Existing neural networks are memory-consuming and computationally intensive, making deploying them challenging in resource-constrained environments. However, there are various methods to improve their efficiency. Two such methods are quantization, a well-known approach for network compression, and re-parametrization, an emerging technique designed to improve model performance. Although both techniques have been studied individually, there has been limited research on their simultaneous application. To address this gap, we propose a novel approach called RepQ, which applies quantization to re-parametrized networks. Our method is based on the insight that the test stage weights of an arbitrary re-parametrized layer can be presented as a differentiable function of trainable parameters. We enable quantization-aware training by applying quantization on top of this function. RepQ generalizes well to various re-parametrized models and outperforms the baseline method LSQ quantization scheme in all experiments.

现有的神经网络在资源受限环境中部署困难，本文通过提出一种称为RepQ的新方法，将量化应用于重新参数化的网络，以提高神经网络的效率和模型性能。

RepQ：通用量化感知训练重新参数化架构