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Mixed-precision quantization works Neural Networks (NNs) are gaining traction for their efficient realization on the hardware leading to higher throughput and lower energy. In-Memory Computing (IMC) accelerator architectures are offered as…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Mariam Rakka , Rachid Karami , Ahmed M. Eltawil , Mohammed E. Fouda , Fadi Kurdahi

Fully realizing the potential of acceleration for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) requires understanding and leveraging algorithmic properties. This paper builds upon the algorithmic insight that bitwidth of operations in DNNs can be reduced…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Hardik Sharma , Jongse Park , Naveen Suda , Liangzhen Lai , Benson Chau , Joon Kyung Kim , Vikas Chandra , Hadi Esmaeilzadeh

Deep neural network (DNN) quantization converting floating-point (FP) data in the network to integers (INT) is an effective way to shrink the model size for memory saving and simplify the operations for compute acceleration. Recently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Yukuan Yang , Shuang Wu , Lei Deng , Tianyi Yan , Yuan Xie , Guoqi Li

This paper focuses on distributed constrained optimization over time-varying directed networks, where all agents cooperate to optimize the sum of their locally accessible objective functions subject to a coupled inequality constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Dandan Wang , Daokuan Zhu , Zichong Ou , Jie Lu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to outperform conventional machine learning algorithms across a wide range of applications, e.g., image recognition, object detection, robotics, and natural language processing. However, the high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Ye Yu , Yingmin Li , Shuai Che , Niraj K. Jha , Weifeng Zhang

Based on the assumption that there exists a neural network that efficiently represents a set of Boolean functions between all binary inputs and outputs, we propose a process for developing and deploying neural networks whose weight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Minje Kim , Paris Smaragdis

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieve state-of-the-art performance at the cost of becoming deeper and larger. Although quantization (both fixed-point and floating-point) has proven effective for reducing storage and memory access,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-06 Chen Wu , Mingyu Wang , Xiayu Li , Jicheng Lu , Kun Wang , Lei He

Binary neural network (BNN) provides a promising solution to deploy parameter-intensive deep single image super-resolution (SISR) models onto real devices with limited storage and computational resources. To achieve comparable performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Zhiqiang Lang , Chongxing Song , Lei Zhang , Wei Wei

Existing MAP inference algorithms for determinantal point processes (DPPs) need to calculate determinants or conduct eigenvalue decomposition generally at the scale of the full kernel, which presents a great challenge for real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Jinye Zhang , Zhijian Ou

In recent years deep learning algorithms have shown extremely high performance on machine learning tasks such as image classification and speech recognition. In support of such applications, various FPGA accelerator architectures have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Xinyu Zhang , Srinjoy Das , Ojash Neopane , Ken Kreutz-Delgado

Formant tracking is investigated in this study by using trackers based on dynamic programming (DP) and deep neural nets (DNNs). Using the DP approach, six formant estimation methods were first compared. The six methods include linear…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-06 Dhananjaya Gowda , Bajibabu Bollepalli , Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri , Paavo Alku

Recently, Flow Matching models have pushed the boundaries of high-fidelity data generation across a wide range of domains. It typically employs a single large network to learn the entire generative trajectory from noise to data. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Dogyun Park , Taehoon Lee , Minseok Joo , Hyunwoo J. Kim

A neural network is essentially a high-dimensional complex mapping model by adjusting network weights for feature fitting. However, the spectral bias in network training leads to unbearable training epochs for fitting the high-frequency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Zhi Zeng , Pengpeng Shi , Fulei Ma , Peihan Qi

The computational requirements for training deep neural networks (DNNs) have grown to the point that it is now standard practice to parallelize training. Existing deep learning systems commonly use data or model parallelism, but…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Zhihao Jia , Matei Zaharia , Alex Aiken

This paper presents a unified framework for codifying and automating optimization strategies to efficiently deploy deep neural networks (DNNs) on resource-constrained hardware, such as FPGAs, while maintaining high performance, accuracy,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Zhiqiang Que , Jose G. F. Coutinho , Ce Guo , Hongxiang Fan , Wayne Luk

With the increasing deployment of deep neural networks (DNNs) in terrestrial and aerospace safety-critical applications, system reliability has emerged as a co-equal design metric alongside computational efficiency. Algorithm-based fault…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Xinghua Xue , Cheng Liu , Feng Min , Tao Luo , Yinhe Han

With the recent proliferation of on-device AI, there is an increasing need to run computationally intensive DNNs directly on mobile devices. However, the limited computing and memory resources of these devices necessitate effective pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Hayun Lee , Dongkun Shin

In distributed training, deep neural networks (DNNs) are launched over multiple workers concurrently and aggregate their local updates on each step in bulk-synchronous parallel (BSP) training. However, BSP does not linearly scale-out due to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Sahil Tyagi , Martin Swany

Recently, the posit numerical format has shown promise for DNN data representation and compute with ultra-low precision ([5..8]-bit). However, majority of studies focus only on DNN inference. In this work, we propose DNN training using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Hamed F. Langroudi , Zachariah Carmichael , Dhireesha Kudithipudi

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) significantly reduce computational complexity and memory usage in machine and deep learning by representing weights and activations with just one bit. However, most existing training algorithms for BNNs rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Luca Colombo , Fabrizio Pittorino , Manuel Roveri