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Efficient deep neural network (DNN) inference on mobile or embedded devices typically involves quantization of the network parameters and activations. In particular, mixed precision networks achieve better performance than networks with…

With the increasing popularity of graph-based learning, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) win lots of attention from the research and industry field because of their high accuracy. However, existing GNNs suffer from high memory footprints (e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Boyuan Feng , Yuke Wang , Xu Li , Shu Yang , Xueqiao Peng , Yufei Ding

Quantization neural networks (QNNs) are very attractive to the industry because their extremely cheap calculation and storage overhead, but their performance is still worse than that of networks with full-precision parameters. Most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Chuanjian Liu , Kai Han , Yunhe Wang , Hanting Chen , Qi Tian , Chunjing Xu

Deep quantization of neural networks (below eight bits) offers significant promise in reducing their compute and storage cost. Albeit alluring, without special techniques for training and optimization, deep quantization results in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Ahmed T. Elthakeb , Prannoy Pilligundla , Hadi Esmaeilzadeh

Quantizing neural networks is one of the most effective methods for achieving efficient inference on mobile and embedded devices. In particular, mixed precision quantized (MPQ) networks, whose layers can be quantized to different bitwidths,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Jorn Peters , Marios Fournarakis , Markus Nagel , Mart van Baalen , Tijmen Blankevoort

Neural networks have shown great performance in cognitive tasks. When deploying network models on mobile devices with limited resources, weight quantization has been widely adopted. Binary quantization obtains the highest compression but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Hsin-Pai Cheng , Yuanjun Huang , Xuyang Guo , Yifei Huang , Feng Yan , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

Low-bit quantization is widely used to compress super-resolution (SR) models and reduce storage and computation costs for deployment on resource-limited devices. However, when SR models are pushed to ultra-low precision (2-4 bits),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Haotong Qin , Xudong Ma , Xianglong Liu , Jie Luo , Jinyang Guo , Michele Magno , Yulun Zhang

This paper presents a novel end-to-end methodology for enabling the deployment of low-error deep networks on microcontrollers. To fit the memory and computational limitations of resource-constrained edge-devices, we exploit mixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Manuele Rusci , Alessandro Capotondi , Luca Benini

Memoryless scalar quantization (MSQ) is a common technique to quantize frame coefficients of signals (which are used as a model for generalized linear samples), making them compatible with our digital technology. The process of quantization…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Kateryna Melnykova , Ozgur Yilmaz

Compressing neural networks by quantizing model parameters offers useful trade-off between performance and efficiency. Methods like quantization-aware training and post-training quantization strive to maintain the downstream performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Thomas Woergaard , Raghavendra Selvan

Mixed-precision Deep Neural Networks achieve the energy efficiency and throughput needed for hardware deployment, particularly when the resources are limited, without sacrificing accuracy. However, the optimal per-layer bit precision that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Mariam Rakka , Mohammed E. Fouda , Pramod Khargonekar , Fadi Kurdahi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are essential for performing advanced tasks on edge or mobile devices, yet their deployment is often hindered by severe resource constraints, including limited memory, energy, and computational power. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Qunyou Liu , Pengbo Yu , Marina Zapater , David Atienza

Model quantization can reduce the model size and computational latency, it has become an essential technique for the deployment of deep neural networks on resourceconstrained hardware (e.g., mobile phones and embedded devices). The existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Qigong Sun , Yan Ren , Licheng Jiao , Xiufang Li , Fanhua Shang , Fang Liu

Low bit-width integer weights and activations are very important for efficient inference, especially with respect to lower power consumption. We propose Monte Carlo methods to quantize the weights and activations of pre-trained neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Gonçalo Mordido , Matthijs Van Keirsbilck , Alexander Keller

Deploying transformer-based neural networks on resource-constrained edge devices presents a significant challenge. This challenge is often addressed through various techniques, such as low-rank approximation and mixed-precision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Ofir Gordon , Ariel Lapid , Elad Cohen , Yarden Yagil , Arnon Netzer , Hai Victor Habi

Quantization is a popular way of increasing the speed and lowering the memory usage of Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs). When labelled training data is available, network weights and activations have successfully been quantized down to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Marcelo Gennari , Roger Fawcett , Victor Adrian Prisacariu

Recovering a high dynamic range (HDR) image from a single low dynamic range (LDR) image, namely inverse tone mapping (ITM), is challenging due to the lack of information in over- and under-exposed regions. Current methods focus exclusively…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-12 Juan Borrego-Carazo , Mete Ozay , Frederik Laboyrie , Paul Wisbey

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are used in many applications, but their large size and high computational cost make them hard to run on devices with limited resources. Two widely used techniques to address this challenge are weight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Dan Liu , Nikita Dvornik , Xue Liu

Quantization of the weights and activations is one of the main methods to reduce the computational footprint of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) training. Current methods enable 4-bit quantization of the forward phase. However, this constitutes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Brian Chmiel , Ron Banner , Elad Hoffer , Hilla Ben Yaacov , Daniel Soudry

Huge computational costs brought by convolution and batch normalization (BN) have caused great challenges for the online training and corresponding applications of deep neural networks (DNNs), especially in resource-limited devices.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Yukuan Yang , Xiaowei Chi , Lei Deng , Tianyi Yan , Feng Gao , Guoqi Li