Binary neural networks: A survey

• Published in: Pattern recognition Vol. 105; p. 107281
• Main Authors: Qin, Haotong, Gong, Ruihao, Liu, Xianglong, Bai, Xiao, Song, Jingkuan, Sebe, Nicu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.09.2020
• Subjects: Binary neural network; Deep learning; Model acceleration; Model compression; Network quantization; Deep learning; Model acceleration; Binary neural network; Network quantization; Model compression

•We summarize the binary neural network methods and categorize them into the naive binarization and the optimized binarization.•The binary neural networks are mainly optimized using techniques including minimizing quantization error, improving the loss function, and reducing the gradient error.•We a...