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most citedA Comprehensive Survey on Model Quantization for Deep Neural Networks in Image Classification

224 citations · 224 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.AR2026

REQAP: Resilient Weight Packing and Quantization for Edge DNN Acceleration

Mahdi Taheri, Samira Nazari, Mubassher Ansari +4

Efficient deployment of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on edge accelerators requires aggressive model compression while maintaining reliability in fault-prone hardware environments. T…

cs.LG2026

CoG-Guided Weight Correction for Fault-Tolerant Deep Neural Networks

Bahram Parchekani, Samira Nazari, Ali Azarpeyvand +3

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) used in safety-critical applications are vulnerable to hardware and memory faults that corrupt network weights and degrade reliability. In this paper, w…

cs.CV2026

Mix-and-Match Pruning: Globally Guided Layer-Wise Sparsification of DNNs

Danial Monachan, Samira Nazari, Mahdi Taheri +4

Deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on edge devices requires strong compression with minimal accuracy loss. This paper introduces Mix-and-Match Pruning, a globally guided, layer-…

cs.LG2026

RESQ: A Unified Framework for REliability- and Security Enhancement of Quantized Deep Neural Networks

Ali Soltan Mohammadi, Samira Nazari, Ali Azarpeyvand +5

This work proposes a unified three-stage framework that produces a quantized DNN with balanced fault and attack robustness. The first stage improves attack resilience via fine-tuni…

cs.LG2026

HAWX: A Hardware-Aware FrameWork for Fast and Scalable ApproXimation of DNNs

Samira Nazari, Mohammad Saeed Almasi, Mahdi Taheri +4

This work presents HAWX, a hardware-aware scalable exploration framework that employs multi-level sensitivity scoring at different DNN abstraction levels (operator, filter, layer,…

cs.NE2025

Integrating Pruning with Quantization for Efficient Deep Neural Networks Compression

Sara Makenali, Babak Rokh, Ali Azarpeyvand

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved significant advances in a wide range of applications. However, their deployment on resource-constrained devices remains a challenge due to…

cs.AI2024

AdAM: Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Approximate Multiplier for Edge DNN Accelerators

Mahdi Taheri, Natalia Cherezova, Samira Nazari +6

In this paper, we propose an architecture of a novel adaptive fault-tolerant approximate multiplier tailored for ASIC-based DNN accelerators.

cs.LG2022★ 224 cited

A Comprehensive Survey on Model Quantization for Deep Neural Networks in Image Classification

Babak Rokh, Ali Azarpeyvand, Alireza Khanteymoori

Recent advancements in machine learning achieved by Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been significant. While demonstrating high accuracy, DNNs are associated with a huge number of…