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We present a full-stack optimization framework for accelerating inference of CNNs (Convolutional Neural Networks) and validate the approach with field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) implementations. By jointly optimizing CNN models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Bradley McDanel , Sai Qian Zhang , H. T. Kung , Xin Dong

To accelerate inference of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), various techniques have been proposed to reduce computation redundancy. Converting convolutional layers into frequency domain significantly reduces the computation complexity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Yue Niu , Hanqing Zeng , Ajitesh Srivastava , Kartik Lakhotia , Rajgopal Kannan , Yanzhi Wang , Viktor Prasanna

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are reported to be overparametrized. The search for optimal (minimal) and sufficient architecture is an NP-hard problem as the hyperparameter space for possible network configurations is vast. Here, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Tin Barisin , Illia Horenko

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) filter the input data using spatial convolution operators with compact stencils. Commonly, the convolution operators couple features from all channels, which leads to immense computational cost in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Jonathan Ephrath , Lars Ruthotto , Eldad Haber , Eran Treister

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have proven to be a powerful state-of-the-art method for image classification tasks. One drawback however is the high computational complexity and high memory consumption of CNNs which makes them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Rishabh Goyal , Joaquin Vanschoren , Victor van Acht , Stephan Nijssen

Although state-of-the-art (SOTA) CNNs achieve outstanding performance on various tasks, their high computation demand and massive number of parameters make it difficult to deploy these SOTA CNNs onto resource-constrained devices. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Shiyu Li , Edward Hanson , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been shown to achieve optimal approximation and estimation error rates (in minimax sense) in several function classes. However, previous analyzed optimal CNNs are unrealistically wide and difficult…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-15 Kenta Oono , Taiji Suzuki

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieve state-of-the-art accuracy in a variety of tasks in computer vision and beyond. One of the major obstacles hindering the ubiquitous use of CNNs for inference on low-power edge devices is their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Brian Chmiel , Chaim Baskin , Ron Banner , Evgenii Zheltonozhskii , Yevgeny Yermolin , Alex Karbachevsky , Alex M. Bronstein , Avi Mendelson

The deployment of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) on resource constrained platforms such as mobile devices and embedded systems has been greatly hindered by their high implementation cost, and thus motivated a lot research interest in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Boyu Zhang , Azadeh Davoodi , Yu Hen Hu

Convolutional neural networks show outstanding results in a variety of computer vision tasks. However, a neural network architecture design usually faces a trade-off between model performance and computational/memory complexity. For some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Pavel Kaloshin

Deep convolutional neural networks have achieved remarkable progress in recent years. However, the large volume of intermediate results generated during inference poses a significant challenge to the accelerator design for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Gang Li , Zejian Liu , Fanrong Li , Jian Cheng

This work investigates how using reduced precision data in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) affects network accuracy during classification. More specifically, this study considers networks where each layer may use different precision…

In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated their ability to solve problems in many fields and with accuracy that was not possible before. However, this comes with extensive computational requirements, which made…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Sadiq M. Sait , Aiman El-Maleh , Mohammad Altakrouri , Ahmad Shawahna

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have gained widespread popularity in the field of computer vision and image processing. Due to huge computational requirements of CNNs, dedicated hardware-based implementations are being explored to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-06 Afzal Ahmad , Muhammad Adeel Pasha

Generally, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) process data on a regular grid, e.g. data generated by ordinary cameras. Designing CNNs for sparse and irregularly spaced input data is still an open research problem with numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Abdelrahman Eldesokey , Michael Felsberg , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are powerful tools for solving sequence-based problems, but their efficacy and execution time are dependent on the size of the network. Following recent work in simplifying these networks with model pruning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Feiwen Zhu , Jeff Pool , Michael Andersch , Jeremy Appleyard , Fung Xie

Deep learning-based point cloud processing plays an important role in various vision tasks, such as autonomous driving, virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR). The submanifold sparse convolutional network (SSCN) has been widely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-17 Zilun Wang , Wendong Mao , Peixiang Yang , Zhongfeng Wang , Jun Lin

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,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Philippe Magalhães , Virginie Fresse , Benoît Suffran , Olivier Alata

With the rapidly-developing high-speed wireless communications, the 60 GHz millimeter-wave frequency range and radio-over-fiber systems have been investigated as a promising solution to deliver mm-wave signals. Neural networks have been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-20 Jeonghun Lee , Jiayuan He , Ke Wang

Single computation engines have become a popular design choice for FPGA-based convolutional neural networks (CNNs) enabling the deployment of diverse models without fabric reconfiguration. This flexibility, however, often comes with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Stylianos I. Venieris , Javier Fernandez-Marques , Nicholas D. Lane