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Copyright (c) <2020>
<Nankai University, Tianjin, China>
<Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore>
<University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign>
All rights reserved.

The software design comprising "VecQ" source code and affiliated documentation is
Copyright by the authors Cheng Gong, Yao Chen, Ye Lu, Tao Li, Cong Hao, Deming Chen, and
the Nankai University, Tianjin, China, the Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore
and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Only non-commercial, not-for-profit use of this design is permitted. No part of this 
software design may be incorporated into a commercial product without the written consent 
of the authors.  Similarly, use of this software to assist in the development of new 
commercial applications is prohibited, unless the written consent of the authors is 
obtained. To obtain such a written consent, please contact the following three authors: 
(litao@nankai.edu.cn),  (yao.chen@adsc-create.edu.sg), (dchen@illinois.edu). 

This software is provided "as is" with no warranties or guarantees of support.
All users of this software design must take the software copy from this site. You may 
modify or use the source code for other non-commercial, not-for-profit research endeavors,
provided that all copyright attribution on the source code is retained, and the original 
or modified source code is not redistributed, in whole or in part, or included in or with 
any commercial product, except by written agreement with the authors, and full and complete 
copyright attribution for use of the code is included in any resulting publications. 
Subject to these conditions, the software is provided free of charge to all interested parties.

When referencing this particular open-source software in a publication, please
cite the following paper:
Cheng Gong, Yao Chen, Ye Lu, Tao Li, Cong Hao, and Deming Chen, 
“VecQ: Minimal Loss DNN Model Compression With Vectorized Weight Quantization”, 
IEEE Transactions on Computers, May 2020.