Ren-Shuo Liu

Block and Subword-Scaling Floating-Point (BSFP) : An Efficient Non-Uniform Quantization For Low Precision Inference

In this paper, we propose Block and Subword-Scaling Floating-Point (BSFP), a non-uniform quantization scheme for the skewed and non-uniform distribution of weight vectors in neural networks. By quantizing each weight vector as the superposition of multiple subword vectors (in two's complement) with…