Equation 9 · Part 2 · How Edge AI Electronics and Sensor Systems Actually Work
Stored integer code
What this part means
The whole-number code kept in the compact representation. For example, q = 14 is a code; it is not itself the model value 14. The allowed code range depends on the chosen integer format.
Its job in the formula
q is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.
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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 that training the network…
Learn the underlying idea
Quantization maps many possible numerical values onto a smaller set of codes. It helps a small device store and process a neural network using compact integer arithmetic.
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