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Weight quantization is an effective technique to compress deep neural networks for their deployment on edge devices with limited resources. Traditional loss-aware quantization methods commonly use the quantized gradient to replace the…

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While advancements in quantization have significantly reduced the computational costs of inference in deep learning, training still predominantly relies on complex floating-point arithmetic. Low-precision fixed-point training presents a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Hassan Hamad , Yuou Qiu , Peter A. Beerel , Keith M. Chugg

Quantization is a widely used compression method that effectively reduces redundancies in over-parameterized neural networks. However, existing quantization techniques for deep neural networks often lack a comprehensive error analysis due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Jinjie Zhang , Rayan Saab

Post-training quantization (PTQ) has emerged as a practical approach to compress large neural networks, making them highly efficient for deployment. However, effectively reducing these models to their low-bit counterparts without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Aozhong Zhang , Zi Yang , Naigang Wang , Yingyong Qi , Jack Xin , Xin Li , Penghang Yin

This work targets the automated minimum-energy optimization of Quantized Neural Networks (QNNs) - networks using low precision weights and activations. These networks are trained from scratch at an arbitrary fixed point precision. At…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Bert Moons , Koen Goetschalckx , Nick Van Berckelaer , Marian Verhelst

Recent convolutional neural network (CNN) development continues to advance the state-of-the-art model accuracy for various applications. However, the enhanced accuracy comes at the cost of substantial memory bandwidth and storage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Hsu-Hsun Chin , Ren-Song Tsay , Hsin-I Wu

Quantization is wildly taken as a model compression technique, which obtains efficient models by converting floating-point weights and activations in the neural network into lower-bit integers. Quantization has been proven to work well on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Lingran Zhao , Zhen Dong , Kurt Keutzer

INT8 quantization has become one of the standard techniques for deploying convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on edge devices to reduce the memory and computational resource usages. By analyzing quantized performances of existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Taehoon Kim , YoungJoon Yoo , Jihoon Yang

We propose a Quantization Guided Training (QGT) method to guide DNN training towards optimized low-bit-precision targets and reach extreme compression levels below 8-bit precision. Unlike standard quantization-aware training (QAT)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Sedigh Ghamari , Koray Ozcan , Thu Dinh , Andrey Melnikov , Juan Carvajal , Jan Ernst , Sek Chai

Low-bit deep neural networks (DNNs) become critical for embedded applications due to their low storage requirement and computing efficiency. However, they suffer much from the non-negligible accuracy drop. This paper proposes the stochastic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Yinpeng Dong , Renkun Ni , Jianguo Li , Yurong Chen , Jun Zhu , Hang Su

Deep learning methods have established a significant place in image classification. While prior research has focused on enhancing final outcomes, the opaque nature of the decision-making process in these models remains a concern for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Elmira Mousa Rezabeyk , Salar Beigzad , Yasin Hamzavi , Mohsen Bagheritabar , Seyedeh Sogol Mirikhoozani

With the proliferation of deep convolutional neural network (CNN) algorithms for mobile processing, limited precision quantization has become an essential tool for CNN efficiency. Consequently, various works have sought to design fixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Stone Yun , Alexander Wong

We present a post-training quantization algorithm with error estimates relying on ideas originating from frame theory. Specifically, we use first-order Sigma-Delta ($\Sigma\Delta$) quantization for finite unit-norm tight frames to quantize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Wojciech Czaja , Sanghoon Na

Due to their high computational complexity, deep neural networks are still limited to powerful processing units. To promote a reduced model complexity by dint of low-bit fixed-point quantization, we propose a gradient-based optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Lukas Enderich , Fabian Timm , Lars Rosenbaum , Wolfram Burgard

Large neural networks are difficult to deploy on mobile devices because of intensive computation and storage. To alleviate it, we study ternarization, a balance between efficiency and accuracy that quantizes both weights and activations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Weixiang Xu , Xiangyu He , Tianli Zhao , Qinghao Hu , Peisong Wang , Jian Cheng

Graph Hypernetworks (GHN) can predict the parameters of varying unseen CNN architectures with surprisingly good accuracy at a fraction of the cost of iterative optimization. Following these successes, preliminary research has explored the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Stone Yun , Alexander Wong

Although considerable progress has been obtained in neural network quantization for efficient inference, existing methods are not scalable to heterogeneous devices as one dedicated model needs to be trained, transmitted, and stored for one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Hai Wu , Ruifei He , Haoru Tan , Xiaojuan Qi , Kaibin Huang

Mixed-precision quantization has been widely applied on deep neural networks (DNNs) as it leads to significantly better efficiency-accuracy tradeoffs compared to uniform quantization. Meanwhile, determining the exact precision of each layer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Lirui Xiao , Huanrui Yang , Zhen Dong , Kurt Keutzer , Li Du , Shanghang Zhang

As neural networks have become more powerful, there has been a rising desire to deploy them in the real world; however, the power and accuracy of neural networks is largely due to their depth and complexity, making them difficult to deploy,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Olivia Weng

In scientific machine learning, regression networks have been recently applied to approximate solution maps (e.g., potential-ground state map of Schr\"odinger equation). In this paper, we aim to reduce the generalization error without…

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