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Image matching aims at identifying corresponding points between a pair of images. Currently, detector-free methods have shown impressive performance in challenging scenarios, thanks to their capability of generating dense matches and global…

Resistive random-access memory (ReRAM) is a promising candidate for the next generation non-volatile memory technology due to its simple read/write operations and high storage density. However, its crossbar array structure causes a severe…

With their high energy efficiency, processing-in-memory (PIM) arrays are increasingly used for convolutional neural network (CNN) inference. In PIM-based CNN inference, the computational latency and energy are dependent on how the CNN…

Sequence alignment is a fundamental process in computational biology which identifies regions of similarity in biological sequences. With the exponential growth in the volume of data in bioinformatics databases, the time, processing power,…

Large Language Models (LLMs), constrained by their auto-regressive nature, suffer from slow decoding. Speculative decoding methods have emerged as a promising solution to accelerate LLM decoding, attracting attention from both systems and…

Interactive segmentation models such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) have demonstrated remarkable generalization on natural images, but they perform suboptimally on remote sensing imagery (RSI) due to severe domain shifts and the…

Processing-in-memory (PIM) architectures have demonstrated great potential in accelerating numerous deep learning tasks. Particularly, resistive random-access memory (RRAM) devices provide a promising hardware substrate to build PIM…

Computational models that predict cellular phenotypic responses to chemical and genetic perturbations can accelerate drug discovery by prioritizing therapeutic hypotheses and reducing costly wet-lab iteration. However, extracting…

Sparse matrix multiplication is an important component of linear algebra computations. In this paper, an architecture based on Content Addressable Memory (CAM) and Resistive Content Addressable Memory (ReCAM) is proposed for accelerating…

Fully parallel architecture at disparity-level for efficient semi-global matching (SGM) with refined rank method is presented. The improved SGM algorithm is implemented with the non-parametric unified rank model which is the combination of…

DNA sequence alignment is an important workload in computational genomics. Reference-guided DNA assembly involves aligning many read sequences against candidate locations in a long reference genome. To reduce the computational load of this…

It is demonstrated earlier that the exact Smith-Waterman algorithm yields more accurate results than the members of the heuristic BLAST family of algorithms. Unfortunately, the Smith-Waterman algorithm is much slower than the BLAST and its…

Stochastic computing (SC) offers hardware simplicity but suffers from low throughput, while high-throughput Digital Computing-in-Memory (DCIM) is bottlenecked by costly adder logic for matrix-vector multiplication (MVM). To address this…

In this paper, we study the inference accuracy of the Resistive Random Access Memory (ReRAM) neuromorphic circuit due to stuck-at faults (stuck-on, stuck-off, and stuck at a certain resistive value). A simulation framework using Python is…

The second-order training methods can converge much faster than first-order optimizers in DNN training. This is because the second-order training utilizes the inversion of the second-order information (SOI) matrix to find a more accurate…

Motivation: Deep learning architectures have recently demonstrated their power in predicting DNA- and RNA-binding specificities. Existing methods fall into three classes: Some are based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), others use…

In-DRAM Processing-In-Memory (DRAM-PIM) has emerged as a promising approach to accelerate memory-intensive workloads by mitigating data transfer overhead between DRAM and the host processor. Bit-serial DRAM-PIM architectures, further…

As the demand for efficient, low-power computing in embedded and edge devices grows, traditional computing methods are becoming less effective for handling complex tasks. Stochastic computing (SC) offers a promising alternative by…

Neural Network (NN) accelerators with emerging ReRAM (resistive random access memory) technologies have been investigated as one of the promising solutions to address the \textit{memory wall} challenge, due to the unique capability of…

Sequencing a DNA strand, as part of the read process in DNA storage, produces multiple noisy copies which can be combined to produce better estimates of the original strand; this is called trace reconstruction. One can reduce the error rate…