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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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become ubiquitous thanks to their remarkable ability to model complex patterns across various domains such as computer vision, speech recognition, robotics, etc. While large DNN models are often more…

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At the core of any inference procedure in deep neural networks are dot product operations, which are the component that require the highest computational resources. A common approach to reduce the cost of inference is to reduce its memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Simon Wiedemann , Klaus-Robert Müller , Wojciech Samek

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to automate architecture design processes and improve the performance of deep neural networks. Platform-aware NAS methods consider both performance and complexity and can find well-performing…

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Semantic segmentation has been a major topic in research and industry in recent years. However, due to the computation complexity of pixel-wise prediction and backpropagation algorithm, semantic segmentation has been demanding in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Jiayi Yang , Lei Deng , Yukuan Yang , Yuan Xie , Guoqi Li

Optimizing resource utilization in target platforms is key to achieving high performance during DNN inference. While optimizations have been proposed for inference latency, memory footprint, and energy consumption, prior hardware-aware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Ahmet Caner Yüzügüler , Nikolaos Dimitriadis , Pascal Frossard

While binary neural networks (BNNs) offer significant benefits in terms of speed, memory and energy, they encounter substantial accuracy degradation in challenging tasks compared to their real-valued counterparts. Due to the binarization of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Xulong Shi , Caiyi Sun , Zhi Qi , Liu Hao , Xiaodong Yang

Researches on deep neural networks with discrete parameters and their deployment in embedded systems have been active and promising topics. Although previous works have successfully reduced precision in inference, transferring both training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Shuang Wu , Guoqi Li , Feng Chen , Luping Shi

Deep neural networks (DNN) are powerful models for many pattern recognition tasks, yet their high computational complexity and memory requirement limit them to applications on high-performance computing platforms. In this paper, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Lukas Mauch , Bin Yang

With the rapid proliferation of Internet of Things and intelligent edge devices, there is an increasing need for implementing machine learning algorithms, including deep learning, on resource-constrained mobile embedded devices with limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Wenjia Meng , Zonghua Gu , Ming Zhang , Zhaohui Wu

Though deep neural network models exhibit outstanding performance for various applications, their large model size and extensive floating-point operations render deployment on mobile computing platforms a major challenge, and, in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Huming Qiu , Hua Ma , Zhi Zhang , Yifeng Zheng , Anmin Fu , Pan Zhou , Yansong Gao , Derek Abbott , Said F. Al-Sarawi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have heavily relied on traditional computational units like CPUs and GPUs. However, this conventional approach brings significant computational burdens, latency issues, and high power consumption, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Quan Liu , Brandon T. Swartz , Ivan Kravchenko , Jason G. Valentine , Yuankai Huo

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are increasingly preferred over full-precision Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs) to reduce the memory and computational requirements of inference processing with minimal accuracy drop. BNNs convert CNN model…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Sairam Sri Vatsavai , Venkata Sai Praneeth Karempudi , Ishan Thakkar

Emergency communications networks require in-network intelligence for timely traffic handling under dynamic demands and runtime constraints. In these environments, packets may need different inference behaviors, and conventional model…

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To improve the throughput and energy efficiency of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on customized hardware, lightweight neural networks constrain the weights of DNNs to be a limited combination (denoted as $k\in\{1,2\}$) of powers of 2. In such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Ruizhou Ding , Zeye Liu , Ting-Wu Chin , Diana Marculescu , R. D. , Blanton

Bit-serial architectures can handle Neural Networks (NNs) with different weight precisions, achieving higher resource efficiency compared with bit-parallel architectures. Besides, the weights contain abundant zero bits owing to the fault…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Wenhao Sun , Zhiwei Zou , Deng Liu , Wendi Sun , Song Chen , Yi Kang

Research has shown that deep neural networks contain significant redundancy, and thus that high classification accuracy can be achieved even when weights and activations are quantized down to binary values. Network binarization on FPGAs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Erwei Wang , James J. Davis , Peter Y. K. Cheung , George A. Constantinides

This paper proposes a Bitwise Gated Recurrent Unit (BGRU) network for the single-channel source separation task. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) require several sets of weights within its cells, which significantly increases the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-26 Sunwoo Kim , Mrinmoy Maity , Minje Kim

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated remarkable ability throughout the field of computer vision. However, CNN inference requires a large number of arithmetic operations, making them expensive to deploy in hardware. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Neelesh Gupta , Narayanan Kannan , Pengmiao Zhang , Viktor Prasanna

Deep convolutional neural network (CNN) inference requires significant amount of memory and computation, which limits its deployment on embedded devices. To alleviate these problems to some extent, prior research utilize low precision…

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