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  • Dither NN: Hardware/Algorithm Co-Design for Accurate Quantized Neural Networks

    Kota ANDO  Kodai UEYOSHI  Yuka OBA  Kazutoshi HIROSE  Ryota UEMATSU  Takumi KUDO  Masayuki IKEBE  Tetsuya ASAI  Shinya TAKAMAEDA-YAMAZAKI  Masato MOTOMURA  

     
    PAPER-Computer System

      Pubricized:
    2019/07/22
      Vol:
    E102-D No:12
      Page(s):
    2341-2353

    Deep neural network (NN) has been widely accepted for enabling various AI applications, however, the limitation of computational and memory resources is a major problem on mobile devices. Quantized NN with a reduced bit precision is an effective solution, which relaxes the resource requirements, but the accuracy degradation due to its numerical approximation is another problem. We propose a novel quantized NN model employing the “dithering” technique to improve the accuracy with the minimal additional hardware requirement at the view point of the hardware-algorithm co-designing. Dithering distributes the quantization error occurring at each pixel (neuron) spatially so that the total information loss of the plane would be minimized. The experiment we conducted using the software-based accuracy evaluation and FPGA-based hardware resource estimation proved the effectiveness and efficiency of the concept of an NN model with dithering.