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Shenzhen Notes: The ADIA Lab – Tsinghua SIGS Summer School
A week at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School for the ADIA Lab summer school — lectures, a visit to the National Supercomputing Center, and what the city looks like from inside its research ecosystem.
FTerViT: A Fully Ternary Vision Transformer That Runs on a $10 Microcontroller
Prior ternary ViTs leave the patch embedding, LayerNorm, and classifier head in full precision — on tiny models those leftovers dominate the memory budget. FTerViT ternarizes everything to {-1, 0, +1}: 82.43% ImageNet top-1 at 6 MB, on a $10 ESP32-S3.
