Embedded AI Biweekly Briefing (2017-07-24)

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Industry News

• OpenBLAS releases version 0.2.20

• Clarifai launches SDK for training AI on your iPhone | VentureBeat

• We ported CAFFE to HIP – and here’s what happened… | GPUOpen

Research Papers

• [1707.01083] ShuffleNet: An Extremely Efficient Convolutional Neural Network for Mobile Devices

• [1608.06993] Densely Connected Convolutional Networks

• [1707.01209] Model compression as constrained optimization, with application to neural nets. Part I: general framework

• [1707.04319] Model compression as constrained optimization, with application to neural nets. Part II: quantization

• [1707.03718] LinkNet: Exploiting Encoder Representations for Efficient Semantic Segmentation

• [1707.06342] ThiNet: A Filter Level Pruning Method for Deep Neural Network Compression

• [1707.04693] Binarized Convolutional Neural Networks with Separable Filters for Efficient Hardware Acceleration

Open Source Projects

• Caffe2-iOS demo

• Tencent/ncnn: ncnn is a high-performance neural network inference framework optimized for the mobile platform

• jiaxiang-wu/quantized-cnn: An efficient framework for convolutional neural networks

• KimDarren/FaceCropper: Crop faces, inside of your image, with iOS 11 Vision API.

• csarron/emdl: Embedded and mobile deep learning research resources

Blog Posts

• Deep Learning Framework Development Based on OpenGL ES – jxt1234and2010’s Column

• Application and Reflection of Deep Learning Technology – Blog – Yunqi Community – Alibaba Cloud

Hardware Acceleration

• Decoding Another xPU: Graphcore’s IPU | Tang Shan StarryHeavensAbove

Editor: Zhang Xianyi, Yuan Shuai

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