Paper:
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved high accuracy in various machine learning applications in recent years. As the recognition accuracy of deep learning applications increases, reducing the complexity of these neural networks and performing the DNN computation on embedded systems or mobile devices become an emerging and crucial challenge. Quantization has been presented to reduce the utilization of computational resources by compressing the input data and weights from floating-point numbers to integers with shorter bit-width. For practical power reduction, it is necessary to operate these DNNs with quantized parameters on appropriate hardware. Therefore, systolic arrays are adopted to be the major computation units for matrix multiplication in DNN accelerators. To obtain a better tradeoff between the precision/accuracy and power consumption, using parameters with various bit-widths among different layers within a DNN is an advanced quantization method. In this paper, we propose a novel decomposition strategy to construct a low-power decomposable multiplier-accumulator (MAC) for the energy efficiency of quantized DNNs. In the experiments, when 65% multiplication operations of VGG-16 are operated in shorter bit-width with at most 1% accuracy loss on the CIFAR-10 dataset, our decomposable MAC has 50% energy reduction compared with a non-decomposable MAC.

Review:
Summary: 
This paper proposes a novel decomposition strategy for matrix multiplication to aim for less energy consumption. They demonstrate that energy consumption is reduced on several CNNs. It is an interesting work but it is not sure that there is a difference in contribution when compared to previous work.
The main argument to impact to the score:
    1. A similar idea is addressed in [1]. It is highly recommended to show the difference in contribution.
    2. In Figure 7,  the performance and energy consumption of systolic arrays of decomposable MAC  is shown. However, the only energy consumption is shown in section 4.2 when the method is applied to DNNs. It is better to show both performance and energy consumption.
    3. It is inappropriate to quantize VGG16, VGG19, DenseNet-121, DenseNet-169 and MobileNet based on CIFAR10 dataset since all models are designed for ImageNet dataset. It is appropriate to quantize these models on ImageNet dataset.
[1]     Sungju Ryu, Hyungjun Kim, Wooseok Yi and Jae-Joon Kim. BitBlade: Area and Energy-Efficient Precision-Scalable Neural Network Accelerator with Bitwise Summation. DAC. 2019.
Minor comments not to impact the score: 
    1. "Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition" has been accepted by ICLR 2014. It is better not to use arXiv preprint on citations unless there is a reason.
    2. It is recommended to put citations on CIFAR-10 dataset.