Forward and Backward Information Retention for Accurate Binary Neural Networks [PDF]
Weight and activation binarization is an effective approach to deep neural network compression and can accelerate the inference by leveraging bitwise operations. Although many binarization methods have improved the accuracy of the model by minimizing the
Haotong Qin +6 more
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Optimization design of binary VGG convolutional neural network accelerator
Most of the existing researches on accelerators of binary convolutional neural networks based on FPGA are aimed at small-scale image input, while the applications mainly take large-scale convolutional neural networks such as YOLO and VGG as backbone ...
Zhang Xuxin +3 more
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Communication-Efficient Federated Learning with Binary Neural Networks [PDF]
Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning setting that enables many devices to jointly train a shared global model without the need to reveal their data to a central server.
Yuzhi Yang +2 more
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FracBNN: Accurate and FPGA-Efficient Binary Neural Networks with Fractional Activations [PDF]
Binary neural networks (BNNs) have 1-bit weights and activations. Such networks are well suited for FPGAs, as their dominant computations are bitwise arithmetic and the memory requirement is also significantly reduced.
Yichi Zhang +5 more
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Exploring the Connection Between Binary and Spiking Neural Networks
On-chip edge intelligence has necessitated the exploration of algorithmic techniques to reduce the compute requirements of current machine learning frameworks.
Sen Lu, Abhronil Sengupta
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STT-BNN: A Novel STT-MRAM In-Memory Computing Macro for Binary Neural Networks
This paper presents a novel architecture for in-memory computation of binary neural network (BNN) workloads based on STT-MRAM arrays. In the proposed architecture, BNN inputs are fed through bitlines, then, a BNN vector multiplication can be done by ...
Thi-Nhan Pham +3 more
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AdaSTE: An Adaptive Straight-Through Estimator to Train Binary Neural Networks [PDF]
We propose a new algorithm for training deep neural networks (DNNs) with binary weights. In particular, we first cast the problem of training binary neural networks (BiNNs) as a bilevel optimization instance and subsequently construct flexible ...
Huu Le +3 more
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Sub-bit Neural Networks: Learning to Compress and Accelerate Binary Neural Networks [PDF]
In the low-bit quantization field, training Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) is the extreme solution to ease the deployment of deep models on resource-constrained devices, having the lowest storage cost and significantly cheaper bit-wise operations ...
Yikai Wang +3 more
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An Information-Reserved and Deviation-Controllable Binary Neural Network for Object Detection
Object detection is a fundamental task in computer vision, which is usually based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). While it is difficult to be deployed in embedded devices due to the huge storage and computing consumptions, binary neural networks
Ganlin Zhu +4 more
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Quantum Annealing Formulation for Binary Neural Networks [PDF]
Quantum annealing is a promising paradigm for building practical quantum computers. Compared to other approaches, quantum annealing technology has been scaled up to a larger number of qubits.
M. Sasdelli, Tat-Jun Chin
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