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The growing scale of deep learning demands distributed training frameworks that jointly reason about parallelism, memory, and network topology. Prior works often rely on heuristic or topology-agnostic search, handling communication and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Irene Wang , Vishnu Varma Venkata , Arvind Krishnamurthy , Divya Mahajan

The exponential emergence of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) has accelerated the research of hardware implementation of Deep Neural Network (DNN). Among all DNN processors, domain specific architectures, such as, Google's Tensor…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Rourab Paul , Sreetama Sarkar , Suman Sau , Koushik Chakraborty , Sanghamitra Roy , Amlan Chakrabarti

Nowadays a wide range of applications is constrained by low-latency requirements that cloud infrastructures cannot meet. Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) has been proposed as the reference architecture for executing applications closer to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Luciano Baresi , Davide Yi Xian Hu , Giovanni Quattrocchi , Luca Terracciano

A system can satisfy accuracy-based validation, maintain output stability (Safety-Threshold Exceedance Rate, STER, equal to zero), and still violate timing constraints under deployment load. These are structurally independent properties…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Akul Mallayya Swami

GPUs are currently the platform of choice for training neural networks. However, training a deep neural network (DNN) is a time-consuming process even on GPUs because of the massive number of parameters that have to be learned. As a result,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Behnam Pourghassemi , Chenghao Zhang , Joo Hwan Lee , Aparna Chandramowlishwaran

ODENet is a deep neural network architecture in which a stacking structure of ResNet is implemented with an ordinary differential equation (ODE) solver. It can reduce the number of parameters and strike a balance between accuracy and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Hirohisa Watanabe , Hiroki Matsutani

A lot of recent progress has been made in ultra low-bit quantization, promising significant improvements in latency, memory footprint and energy consumption on edge devices. Quantization methods such as Learned Step Size Quantization can…

Graph neural networks (GNNs) start to gain momentum after showing significant performance improvement in a variety of domains including molecular science, recommendation, and transportation. Turning such performance improvement of GNNs into…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Zhihui Zhang , Jingwen Leng , Shuwen Lu , Youshan Miao , Yijia Diao , Minyi Guo , Chao Li , Yuhao Zhu

Mixture-of-Experts is a promising approach for edge AI with low-batch inference. Yet, on-device deployments often face limited on-chip memory and severe workload imbalance; the prevalent use of offloading further incurs off-chip memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Songchen Ma , Hongyi Li , Weihao Zhang , Yonghao Tan , Pingcheng Dong , Yu Liu , Lan Liu , Yuzhong Jiao , Xuejiao Liu , Luhong Liang , Kwang-Ting Cheng

Deep neural networks (DNNs) demand a very large amount of computation and weight storage, and thus efficient implementation using special purpose hardware is highly desired. In this work, we have developed an FPGA based fixed-point DNN…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Jinhwan Park , Wonyong Sung

This paper presents a Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) based recurrent neural network (RNN) accelerator called EdgeDRNN designed for portable edge computing. EdgeDRNN adopts the spiking neural network inspired delta network algorithm to exploit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-30 Chang Gao , Antonio Rios-Navarro , Xi Chen , Tobi Delbruck , Shih-Chii Liu

Designing efficient neural networks for embedded devices is a critical challenge, particularly in applications requiring real-time performance, such as aerial imaging with drones and UAVs for emergency responses. In this work, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Daniel Rossi , Guido Borghi , Roberto Vezzani

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) combine large amounts of parallelizable computation with frequent memory access. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) can achieve low latency and high throughput CNN inference by implementing dataflow…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Mario Doumet , Marius Stan , Mathew Hall , Vaughn Betz

This paper assesses and reports the experience of ten teams working to port,validate, and benchmark several High Performance Computing applications on a novel GPU-accelerated Arm testbed system. The testbed consists of eight NVIDIA Arm HPC…

System-level routers that intercept LLM requests for safety classification, domain routing, and PII detection must be both fast and operationally lightweight: they should add minimal latency to every request, yet not require a dedicated GPU…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Xunzhuo Liu , Bowei He , Xue Liu , Andy Luo , Haichen Zhang , Huamin Chen

The growing number of low-power smart devices in the Internet of Things is coupled with the concept of "Edge Computing", that is moving some of the intelligence, especially machine learning, towards the edge of the network. Enabling machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Xiaying Wang , Michele Magno , Lukas Cavigelli , Luca Benini

We present N2Net, a system that implements binary neural networks using commodity switching chips deployed in network switches and routers. Our system shows that these devices can run simple neural network models, whose input is encoded in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Giuseppe Siracusano , Roberto Bifulco

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently gained attention due to their performance on non-Euclidean data. The use of custom hardware architectures proves particularly beneficial for GNNs due to their irregular memory access patterns,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Pedro Gimenes , Yiren Zhao , George Constantinides

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), particularly Interaction Networks (INs), have shown exceptional performance for jet tagging at the CERN High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC). However, their computational complexity and irregular…

We present both a novel Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) accelerator architecture and a network compiler for FPGAs that outperforms all prior work. Instead of having generic processing elements that together process one layer at a time,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Mathew Hall , Vaughn Betz