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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) demonstrate excellent performance in various applications but have high computational complexity. Quantization is applied to reduce the latency and storage cost of CNNs. Among the quantization methods,…

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Compute-in-Memory (CIM) and weight sparsity are two effective techniques to reduce data movement during Neural Network (NN) inference. However, they can hardly be employed in the same accelerator simultaneously because CIM requires…

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Compute-In-Memory (CIM) systems, particularly those utilizing ReRAM and memristive technologies, offer a promising path toward energy-efficient neural network computation. However, conventional quantization and compression techniques often…

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Large language models (LLMs) have driven major progress in NLP, yet their substantial memory and compute demands still hinder practical deployment. Binarization can compress weights to 1 bit, fundamentally lowering compute and bandwidth…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Zhixiong Zhao , Zukang Xu , Dawei Yang

Low-bit quantized neural networks are of great interest in practical applications because they significantly reduce the consumption of both memory and computational resources. Binary neural networks are memory and computationally efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Anton Trusov , Elena Limonova , Dmitry Nikolaev , Vladimir V. Arlazarov

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become state-of-the art for computer vision and other signal processing tasks due to their superior accuracy. In recent years, large efforts have been made to reduce the computational costs of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Mario Fischer , Juergen Wassner

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

In computer vision and machine learning, a crucial challenge is to lower the computation and memory demands for neural network inference. A commonplace solution to address this challenge is through the use of binarization. By binarizing the…

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Computing-in-Memory architectures based on non-volatile emerging memories have demonstrated great potential for deep neural network (DNN) acceleration thanks to their high energy efficiency. However, these emerging devices can suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Zheyu Yan , Xiaobo Sharon Hu , Yiyu Shi

Recent convolutional neural network (CNN) development continues to advance the state-of-the-art model accuracy for various applications. However, the enhanced accuracy comes at the cost of substantial memory bandwidth and storage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Hsu-Hsun Chin , Ren-Song Tsay , Hsin-I Wu

We introduce a method to train Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) - neural networks with binary weights and activations at run-time. At training-time the binary weights and activations are used for computing the parameters gradients. During…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Matthieu Courbariaux , Itay Hubara , Daniel Soudry , Ran El-Yaniv , Yoshua Bengio

This paper presents incremental network quantization (INQ), a novel method, targeting to efficiently convert any pre-trained full-precision convolutional neural network (CNN) model into a low-precision version whose weights are constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Aojun Zhou , Anbang Yao , Yiwen Guo , Lin Xu , Yurong Chen

Quantization of Deep Neural Network (DNN) activations is a commonly used technique to reduce compute and memory demands during DNN inference, which can be particularly beneficial on resource-constrained devices. To achieve high accuracy,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Wenhao Hu , Paul Henderson , José Cano

For the efficient execution of deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) on edge devices, various approaches have been presented which reduce the bit width of the network parameters down to 1 bit. Binarization of the first layer was always…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Robert Dürichen , Thomas Rocznik , Oliver Renz , Christian Peters

This paper studies the Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) in which weights and activations are both binarized into 1-bit values, thus greatly reducing the memory usage and computational complexity. Since the modern deep neural networks are of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Zhijun Tu , Xinghao Chen , Pengju Ren , Yunhe Wang

We present LBW-Net, an efficient optimization based method for quantization and training of the low bit-width convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Specifically, we quantize the weights to zero or powers of two by minimizing the Euclidean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Penghang Yin , Shuai Zhang , Yingyong Qi , Jack Xin

Network quantization has rapidly become one of the most widely used methods to compress and accelerate deep neural networks. Recent efforts propose to quantize weights and activations from different layers with different precision to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Yuhang Li , Wei Wang , Haoli Bai , Ruihao Gong , Xin Dong , Fengwei Yu

Deep neural networks have achieved impressive results in computer vision and machine learning. Unfortunately, state-of-the-art networks are extremely compute and memory intensive which makes them unsuitable for mW-devices such as IoT…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Renzo Andri , Lukas Cavigelli , Davide Rossi , Luca Benini

Compute-in-memory (CIM) techniques are widely employed in energy-efficient artificial intelligent (AI) processors. They alleviate power and latency bottlenecks caused by extensive data movements between compute and storage units. To extend…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Jianyi Yu , Tengxiao Wang , Yuxuan Wang , Xiang Fu , Fei Qiao , Ying Wang , Rui Yuan , Liyuan Liu , Cong Shi

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are showing tremendous success on realistic image classification tasks. Notably, their accuracy is similar to the state-of-the-art accuracy obtained by full-precision models tailored to edge devices. In this…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Franyell Silfa , Jose Maria Arnau , Antonio González