecs in terms of rate-distortion performance. However, quantization introduces errors in the compression process, which can degrade the quality of the compressed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Wei Luo , Bo Chen

Quantization-aware training (QAT) combined with knowledge distillation (KD) is a promising strategy for compressing Artificial Intelligence (AI) models for deployment on resource-constrained hardware. However, existing QAT-KD methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Abdur Rehman , S M A Sharif , Md Abdur Rahaman , Mohamed Jismy Aashik Rasool , Seongwan Kim , Jaeho Lee

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have become the dominant neural network architecture for solving visual processing tasks. One of the major obstacles hindering the ubiquitous use of CNNs for inference is their relatively high memory…

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Recent work has increased the performance of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) by enforcing a consistency cost on the discriminator. We improve on this technique in several ways. We first show that consistency regularization can…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-16 Zhengli Zhao , Sameer Singh , Honglak Lee , Zizhao Zhang , Augustus Odena , Han Zhang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated strong performance on a wide variety of tasks due to their ability to model non-uniform structured data. Despite their promise, there exists little research exploring methods to make them more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Shyam A. Tailor , Javier Fernandez-Marques , Nicholas D. Lane

Quantization Aware Training (QAT) is a neural network quantization technique that compresses model size and improves operational efficiency while effectively maintaining model performance. The paradigm of QAT is to introduce fake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Wenqiang Zhou , Zhendong Yu , Xinyu Liu , Jiaming Yang , Rong Xiao , Tao Wang , Chenwei Tang , Jiancheng Lv

Deep neural networks are susceptible to adversarial examples, posing a significant security risk in critical applications. Adversarial Training (AT) is a well-established technique to enhance adversarial robustness, but it often comes at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Kaijie Zhu , Jindong Wang , Xixu Hu , Xing Xie , Ge Yang

Standard convolutional neural networks(CNNs) require consistent image resolutions in both training and testing phase. However, in practice, testing with smaller image sizes is necessary for fast inference. We show that trivially evaluating…

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