{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/mixed-precision-quantization-and-parallel","title":"Mixed-Precision Quantization and Parallel Implementation of Multispectral Riemannian Classification for Brain--Machine Interfaces","arxiv_id":"2102.11221","date":"2021-02-22","proceeding":null,"authors":["Xiaying Wang","Tibor Schneider","Michael Hersche","Lukas Cavigelli","Luca Benini"],"abstract":"With Motor-Imagery (MI) Brain--Machine Interfaces (BMIs) we may control machines by merely thinking of performing a motor action. Practical use cases require a wearable solution where the classification of the brain signals is done locally near the sensor using machine learning models embedded on energy-efficient microcontroller units (MCUs), for assured privacy, user comfort, and long-term usage. In this work, we provide practical insights on the accuracy-cost tradeoff for embedded BMI solutions. Our proposed Multispectral Riemannian Classifier reaches 75.1% accuracy on 4-class MI task. We further scale down the model by quantizing it to mixed-precision representations with a minimal accuracy loss of 1%, which is still 3.2% more accurate than the state-of-the-art embedded convolutional neural network. We implement the model on a low-power MCU with parallel processing units taking only 33.39ms and consuming 1.304mJ per classification.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11221v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.11221v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"mixed-precision-quantization-and-parallel","repo_url":"https://github.com/pulp-platform/multispectral-riemannian","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"classification","task_name":"General Classification"},{"task_slug":"motor-imagery","task_name":"Motor Imagery"},{"task_slug":"quantization","task_name":"Quantization"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}