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Koen Helwegen

2 accepted papers

2021

How Do Adam and Training Strategies Help BNNs Optimization

ICML 2021spotlight

The best performing Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are usually attained using Adam optimization and its multi-step training variants. However, to the best of our knowledge, few studies explore the fundamental reasons why Adam is superior to other optimizers like SGD for BNN optimization or provide an…

2019

Latent Weights Do Not Exist: Rethinking Binarized Neural Network Optimization

NeurIPS 2019poster

Optimization of Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) currently relies on real-valued latent weights to accumulate small update steps. In this paper, we argue that these latent weights cannot be treated analogously to weights in real-valued networks. Instead their main role is to provide inertia during t…