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Although convolutional neural network (CNN) has made great progress, large redundant parameters restrict its deployment on embedded devices, especially mobile devices. The recent compression works are focused on real-value convolutional…

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Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have shown remarkable learning capabilities when processing graph-structured data found inherently in many application areas. GCNs distribute the outputs of neural networks embedded in each vertex over…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Sumit K. Mandal , Gokul Krishnan , A. Alper Goksoy , Gopikrishnan Ravindran Nair , Yu Cao , Umit Y. Ogras

Deep neural networks are a biologically-inspired class of algorithms that have recently demonstrated state-of-the-art accuracies involving large-scale classification and recognition tasks. Indeed, a major landmark that enables efficient…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Amogh Agrawal , Akhilesh Jaiswal , Deboleena Roy , Bing Han , Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan , Aayush Ankit , Kaushik Roy

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are used in many embedded applications, from industrial robotics and automation systems to biometric identification on mobile devices. State-of-the-art classification is typically achieved by large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Yuan Wen , Andrew Anderson , Valentin Radu , Michael F. P. O'Boyle , David Gregg

Deep neural network (DNN) inference relies increasingly on specialized hardware for high computational efficiency. This work introduces a field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based dynamically configurable accelerator featuring systolic…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Anastasios Petropoulos , Theodore Antonakopoulos

Deep learning is highly pervasive in today's data-intensive era. In particular, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are being widely adopted in a variety of fields for superior accuracy. However, computing deep CNNs on traditional CPUs and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Dharanidhar Dang , Bill Lin , Debashis Sahoo

With recent trend of wearable devices and Internet of Things (IoTs), it becomes attractive to develop hardware-based deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) for embedded applications, which require low power/energy consumptions and small…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Xiaolong Ma , Yipeng Zhang , Geng Yuan , Ao Ren , Zhe Li , Jie Han , Jingtong Hu , Yanzhi Wang

Fault-tolerant Quantum Processing Units (QPUs) promise to deliver exponential speed-ups in select computational tasks, yet their integration into modern deep learning pipelines remains unclear. In this work, we take a step towards bridging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Arthur G. Rattew , Po-Wei Huang , Naixu Guo , Lirandë Pira , Patrick Rebentrost

Recent studies identify that Deep learning Neural Networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to subtle perturbations, which are not perceptible to human visual system but can fool the DNN models and lead to wrong outputs. A class of adversarial attack…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 Haoqiang Guo , Lu Peng , Jian Zhang , Fang Qi , Lide Duan

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in a wide range of applications. However, deeper CNN models, which are usually computation consuming, are widely required for complex Artificial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Chaoyang Zhu , Kejie Huang , Shuyuan Yang , Ziqi Zhu , Hejia Zhang , Haibin Shen

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

Light-weight convolutional neural networks (CNNs) suffer performance degradation as their low computational budgets constrain both the depth (number of convolution layers) and the width (number of channels) of CNNs, resulting in limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Yinpeng Chen , Xiyang Dai , Mengchen Liu , Dongdong Chen , Lu Yuan , Zicheng Liu

Due to the advent of modern embedded systems and mobile devices with constrained resources, there is a great demand for incredibly efficient deep neural networks for machine learning purposes. There is also a growing concern of privacy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Priyank Kalgaonkar , Mohamed El-Sharkawy

Being able to learn from complex data with phase information is imperative for many signal processing applications. Today' s real-valued deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown efficiency in latent information analysis but fall short when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Hongwu Peng , Shanglin Zhou , Scott Weitze , Jiaxin Li , Sahidul Islam , Tong Geng , Ang Li , Wei Zhang , Minghu Song , Mimi Xie , Hang Liu , Caiwen Ding

The state-of-the-art approaches employ approximate computing to reduce the energy consumption of DNN hardware. Approximate DNNs then require extensive retraining afterwards to recover from the accuracy loss caused by the use of approximate…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Vojtech Mrazek , Zdenek Vasicek , Lukas Sekanina , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Muhammad Shafique

Deep learning algorithms have shown tremendous success in many recognition tasks; however, these algorithms typically include a deep neural network (DNN) structure and a large number of parameters, which makes it challenging to implement…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Shihui Yin , Gaurav Srivastava , Shreyas K. Venkataramanaiah , Chaitali Chakrabarti , Visar Berisha , Jae-sun Seo

This paper presents a novel method to boost the performance of CNN inference accelerators by utilizing subtractors. The proposed CNN preprocessing accelerator relies on sorting, grouping, and rounding the weights to create combinations that…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Victor Gao , Issam Hammad , Kamal El-Sankary , Jason Gu

Modern machine learning tools such as deep neural networks (DNNs) are playing a revolutionary role in many fields such as natural language processing, computer vision, and the internet of things. Once they are trained, deep learning models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Arjun Parthasarathy , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

In this paper, we firstly introduce a method to efficiently implement large-scale high-dimensional convolution with realistic memristor-based circuit components. An experiment verified simulator is adapted for accurate prediction of analog…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Fan Zhang , Miao Hu

The success of deep learning has brought forth a wave of interest in computer hardware design to better meet the high demands of neural network inference. In particular, analog computing hardware has been heavily motivated specifically for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Chuteng Zhou , Prad Kadambi , Matthew Mattina , Paul N. Whatmough