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Deep neural network (DNN) quantization converting floating-point (FP) data in the network to integers (INT) is an effective way to shrink the model size for memory saving and simplify the operations for compute acceleration. Recently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Yukuan Yang , Shuang Wu , Lei Deng , Tianyi Yan , Yuan Xie , Guoqi Li

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are becoming increasingly deeper, wider, and non-linear due to the growing demands on prediction accuracy and analysis quality. When training a DNN model, the intermediate activation data must be saved in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Sian Jin , Guanpeng Li , Shuaiwen Leon Song , Dingwen Tao

The recent trend in deep neural networks (DNNs) research is to make the networks more compact. The motivation behind designing compact DNNs is to improve energy efficiency since by virtue of having lower memory footprint, compact DNNs have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Nandan Kumar Jha , Sparsh Mittal , Govardhan Mattela

The remarkable success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in various applications is accompanied by a significant increase in network parameters and arithmetic operations. Such increases in memory and computational demands make deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Daniel Becking , Maximilian Dreyer , Wojciech Samek , Karsten Müller , Sebastian Lapuschkin

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image generation but come with significant computational costs, posing challenges for deployment in resource-constrained environments. Recent post-training quantization (PTQ) methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Dongyeun Lee , Jiwan Hur , Hyounguk Shon , Jae Young Lee , Junmo Kim

Extreme edge platforms, such as in-vehicle smart devices, require efficient deployment of quantized deep neural networks (DNNs) to enable intelligent applications with limited amounts of energy, memory, and computing resources. However,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Longwei Huang , Chao Fang , Qiong Li , Jun Lin , Zhongfeng Wang

The deployment of deep neural networks on edge devices is a challenging task due to the increasing complexity of state-of-the-art models, requiring efforts to reduce model size and inference latency. Recent studies explore models operating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Jinhee Kim , Seoyeon Yoon , Taeho Lee , Joo Chan Lee , Kang Eun Jeon , Jong Hwan Ko

Recently, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely applied in mobile intelligent applications. The inference for the DNNs is usually performed in the cloud. However, it leads to a large overhead of transmitting data via wireless…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Guangli Li , Lei Liu , Xueying Wang , Xiao Dong , Peng Zhao , Xiaobing Feng

The training process of Deep Neural Network (DNN) is compute-intensive, often taking days to weeks to train a DNN model. Therefore, parallel execution of DNN training on GPUs is a widely adopted approach to speed up the process nowadays.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Chi-Chung Chen , Chia-Lin Yang , Hsiang-Yun Cheng

Quantization is a technique used in deep neural networks (DNNs) to increase execution performance and hardware efficiency. Uniform post-training quantization (PTQ) methods are common, since they can be implemented efficiently in hardware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Gil Shomron , Freddy Gabbay , Samer Kurzum , Uri Weiser

Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) capture the dynamic evolution of latent variables over time, blending patterns and multimodality in a generative system. Despite the proficiency of LDM in various applications, such as text-to-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Yuewei Yang , Xiaoliang Dai , Jialiang Wang , Peizhao Zhang , Hongbo Zhang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) continue to make significant advances, solving tasks from image classification to translation or reinforcement learning. One aspect of the field receiving considerable attention is efficiently executing deep…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Antonio Polino , Razvan Pascanu , Dan Alistarh

Model compression has gained a lot of attention due to its ability to reduce hardware resource requirements significantly while maintaining accuracy of DNNs. Model compression is especially useful for memory-intensive recurrent neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Dongsoo Lee , Byeongwook Kim

Building on our recent research on neural heuristic quantization systems, results on learning quantized motions and resilience to channel dropouts are reported. We propose a general emulation problem consistent with the neuromimetic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-08 Zexin Sun , John Baillieul

The burgeoning complexity and scale of 3D geometry models pose significant challenges for deployment on resource-constrained platforms. While Post-Training Quantization (PTQ) enables efficient inference without retraining, conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Sicheng Pan , Chen Tang , Shuzhao Xie , Ke Yang , Weixiang Zhang , Jiawei Li , Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia , Zhi Wang

Conventional multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations have long dominated computation time for deep neural networks (DNNs), espcially convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Recently, product quantization (PQ) has been applied to these workloads,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Ahmed F. AbouElhamayed , Angela Cui , Javier Fernandez-Marques , Nicholas D. Lane , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah

The deployment of deep neural networks on resource-constrained devices relies on quantization. While static, uniform quantization applies a fixed bit-width to all inputs, it fails to adapt to their varying complexity. Dynamic,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Hazem Hesham Yousef Shalby , Fabrizio Pittorino , Francesca Palermo , Diana Trojaniello , Manuel Roveri

The deep layers of modern neural networks extract a rather rich set of features as an input propagates through the network. This paper sets out to harvest these rich intermediate representations for quantization with minimal accuracy loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Ahmed T. Elthakeb , Prannoy Pilligundla , Alex Cloninger , Hadi Esmaeilzadeh

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

We consider learning deep neural networks (DNNs) that consist of low-precision weights and activations for efficient inference of fixed-point operations. In training low-precision networks, gradient descent in the backward pass is performed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Yoojin Choi , Mostafa El-Khamy , Jungwon Lee