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Matthieu Courbariaux

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BitPruning: Learning Bitlengths for Aggressive and Accurate Quantization
Milos Nikolic
Ghouthi Boukli hacene
Ciaran Bannon
Alberto Delmas Lascorz
Matthieu Courbariaux
Omar Mohamed Awad
Yoshua Bengio
Isak Edo Vivancos
Vincent Gripon
Andreas Moshovos
Neural networks have demonstrably achieved state-of-the art accuracy using low-bitlength integer quantization, yielding both execution time … (see more)and energy benefits on existing hardware designs that support short bitlengths. However, the question of finding the minimum bitlength for a desired accuracy remains open. We introduce a training method for minimizing inference bitlength at any granularity while maintaining accuracy. Namely, we propose a regularizer that penalizes large bitlength representations throughout the architecture and show how it can be modified to minimize other quantifiable criteria, such as number of operations or memory footprint. We demonstrate that our method learns thrifty representations while maintaining accuracy. With ImageNet, the method produces an average per layer bitlength of 4.13, 3.76 and 4.36 bits on AlexNet, ResNet18 and MobileNet V2 respectively, remaining within 2.0%, 0.5% and 0.5% of the base TOP-1 accuracy.
2024-05-19
2024 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) (published)
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Attention Based Pruning for Shift Networks
Ghouthi Boukli hacene
Carlos Lassance
Vincent Gripon
Matthieu Courbariaux
Yoshua Bengio
In many application domains such as computer vision, Convolutional Layers (CLs) are key to the accuracy of deep learning methods. However, i… (see more)t is often required to assemble a large number of CLs, each containing thousands of parameters, in order to reach state-of-the-art accuracy, thus resulting in complex and demanding systems that are poorly fitted to resource-limited devices. Recently, methods have been proposed to replace the generic convolution operator by the combination of a shift operation and a simpler
2021-01-10
2020 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) (published)
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