Equation 4 · Part 1 · Edge AI Electronics and Sensor Systems in Practice: Quantization, Power Budgets, and Sensor Front Ends
Symbol S
What this part means
S is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Its job in the formula
S is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Full expression→Symbol S→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
where r is the real-valued number, q is the stored integer, S > 0 is a scale factor, and Z is an integer zero-point chosen so that real zero maps exactly onto a representable integer — a detail that matters because operations like zero-padding and ReLU depend on zero being represented without rounding error. Jacob and colleagues showed that with this…
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A variable is a named place for a value. Its letter is a local label: x can mean position in one formula and a data point in another.
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