Convolutional Neural Networks Quantization with Attention

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.15317v1
• Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 08:48:31 GMT
• Title: Convolutional Neural Networks Quantization with Attention
• Authors: Binyi Wu, Bernd Waschneck, Christian Georg Mayr
• Abstract summary: We propose a method, double-stage Squeeze-and-Threshold (double-stage ST) It uses the attention mechanism to quantize networks and achieve state-of-art results.
• Score: 1.0312968200748118
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: It has been proven that, compared to using 32-bit floating-point numbers in the training phase, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) can operate with low precision during inference, thereby saving memory space and power consumption. However, quantizing networks is always accompanied by an accuracy decrease. Here, we propose a method, double-stage Squeeze-and-Threshold (double-stage ST). It uses the attention mechanism to quantize networks and achieve state-of-art results. Using our method, the 3-bit model can achieve accuracy that exceeds the accuracy of the full-precision baseline model. The proposed double-stage ST activation quantization is easy to apply: inserting it before the convolution.

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