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Recent trends in lower precision, e.g. half-precision floating point, training have shown improved system performance and reduced memory usage for Deep Learning while maintaining accuracy. However, current GNN systems cannot achieve such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Arnab Kanti Tarafder , Yidong Gong , Pradeep Kumar

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have emerged as the core enabler of many major applications on mobile devices. To achieve high accuracy, DNN models have become increasingly deep with hundreds or even thousands of operator layers, leading to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Wei Niu , Jiexiong Guan , Yanzhi Wang , Gagan Agrawal , Bin Ren

Precision scaling has emerged as a popular technique to optimize the compute and storage requirements of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Efforts toward creating ultra-low-precision (sub-8-bit) DNNs suggest that the minimum precision required…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Reena Elangovan , Shubham Jain , Anand Raghunathan

Floating point arithmetic remains expensive on FPGA platforms due to wide datapaths and normalization logic, motivating alternative representations that preserve dynamic range at lower cost. This work introduces the Hybrid Residue Floating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Mostafa Darvishi

In this paper, we introduce BNN-DP, an efficient algorithmic framework for analysis of adversarial robustness of Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs). Given a compact set of input points $T\subset \mathbb{R}^n$, BNN-DP computes lower and upper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Steven Adams , Andrea Patane , Morteza Lahijanian , Luca Laurenti

Deep neural networks (DNNs) offer plenty of challenges in executing efficient computation at edge nodes, primarily due to the huge hardware resource demands. The article proposes HYDRA, hybrid data multiplexing, and runtime layer…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Sonu Kumar , Komal Gupta , Gopal Raut , Mukul Lokhande , Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma

Point cloud capture processes are error-prone and introduce noisy artifacts that necessitate filtering/denoising. Recent filtering methods often suffer from point clustering or noise retaining issues. In this paper, we propose Hybrid Point…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Dasith de Silva Edirimuni , Xuequan Lu , Ajmal Saeed Mian , Lei Wei , Gang Li , Scott Schaefer , Ying He

In recent years, deep neural networks (DNN) have demonstrated significant business impact in large scale analysis and classification tasks such as speech recognition, visual object detection, pattern extraction, etc. Training of large DNNs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Tayfun Gokmen , Yurii Vlasov

Deep Feedforward Neural Networks' (DFNNs) weights estimation relies on the solution of a very large nonconvex optimization problem that may have many local (no global) minimizers, saddle points and large plateaus. As a consequence,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Laura Palagi , Ruggiero Seccia

It is challenging to bridge the performance gap between Binary CNN (BCNN) and Floating point CNN (FCNN). We observe that, this performance gap leads to substantial residuals between intermediate feature maps of BCNN and FCNN. To minimize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Jianming Ye , Shiliang Zhang , Jingdong Wang

There is a significant performance gap between Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) and floating point Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). We propose to improve the binary training method, by introducing a new regularization function that encourages…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Sajad Darabi , Mouloud Belbahri , Matthieu Courbariaux , Vahid Partovi Nia

Floating point arithmetic is costly on FPGA platforms due to wide datapaths, normalization, and carry propagation, motivating alternative numerical representations that improve throughput and efficiency. This paper presents the Hybrid…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Mostafa Darvishi

In recent years, machine learning (ML) and neural networks (NNs) have gained widespread use and attention across various domains, particularly in transportation for achieving autonomy, including the emergence of flying taxis for urban air…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Fabien Geyer , Johannes Freitag , Tobias Schulz , Sascha Uhrig

Training with larger number of parameters while keeping fast iterations is an increasingly adopted strategy and trend for developing better performing Deep Neural Network (DNN) models. This necessitates increased memory footprint and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Léopold Cambier , Anahita Bhiwandiwalla , Ting Gong , Mehran Nekuii , Oguz H Elibol , Hanlin Tang

Objective: The advent of High-Performance Computing (HPC) in recent years has led to its increasing use in brain study through computational models. The scale and complexity of such models are constantly increasing, leading to challenging…

In recent years, Deep Neural Networks (DNN) based methods have achieved remarkable performance in a wide range of tasks and have been among the most powerful and widely used techniques in computer vision. However, DNN-based methods are both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Peisong Wang , Jian Cheng

It is always well believed that Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) could drastically accelerate the inference efficiency by replacing the arithmetic operations in float-valued Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) with bit-wise operations. Nevertheless,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Jianhao Zhang , Yingwei Pan , Ting Yao , He Zhao , Tao Mei

Deep convolutional neural network (CNN) inference requires significant amount of memory and computation, which limits its deployment on embedded devices. To alleviate these problems to some extent, prior research utilize low precision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Liangzhen Lai , Naveen Suda , Vikas Chandra

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

Conventional hardware-friendly quantization methods, such as fixed-point or integer, tend to perform poorly at very low word sizes as their shrinking dynamic ranges cannot adequately capture the wide data distributions commonly seen in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Thierry Tambe , En-Yu Yang , Zishen Wan , Yuntian Deng , Vijay Janapa Reddi , Alexander Rush , David Brooks , Gu-Yeon Wei