Equation 9 · Part 1 · How Edge AI Electronics and Sensor Systems Actually Work
Real-valued model value
What this part means
One numerical weight or activation as the model uses it. “Real-valued” means it belongs on the continuous number line: it can be negative, zero, fractional, or positive. In a computer it is stored with finite precision, so the stored float is only an approximation to a mathematical real number.
Its job in the formula
r is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
The passage around this formula
The arithmetic-shrinking lever is quantization. A widely used scheme maps a real-valued weight or activation r onto a low-bit integer q through an affine relationship . with a scale S and a zero-point Z chosen so that ordinary 8-bit integers can represent the values a trained network actually produces. The 2018 paper that formalized this scheme for mobile and embedded inference showed…
Learn the underlying idea
A real number is any point on the number line. In the quantization equation, r is one numerical model value before it is represented by a compact integer code.
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
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