NITI: Training Integer Neural Networks Using Integer-only Arithmetic

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.13108v2
• Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:08:39 GMT
• Title: NITI: Training Integer Neural Networks Using Integer-only Arithmetic
• Authors: Maolin Wang, Seyedramin Rasoulinezhad, Philip H.W. Leong, Hayden K.H. So
• Abstract summary: We present NITI, an efficient deep neural network training framework that computes exclusively with integer arithmetic. A proof-of-concept open-source software implementation of NITI that utilizes native 8-bit integer operations is presented. NITI achieves negligible accuracy degradation on the MNIST and CIFAR10 datasets using 8-bit integer storage and computation.
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• Abstract: While integer arithmetic has been widely adopted for improved performance in deep quantized neural network inference, training remains a task primarily executed using floating point arithmetic. This is because both high dynamic range and numerical accuracy are central to the success of most modern training algorithms. However, due to its potential for computational, storage and energy advantages in hardware accelerators, neural network training methods that can be implemented with low precision integer-only arithmetic remains an active research challenge. In this paper, we present NITI, an efficient deep neural network training framework that stores all parameters and intermediate values as integers, and computes exclusively with integer arithmetic. A pseudo stochastic rounding scheme that eliminates the need for external random number generation is proposed to facilitate conversion from wider intermediate results to low precision storage. Furthermore, a cross-entropy loss backpropagation scheme computed with integer-only arithmetic is proposed. A proof-of-concept open-source software implementation of NITI that utilizes native 8-bit integer operations in modern GPUs to achieve end-to-end training is presented. When compared with an equivalent training setup implemented with floating point storage and arithmetic, NITI achieves negligible accuracy degradation on the MNIST and CIFAR10 datasets using 8-bit integer storage and computation. On ImageNet, 16-bit integers are needed for weight accumulation with an 8-bit datapath. This achieves training results comparable to all-floating-point implementations.

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