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Spiking Neural Networks(SNNs) provide a brain-inspired and event-driven mechanism that is believed to be critical to unlock energy-efficient deep learning. The mixture-of-experts approach mirrors the parallel distributed processing of…

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) is a major workload in datacenters today, resulting in a tremendously fast growth of energy consumption. It is important to reduce the energy consumption while completing the DL training jobs early in…

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is essential for modeling complex large-deformation problems across various applications, requiring significant computational power. A major portion of SPH computation time is dedicated to the Nearest…

As deep neural network (NN) methods have matured, there has been increasing interest in deploying NN solutions to "edge computing" platforms such as mobile phones or embedded controllers. These platforms are often resource-constrained,…

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…

DRAM-based in-situ accelerators have shown their potential in addressing the memory wall challenge of the traditional von Neumann architecture. Such accelerators exploit charge sharing or logic circuits for simple logic operations at the…

The exponential increase in Machine Learning (ML) model size and complexity has driven unprecedented demand for high-performance acceleration systems. As technology scaling enables the integration of thousands of computing elements onto a…

This paper is devoted to the development of highly efficient kernels performing vector operations relevant in linear system solvers. In particular, we focus on the low arithmetic intensity operations (i.e., streaming operations) performed…

Stream processing applications extract value from raw data through Directed Acyclic Graphs of data analysis tasks. Shared-nothing (SN) parallelism is the de-facto standard to scale stream processing applications. Given an application, SN…

Modern transformer-based deep neural networks present unique technical challenges for effective acceleration in real-world applications. Apart from the vast amount of linear operations needed due to their sizes, modern transformer models…

This paper presents FluxMem, a training-free framework for efficient streaming video understanding. FluxMem adaptively compresses redundant visual memory through a hierarchical, two-stage design: (1) a Temporal Adjacency Selection (TAS)…

This paper introduces FSL-HDnn, an energy-efficient accelerator that implements the end-to-end pipeline of feature extraction and on-device few-shot learning (FSL). The accelerator addresses fundamental challenges of on-device learning…

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), an AI-driven approach for 3D view reconstruction, has demonstrated impressive performance, sparking active research across fields. As a result, a range of advanced NeRF models has emerged, leading on-device…

In recent years, topology optimization (TO) has gained widespread attention as a powerful structural design method. However, its application remains challenging due to the deep expertise and extensive development effort required.…

Stochastic computing (SC) has emerged as an efficient low-power alternative for deploying neural networks (NNs) in resource-limited scenarios, such as the Internet of Things (IoT). By encoding values as serial bitstreams, SC significantly…

With the ever-growing popularity of Artificial Intelligence, there is an increasing demand for more performant and efficient underlying hardware. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are a workload of particular importance, which achieve…

The computation and memory-intensive nature of DNNs limits their use in many mobile and embedded contexts. Application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) hardware accelerators employ matrix multiplication units (such as the systolic arrays)…

General-purpose processor vendors have integrated customized accelerator in their products due to the widespread use of General Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (GEMM) kernels. However, it remains a challenge to further improve the…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are used by different applications that are executed on a range of computer architectures, from IoT devices to supercomputers. The footprint of these networks is huge as well as their computational and…

While Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) push the state-of-the-art in many machine learning applications, they often require millions of expensive floating-point operations for each input classification. This computation overhead limits the…