Summary of Fbpt: a Fully Binary Point Transformer, by Zhixing Hou et al.
FBPT: A Fully Binary Point Transformer
by Zhixing Hou, Yuzhang Shang, Yan Yan
First submitted to arxiv on: 15 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The novel Fully Binary Point Cloud Transformer (FBPT) model proposed in this paper has significant implications for robotics and mobile devices, as it reduces storage footprint and computational requirements by compressing 32-bit network weights and activations to 1-bit binary values. The FBPT model is applied to point cloud processing tasks, achieving improved performance compared to full-precision networks. However, challenges arise when quantizing attention module activations, which do not adhere to simple probability distributions. To address this issue, the authors propose a novel binarization mechanism called dynamic-static hybridization, combining static and dynamic binarization of data-sensitive components. A hierarchical training scheme is used to optimize model and binarization parameters. Experiments on point cloud classification and place recognition demonstrate the superiority of this algorithm. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper talks about a new way to make computer models work with less storage and computing power, which can be really helpful for things like robots and smartphones. The idea is to use super simple numbers instead of complicated ones, making it faster and more efficient. But there are some tricky parts when doing this, especially when trying to keep track of information that’s spread out in different places. To solve these problems, the authors came up with a new way of making these models work, called dynamic-static hybridization. It’s like combining two different strategies to get the best results. They tested it on some tasks and showed that it works better than other ways they tried. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Classification » Precision » Probability » Transformer
