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Structured Binary Neural Networks for Accurate Image Classification and Semantic Segmentation

CVPR 2019 · Architectures and efficiency › CNN design · approach: Efficient CNN scaling and dynamic inference · 165 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Use group-wise rather than layer-wise binary decomposition (ablation)Group-Net · ImageNet val, ResNet-18Top-1 accuracy (%): 57.6 -> 64.8Helped
Learn soft connections between blocks rather than use fixed hard group connections (ablation)Group-Net · ImageNet val, ResNet-18Top-1 accuracyHelped
Add more bases, from 1 to 3 (ablation)Group-Net · ImageNet val, ResNet-18Top-1 accuracy (%): 55.6 -> 62.5Helped
Add more bases, from 3 to 5 (ablation)Group-Net · ImageNet val, ResNet-18Top-1 accuracy (%): 62.5 -> 64.8Helped
Add shortcut bypasses around binary convolutions (ablation)Group-Net · ImageNet val, ResNet-18Top-1 accuracy (%): 64.8 -> 67.0Helped
Replace one-block bases with two-block bases (ablation)Group-Net · ImageNet val, ResNet-18Top-1 accuracy (%): 63.0 -> 62.2Hurt
Make each base a whole binary network rather than use learned group connections (ablation)Group-Net · ImageNet val, ResNet-18Top-1 accuracy (%): 64.8 -> 59.2Hurt
Add BPAC with varied dilation rates across binary bases (ablation)Group-Net · PASCAL VOC 2012 val, ResNet-18 FCN-32smIOU: 60.5 -> 63.8Helped
Add shortcut bypasses to Group-Net + BPAC (ablation)Group-Net + BPAC · PASCAL VOC 2012 val, ResNet-18 FCN-32smIOU: 63.8 -> 65.1Helped
Use multi-dilation branches in a full-precision backbone (ablation)Full-precision FCN · PASCAL VOC 2012 val, ResNet-18 FCN-32smIOU: 64.9 -> 67.6Helped
Replace binary activations with 2-bit activations while retaining binary weights (ablation)Group-Net · ImageNet val, ResNet-18Top-1 accuracy (%): 64.8 -> 69.6Helped
Replace binary activations with 32-bit activations while retaining binary weights (ablation)Group-Net · ImageNet val, ResNet-18Top-1 accuracy (%): 64.8 -> 70.4Helped

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