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CMix-NN: Mixed Low-Precision CNN Library for Memory-Constrained Edge Devices

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Low-precision integer arithmetic is a necessary ingredient for enabling Deep Learning inference on tiny and resource-constrained IoT edge devices. This brief presents CMix-NN, a flexible open-sourceCMix-NN is available at https://github.com/EEESlab/CMix-NN.… Click to show full abstract

Low-precision integer arithmetic is a necessary ingredient for enabling Deep Learning inference on tiny and resource-constrained IoT edge devices. This brief presents CMix-NN, a flexible open-sourceCMix-NN is available at https://github.com/EEESlab/CMix-NN. mixed low-precision (independent tensors quantization of weight and activations at 8, 4, 2 bits) inference library for low bitwidth Quantized Networks. CMix-NN efficiently supports both Per-Layer and Per-Channel quantization strategies of weights and activations. Thanks to CMix-NN, we deploy on an STM32H7 microcontroller a set of Mobilenet family networks with the largest input resolutions ( $224\times 224$ ) and higher accuracies (up to 68% Top1) when compressed with a mixed low precision technique, achieving up to +8% accuracy improvement concerning any other published solution for MCU devices.

Keywords: cmix mixed; mixed low; low precision; precision cnn; edge devices; precision

Journal Title: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
Year Published: 2020

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