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4 claims from 2 papers

1. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   EIE

   Han, Liu, Mao et al. · ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News · 2016

   The authors propose EIE, a custom hardware engine that runs compressed neural networks directly, and report it is faster and far more energy efficient than CPU, GPU and DaDianNao comparisons.

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   1. UncheckedThe EIE chip's energy savings come from four sources: moving weights from DRAM to SRAM (120×), sparsity (10×), weight sharing (8×) and skipping zero activations (3×).“Going from DRAM to SRAM gives EIE 120× energy saving; Exploiting sparsity saves 10×; Weight sharing gives 8×; Skipping zero activations from ReLU saves another 3×.”
   2. UncheckedThe paper reports that its EIE chip beats the DaDianNao accelerator by 2.9× in throughput, 19× in energy efficiency and 3× in area efficiency.“Compared with DaDianNao, EIE has 2.9×, 19× and 3× better throughput, energy efficiency and area efficiency.”

2. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   HAQ: Hardware-Aware Automated Quantization With Mixed Precision

   Wang, Liu, Lin, Lin and Han · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2019

   The paper introduces HAQ, a reinforcement-learning framework that uses hardware simulator feedback to choose per-layer quantization bitwidths for neural networks on different hardware.

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   1. UncheckedHAQ's automated mixed-precision quantization cut latency by 1.4-1.95x and energy by 1.9x versus fixed 8-bit, with negligible accuracy loss.“Our framework effectively reduced the latency by 1.4-1.95x and the energy consumption by 1.9x with negligible loss of accuracy compared with the fixed bitwidth (8 bits) quantization.”
   2. UncheckedThe HAQ framework finds that the best quantization policies differ greatly between edge and cloud hardware and under latency, energy or model-size limits.“Our framework reveals that the optimal policies on different hardware architectures (i.e., edge and cloud architectures) under different resource constraints (i.e., latency, energy and model size) are drastically different.”