BoolNet: Minimizing The Energy Consumption of Binary Neural Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.06991v1
• Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2021 13:37:31 GMT
• Title: BoolNet: Minimizing The Energy Consumption of Binary Neural Networks
• Authors: Nianhui Guo, Joseph Bethge, Haojin Yang, Kai Zhong, Xuefei Ning, Christoph Meinel and Yu Wang
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel BNN architecture without most commonly used 32-bit components: textitBoolNet. We show that BoolNet can achieve 4.6x energy reduction coupled with 1.2% higher accuracy than the commonly used BNN architecture Bi-RealNet.
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• Abstract: Recent works on Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) have made promising progress in narrowing the accuracy gap of BNNs to their 32-bit counterparts. However, the accuracy gains are often based on specialized model designs using additional 32-bit components. Furthermore, almost all previous BNNs use 32-bit for feature maps and the shortcuts enclosing the corresponding binary convolution blocks, which helps to effectively maintain the accuracy, but is not friendly to hardware accelerators with limited memory, energy, and computing resources. Thus, we raise the following question: How can accuracy and energy consumption be balanced in a BNN network design? We extensively study this fundamental problem in this work and propose a novel BNN architecture without most commonly used 32-bit components: \textit{BoolNet}. Experimental results on ImageNet demonstrate that BoolNet can achieve 4.6x energy reduction coupled with 1.2\% higher accuracy than the commonly used BNN architecture Bi-RealNet. Code and trained models are available at: https://github.com/hpi-xnor/BoolNet.

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