Summary of Data Generation For Hardware-friendly Post-training Quantization, by Lior Dikstein et al.
Data Generation for Hardware-Friendly Post-Training Quantization
by Lior Dikstein, Ariel Lapid, Arnon Netzer, Hai Victor Habi
First submitted to arxiv on: 29 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel zero-shot quantization (ZSQ) approach called Data Generation for Hardware-friendly quantization (DGH) is proposed to address gaps in existing synthetic data generation methods. The method optimizes the entire dataset simultaneously, incorporates natural image priors, and applies a distribution-stretching loss to align real and synthetic data distributions. This results in improved ZSQ performance, achieving up to 30% accuracy increases for hardware-friendly quantization in classification and object detection tasks. DGH demonstrates its effectiveness on multiple tasks, often matching or outperforming real data. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Zero-shot quantization is a way to make computer models smaller and faster without losing their abilities. This is important because it helps keep our personal information safe while still allowing us to use the models for things like recognizing objects in pictures. There are some challenges with making these models work well, but researchers have come up with a new method that can help solve these problems. The new method, called DGH, makes synthetic data that is more similar to real data and helps the model learn how to make accurate predictions. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Classification * Object detection * Quantization * Synthetic data * Zero shot
