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Quantization is emerging as an efficient approach to promote hardware-friendly deep learning and run deep neural networks on resource-limited hardware. However, it still causes a significant decrease to the network in accuracy. We summarize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Haotong Qin

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

Applications based on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have grown exponentially in the past decade. To match their increasing computational needs, several Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) crossbar based accelerators have been proposed. Recently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Chun Tao , Deboleena Roy , Indranil Chakraborty , Kaushik Roy

Quantization has emerged as an essential technique for deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on devices with limited resources. However, quantized models exhibit vulnerabilities when exposed to various noises in real-world applications.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Yisong Xiao , Aishan Liu , Tianyuan Zhang , Haotong Qin , Jinyang Guo , Xianglong Liu

We examine the role of memorization in deep learning, drawing connections to capacity, generalization, and adversarial robustness. While deep networks are capable of memorizing noise data, our results suggest that they tend to prioritize…

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are a revolutionary force in the ongoing information revolution, and yet their intrinsic properties remain a mystery. In particular, it is widely known that DNNs are highly sensitive to noise, whether adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Netanel Raviv , Siddharth Jain , Pulakesh Upadhyaya , Jehoshua Bruck , Anxiao Jiang

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

Noise robustness remains a critical challenge for deploying neural speech codecs in real-world acoustic scenarios where background noise is often inevitable. A key observation we make is that even slight input noise perturbations can cause…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Rui-Chen Zheng , Yang Ai , Hui-Peng Du , Li-Rong Dai

Noisy labels are ubiquitous in real-world datasets, which poses a challenge for robustly training deep neural networks (DNNs) as DNNs usually have the high capacity to memorize the noisy labels. In this paper, we find that the test accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Pengfei Chen , Benben Liao , Guangyong Chen , Shengyu Zhang

It has been demonstrated that deep neural networks are prone to noisy examples particular adversarial samples during inference process. The gap between robust deep learning systems in real world applications and vulnerable neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Xinhan Di , Pengqian Yu , Meng Tian

Deep neural networks have been applied in many applications exhibiting extraordinary abilities in the field of computer vision. However, complex network architectures challenge efficient real-time deployment and require significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Tailin Liang , John Glossner , Lei Wang , Shaobo Shi , Xiaotong Zhang

Quantized neural network (NN) with a reduced bit precision is an effective solution to reduces the computational and memory resource requirements and plays a vital role in machine learning. However, it is still challenging to avoid the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Xiaobin Li , Hongxu Jiang , Shuangxi Huang , Fangzheng Tian

Efficient machine learning implementations optimized for inference in hardware have wide-ranging benefits, depending on the application, from lower inference latency to higher data throughput and reduced energy consumption. Two popular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Benjamin Hawks , Javier Duarte , Nicholas J. Fraser , Alessandro Pappalardo , Nhan Tran , Yaman Umuroglu

Analog hardware implemented deep learning models are promising for computation and energy constrained systems such as edge computing devices. However, the analog nature of the device and the associated many noise sources will cause changes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Omobayode Fagbohungbe , Lijun Qian

Deep neural networks (DNNs) with noisy weights, which we refer to as noisy neural networks (NoisyNNs), arise from the training and inference of DNNs in the presence of noise. NoisyNNs emerge in many new applications, including the wireless…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Yulin Shao , Soung Chang Liew , Deniz Gunduz

Neural networks have achieved remarkable performance in computer vision, however they are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Adversarial examples are inputs that have been carefully perturbed to fool classifier networks, while appearing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Rachel Sterneck , Abhishek Moitra , Priyadarshini Panda

Currently, deep neural networks are deployed on low-power portable devices by first training a full-precision model using powerful hardware, and then deriving a corresponding low-precision model for efficient inference on such systems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Hao Li , Soham De , Zheng Xu , Christoph Studer , Hanan Samet , Tom Goldstein

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains, but their performance can be severely degraded by noisy or corrupted training data. Conventional noise mitigation methods often rely on explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Deliang Jin , Gang Chen , Shuo Feng , Yufeng Ling , Haoran Zhu

Neural networks are getting better accuracy with higher energy and computational cost. After quantization, the cost can be greatly saved, and the quantized models are more hardware friendly with acceptable accuracy loss. On the other hand,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Chang Song , Riya Ranjan , Hai Li

In recent years, deep neural networks (DNNs) have gained remarkable achievement in computer vision tasks, and the success of DNNs often depends greatly on the richness of data. However, the acquisition process of data and high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Mengting Li , Chuang Zhu