PQA: Exploring the Potential of Product Quantization in DNN Hardware Acceleration

1 code implementation • 25 May 2023 • Ahmed F. AbouElhamayed, Angela Cui, Javier Fernandez-Marques, Nicholas D. Lane, Mohamed S. Abdelfattah

We identify PQ configurations that improve performance-per-area for ResNet20 by up to 3. 1$\times$, even when compared to a highly optimized conventional DNN accelerator, with similar improvements on two additional compact DNNs.

Quantization