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For the efficient execution of deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) on edge devices, various approaches have been presented which reduce the bit width of the network parameters down to 1 bit. Binarization of the first layer was always…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Robert Dürichen , Thomas Rocznik , Oliver Renz , Christian Peters

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) significantly reduce computational complexity and memory usage in machine and deep learning by representing weights and activations with just one bit. However, most existing training algorithms for BNNs rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Luca Colombo , Fabrizio Pittorino , Manuel Roveri

Learning vectorized embeddings is at the core of various recommender systems for user-item matching. To perform efficient online inference, representation quantization, aiming to embed the latent features by a compact sequence of discrete…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yankai Chen , Huifeng Guo , Yingxue Zhang , Chen Ma , Ruiming Tang , Jingjie Li , Irwin King

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) use 1-bit weights and activations to efficiently execute deep convolutional neural networks on edge devices. Nevertheless, the binarization of the first layer is conventionally excluded, as it leads to a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Lorenzo Vorabbi , Davide Maltoni , Stefano Santi

Binary neural networks (BNNs) have attracted broad research interest due to their efficient storage and computational ability. Nevertheless, a significant challenge of BNNs lies in handling discrete constraints while ensuring bit entropy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Mingbao Lin , Rongrong Ji , Zihan Xu , Baochang Zhang , Fei Chao , Chia-Wen Lin , Ling Shao

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

Convolutional neural networks have recently achieved significant breakthroughs in various image classification tasks. However, they are computationally expensive,which can make their feasible mplementation on embedded and low-power devices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Mir Khan , Heikki Huttunen , Jani Boutellier

This paper proposes a novel binarized weight network (BT) for a resource-efficient neural structure. The proposed model estimates a binary representation of weights by taking into account the approximation error with an additional term.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Savas Ozkan , Gozde Bozdagi Akar

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

In this work, we study the 1-bit convolutional neural networks (CNNs), of which both the weights and activations are binary. While being efficient, the classification accuracy of the current 1-bit CNNs is much worse compared to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Zechun Liu , Baoyuan Wu , Wenhan Luo , Xin Yang , Wei Liu , Kwang-Ting Cheng

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

Weight and activation binarization is an effective approach to deep neural network compression and can accelerate the inference by leveraging bitwise operations. Although many binarization methods have improved the accuracy of the model by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Haotong Qin , Ruihao Gong , Xianglong Liu , Mingzhu Shen , Ziran Wei , Fengwei Yu , Jingkuan Song

Network binarization emerges as one of the most promising compression approaches offering extraordinary computation and memory savings by minimizing the bit-width. However, recent research has shown that applying existing binarization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Haotong Qin , Mingyuan Zhang , Yifu Ding , Aoyu Li , Zhongang Cai , Ziwei Liu , Fisher Yu , Xianglong Liu

In this paper, we study 1-bit convolutional neural networks (CNNs), of which both the weights and activations are binary. While efficient, the lacking of representational capability and the training difficulty impede 1-bit CNNs from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Zechun Liu , Wenhan Luo , Baoyuan Wu , Xin Yang , Wei Liu , Kwang-Ting Cheng

Binarization is an extreme network compression approach that provides large computational speedups along with energy and memory savings, albeit at significant accuracy costs. We investigate the question of where to binarize inputs at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Ameya Prabhu , Vishal Batchu , Rohit Gajawada , Sri Aurobindo Munagala , Anoop Namboodiri

Quantization and pruning are two effective Deep Neural Networks model compression methods. In this paper, we propose Automatic Prune Binarization (APB), a novel compression technique combining quantization with pruning. APB enhances the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Franco Maria Nardini , Cosimo Rulli , Salvatore Trani , Rossano Venturini

We introduce a novel scheme to train binary convolutional neural networks (CNNs) -- CNNs with weights and activations constrained to {-1,+1} at run-time. It has been known that using binary weights and activations drastically reduce memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Xiaofan Lin , Cong Zhao , Wei Pan

This paper studies the Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) in which weights and activations are both binarized into 1-bit values, thus greatly reducing the memory usage and computational complexity. Since the modern deep neural networks are of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Zhijun Tu , Xinghao Chen , Pengju Ren , Yunhe Wang

Binary neural network (BNN) provides a promising solution to deploy parameter-intensive deep single image super-resolution (SISR) models onto real devices with limited storage and computational resources. To achieve comparable performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Zhiqiang Lang , Chongxing Song , Lei Zhang , Wei Wei

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have recently demonstrated high-quality results in single-image super-resolution (SR). DCNNs often suffer from over-parametrization and large amounts of redundancy, which results in inefficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Yinglan Ma , Hongyu Xiong , Zhe Hu , Lizhuang Ma