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Training and running deep neural networks (NNs) often demands a lot of computation and energy-intensive specialized hardware (e.g. GPU, TPU...). One way to reduce the computation and power cost is to use binary weight NNs, but these are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Theodore Aouad , Hugues Talbot

Binary neural networks (BNNs) constrain weights and activations to +1 or -1 with limited storage and computational cost, which is hardware-friendly for portable devices. Recently, BNNs have achieved remarkable progress and been adopted into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Jiehua Zhang , Zhuo Su , Yanghe Feng , Xin Lu , Matti Pietikäinen , Li Liu

Successful motor-imagery brain-computer interface (MI-BCI) algorithms either extract a large number of handcrafted features and train a classifier, or combine feature extraction and classification within deep convolutional neural networks…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-15 Michael Hersche , Luca Benini , Abbas Rahimi

This paper formalizes the binarization operations over neural networks from a learning perspective. In contrast to classical hand crafted rules (\eg hard thresholding) to binarize full-precision neurons, we propose to learn a mapping from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Kai Han , Yunhe Wang , Yixing Xu , Chunjing Xu , Enhua Wu , Chang Xu

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) show promising progress in reducing computational and memory costs but suffer from substantial accuracy degradation compared to their real-valued counterparts on large-scale datasets, e.g., ImageNet. Previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Joseph Bethge , Haojin Yang , Marvin Bornstein , Christoph Meinel

We introduce a method to train Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) - neural networks with binary weights and activations at run-time and when computing the parameters' gradient at train-time. We conduct two sets of experiments, each based on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-11 Itay Hubara , Daniel Soudry , Ran El Yaniv

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

Binarization of neural networks is a dominant paradigm in neural networks compression. The pioneering work BinaryConnect uses Straight Through Estimator (STE) to mimic the gradients of the sign function, but it also causes the crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Xiao-Ming Wu , Dian Zheng , Zuhao Liu , Wei-Shi Zheng

Binary neural networks have attracted numerous attention in recent years. However, mainly due to the information loss stemming from the biased binarization, how to preserve the accuracy of networks still remains a critical issue. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Mingzhu Shen , Xianglong Liu , Ruihao Gong , Kai Han

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) rely on a real-valued auxiliary variable W to help binary training. However, pioneering binary works only use W to accumulate gradient updates during backward propagation, which can not fully exploit its power…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Weixiang Xu , Qiang Chen , Xiangyu He , Peisong Wang , Jian Cheng

Existing continual learning methods use Batch Normalization (BN) to facilitate training and improve generalization across tasks. However, the non-i.i.d and non-stationary nature of continual learning data, especially in the online setting,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Quang Pham , Chenghao Liu , Steven Hoi

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

While neural network binary classifiers are often evaluated on metrics such as Accuracy and $F_1$-Score, they are commonly trained with a cross-entropy objective. How can this training-evaluation gap be addressed? While specific techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Nathan Tsoi , Kate Candon , Deyuan Li , Yofti Milkessa , Marynel Vázquez

Binarized Neural Networks (BNN) offer efficient implementations for machine learning tasks and facilitate Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning (PPML) by simplifying operations with binary values. Nevertheless, challenges persist in terms of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Benchang Dong , Zhili Chen , Xin Chen , Shiwen Wei , Jie Fu , Huifa Li

Previous studies dominantly target at self-supervised learning on real-valued networks and have achieved many promising results. However, on the more challenging binary neural networks (BNNs), this task has not yet been fully explored in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Zhiqiang Shen , Zechun Liu , Jie Qin , Lei Huang , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Marios Savvides

Understanding and controlling the informational complexity of neural networks is a central challenge in machine learning, with implications for generalization, optimization, and model capacity. While most approaches rely on entropy-based…

Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are now widely used in various computer vision applications, its huge resource demanding on parameter storage and computation makes the deployment on mobile and embedded devices difficult.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Zhe Xu , Ray C. C. Cheung

We propose methods to train convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with both binarized weights and activations, leading to quantized models that are specifically friendly to mobile devices with limited power capacity and computation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Bohan Zhuang , Chunhua Shen , Mingkui Tan , Peng Chen , Lingqiao Liu , Ian Reid

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs), which constrain both weights and activations to binary values, offer substantial reductions in computational complexity, memory footprint, and energy consumption. These advantages make them particularly well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Luca Colombo , Fabrizio Pittorino , Daniele Zambon , Carlo Baldassi , Manuel Roveri , Cesare Alippi

The performance of a neural network for a given task is largely determined by the initial calibration of the network parameters. Yet, it has been shown that the calibration, also referred to as training, is generally NP-complete. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-21 Yidong Liao , Daniel Ebler , Feiyang Liu , Oscar Dahlsten