# Two-Bit Networks for Deep Learning on Resource-Constrained Embedded Devices

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.00485 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1701.00485/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 2 Jan 2017.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [AttendSeg: A Tiny Attention Condenser Neural Network for Semantic Segmentation on the Edge](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.14623/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

With the rapid proliferation of Internet of Things and intelligent edge devices, there is an increasing need for implementing machine learning algorithms, including deep learning, on resource-constrained mobile embedded devices with limited memory and computation power. Typical large Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) need large amounts of memory and computational power, and cannot be deployed on embedded devices efficiently. We present Two-Bit Networks (TBNs) for model compression of CNNs with edge weights constrained to (-2, -1, 1, 2), which can be encoded with two bits. Our approach can reduce the memory usage and improve computational efficiency significantly while achieving good performance in terms of classification accuracy, thus representing a reasonable tradeoff between model size and performance.