Powered by OpenAIRE graph
Found an issue? Give us feedback
image/svg+xml Jakob Voss, based on art designer at PLoS, modified by Wikipedia users Nina and Beao Closed Access logo, derived from PLoS Open Access logo. This version with transparent background. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Closed_Access_logo_transparent.svg Jakob Voss, based on art designer at PLoS, modified by Wikipedia users Nina and Beao https://doi.org/10.1...arrow_drop_down
image/svg+xml Jakob Voss, based on art designer at PLoS, modified by Wikipedia users Nina and Beao Closed Access logo, derived from PLoS Open Access logo. This version with transparent background. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Closed_Access_logo_transparent.svg Jakob Voss, based on art designer at PLoS, modified by Wikipedia users Nina and Beao
https://doi.org/10.1109/coolch...
Article . 2021 . Peer-reviewed
License: IEEE Copyright
Data sources: Crossref
versions View all 1 versions
addClaim

This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.

You have already added 0 works in your ORCID record related to the merged Research product.

LSFQ: A Low Precision Full Integer Quantization for High-Performance FPGA-Based CNN Acceleration

Authors: Zhenshan Bao; Kang Zhan; Wenbo Zhang; Junnan Guo;

LSFQ: A Low Precision Full Integer Quantization for High-Performance FPGA-Based CNN Acceleration

Abstract

Neural network quantization has become an important research area. Deep networks run with low precision operations at inference time offer power and space advantages over high precision alternatives, and can maintain high accuracy. However, few quantization can demonstrate this advantage on hardware platform, because the design of quantization algorithm lacks the consideration of actual hardware implementation. In this paper, we propose an efficient quantization method for hardware implementation, a learnable parameter soft clipping fully integer quantization (LSFQ), which includes weight quantization and activation quantization with learnable clipping parameter method. The quantization parameters are optimized automatically by back propagation to minimize the loss, then the BatchNorm layer and convolutional layer are fused, and the bias and quantization step size are further quantized. In this way, LSFQ accomplishes integer-only-arithmetic. We evaluate the quantization algorithm on a variety of models including VGG7, mobile-net v2 in CIFAR10 and CIFAR100. The results show that when the quantization reaches 3-bit or 4-bit, the accuracy loss of our method is less than 1 % compared with the full-precision network. In addition, we design an accelerator for the quantization algorithm and deploy it to the FPGA platform to verify the hardware-awareness of our method.

Related Organizations
  • BIP!
    Impact byBIP!
    selected citations
    These citations are derived from selected sources.
    This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).
    14
    popularity
    This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network.
    Top 10%
    influence
    This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).
    Top 10%
    impulse
    This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network.
    Top 10%
Powered by OpenAIRE graph
Found an issue? Give us feedback
selected citations
These citations are derived from selected sources.
This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).
BIP!Citations provided by BIP!
popularity
This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network.
BIP!Popularity provided by BIP!
influence
This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).
BIP!Influence provided by BIP!
impulse
This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network.
BIP!Impulse provided by BIP!
14
Top 10%
Top 10%
Top 10%
Upload OA version
Are you the author of this publication? Upload your Open Access version to Zenodo!
It’s fast and easy, just two clicks!