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Private convolutional neural network (CNN) inference based on secure two-party computation (2PC) suffers from high communication and latency overhead, especially from convolution layers. In this paper, we propose UFO, a quantized 2PC…
Deep neural network (DNN) inference based on secure 2-party computation (2PC) can offer cryptographically-secure privacy protection but suffers from orders of magnitude latency overhead due to enormous communication. Previous works heavily…
Private deep neural network (DNN) inference based on secure two-party computation (2PC) enables secure privacy protection for both the server and the client. However, existing secure 2PC frameworks suffer from a high inference latency due…
This paper presents incremental network quantization (INQ), a novel method, targeting to efficiently convert any pre-trained full-precision convolutional neural network (CNN) model into a low-precision version whose weights are constrained…
The 8 bits quantization has been widely applied to accelerate network inference in various deep learning applications. There are two kinds of quantization methods, training-based quantization and post-training quantization. Training-based…
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have proven to be a powerful state-of-the-art method for image classification tasks. One drawback however is the high computational complexity and high memory consumption of CNNs which makes them…
Convolution is the core operation for many deep neural networks. The Winograd convolution algorithms have been shown to accelerate the widely-used small convolution sizes. Quantized neural networks can effectively reduce model sizes and…
Accelerating deep convolutional neural networks has become an active topic and sparked an interest in academia and industry. In this paper, we propose an efficient low-precision quantized Winograd convolution algorithm, called LANCE, which…
The large computing and memory cost of deep neural networks (DNNs) often precludes their use in resource-constrained devices. Quantizing the parameters and operations to lower bit-precision offers substantial memory and energy savings for…
Convolution is the most time-consuming part in the computation of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which have achieved great successes in numerous applications. Due to the complex data dependency and the increase in the amount of model…
Despite the revolutionary breakthroughs of large-scale text-to-image diffusion models for complex vision and downstream tasks, their extremely high computational and storage costs limit their usability. Quantization of diffusion models has…
Prior research has shown that Winograd algorithm can reduce the computational complexity of convolutional neural networks (CNN) with weights and activations represented in floating point. However it is difficult to apply the scheme to the…
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have dramatically improved the accuracy of tasks such as object recognition, image segmentation and interactive speech systems. CNNs require large amounts of computing resources because ofcomputationally…
Sparse methods and the use of Winograd convolutions are two orthogonal approaches, each of which significantly accelerates convolution computations in modern CNNs. Sparse Winograd merges these two and thus has the potential to offer a…
The problem how to speed up the convolution computations in Deep Neural Networks is widely investigated in recent years. The Winograd convolution algorithm is a common used method that significantly reduces time consumption. However, it…
Fast convolution algorithms, including Winograd and FFT, can efficiently accelerate convolution operations in deep models. However, these algorithms depend on high-precision arithmetic to maintain inference accuracy, which conflicts with…
The Winograd or Cook-Toom class of algorithms help to reduce the overall compute complexity of many modern deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Although there has been a lot of research done on model and algorithmic optimization of…
Deep neural networks (DNNs) can be made hardware-efficient by reducing the numerical precision of the weights and activations of the network and by improving the network's resilience to noise. However, this gain in efficiency often comes at…
This paper presents a novel network compression framework Kernel Quantization (KQ), targeting to efficiently convert any pre-trained full-precision convolutional neural network (CNN) model into a low-precision version without significant…
Current model quantization methods have shown their promising capability in reducing storage space and computation complexity. However, due to the diversity of quantization forms supported by different hardware, one limitation of existing…