LightNN: Filling the Gap between Conventional Deep Neural Networks and Binarized Networks

no code implementations • 2 Dec 2017 • Ruizhou Ding, Zeye Liu, Rongye Shi, Diana Marculescu, R. D. Blanton

For a fixed DNN configuration, LightNNs have better accuracy at a slight energy increase than BNNs, yet are more energy efficient with only slightly less accuracy than conventional DNNs.