Power efficiency
Model design, compression, quantization, activation, algorithms, and efficient hardware.
Qualcomm AI Research
At Qualcomm AI Research, we are advancing AI to make its core capabilities – perception, reasoning, and action – ubiquitous across devices. Our mission is to make breakthroughs in fundamental AI research and scale them across industries. By bringing together some of the best minds in the field, we’re pushing the boundaries of what’s possible and shaping the future of AI.
Qualcomm AI Research Introduction
Jun 8, 2018
2:27
“Machine learning algorithms such as deep learning already use large amounts of energy. And with AI increasingly moving to power-constrained edge devices, energy efficiency will only become more important. The benchmark that matters will be how much intelligence one can squeeze out of every joule of energy. I believe that Qualcomm is uniquely positioned to address this problem and be a key player in AI.”
- Professor Dr. Max Welling
Our key AI research areas
Personalization
Continuous learning, model adaptation, and privacy-preserved distributed learning.
Efficient learning
Robust learning through minimal data, unsupervised learning, and on-device learning.
System architecture
Multi-task and multi-modal learning, sensor fusion, and cloud-edge systems.
AI Research Papers
Novel papers are one of the ways Qualcomm contributes impactful research to the larger community of AI research. Below are papers that Qualcomm AI Research has written or co-authored.
Efficient Learning
Power Efficiency
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A Quantization-Friendly Separable Convolution for MobileNets | EMC^2 2018
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Relaxed Quantization for Discretized Neural Networks | ICLR 2019
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Understanding Straight-Through Estimator in Training Activation Quantized Neural Nets | ICLR 2019
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DAC: Data-free Automatic Acceleration of Convolutional Networks | WACV 2019
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