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Published at December 9DEX: Data Channel Extension for Efficient CNN Inference on Tiny AI Accelerators
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Released Date: December 9, 2024
Authors: Taesik Gong1, Fahim Kawsar1, Chulhong Min2
Aff.: 1Nokia Bell Labs; 2UNIST

| Dataset | Method | SimpleNet | WideNet | EfficientNetV2 | MobileNetV2 | AVG (%) |
| ImageNette | Downsampling | 57.8 ± 1.2 | 61.8 ± 0.2 | 51.3 ± 0.5 | 62.0 ± 0.7 | 58.2 |
| CoordConv | 58.0 ± 1.1 | 61.7 ± 0.2 | 51.9 ± 0.1 | 61.6 ± 0.3 | 58.3 | |
| CoordConv (r) | 55.4 ± 1.5 | 61.4 ± 0.2 | 51.7 ± 1.0 | 61.2 ± 1.1 | 57.4 | |
| DEX (ours) | 61.4 ± 0.6 | 65.6 ± 0.6 | 56.8 ± 0.5 | 64.4 ± 0.6 | 62.0 | |
| Caltech101 | Downsampling | 54.6 ± 2.1 | 55.8 ± 1.2 | 38.6 ± 0.9 | 51.4 ± 1.6 | 50.1 |
| CoordConv | 53.8 ± 1.6 | 56.5 ± 0.1 | 38.7 ± 0.2 | 49.8 ± 0.5 | 49.7 | |
| CoordConv (r) | 52.7 ± 0.5 | 56.0 ± 1.7 | 38.2 ± 1.0 | 49.7 ± 1.2 | 49.1 | |
| DEX (ours) | 56.9 ± 1.3 | 61.1 ± 1.4 | 45.9 ± 1.9 | 53.3 ± 1.7 | 54.3 | |
| Caltech256 | Downsampling | 19.8 ± 0.6 | 20.8 ± 0.5 | 14.7 ± 0.4 | 22.4 ± 1.0 | 19.4 |
| CoordConv | 19.8 ± 0.5 | 21.3 ± 0.8 | 14.8 ± 0.8 | 22.7 ± 0.8 | 19.6 | |
| CoordConv (r) | 20.0 ± 1.6 | 20.9 ± 0.6 | 14.5 ± 0.3 | 22.7 ± 0.4 | 19.5 | |
| DEX (ours) | 22.8 ± 0.5 | 22.9 ± 0.9 | 18.3 ± 0.9 | 26.3 ± 0.5 | 22.6 | |
| Food101 | Downsampling | 16.0 ± 0.4 | 17.7 ± 0.7 | 12.1 ± 0.2 | 22.4 ± 0.6 | 17.1 |
| CoordConv | 16.1 ± 0.8 | 17.7 ± 0.3 | 12.0 ± 0.1 | 21.7 ± 0.3 | 16.9 | |
| CoordConv (r) | 16.3 ± 0.4 | 17.3 ± 0.6 | 12.0 ± 0.6 | 20.9 ± 0.3 | 16.6 | |
| DEX (ours) | 18.4 ± 0.4 | 20.9 ± 0.4 | 16.4 ± 0.1 | 23.3 ± 1.1 | 19.8 |