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The acceleration of deep-learning kernels in hardware relies on matrix multiplications that are executed efficiently on Systolic Arrays (SA). To effectively trade off deep-learning training/inference quality with hardware cost, SA…

Deep learning's success has been attributed to the training of large, overparameterized models on massive amounts of data. As this trend continues, model training has become prohibitively costly, requiring access to powerful computing…

Recently, progressive learning has shown its capacity to improve speech quality and speech intelligibility when it is combined with deep neural network (DNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) based monaural speech enhancement algorithms,…

Coarse-grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) are domain-agnostic accelerators that enhance the energy efficiency of resource-constrained edge devices. The CGRA landscape is diverse, exhibiting trade-offs between performance, efficiency, and…

The success of deep neural networks (DNNs) is attributable to three factors: increased compute capacity, more complex models, and more data. These factors, however, are not always present, especially for edge applications such as autonomous…

The paper discusses how Systolic Arrays can improve matrix multiplication for deep neural networks (DNNs). With AI models like OpenAI's GPT now containing trillions of parameters, the need for efficient matrix multiplication is more…

This paper examines the design space trade-offs of DNNs accelerators aiming to achieve competitive performance and efficiency metrics for all four combinations of dense or sparse activation/weight tensors. To do so, we systematically…

The rising demand for networked embedded systems with machine intelligence has been a catalyst for sustained attempts by the research community to implement Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) based inferencing on embedded resource-limited…

Diffractive Neural Networks (DNNs) leverage the power of light to enhance computational performance in machine learning, offering a pathway to high-speed, low-energy, and large-scale neural information processing. However, most existing DNN…

Recently Resistive-RAM (RRAM) crossbar has been used in the design of the accelerator of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to solve the memory wall issue. However, the intensive multiply-accumulate computations (MACs) executed at the…

Energy efficient sampling with probabilistic neurons or p-bits has been demonstrated in the context of Boltzmann machines and it is natural to ask if these approaches can be extended to the field of generative AI where energy costs have…

In view of the large amount of calculation and long calculation time of convolutional neural network (CNN), this paper proposes a convolutional neural network hardware accelerator based on field programmable logic gate array (FPGA). First,…

Despite multiple efforts made towards adopting complex-valued deep neural networks (DNNs), it remains an open question whether complex-valued DNNs are generally more effective than real-valued DNNs for monaural speech enhancement. This work…

It remains a challenge to run Deep Learning in devices with stringent power budget in the Internet-of-Things. This paper presents a low-power accelerator for processing Deep Neural Networks in the embedded devices. The power reduction is…

The performance of deep neural networks is well-known to be sensitive to the setting of their hyperparameters. Recent advances in reverse-mode automatic differentiation allow for optimizing hyperparameters with gradients. The standard way…

Factor analysis and principal component analysis (PCA) are used in many application areas. The first step, choosing the number of components, remains a serious challenge. Our work proposes improved methods for this important problem. One of…

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on hardware is facing excessive computation cost due to the massive number of parameters. A typical training pipeline to mitigate over-parameterization is to pre-define a DNN structure first with redundant…

Vector multiplication is a fundamental operation for AI acceleration, responsible for over 85% of computational load in convolution tasks. While essential, these operations are primary drivers of area, power, and delay in modern datapath…

The rapid advancements in machine learning techniques have led to significant achievements in various real-world robotic tasks. These tasks heavily rely on fast and energy-efficient inference of deep neural network (DNN) models when…

In this paper, we propose a new decomposition approach named the proximal primal dual algorithm (Prox-PDA) for smooth nonconvex linearly constrained optimization problems. The proposed approach is primal-dual based, where the primal step…