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Convolutional neural networks have recently achieved significant breakthroughs in various image classification tasks. However, they are computationally expensive,which can make their feasible mplementation on embedded and low-power devices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Mir Khan , Heikki Huttunen , Jani Boutellier

Deep neural networks have been proven to be highly effective tools in various domains, yet their computational and memory costs restrict them from being widely deployed on portable devices. The recent rapid increase of edge computing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Ayan Shymyrbay , Mohammed E. Fouda , Ahmed Eltawil

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

Quantization has become a predominant approach for model compression, enabling deployment of large models trained on GPUs onto smaller form-factor devices for inference. Quantization-aware training (QAT) optimizes model parameters with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Zheng Wang , Juncheng B Li , Shuhui Qu , Florian Metze , Emma Strubell

Neural network quantization has become an important research area due to its great impact on deployment of large models on resource constrained devices. In order to train networks that can be effectively discretized without loss of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Christos Louizos , Matthias Reisser , Tijmen Blankevoort , Efstratios Gavves , Max Welling

Recently, deep learning has become a de facto standard in machine learning with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) demonstrating spectacular success on a wide variety of tasks. However, CNNs are typically very demanding computationally at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Yochai Zur , Chaim Baskin , Evgenii Zheltonozhskii , Brian Chmiel , Itay Evron , Alex M. Bronstein , Avi Mendelson

Deep learning has recently garnered significant interest in wireless communications due to its superior performance compared to traditional model-based algorithms. Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated notable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 SaiKrishna Saketh Yellapragada , Esa Ollila , Mario Costa

Modern deep neural networks require a tremendous amount of data to train, often needing hundreds or thousands of labeled examples to learn an effective representation. For these networks to work with less data, more structure must be built…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Reuben Feinman , Brenden M. Lake

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

Despite the outstanding performance of transformers in both language and vision tasks, the expanding computation and model size have increased the demand for efficient deployment. To address the heavy computation and parameter drawbacks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xijie Huang , Zhiqiang Shen , Pingcheng Dong , Kwang-Ting Cheng

Deep Neural Networks(DNNs) have many parameters and activation data, and these both are expensive to implement. One method to reduce the size of the DNN is to quantize the pre-trained model by using a low-bit expression for weights and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Jun Nishikawa , Ryoji Ikegaya

This paper proposes a memory-efficient deep neural network (DNN) framework-based symbol level precoding (SLP). We focus on a DNN with realistic finite precision weights and adopt an unsupervised deep learning (DL) based SLP model…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Abdullahi Mohammad , Christos Masouros , Yiannis Andreopoulos

Operating deep neural networks on devices with limited resources requires the reduction of their memory footprints and computational requirements. In this paper we introduce a training method, called look-up table quantization, LUT-Q, which…

Towards fast, hardware-efficient, and low-complexity receivers, we propose a compression-aware learning approach and examine it on free-space optical (FSO) receivers for turbulence mitigation. The learning approach jointly quantize, prune,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Mohanad Obeed , Ming Jian

Quantizing deep neural networks is an effective method for reducing memory consumption and improving inference speed, and is thus useful for implementation in resource-constrained devices. However, it is still hard for extremely low-bit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Kohei Yamamoto

Quantizing deep convolutional neural networks for image super-resolution substantially reduces their computational costs. However, existing works either suffer from a severe performance drop in ultra-low precision of 4 or lower bit-widths,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Cheeun Hong , Heewon Kim , Sungyong Baik , Junghun Oh , Kyoung Mu Lee

Quantization of weights and activations in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is a powerful technique for network compression, and has enjoyed significant attention and success. However, much of the inference-time benefit of quantization is…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Andrew Anderson , David Gregg

Deep learning has revolutionized the computer vision and image classification domains. In this context Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) based architectures are the most widely applied models. In this article, we introduced two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Seyedsaman Emami , Gonzalo Martínez-Muñoz

Low-precision neural network training has emerged as a promising direction for reducing computational costs and democratizing access to deep learning research. However, existing 4-bit quantization methods either rely on expensive GPU…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Shivnath Tathe

Operating deep neural networks (DNNs) on devices with limited resources requires the reduction of their memory as well as computational footprint. Popular reduction methods are network quantization or pruning, which either reduce the word…