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Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving data locality. Although FedAvg pioneered synchronous rounds for global model averaging, slower devices can delay collective progress.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Sanghyeon Park , Soo-Mook Moon

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are promising to deliver accuracy comparable to conventional deep neural networks at a fraction of the cost in terms of memory and energy. In this paper, we introduce the XNOR Neural Engine (XNE), a fully…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Francesco Conti , Pasquale Davide Schiavone , Luca Benini

Brain-inspired spiking neural networks (SNNs) replace the multiply-accumulate operations of traditional neural networks by integrate-and-fire neurons, with the goal of achieving greater energy efficiency. Specialized hardware…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Myat Thu Linn Aung , Daniel Gerlinghoff , Chuping Qu , Liwei Yang , Tian Huang , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Tao Luo , Weng-Fai Wong

A new field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based emulation platform is proposed to accelerate fault tolerance analysis of inference accelerators of convolutional neural networks (CNN). For a given CNN model, hardware accelerator…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Filip Masar , Vojtech Mrazek , Lukas Sekanina

CNNs have been shown to maintain reasonable classification accuracy when quantized to lower precisions. Quantizing to sub 8-bit activations and weights can result in accuracy falling below an acceptable threshold. Techniques exist for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Philip Colangelo , Nasibeh Nasiri , Asit Mishra , Eriko Nurvitadhi , Martin Margala , Kevin Nealis

Residual neural networks are widely used in computer vision tasks. They enable the construction of deeper and more accurate models by mitigating the vanishing gradient problem. Their main innovation is the residual block which allows the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Filippo Minnella , Teodoro Urso , Mihai T. Lazarescu , Luciano Lavagno

Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) have been proposed to address the problem of model uncertainty in training and inference. By introducing weights associated with conditioned probability distributions, BNNs are capable of resolving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Ruizhe Cai , Ao Ren , Ning Liu , Caiwen Ding , Luhao Wang , Xuehai Qian , Massoud Pedram , Yanzhi Wang

Deep neural networks exhibit remarkable performance, yet their black-box nature limits their utility in fields like healthcare where interpretability is crucial. Existing explainability approaches often sacrifice accuracy and lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Linhui Huang , Sayeri Lala , Niraj K. Jha

This research delves into sophisticated neural network frameworks like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), Long Short-Term Memory Networks (LSTMs), and Deep Belief Networks (DBNs) for improved analysis of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Nisanur Alici , Kayode Inadagbo , Murat Isik

This paper presents Systolic-CNN, an OpenCL-defined scalable, run-time-flexible FPGA accelerator architecture, optimized for accelerating the inference of various convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in multi-tenancy cloud/edge computing.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Akshay Dua , Yixing Li , Fengbo Ren

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) obtain outstanding results in tasks that require human-level understanding of data, like image or speech recognition. However, their computational load is significant, motivating the development of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Paolo Meloni , Alessandro Capotondi , Gianfranco Deriu , Michele Brian , Francesco Conti , Davide Rossi , Luigi Raffo , Luca Benini

Training of convolutional neural networks (CNNs)on embedded platforms to support on-device learning is earning vital importance in recent days. Designing flexible training hard-ware is much more challenging than inference hardware, due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Shreyas Kolala Venkataramanaiah , Yufei Ma , Shihui Yin , Eriko Nurvithadhi , Aravind Dasu , Yu Cao , Jae-sun Seo

Deep learning techniques have provided significant improvements in hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. The current deep learning based HSI classifiers follow a patch-based learning framework by dividing the image into overlapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Zhuo Zheng , Yanfei Zhong , Ailong Ma , Liangpei Zhang

We present a fast, fully parameterizable GPU implementation of Convolutional Neural Network variants. Our feature extractors are neither carefully designed nor pre-wired, but rather learned in a supervised way. Our deep hierarchical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-02-02 Dan C. Cireşan , Ueli Meier , Jonathan Masci , Luca M. Gambardella , Jürgen Schmidhuber

The computational demands of computer vision tasks based on state-of-the-art Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) image classification far exceed the energy budgets of mobile devices. This paper proposes FixyNN, which consists of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Paul N. Whatmough , Chuteng Zhou , Patrick Hansen , Shreyas Kolala Venkataramanaiah , Jae-sun Seo , Matthew Mattina

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,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Xiong Jun

Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are now widely used in various computer vision applications, its huge resource demanding on parameter storage and computation makes the deployment on mobile and embedded devices difficult.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Zhe Xu , Ray C. C. Cheung

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), inspired by biological visual cortex systems, are a powerful category of artificial neural networks that can extract the hierarchical features of raw data to greatly reduce the network parametric…

Modern deep neural network (DNN) models generally require a huge amount of weight and activation values to achieve good inference outcomes. Those data inevitably demand a massive off-chip memory capacity/bandwidth, and the situation gets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Cheng-Wei Huang , Tim-Wei Chen , Juinn-Dar Huang

This work presents FG-Net, a general deep learning framework for large-scale point clouds understanding without voxelizations, which achieves accurate and real-time performance with a single NVIDIA GTX 1080 GPU. First, a novel noise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Kangcheng Liu , Zhi Gao , Feng Lin , Ben M. Chen