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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

Neural networks have emerged as essential components in safety-critical applications -- these use cases demand complex, yet trustworthy computations. Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) are a type of neural network where each neuron is…

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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) operate with asynchronous discrete events (or spikes) which can potentially lead to higher energy-efficiency in neuromorphic hardware implementations. Many works have shown that an SNN for inference can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Nitin Rathi , Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan , Priyadarshini Panda , Kaushik Roy

In recent years, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) appear to be state-of-the-art algorithms for analyzing non-euclidean graph data. By applying deep-learning to extract high-level representations from graph structures, GNNs achieve extraordinary…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Zhe Zhou , Bizhao Shi , Zhe Zhang , Yijin Guan , Guangyu Sun , Guojie Luo

Training recurrent neural networks (RNNs) with standard backpropagation through time (BPTT) can be challenging, especially in the presence of long input sequences. A practical alternative to reduce computational and memory overhead is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Julian D. Schiller , Malte Heinrich , Victor G. Lopez , Matthias A. Müller

Deep learning has revolutionized modern society but faces growing energy and latency constraints. Deep physical neural networks (PNNs) are interconnected computing systems that directly exploit analog dynamics for energy-efficient,…

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Compared to classical deep neural networks its binarized versions can be useful for applications on resource-limited devices due to their reduction in memory consumption and computational demands. In this work we study deep neural networks…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Jannis Kurtz , Bubacarr Bah

The emergence of brain-inspired neuromorphic computing as a paradigm for edge AI is motivating the search for high-performance and efficient spiking neural networks to run on this hardware. However, compared to classical neural networks in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Bojian Yin , Federico Corradi , Sander M. Bohté

Porting state of the art deep learning algorithms to resource constrained compute platforms (e.g. VR, AR, wearables) is extremely challenging. We propose a fast, compact, and accurate model for convolutional neural networks that enables…

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Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) can drastically reduce memory size and accesses by applying bit-wise operations instead of standard arithmetic operations. Therefore it could significantly improve the efficiency and lower the energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Haojin Yang , Martin Fritzsche , Christian Bartz , Christoph Meinel

Developing lightweight Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs) has become one of the focuses in vision research since the low computational cost is essential for deploying vision models on edge devices.…

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Binary neural networks (BNNs) have received ever-increasing popularity for their great capability of reducing storage burden as well as quickening inference time. However, there is a severe performance drop compared with real-valued…

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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been increasingly deployed to edge devices. Hence, many efforts have been made towards efficient CNN inference in resource-constrained platforms. This paper attempts to explore an orthogonal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Yue Wang , Ziyu Jiang , Xiaohan Chen , Pengfei Xu , Yang Zhao , Yingyan Lin , Zhangyang Wang

Although deep learning has made great progress in recent years, the exploding economic and environmental costs of training neural networks are becoming unsustainable. To address this problem, there has been a great deal of research on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Brian R. Bartoldson , Bhavya Kailkhura , Davis Blalock

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) have emerged as a promising solution for reducing the memory footprint and compute costs of deep neural networks, but they suffer from quality degradation due to the lack of freedom as activations and weights…

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VPR is a fundamental task for autonomous navigation as it enables a robot to localize itself in the workspace when a known location is detected. Although accuracy is an essential requirement for a VPR technique, computational and energy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Bruno Ferrarini , Michael Milford , Klaus D. McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

Batch normalization (BN) is a key facilitator and considered essential for state-of-the-art binary neural networks (BNN). However, the BN layer is costly to calculate and is typically implemented with non-binary parameters, leaving a hurdle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Tianlong Chen , Zhenyu Zhang , Xu Ouyang , Zechun Liu , Zhiqiang Shen , Zhangyang Wang

Existing Continual Learning (CL) solutions only partially address the constraints on power, memory and computation of the deep learning models when deployed on low-power embedded CPUs. In this paper, we propose a CL solution that embraces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Lorenzo Vorabbi , Davide Maltoni , Stefano Santi

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs), which constrain both weights and activations to binary values, offer substantial reductions in computational complexity, memory footprint, and energy consumption. These advantages make them particularly well…

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