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Event-based neuromorphic systems promise to reduce the energy consumption of deep learning tasks by replacing expensive floating point operations on dense matrices by low power sparse and asynchronous operations on spike events. While these…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Johannes Christian Thiele , Olivier Bichler , Antoine Dupret

Spiking neural networks combine analog computation with event-based communication using discrete spikes. While the impressive advances of deep learning are enabled by training non-spiking artificial neural networks using the backpropagation…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-22 Timo C. Wunderlich , Christian Pehle

This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of lightweight deep learning models for image classification, emphasizing their suitability for deployment in resource-constrained environments such as low-memory devices. Five state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Tasnim Shahriar

The high energy cost of processing deep convolutional neural networks impedes their ubiquitous deployment in energy-constrained platforms such as embedded systems and IoT devices. This work introduces convolutional layers with pre-defined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Souvik Kundu , Mahdi Nazemi , Massoud Pedram , Keith M. Chugg , Peter A. Beerel

Fine-tuning the deep convolution neural network(CNN) using a pre-trained model helps transfer knowledge learned from larger datasets to the target task. While the accuracy could be largely improved even when the training dataset is small,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Xingjian Li , Haoyi Xiong , Haozhe An , Chengzhong Xu , Dejing Dou

A low precision deep neural network training technique for producing sparse, ternary neural networks is presented. The technique incorporates hard- ware implementation costs during training to achieve significant model compression for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Julian Faraone , Nicholas Fraser , Giulio Gambardella , Michaela Blott , Philip H. W. Leong

We propose a simple yet effective technique for neural network learning. The forward propagation is computed as usual. In back propagation, only a small subset of the full gradient is computed to update the model parameters. The gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Xu Sun , Xuancheng Ren , Shuming Ma , Houfeng Wang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown to provide superb performance in many real life applications, but their large computation cost and storage requirement have prevented them from being deployed to many edge and internet-of-things (IoT)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Minghai Qin , Tianyun Zhang , Fei Sun , Yen-Kuang Chen , Makan Fardad , Yanzhi Wang , Yuan Xie

Neuromorphic computing aims to replicate the brain's capabilities for energy efficient and parallel information processing, promising a solution to the increasing demand for faster and more efficient computational systems. Efficient…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Gabriel Béna , Timo Wunderlich , Mahmoud Akl , Bernhard Vogginger , Christian Mayr , Hector Andres Gonzalez

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are biologically-inspired models that are capable of processing information in streams of action potentials. However, simulating and training SNNs is computationally expensive due to the need to solve large…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-29 Rainer Engelken

Despite its importance for federated learning, continuous learning and many other applications, on-device training remains an open problem for EdgeAI. The problem stems from the large number of operations (e.g., floating point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Yuedong Yang , Guihong Li , Radu Marculescu

Deep neural networks have become ubiquitous for applications related to visual recognition and language understanding tasks. However, it is often prohibitive to use typical neural networks on devices like mobile phones or smart watches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Sujith Ravi

Implicit neural video representations encode entire video sequences within the parameters of a neural network and enable constant time frame reconstruction. Recent work on Neural Representations for Videos (NeRV) has demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Muhammad Hannan Akhtar , Ihab Amer , Tamer Shanableh

This paper introduces Selective-Backprop, a technique that accelerates the training of deep neural networks (DNNs) by prioritizing examples with high loss at each iteration. Selective-Backprop uses the output of a training example's forward…

Machine learning on tiny IoT devices based on microcontroller units (MCU) is appealing but challenging: the memory of microcontrollers is 2-3 orders of magnitude smaller even than mobile phones. We propose MCUNet, a framework that jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Ji Lin , Wei-Ming Chen , Yujun Lin , John Cohn , Chuang Gan , Song Han

The operations used for neural network computation map favorably onto simple analog circuits, which outshine their digital counterparts in terms of compactness and efficiency. Nevertheless, such implementations have been largely supplanted…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Jonathan Binas , Daniel Neil , Giacomo Indiveri , Shih-Chii Liu , Michael Pfeiffer

To address the challenge of increasing network size, researchers have developed sparse models through network pruning. However, maintaining model accuracy while achieving significant speedups on general computing devices remains an open…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Haitao Xu , Songwei Liu , Yuyang Xu , Shuai Wang , Jiashi Li , Chenqian Yan , Liangqiang Li , Lean Fu , Xin Pan , Fangmin Chen

On-device tuning of deep neural networks enables long-term adaptation at the edge while preserving data privacy. However, the high computational and memory demands of backpropagation pose significant challenges for ultra-low-power,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Run Wang , Victor J. B. Jung , Philip Wiese , Francesco Conti , Alessio Burrello , Luca Benini

Limited computational budgets often prevent transformers from being used in production and from having their high accuracy utilized. TinyBERT addresses the computational efficiency by self-distilling BERT into a smaller transformer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Shira Guskin , Moshe Wasserblat , Ke Ding , Gyuwan Kim

As deep neural networks evolve from convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) to advanced vision transformers (ViTs), there is an increased need to eliminate redundant data for faster processing without compromising accuracy. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Tanvir Mahmud , Burhaneddin Yaman , Chun-Hao Liu , Diana Marculescu