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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown outstanding accuracy for many vision tasks during recent years. When deploying CNNs on portable devices and embedded systems, however, the large number of parameters and computations result in…

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The inherent diversity of computation types within the deep neural network (DNN) models often requires a variety of specialized units in hardware processors, which limits computational efficiency, increasing both inference latency and power…

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The increasing demand for real-time, low-latency artificial intelligence applications has propelled the use of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) for Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) implementations. FPGAs offer reconfigurability,…

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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

Designing hardware accelerators for deep neural networks (DNNs) has been much desired. Nonetheless, most of these existing accelerators are built for either convolutional neural networks (CNNs) or recurrent neural networks (RNNs). Recently,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-21 Siyuan Lu , Meiqi Wang , Shuang Liang , Jun Lin , Zhongfeng Wang

Recent efforts to improve the performance of neural network (NN) accelerators that meet today's application requirements have given rise to a new trend of logic-based NN inference relying on fixed-function combinational logic (FFCL). This…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Jingkai Hong , Arash Fayyazi , Amirhossein Esmaili , Mahdi Nazemi , Massoud Pedram

Deep neural networks conventionally employ end-to-end backpropagation for their training process, which lacks biological credibility and triggers a locking dilemma during network parameter updates, leading to significant GPU memory use.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Junhao Su , Changpeng Cai , Feiyu Zhu , Chenghao He , Xiaojie Xu , Dongzhi Guan , Chenyang Si

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are vital for sequential data processing. Long Short-Term Memory Autoencoders (LSTM-AEs) are particularly effective for unsupervised anomaly detection in time-series data. However, inherent sequential…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Aimilios Leftheriotis , Dimosthenis Masouros , Dimitrios Soudris , George Theodoridis

Self-attention-based transformer models have achieved tremendous success in the domain of natural language processing. Despite their efficacy, accelerating the transformer is challenging due to its quadratic computational complexity and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Shikhar Tuli , Niraj K. Jha

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are being heavily utilized in modern applications and are putting energy-constraint devices to the test. To bypass high energy consumption issues, approximate computing has been employed in DNN accelerators to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Ourania Spantidi , Georgios Zervakis , Iraklis Anagnostopoulos , Jörg Henkel

Deep Learning has gained immense success in pushing today's artificial intelligence forward. To solve the challenge of limited labeled data in the supervised learning world, unsupervised learning has been proposed years ago while low…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-10 F. Liu , C. Liu , F. Bi

Contemporary Deep Neural Network (DNN) contains millions of synaptic connections with tens to hundreds of layers. The large computation and memory requirements pose a challenge to the hardware design. In this work, we leverage the intrinsic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Jingyang Zhu , Jingbo Jiang , Xizi Chen , Chi-Ying Tsui

Typically, Ultra-deep neural network(UDNN) tends to yield high-quality model, but its training process is usually resource intensive and time-consuming. Modern GPU's scarce DRAM capacity is the primary bottleneck that hinders the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Jinrong Guo , Wantao Liu , Wang Wang , Qu Lu , Songlin Hu , Jizhong Han , Ruixuan Li

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are computationally intensive algorithms that currently require dedicated hardware to be executed. In the case of FPGA-Based accelerators, we point-out in this work the challenge of Multi-Operand Adders…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Kamel Abdelouahab , François Berry , Maxime Pelcat

Efficient quantum control is necessary for practical quantum computing implementations with current technologies. Conventional algorithms for determining optimal control parameters are computationally expensive, largely excluding them from…

Deep neural networks (DNN) have achieved remarkable success in computer vision (CV). However, training and inference of DNN models are both memory and computation intensive, incurring significant overhead in terms of energy consumption and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Tao Luo , Wai Teng Tang , Matthew Kay Fei Lee , Chuping Qu , Weng-Fai Wong , Rick Goh

Binarized neural networks (BNNs) are gaining interest in the deep learning community due to their significantly lower computational and memory cost. They are particularly well suited to reconfigurable logic devices, which contain an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-30 Nicholas J. Fraser , Yaman Umuroglu , Giulio Gambardella , Michaela Blott , Philip Leong , Magnus Jahre , Kees Vissers

Binarized Neural Network (BNN) removes bitwidth redundancy in classical CNN by using a single bit (-1/+1) for network parameters and intermediate representations, which has greatly reduced the off-chip data transfer and storage overhead.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Cheng Fu , Shilin Zhu , Hao Su , Ching-En Lee , Jishen Zhao

Energy efficiency of hardware accelerators of deep neural networks (DNN) can be improved by introducing approximate arithmetic circuits. In order to quantify the error introduced by using these circuits and avoid the expensive hardware…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Filip Vaverka , Vojtech Mrazek , Zdenek Vasicek , Lukas Sekanina

The success of deep neural networks (DNNs) is attributable to three factors: increased compute capacity, more complex models, and more data. These factors, however, are not always present, especially for edge applications such as autonomous…

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