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Optical Diffraction Neural Networks (DNNs), a subset of Optical Neural Networks (ONNs), show promise in mirroring the prowess of electronic networks. This study introduces the Hybrid Diffraction Neural Network (HDNN), a novel architecture…

Matrix multiplication is a fundamental kernel in large-scale artificial intelligence and scientific computing, but its performance on conventional electronic accelerators is increasingly constrained by memory bandwidth and energy…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Hailong Gong , Haibo Zhang , Amanda S. Barnard , Mahbub Hassan , Matt Woolley , Rajkumar Buyya

Compute-in-memory accelerators built upon non-volatile memory devices excel in energy efficiency and latency when performing deep neural network (DNN) inference, thanks to their in-situ data processing capability. However, the stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yifan Qin , Zheyu Yan , Dailin Gan , Jun Xia , Zixuan Pan , Wujie Wen , Xiaobo Sharon Hu , Yiyu Shi

Deep neural networks are commonly developed and trained in 32-bit floating point format. Significant gains in performance and energy efficiency could be realized by training and inference in numerical formats optimized for deep learning.…

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved great success in the area of computer vision. The disparity estimation problem tends to be addressed by DNNs which achieve much better prediction accuracy in stereo matching than traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Qiang Wang , Shaohuai Shi , Shizhen Zheng , Kaiyong Zhao , Xiaowen Chu

In recent years increasingly complex architectures for deep convolution networks (DCNs) have been proposed to boost the performance on image recognition tasks. However, the gains in performance have come at a cost of substantial increase in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Darryl D. Lin , Sachin S. Talathi , V. Sreekanth Annapureddy

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Po-Hsun Chu , Ching-Han Chen

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have the advantage that they can take into account a large number of parameters, which enables them to solve complex tasks. In computer vision and speech recognition, they have a better accuracy than common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Lukas Baischer , Matthias Wess , Nima TaheriNejad

Numerical codes that require arbitrary precision floating point (APFP) numbers for their core computation are dominated by elementary arithmetic operations due to the super-linear complexity of multiplication in the number of mantissa bits.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Johannes de Fine Licht , Christopher A. Pattison , Alexandros Nikolaos Ziogas , David Simmons-Duffin , Torsten Hoefler

Recently, deep neural networks have made remarkable achievements in 3D point cloud classification. However, existing classification methods are mainly implemented on idealized point clouds and suffer heavy degradation of per-formance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Guoquan Xu , Hezhi Cao , Yifan Zhang , Jianwei Wan , Ke Xu , Yanxin Ma

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) approaches for the Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problem received considerable attention recently. A key challenge of these approaches lies in ensuring the feasibility of the predicted solutions to physical system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Tianyu Zhao , Xiang Pan , Minghua Chen , Andreas Venzke , Steven H. Low

This paper presents a novel Fully Binary Point Cloud Transformer (FBPT) model which has the potential to be widely applied and expanded in the fields of robotics and mobile devices. By compressing the weights and activations of a 32-bit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Zhixing Hou , Yuzhang Shang , Yan Yan

Deep neural networks (DNN) have demonstrated effectiveness for various applications such as image processing, video segmentation, and speech recognition. Running state-of-the-art DNNs on current systems mostly relies on either…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Mohsen Imani , Mohammad Samragh , Yeseong Kim , Saransh Gupta , Farinaz Koushanfar , Tajana Rosing

Low-precision weights and activations in deep neural networks (DNNs) outperform their full-precision counterparts in terms of hardware efficiency. When implemented with low-precision operations, specifically in the extreme case where…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Behnam Ghavami , Mohammad Shahidzadeh , Lesley Shannon , Steve Wilton

In this paper, the dual-optical attention fusion crowd head point counting model (TAPNet) is proposed to address the problem of the difficulty of accurate counting in complex scenes such as crowd dense occlusion and low light in crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Fei Zhou , Yi Li , Mingqing Zhu

The study addresses the problem of precision in floating-point (FP) computations. A method for estimating the errors which affect intermediate and final results is proposed and a summary of many software simulations is discussed. The basic…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-01-31 Glauco Masotti

Deep neural networks (DNN) have shown superior performance in a variety of tasks. As they rapidly evolve, their escalating computation and memory demands make it challenging to deploy them on resource-constrained edge devices. Though…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Jiaqi Gu , Hanqing Zhu , Chenghao Feng , Mingjie Liu , Zixuan Jiang , Ray T. Chen , David Z. Pan

Compression of floating-point data will play an important role in high-performance computing as data bandwidth and storage become dominant costs. Lossy compression of floating-point data is powerful, but theoretical results are needed to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-03 James Diffenderfer , Alyson Fox , Jeffrey Hittinger , Geoffrey Sanders , Peter Lindstrom

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are typically trained by backpropagation in a batch learning setting, which requires the entire training data to be made available prior to the learning task. This is not scalable for many real-world scenarios…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Doyen Sahoo , Quang Pham , Jing Lu , Steven C. H. Hoi