bitwidth

English

Etymology

bit +‎ width

Noun

bitwidth (plural bitwidths)

1. The length of a value in bits (binary digits).
   • 2016, Shuchang Zhou, Zekun Ni, Xinyu Zhou, He Wen, Yuxin Wu, Yuheng Zou, “DoReFa-Net: Training Low Bitwidth Convolutional Neural Networks with Low Bitwidth Gradients”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     Moreover, as bit convolutions can be efficiently implemented on CPU, FPGA, ASIC and GPU, DoReFatNet opens the way to accelerate training of low bitwidth neural network on these hardware.