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This paper is on improving the training of binary neural networks in which both activations and weights are binary. While prior methods for neural network binarization binarize each filter independently, we propose to instead parametrize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Adrian Bulat , Jean Kossaifi , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Maja Pantic

Ternary Vision Transformers offer substantial model compression, however state-of-the-art methods only ternarize the encoder layers, leaving patch embeddings, LayerNorm parameters, and classifier heads in full precision. In compact models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Szymon Ruciński , Pietro Bonazzi , Engin Türetken , Simon Narduzzi , Michele Magno , Nadim Maamari

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) significantly reduce computational complexity and memory usage in machine and deep learning by representing weights and activations with just one bit. However, most existing training algorithms for BNNs rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Luca Colombo , Fabrizio Pittorino , Manuel Roveri

Binary neural networks (BNNs), where both weights and activations are binarized into 1 bit, have been widely studied in recent years due to its great benefit of highly accelerated computation and substantially reduced memory footprint that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Zhuo Su , Linpu Fang , Deke Guo , Dewen Hu , Matti Pietikäinen , Li Liu

Deep convolution neural network has achieved great success in many artificial intelligence applications. However, its enormous model size and massive computation cost have become the main obstacle for deployment of such powerful algorithm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Zhezhi He , Boqing Gong , Deliang Fan

This paper describes a new method of data encoding which may be used in various modern digital, computer and telecommunication systems and devices. The method permits the compression of data for storage or transmission, allowing the exact…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-27 Igor Nesiolovskiy , Artem Nesiolovskiy

Recent studies have shown that Binary Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are promising for saving computations of GNNs through binarized tensors. Prior work, however, mainly focused on algorithm designs or training techniques, leaving it open to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Jou-An Chen , Hsin-Hsuan Sung , Xipeng Shen , Sutanay Choudhury , Ang Li

We introduce an algorithm where the individual bits representing the weights of a neural network are learned. This method allows training weights with integer values on arbitrary bit-depths and naturally uncovers sparse networks, without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Cristian Ivan

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

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

The use of deep neural networks in edge computing devices hinges on the balance between accuracy and complexity of computations. Ternary Connect (TC) \cite{lin2015neural} addresses this issue by restricting the parameters to three levels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Samyak Parajuli , Aswin Raghavan , Sek Chai

In this work, we propose extreme compression techniques like binarization, ternarization for Neural Decoders such as TurboAE. These methods reduce memory and computation by a factor of 64 with a performance better than the quantized (with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Devannagari Vikas , Nancy Nayak , Sheetal Kalyani

Although deep neural networks are successful for many tasks in the speech domain, the high computational and memory costs of deep neural networks make it difficult to directly deploy highperformance Neural Network systems on low-resource…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Tinglong Zhu , Xiaoyi Qin , Ming Li

Gated Linear Units (GLUs) have become a common building block in modern foundation models. Bilinear layers drop the non-linearity in the "gate" but still have comparable performance to other GLUs. An attractive quality of bilinear layers is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Michael T. Pearce , Thomas Dooms , Alice Rigg

Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are now widely used in various computer vision applications, its huge resource demanding on parameter storage and computation makes the deployment on mobile and embedded devices difficult.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Zhe Xu , Ray C. C. Cheung

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have achieved state-of-the-art results in a wide range of tasks, with the best results obtained with large training sets and large models. In the past, GPUs enabled these breakthroughs because of their greater…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Matthieu Courbariaux , Yoshua Bengio , Jean-Pierre David

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are compact and efficient by using binary weights instead of real-valued weights. Current BNNs use latent real-valued weights during training, where several training hyper-parameters are inherited from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Joris Quist , Yunqiang Li , Jan van Gemert

This paper proposes a novel binarized weight network (BT) for a resource-efficient neural structure. The proposed model estimates a binary representation of weights by taking into account the approximation error with an additional term.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Savas Ozkan , Gozde Bozdagi Akar

The deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) on resource-constrained edge devices is increasingly hindered by prohibitive memory and computational requirements. While ternary quantization offers a compelling solution by reducing weights…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Hong Huang , Decheng Wu , Qiangqiang Hu , Guanghua Yu , Jinhai Yang , Jianchen Zhu , Xue Liu , Dapeng Wu

Binarized Neural Network (BNN) removes bitwidth redundancy in classical CNN by using a single bit (-1/+1) for network parameters and intermediate representations, which has greatly reduced the off-chip data transfer and storage overhead.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Cheng Fu , Shilin Zhu , Hao Su , Ching-En Lee , Jishen Zhao