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Binarized neural networks (BNNs) have shown exciting potential for utilising neural networks in embedded implementations where area, energy and latency constraints are paramount. With BNNs, multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations can be…

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Parameter quantization in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can help generate efficient models with lower memory footprint and computational complexity. But, homogeneous quantization can result in significant degradation of CNN model…

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Training convolutional neural networks (CNNs) requires intense computations and high memory bandwidth. We find that bandwidth today is over-provisioned because most memory accesses in CNN training can be eliminated by rearranging…

Convolutional neural network (CNN) inference on mobile devices demands efficient hardware acceleration of low-precision (INT8) general matrix multiplication (GEMM). Exploiting data sparsity is a common approach to further accelerate GEMM…

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Machine learning applications that are implemented with spike-based computation model, e.g., Spiking Neural Network (SNN), have a great potential to lower the energy consumption when they are executed on a neuromorphic hardware. However,…

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Binary convolutional neural networks (BCNNs) provide a potential solution to reduce the memory requirements and computational costs associated with deep neural networks (DNNs). However, achieving a trade-off between performance and…

Convolution neural network demonstrates great capability for multiple tasks, such as image classification and many others. However, much resource is required to train a network. Hence much effort has been made to accelerate neural network…

Deep neural networks have significantly improved performance on a range of tasks with the increasing demand for computational resources, leaving deployment on low-resource devices (with limited memory and battery power) infeasible. Binary…

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown appealing performance on various computer vision tasks in recent years. This motivates people to deploy CNNs to realworld applications. However, most of state-of-art CNNs require large…

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Deep neural network (DNN) accelerators with improved energy and delay are desirable for meeting the requirements of hardware targeted for IoT and edge computing systems. Convolutional neural networks (CoNNs) belong to one of the most…

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…

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