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The ever-growing cost of both training and inference for state-of-the-art neural networks has brought literature to look upon ways to cut off resources used with a minimal impact on accuracy. Using lower precision comes at the cost of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Quentin Ducasse , Pascal Cotret , Loïc Lagadec , Robert Stewart

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) represents a promising frontier at the intersection of quantum computing and artificial intelligence, aiming to leverage quantum computational advantages to enhance data-driven tasks. This review explores the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Samarth Kashyap , Rohit K Ramakrishnan , Kumari Jyoti , Apoorva D Patel

Neural networks have established as a generic and powerful means to approach challenging problems such as image classification, object detection or decision making. Their successful employment foots on an enormous demand of compute. The…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Thomas B. Preußer , Giulio Gambardella , Nicholas Fraser , Michaela Blott

Quantum machine learning (QML) is an emerging field that investigates the capabilities of quantum computers for learning tasks. While QML models can theoretically offer advantages such as exponential speed-ups, challenges in data loading…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Florian J. Kiwit , Bernhard Jobst , Andre Luckow , Frank Pollmann , Carlos A. Riofrío

Along with the development of AI democratization, the machine learning approach, in particular neural networks, has been applied to wide-range applications. In different application scenarios, the neural network will be accelerated on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-21 Weiwen Jiang , Jinjun Xiong , Yiyu Shi

This work targets the automated minimum-energy optimization of Quantized Neural Networks (QNNs) - networks using low precision weights and activations. These networks are trained from scratch at an arbitrary fixed point precision. At…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Bert Moons , Koen Goetschalckx , Nick Van Berckelaer , Marian Verhelst

Tiny machine learning (tinyML) has emerged during the past few years aiming to deploy machine learning models to embedded AI processors with highly constrained memory and computation capacity. Low precision quantization is an important…

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) offers a new paradigm for addressing complex financial problems intractable for classical methods. This work specifically tackles the challenge of few-shot credit risk assessment, a critical issue in inclusive…

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

On-device training of DNNs allows models to adapt and fine-tune to newly collected data or changing domains while deployed on microcontroller units (MCUs). However, DNN training is a resource-intensive task, making the implementation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Mark Deutel , Frank Hannig , Christopher Mutschler , Jürgen Teich

Neural Networks are currently one of the most widely deployed machine learning algorithms. In particular, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), are gaining popularity and are evaluated for deployment in safety critical applications such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-17 Giulio Gambardella , Johannes Kappauf , Michaela Blott , Christoph Doehring , Martin Kumm , Peter Zipf , Kees Vissers

Although the quest for more accurate solutions is pushing deep learning research towards larger and more complex algorithms, edge devices demand efficient inference and therefore reduction in model size, latency and energy consumption. One…

Machine learning on tiny IoT devices based on microcontroller units (MCU) is appealing but challenging: the memory of microcontrollers is 2-3 orders of magnitude smaller even than mobile phones. We propose MCUNet, a framework that jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Ji Lin , Wei-Ming Chen , Yujun Lin , John Cohn , Chuang Gan , Song Han

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have proven to be a powerful state-of-the-art method for image classification tasks. One drawback however is the high computational complexity and high memory consumption of CNNs which makes them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Rishabh Goyal , Joaquin Vanschoren , Victor van Acht , Stephan Nijssen

Quantized Neural Networks (QNNs), which use low bitwidth numbers for representing parameters and performing computations, have been proposed to reduce the computation complexity, storage size and memory usage. In QNNs, parameters and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Shuchang Zhou , Yuzhi Wang , He Wen , Qinyao He , Yuheng Zou

Tiny machine learning (TinyML) is a fast-growing research area committed to democratizing deep learning for all-pervasive microcontrollers (MCUs). Challenged by the constraints on power, memory, and computation, TinyML has achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Haoyu Ren , Darko Anicic , Thomas Runkler

Memory-augmented neural networks (MANNs) refer to a class of neural network models equipped with external memory (such as neural Turing machines and memory networks). These neural networks outperform conventional recurrent neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Seongsik Park , Seijoon Kim , Seil Lee , Ho Bae , Sungroh Yoon

TinyML is a fast-growing multidisciplinary field at the intersection of machine learning, hardware, and software, that focuses on enabling deep learning algorithms on embedded (microcontroller powered) devices operating at extremely low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Stanislava Soro

Quantization for deep neural networks have afforded models for edge devices that use less on-board memory and enable efficient low-power inference. In this paper, we present a comparison of model-parameter driven quantization approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Prateeth Nayak , David Zhang , Sek Chai

The rapid development of quantum computer hardware has laid the hardware foundation for the realization of QNN. Due to quantum properties, QNN shows higher storage capacity and computational efficiency compared to its classical…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Renxin Zhao , Shi Wang