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Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-07 Hongjia Li , Sheng Lin , Ning Liu , Caiwen Ding , Yanzhi Wang

Hardware accelerations of deep learning systems have been extensively investigated in industry and academia. The aim of this paper is to achieve ultra-high energy efficiency and performance for hardware implementations of deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Yanzhi Wang , Caiwen Ding , Zhe Li , Geng Yuan , Siyu Liao , Xiaolong Ma , Bo Yuan , Xuehai Qian , Jian Tang , Qinru Qiu , Xue Lin

Deep Neural Network (DNN) has gained unprecedented performance due to its automated feature extraction capability. This high order performance leads to significant incorporation of DNN models in different Internet of Things (IoT)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Rahul Mishra , Hari Prabhat Gupta , Tanima Dutta

Typical large-scale recommender systems use deep learning models that are stored on a large amount of DRAM. These models often rely on embeddings, which consume most of the required memory. We present Bandana, a storage system that reduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Assaf Eisenman , Maxim Naumov , Darryl Gardner , Misha Smelyanskiy , Sergey Pupyrev , Kim Hazelwood , Asaf Cidon , Sachin Katti

Deep convolution Neural Network (DCNN) has been widely used in computer vision tasks. However, for edge devices even inference has too large computational complexity and data access amount. The inference latency of state-of-the-art models…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Kuan-Ting Lin , Ching-Te Chiu , Jheng-Yi Chang , Shi-Zong Huang , Yu-Ting Li

In an ever expanding set of research and application areas, deep neural networks (DNNs) set the bar for algorithm performance. However, depending upon additional constraints such as processing power and execution time limits, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Nathan Dahlin , Krishna Chaitanya Kalagarla , Nikhil Naik , Rahul Jain , Pierluigi Nuzzo

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) on edge devices has attracted increasing attention due to its potential to address challenges related to domain adaptation and privacy preservation. However, DNNs typically rely on large datasets for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Boran Zhao , Haiduo Huang , Qiwei Dang , Wenzhe Zhao , Tian Xia , Pengju Ren

Video compression is widely used in digital television, surveillance systems, and virtual reality. Real-time video decoding is crucial in practical scenarios. Recently, neural video compression (NVC) combines traditional coding with deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-20 Siyu Zhang , Wendong Mao , Huihong Shi , Zhongfeng Wang

The complexity of deep neural network algorithms for hardware implementation can be lowered either by scaling the number of units or reducing the word-length of weights. Both approaches, however, can accompany the performance degradation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Sungho Shin , Kyuyeon Hwang , Wonyong Sung

Deep Neural Network (DNN) is powerful but computationally expensive and memory intensive, thus impeding its practical usage on resource-constrained front-end devices. DNN pruning is an approach for deep model compression, which aims at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Xiaohan Ding , Guiguang Ding , Xiangxin Zhou , Yuchen Guo , Jungong Han , Ji Liu

Neural networks achieve state-of-the-art performance in image classification, speech recognition, scientific analysis and many more application areas. Due to the high computational complexity and memory footprint of neural networks, various…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Benjamin Ramhorst , Vladimir Loncar , George A. Constantinides

In this paper, we introduce a method to compress intermediate feature maps of deep neural networks (DNNs) to decrease memory storage and bandwidth requirements during inference. Unlike previous works, the proposed method is based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Denis A. Gudovskiy , Alec Hodgkinson , Luca Rigazio

Contemporary Deep Neural Network (DNN) contains millions of synaptic connections with tens to hundreds of layers. The large computation and memory requirements pose a challenge to the hardware design. In this work, we leverage the intrinsic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Jingyang Zhu , Jingbo Jiang , Xizi Chen , Chi-Ying Tsui

The record-breaking performance of deep neural networks (DNNs) comes with heavy parameterization, leading to external dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) for storage. The prohibitive energy of DRAM accesses makes it non-trivial to deploy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Xiaohan Chen , Yang Zhao , Yue Wang , Pengfei Xu , Haoran You , Chaojian Li , Yonggan Fu , Yingyan Lin , Zhangyang Wang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become the state-of-the-art technique for machine learning tasks in various applications. However, due to their size and the computational complexity, large DNNs are not readily deployable on edge devices in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Lazar Supic , Rawan Naous , Ranko Sredojevic , Aleksandra Faust , Vladimir Stojanovic

With a growing need to enable intelligence in embedded devices in the Internet of Things (IoT) era, secure hardware implementation of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has become imperative. We will focus on how to address adversarial robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Abhiroop Bhattacharjee , Abhishek Moitra , Priyadarshini Panda

Although convolutional neural network (CNN) has made great progress, large redundant parameters restrict its deployment on embedded devices, especially mobile devices. The recent compression works are focused on real-value convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Jiasong Wu , Hongshan Ren , Youyong Kong , Chunfeng Yang , Lotfi Senhadji , Huazhong Shu

Energy efficiency and memory footprint of a convolutional neural network (CNN) implemented on a CNN inference accelerator depend on many factors, including a weight quantization strategy (i.e., data types and bit-widths) and mapping (i.e.,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Jan Klhufek , Miroslav Safar , Vojtech Mrazek , Zdenek Vasicek , Lukas Sekanina

Nowadays, increasingly larger Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are being developed, trained, and utilized. These networks require significant computational resources, putting a strain on both advanced and limited devices. Our solution is to…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have grown exponentially in size over the past decade, leaving only those who have massive datacenter-based resources with the ability to develop and train such models. One of the main challenges for the long…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Youjie Li , Amar Phanishayee , Derek Murray , Jakub Tarnawski , Nam Sung Kim