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This paper considers a convolutional neural network transformation that reduces computation complexity and thus speedups neural network processing. Usage of convolutional neural networks (CNN) is the standard approach to image recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Elena Limonova , Alexander Sheshkus , Dmitry Nikolaev

The combination of Winograd's algorithm and systolic array architecture has demonstrated the capability of improving DSP efficiency in accelerating convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on FPGA platforms. However, handling arbitrary…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Xinheng Liu , Yao Chen , Cong Hao , Ashutosh Dhar , Deming Chen

Conventional neural architectures for sequential data present important limitations. Recurrent networks suffer from exploding and vanishing gradients, small effective memory horizons, and must be trained sequentially. Convolutional networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-18 David W. Romero , Anna Kuzina , Erik J. Bekkers , Jakub M. Tomczak , Mark Hoogendoorn

In this paper, we present a novel and general network structure towards accelerating the inference process of convolutional neural networks, which is more complicated in network structure yet with less inference complexity. The core idea is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Xuanyi Dong , Junshi Huang , Yi Yang , Shuicheng Yan

State-of-the-art deep reading comprehension models are dominated by recurrent neural nets. Their sequential nature is a natural fit for language, but it also precludes parallelization within an instances and often becomes the bottleneck for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Felix Wu , Ni Lao , John Blitzer , Guandao Yang , Kilian Weinberger

Deep convolutional networks are well-known for their high computational and memory demands. Given limited resources, how does one design a network that balances its size, training time, and prediction accuracy? A surprisingly effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Soravit Changpinyo , Mark Sandler , Andrey Zhmoginov

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with large kernels, drawing inspiration from the key operations of vision transformers (ViTs), have demonstrated impressive performance in various vision-based applications. To address the issue of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Miaoxin Wang , Xiao Wu , Jun Lin , Zhongfeng Wang

Visual Transformers (VTs) are emerging as an architectural paradigm alternative to Convolutional networks (CNNs). Differently from CNNs, VTs can capture global relations between image elements and they potentially have a larger…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Yahui Liu , Enver Sangineto , Wei Bi , Nicu Sebe , Bruno Lepri , Marco De Nadai

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art results on many visual recognition tasks. However, current CNN models still exhibit a poor ability to be invariant to spatial transformations of images. Intuitively, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Xu Shen , Xinmei Tian , Anfeng He , Shaoyan Sun , Dacheng Tao

Recently ConvNets or convolutional neural networks (CNN) have come up as state-of-the-art classification and detection algorithms, achieving near-human performance in visual detection. However, ConvNet algorithms are typically very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Bert Moons , Bert De Brabandere , Luc Van Gool , Marian Verhelst

The success of CNNs in various applications is accompanied by a significant increase in the computation and parameter storage costs. Recent efforts toward reducing these overheads involve pruning and compressing the weights of various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Hao Li , Asim Kadav , Igor Durdanovic , Hanan Samet , Hans Peter Graf

NVIDIA cuDNN is a low-level library that provides GPU kernels frequently used in deep learning. Specifically, cuDNN implements several equivalent convolution algorithms, whose performance and memory footprint may vary considerably,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Yosuke Oyama , Tal Ben-Nun , Torsten Hoefler , Satoshi Matsuoka

Most of the existing work on FPGA acceleration of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) focus on employing a single strategy (algorithm, dataflow, etc.) across all the layers. Such an approach does not achieve optimal latency on complex and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Yuan Meng , Sanmukh Kuppannagari , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become state-of-the art for computer vision and other signal processing tasks due to their superior accuracy. In recent years, large efforts have been made to reduce the computational costs of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Mario Fischer , Juergen Wassner

Implementing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) has emerged as a promising alternative to GPUs, offering lower latency, greater power efficiency and greater flexibility. However, this development…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Philippe Magalhães , Virginie Fresse , Benoît Suffran , Olivier Alata

Hyperparameters tuning is a time-consuming approach, particularly when the architecture of the neural network is decided as part of this process. For instance, in convolutional neural networks (CNNs), the selection of the number and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Roberto L. Castro , Diego Andrade , Basilio Fraguela

Improving information flow in deep networks helps to ease the training difficulties and utilize parameters more efficiently. Here we propose a new convolutional neural network architecture with alternately updated clique (CliqueNet). In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Yibo Yang , Zhisheng Zhong , Tiancheng Shen , Zhouchen Lin

A novel and efficient end-to-end learning model for automatic modulation classification is proposed for wireless spectrum monitoring applications, which automatically learns from the time domain in-phase and quadrature data without…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-21 Kaisheng Liao , Yaodong Zhao , Jie Gu , Yaping Zhang , Yi Zhong

Hardware accelerators for convolution neural networks (CNNs) enable real-time applications of artificial intelligence technology. However, most of the existing designs suffer from low hardware utilization or high area cost due to complex…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Kuo-Wei Chang , Tian-Sheuan Chang

Conventional deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) apply convolution operators uniformly in space across all feature maps for hundreds of layers - this incurs a high computational cost for real-time applications. For many problems such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Mengye Ren , Andrei Pokrovsky , Bin Yang , Raquel Urtasun