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Deep learning as a means to inferencing has proliferated thanks to its versatility and ability to approach or exceed human-level accuracy. These computational models have seemingly insatiable appetites for computational resources not only…

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Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) based accelerators are being widely used for acceleration of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) due to their potential in improving the performance and reconfigurability for specific application…

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The intensive computation and memory requirements of generative adversarial neural networks (GANs) hinder its real-world deployment on edge devices such as smartphones. Despite the success in model reduction of CNNs, neural network…

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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have proven to be extremely accurate for image recognition, even outperforming human recognition capability. When deployed on battery-powered mobile devices, efficient computer architectures are required…

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Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are currently the dominating programmable architecture for Deep Learning (DL) accelerators. The adoption of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) in DL accelerators is however getting momentum. In this…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Walther Carballo-Hernández , Maxime Pelcat , François Berry

Lightweight architectural designs of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) together with quantization have paved the way for the deployment of demanding computer vision applications on mobile devices. Parallel to this, alternative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Javier Fernandez-Marques , Paul N. Whatmough , Andrew Mundy , Matthew Mattina

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based Deep Learning (DL) has achieved great progress in many real-life applications. Meanwhile, due to the complex model structures against strict latency and memory restriction, the implementation of CNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Weicheng Li , Rui Wang , Zhongzhi Luan , Di Huang , Zidong Du , Yunji Chen , Depei Qian

Neural networks have established as a generic and powerful means to approach challenging problems such as image classification, object detection or decision making. Their successful employment foots on an enormous demand of compute. The…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Thomas B. Preußer , Giulio Gambardella , Nicholas Fraser , Michaela Blott

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) use a fully-connected layer to extract features from the nodes of a graph and aggregate these features using message passing between nodes, combining two distinct computational patterns: dense, regular…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Jacob R. Stevens , Dipankar Das , Sasikanth Avancha , Bharat Kaul , Anand Raghunathan

FPGAs have been shown to be a promising platform for deploying Quantised Neural Networks (QNNs) with high-speed, low-latency, and energy-efficient inference. However, the complexity of modern deep-learning models limits the performance on…

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Recently, deep learning methods have shown significant improvements in communication systems. In this paper, we study the equalization problem over the nonlinear channel using neural networks. The joint equalizer and decoder based on neural…

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Neural network accelerators have been widely applied to edge devices for complex tasks like object tracking, image recognition, etc. Previous works have explored the quantization technologies in related lightweight accelerator designs to…

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This paper aims to accelerate the test-time computation of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), especially very deep CNNs that have substantially impacted the computer vision community. Unlike previous methods that are designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-19 Xiangyu Zhang , Jianhua Zou , Kaiming He , Jian Sun

Quantizing deep neural networks is an effective method for reducing memory consumption and improving inference speed, and is thus useful for implementation in resource-constrained devices. However, it is still hard for extremely low-bit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Kohei Yamamoto

We propose methods to train convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with both binarized weights and activations, leading to quantized models that are specifically friendly to mobile devices with limited power capacity and computation…

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Deep Convolutional Neural Networks have become a Swiss knife in solving critical artificial intelligence tasks. However, deploying deep CNN models for latency-critical tasks remains to be challenging because of the complex nature of CNNs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Chuanhao Zhuge , Xinheng Liu , Xiaofan Zhang , Sudeep Gummadi , Jinjun Xiong , Deming Chen

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are capable of learning unprecedentedly effective features from images. Some researchers have struggled to enhance the parameters' efficiency using grouped convolution. However, the relation between…

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In this paper, we propose to train convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with both binarized weights and activations, leading to quantized models specifically} for mobile devices with limited power capacity and computation resources.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Bohan Zhuang , Chunhua Shen , Mingkui Tan , Lingqiao Liu , Ian Reid

Large Language Models (LLMs) face significant deployment challenges due to their substantial resource requirements. While low-bit quantized weights can reduce memory usage and improve inference efficiency, current hardware lacks native…

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