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Model size and inference speed/power have become a major challenge in the deployment of Neural Networks for many applications. A promising approach to address these problems is quantization. However, uniformly quantizing a model to ultra…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-29 Zhen Dong , Zhewei Yao , Amir Gholami , Michael Mahoney , Kurt Keutzer

Mixed-signal artificial neural networks (ANNs) that employ analog matrix-multiplication accelerators can achieve higher speed and improved power efficiency. Though analog computing is known to be susceptible to noise and device…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-01 Joseph Ulseth , Zheyuan Zhu , Guifang Li , Shuo Pang

As deep neural networks (DNNs) get adopted in an ever-increasing number of applications, explainability has emerged as a crucial desideratum for these models. In many real-world tasks, one of the principal reasons for requiring…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Vedant Nanda , Till Speicher , John P. Dickerson , Krishna P. Gummadi , Muhammad Bilal Zafar

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks, wherein, a model gets fooled by applying slight perturbations on the input. With the advent of Internet-of-Things and the necessity to enable intelligence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Priyadarshini Panda

We propose in this work the gradient-enhanced deep neural networks (DNNs) approach for function approximations and uncertainty quantification. More precisely, the proposed approach adopts both the function evaluations and the associated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Xiaodong Feng , Li Zeng

Complete verification of deep neural networks (DNNs) can exactly determine whether the DNN satisfies a desired trustworthy property (e.g., robustness, fairness) on an infinite set of inputs or not. Despite the tremendous progress to improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Shubham Ugare , Debangshu Banerjee , Sasa Misailovic , Gagandeep Singh

Network quantization is one of the most hardware friendly techniques to enable the deployment of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on low-power mobile devices. Recent network quantization techniques quantize each weight kernel in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Qian Lou , Feng Guo , Lantao Liu , Minje Kim , Lei Jiang

Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) have achieved initial success in various tasks by integrating quantum computing and neural networks. However, growing concerns about their reliability and robustness highlight the need for systematic testing.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Minqi Shao , Jianjun Zhao

Recent studies have identified a critical challenge in deep neural networks (DNNs) known as ``robust fairness", where models exhibit significant disparities in robust accuracy across different classes. While prior work has attempted to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Gaojie Jin , Tianjin Huang , Ronghui Mu , Xiaowei Huang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) stand out as one of the most prominent approaches within the Machine Learning (ML) domain. The efficacy of DNNs has surged alongside recent increases in computational capacity, allowing these approaches to scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jamie Duell , Monika Seisenberger , Hsuan Fu , Xiuyi Fan

This work targets the commonly used FPGA (field-programmable gate array) devices as the hardware platform for DNN edge computing. We focus on DNN quantization as the main model compression technique. The novelty of this work is: We use a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Sung-En Chang , Yanyu Li , Mengshu Sun , Yanzhi Wang , Xue Lin

Deep neural network (DNN) quantization for fast, efficient inference has been an important tool in limiting the cost of machine learning (ML) model inference. Quantization-specific model development techniques such as regularization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Stone Yun , Alexander Wong

The resource requirements of deep neural networks (DNNs) pose significant challenges to their deployment on edge devices. Common approaches to address this issue are pruning and mixed-precision quantization, which lead to latency and memory…

To bridge the ever increasing gap between deep neural networks' complexity and hardware capability, network quantization has attracted more and more research attention. The latest trend of mixed precision quantization takes advantage of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yuexiao Ma , Taisong Jin , Xiawu Zheng , Yan Wang , Huixia Li , Yongjian Wu , Guannan Jiang , Wei Zhang , Rongrong Ji

Quantization replaces floating point arithmetic with integer arithmetic in deep neural network models, providing more efficient on-device inference with less power and memory. In this work, we propose a framework for formally verifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Pei Huang , Haoze Wu , Yuting Yang , Ieva Daukantas , Min Wu , Yedi Zhang , Clark Barrett

Randomized smoothing has become essential for achieving certified adversarial robustness in machine learning models. However, current methods primarily use isotropic noise distributions that are uniform across all data dimensions, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Hanbin Hong , Ashish Kundu , Ali Payani , Binghui Wang , Yuan Hong

Verification plays an essential role in the formal analysis of safety-critical systems. Most current verification methods have specific requirements when working on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). They either target one particular network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Chi Zhang , Wenjie Ruan , Fu Wang , Peipei Xu , Geyong Min , Xiaowei Huang

Low-bit quantization of network weights and activations can drastically reduce the memory footprint, complexity, energy consumption and latency of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). However, low-bit quantization can also cause a considerable drop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Ghouthi Boukli Hacene , Lukas Mauch , Stefan Uhlich , Fabien Cardinaux

In recent years Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been rapidly developed in various applications, together with increasingly complex architectures. The performance gain of these DNNs generally comes with high computational costs and large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Yiren Zhou , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli , Ngai-Man Cheung , Pascal Frossard

The superior performance of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has led to their application in various aspects of human life. Safety-critical applications are no exception and impose rigorous reliability requirements on DNNs. Quantized Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Mohammad Hasan Ahmadilivani , Mahdi Taheri , Jaan Raik , Masoud Daneshtalab , Maksim Jenihhin