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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), such as the time-delay neural network (TDNN), have shown their remarkable capability in learning speaker embedding. However, they meanwhile bring a huge computational cost in storage size, processing,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Rui Wang , Zhihua Wei , Haoran Duan , Shouling Ji , Yang Long , Zhen Hong

Sparsity is a well-studied technique for compressing deep neural networks (DNNs) without compromising performance. In deep reinforcement learning (DRL), neural networks with up to 5% of their original weights can still be trained with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Isam Vrce , Andreas Kassler , Gökçe Aydos

We propose a class of interleavers for a novel deep neural network (DNN) architecture that uses algorithmically pre-determined, structured sparsity to significantly lower memory and computational requirements, and speed up training. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Sourya Dey , Peter A. Beerel , Keith M. Chugg

Sparse Neural Networks (SNNs) can potentially demonstrate similar performance to their dense counterparts while saving significant energy and memory at inference. However, the accuracy drop incurred by SNNs, especially at high pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Mohammad Loni , Aditya Mohan , Mehdi Asadi , Marius Lindauer

Hardware accelerator for convolution neural network (CNNs) enables real time applications of artificial intelligence technology. However, most of the accelerators only support dense CNN computations or suffers complex control to support…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Kuo-Wei Chang , Tian-Sheuan Chang

The rapid advancement of wireless communication technologies, including 5G, emerging 6G networks, and the large-scale deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT), has intensified the need for efficient spectrum utilization. Automatic…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Kuilian Yang , Li Zhang , Ahmed M. Eltawil , Khaled Nabil Salama

Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks (RSNNs) have emerged as a computationally efficient and brain-inspired learning model. The design of sparse RSNNs with fewer neurons and synapses helps reduce the computational complexity of RSNNs.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Biswadeep Chakraborty , Beomseok Kang , Harshit Kumar , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained attention for their energy-efficient machine learning capabilities, utilizing bio-inspired activation functions and sparse binary spike-data representations. While recent SNN algorithmic advances…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Abhiroop Bhattacharjee , Ruokai Yin , Abhishek Moitra , Priyadarshini Panda

Our community has greatly improved the efficiency of deep learning applications, including by exploiting sparsity in inputs. Most of that work, though, is for inference, where weight sparsity is known statically, and/or for specialized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Zhangxiaowen Gong , Houxiang Ji , Christopher Fletcher , Christopher Hughes , Josep Torrellas

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are increasingly deployed across distributed and resource-constrained platforms, such as System-on-Chip (SoC) accelerators and edge-cloud systems. DNNs are often partitioned and executed across heterogeneous…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mukta Debnath , Krishnendu Guha , Debasri Saha , Amlan Chakrabarti , Susmita Sur-Kolay

The rise of deep learning has led to various successful attempts to apply deep neural networks (DNNs) for important networking tasks such as intrusion detection. Yet, running DNNs in the network control plane, as typically done in existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Kamran Razavi , Shayan Davari Fard , George Karlos , Vinod Nigade , Max Mühlhäuser , Lin Wang

This paper is focused on the improvement the efficiency of the sparse convolutional neural networks (CNNs) layers on graphic processing units (GPU). The Nvidia deep neural network (cuDnn) library provides the most effective implementation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Marcin Pietroń , Dominik Żurek

A recent trend in DNN development is to extend the reach of deep learning applications to platforms that are more resource and energy constrained, e.g., mobile devices. These endeavors aim to reduce the DNN model size and improve the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Yu-Hsin Chen , Tien-Ju Yang , Joel Emer , Vivienne Sze

In trained deep neural networks, unstructured pruning can reduce redundant weights to lower storage cost. However, it requires the customization of hardwares to speed up practical inference. Another trend accelerates sparse model inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Zhuliang Yao , Shijie Cao , Wencong Xiao , Chen Zhang , Lanshun Nie

Graph Neural Networks (GNN) exhibit superior performance in graph representation learning, but their inference cost can be high, due to an aggregation operation that can require a memory fetch for a very large number of nodes. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yaochen Hu , Mai Zeng , Ge Zhang , Pavel Rumiantsev , Liheng Ma , Yingxue Zhang , Mark Coates

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are omnipresent in sequence modeling tasks. Practical models usually consist of several layers of hundreds or thousands of neurons which are fully connected. This places a heavy computational and memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Matthijs Van Keirsbilck , Alexander Keller , Xiaodong Yang

In recent times, the trend in very large scale integration (VLSI) industry is multi-dimensional, for example, reduction of energy consumption, occupancy of less space, precise result, less power dissipation, faster response. To meet these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Gaurab Bhattacharya

While deep learning has demonstrated impressive progress, it remains a daunting challenge to learn from hard samples as these samples are usually noisy and intricate. These hard samples play a crucial role in the optimal performance of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Qiao Xiao , Boqian Wu , Lu Yin , Christopher Neil Gadzinski , Tianjin Huang , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Decebal Constantin Mocanu

With the rise of artificial intelligence in recent years, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been widely used in many domains. To achieve high performance and energy efficiency, hardware acceleration (especially inference) of DNNs is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Linghao Song , Jiachen Mao , Youwei Zhuo , Xuehai Qian , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

The majority of research in both training Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and modeling learning in biological brains focuses on synaptic plasticity, where learning equates to changing the strength of existing connections. However, in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-13 James C. Knight , Johanna Senk , Thomas Nowotny