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FxP-QNet: A Post-Training Quantizer for the Design of Mixed Low-Precision DNNs with Dynamic Fixed-Point Representation
| العنوان: | FxP-QNet: A Post-Training Quantizer for the Design of Mixed Low-Precision DNNs with Dynamic Fixed-Point Representation |
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| المؤلفون: | Shawahna, Ahmad, Sait, Sadiq M., El-Maleh, Aiman, Ahmad, Irfan |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| المجموعة: | Computer Science |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Computer Science - Neural and Evolutionary Computing, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science - Hardware Architecture, Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 68T01, I.2.0, I.4.0, I.5.0, C.1.0 |
| الوصف: | Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated their effectiveness in a wide range of computer vision tasks, with the state-of-the-art results obtained through complex and deep structures that require intensive computation and memory. Now-a-days, efficient model inference is crucial for consumer applications on resource-constrained platforms. As a result, there is much interest in the research and development of dedicated deep learning (DL) hardware to improve the throughput and energy efficiency of DNNs. Low-precision representation of DNN data-structures through quantization would bring great benefits to specialized DL hardware. However, the rigorous quantization leads to a severe accuracy drop. As such, quantization opens a large hyper-parameter space at bit-precision levels, the exploration of which is a major challenge. In this paper, we propose a novel framework referred to as the Fixed-Point Quantizer of deep neural Networks (FxP-QNet) that flexibly designs a mixed low-precision DNN for integer-arithmetic-only deployment. Specifically, the FxP-QNet gradually adapts the quantization level for each data-structure of each layer based on the trade-off between the network accuracy and the low-precision requirements. Additionally, it employs post-training self-distillation and network prediction error statistics to optimize the quantization of floating-point values into fixed-point numbers. Examining FxP-QNet on state-of-the-art architectures and the benchmark ImageNet dataset, we empirically demonstrate the effectiveness of FxP-QNet in achieving the accuracy-compression trade-off without the need for training. The results show that FxP-QNet-quantized AlexNet, VGG-16, and ResNet-18 reduce the overall memory requirements of their full-precision counterparts by 7.16x, 10.36x, and 6.44x with less than 0.95%, 0.95%, and 1.99% accuracy drop, respectively. Comment: 30 pages, 12 figures, 5 tables. in IEEE Access, 2022 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3157893 |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.12091 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.2203.12091 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
| DOI: | 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3157893 |
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