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# Sigma Delta Quantized Networks

@article{OConnor2017SigmaDQ,
title={Sigma Delta Quantized Networks},
author={Peter O'Connor and Max Welling},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2017},
volume={abs/1611.02024}
}
• Published 4 November 2016
• Computer Science
• ArXiv
Deep neural networks can be obscenely wasteful. When processing video, a convolutional network expends a fixed amount of computation for each frame with no regard to the similarity between neighbouring frames. As a result, it ends up repeatedly doing very similar computations. To put an end to such waste, we introduce Sigma-Delta networks. With each new input, each layer in this network sends a discretized form of its change in activation to the next layer. Thus the amount of computation that…

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