SEP 4, 2026 · PREPRINT
Deep Microcompression: Structured Pruning and Bit-packed Quantization for Microcontrollers
arXiv
First-in-kind engineering demonstration of CNN inference on severely constrained microcontrollers, with compression and accuracy metrics reported but no comparative efficacy trial, peer review, or clinical validation.
Reported
Weight compression ratio55.8×
LeNet-5 accuracy after compression98.77%
Binary size reduction versus Tens…3×