This paper enables deep network inference on microcontrollers with improved accuracy and reduced memory usage.
problem Deploying deep networks on resource-constrained edge-devices with low memory and computational constraints.
method Mixed low-bitwidth compression, rule-based iterative procedure for bit precision determination, quantization-aware retraining, and integer-only model conversion.
result Improved Top1 accuracy of 68% on a 2MB FLASH memory STM32H7 microcontroller, 8% higher than 8-bit implementations.