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The growing complexity of computational workloads has amplified the need for efficient and specialized hardware accelerators. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have emerged as prominent solutions,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Arnab A Purkayastha , Jay Tharwani , Shobhit Aggarwal

Neural networks have demonstrated their outstanding performance in a wide range of tasks. Specifically recurrent architectures based on long-short term memory (LSTM) cells have manifested excellent capability to model time dependencies in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Martin Ferianc , Zhiqiang Que , Hongxiang Fan , Wayne Luk , Miguel Rodrigues

With their widespread availability, FPGA-based accelerators cards have become an alternative to GPUs and CPUs to accelerate computing in applications with certain requirements (like energy efficiency) or properties (like fixed-point…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Tom Vander Aa , Tom Haber , Thomas J. Ashby , Roel Wuyts , Wilfried Verachtert

Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) based accelerators are being widely used for acceleration of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) due to their potential in improving the performance and reconfigurability for specific application…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-04 Martin Ferianc , Hongxiang Fan , Ringo S. W. Chu , Jakub Stano , Wayne Luk

Due to the ability to implement customized topology, FPGA is increasingly used to deploy SNNs in both embedded and high-performance applications. In this paper, we survey state-of-the-art SNN implementations and their applications on FPGA.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Murat Isik

While FPGAs have been used extensively as hardware accelerators in industrial computation, no theoretical model of computation has been devised for the study of FPGA-based accelerators. In this paper, we present a theoretical model of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Martin Hora , Václav Končický , Jakub Tětek

When trained as generative models, Deep Learning algorithms have shown exceptional performance on tasks involving high dimensional data such as image denoising and super-resolution. In an increasingly connected world dominated by mobile and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Ian Colbert , Jake Daly , Ken Kreutz-Delgado , Srinjoy Das

This paper thoroughly surveys machine learning (ML) algorithms acceleration in hardware accelerators, focusing on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). It reviews 287 out of 1138 papers from the past six years, sourced from four top FPGA…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Feng Yan , Andreas Koch , Oliver Sinnen

Deep neural networks are an extremely successful and widely used technique for various pattern recognition and machine learning tasks. Due to power and resource constraints, these computationally intensive networks are difficult to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Thorbjörn Posewsky , Daniel Ziener

This paper presents a comprehensive review of recent advances in deploying convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for object detection, classification, and tracking on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). With the increasing demand for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Safa Mohammed Sali , Mahmoud Meribout , Ashiyana Abdul Majeed

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with large kernels, drawing inspiration from the key operations of vision transformers (ViTs), have demonstrated impressive performance in various vision-based applications. To address the issue of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Miaoxin Wang , Xiao Wu , Jun Lin , Zhongfeng Wang

Recent trends in business and technology (e.g., machine learning, social network analysis) benefit from storing and processing growing amounts of graph-structured data in databases and data science platforms. FPGAs as accelerators for graph…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Jonas Dann , Daniel Ritter , Holger Fröning

Deep neural networks have proven to be particularly effective in visual and audio recognition tasks. Existing models tend to be computationally expensive and memory intensive, however, and so methods for hardware-oriented approximation have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Erwei Wang , James J. Davis , Ruizhe Zhao , Ho-Cheung Ng , Xinyu Niu , Wayne Luk , Peter Y. K. Cheung , George A. Constantinides

Though CNNs are highly parallel workloads, in the absence of efficient on-chip memory reuse techniques, an accelerator for them quickly becomes memory bound. In this paper, we propose a CNN accelerator design for inference that is able to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Kingshuk Majumder , Shubham Nema , Uday Bondhugula

For image classification problems, various neural network models are commonly used due to their success in yielding high accuracies. Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is one of the most frequently used deep learning methods for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Ilkay Sikdokur , Inci Baytas , Arda Yurdakul

Intensive computation is entering data centers with multiple workloads of deep learning. To balance the compute efficiency, performance, and total cost of ownership (TCO), the use of a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Xiaoyu Yu , Yuwei Wang , Jie Miao , Ephrem Wu , Heng Zhang , Yu Meng , Bo Zhang , Biao Min , Dewei Chen , Jianlin Gao

Recent advances in reprogrammable hardware (e.g., FPGAs) and memory technology (e.g., DDR4, HBM) promise to solve performance problems inherent to graph processing like irregular memory access patterns on traditional hardware (e.g., CPU).…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Jonas Dann , Daniel Ritter , Holger Fröning

Convolutional Neural Networks are extensively used in a wide range of applications, commonly including computer vision tasks like image and video classification, recognition, and segmentation. Recent research results demonstrate that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-11 Marco Carreras , Gianfranco Deriu , Luigi Raffo , Luca Benini , Paolo Meloni

Deep Forest is a prominent machine learning algorithm known for its high accuracy in forecasting. Compared with deep neural networks, Deep Forest has almost no multiplication operations and has better performance on small datasets. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Mingyu Zhu , Jiapeng Luo , Wendong Mao , Zhongfeng Wang

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly deployed in real-time and energy-constrained environments, driving demand for hardware platforms that can deliver high performance and power efficiency. While central processing units (CPUs) and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Aybars Yunusoglu , Talha Coskun , Hiruna Vishwamith , Murat Isik , I. Can Dikmen