Method and apparatus for generating fixed-point quantized neural network

Abstract

A method of generating a fixed-point quantized neural network includes analyzing a statistical distribution for each channel of floating-point parameter values of feature maps and a kernel for each channel from data of a pre-trained floating-point neural network, determining a fixed-point expression of each of the parameters for each channel statistically covering a distribution range of the floating-point parameter values based on the statistical distribution for each channel, determining fractional lengths of a bias and a weight for each channel among the parameters of the fixed-point expression for each channel based on a result of performing a convolution operation, and generating a fixed-point quantized neural network in which the bias and the weight for each channel have the determined fractional lengths.