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Understanding and implementing quantization

Understanding and implementing quantization

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Understanding and implementing quantization

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- [Instructor] Welcome back. In this segment, we'll explore the concept of quantization, its benefits, and how to implement it in TensorFlow to convert a model to half precision or qint8. Think of quantization as a streamlining the components of an F1 car to make it lighter and faster while maintaining performance. Quantization is a technique that reduces the precision of the numbers used to represent the model's parameters. This process can significantly reduce the model size and improve inference speed. It's like replacing heavy components in an F1 car with lighter ones without compromising performance. Quantization offers several key benefits. Reduced model size because lower precision representations take up less memory, making the models smaller overall. Faster inference, reduced precision allows for faster computations, enhancing response times. And lower power consumption since efficient computations lead to less power usage, which is crucial for deploying models on edge…

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