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FPGAs have distinct advantages as a technology for deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) at the edge. Lookup Table (LUT) based networks, where neurons are directly modeled using LUTs, help maximize this promise of offering ultra-low latency…

The massive computational costs associated with large language model (LLM) pretraining have spurred great interest in reduced-precision floating-point representations to accelerate the process. As a result, the BrainFloat16 (BF16) precision…

Mixed Sample Data Augmentation (MSDA) has received increasing attention in recent years, with many successful variants such as MixUp and CutMix. By studying the mutual information between the function learned by a VAE on the original data…

In this work, we introduce an area- and energy-efficient multiply-accumulate (MAC) unit, named Jack unit, that is a jack-of-all-trades, supporting various data formats such as integer (INT), floating point (FP), and microscaling data format…

We describe a method for training accurate Transformer machine-translation models to run inference using 8-bit integer (INT8) hardware matrix multipliers, as opposed to the more costly single-precision floating-point (FP32) hardware. Unlike…

Efficient number representation is essential for federated learning, natural language processing, and network measurement solutions. Due to timing, area, and power constraints, such applications use narrow bit-width (e.g., 8-bit) number…

Given the importance of floating-point~(FP) performance in numerous domains, several new variants of FP and its alternatives have been proposed (e.g., Bfloat16, TensorFloat32, and Posits). These representations do not have correctly rounded…

Matrix factorization (MF) is employed by many popular algorithms, e.g., collaborative filtering. The emerging GPU technology, with massively multicore and high intra-chip memory bandwidth but limited memory capacity, presents an opportunity…

Federated Learning (FL) presents an innovative approach to privacy-preserving distributed machine learning and enables efficient crowd intelligence on a large scale. However, a significant challenge arises when coordinating FL with crowd…

FP8 is a natural progression for accelerating deep learning training inference beyond the 16-bit formats common in modern processors. In this paper we propose an 8-bit floating point (FP8) binary interchange format consisting of two…

In the field of High Performance Computing, communications among processes represent a typical bottleneck for massively parallel scientific applications. Object of this research is the development of a network interface card with specific…

Modern AI accelerators provide high-throughput low-precision matrix engines, but their support for FP32 GEMM is often limited or inefficient. This work presents SGEMM-cube, a precision-recovery FP32 GEMM approximation on Ascend NPUs using…

As recently demonstrated, Deep Neural Networks (DNN), usually trained using single precision IEEE 754 floating point numbers (binary32), can also work using lower precision. Therefore, 16-bit and 8-bit compressed format have attracted…

Modern processors deliver higher throughput for lower-precision arithmetic than for higher-precision arithmetic. For matrix multiplication, the Ozaki scheme exploits this performance gap by splitting the inputs into lower-precision…

Recent demands on data privacy have called for federated learning (FL) as a new distributed learning paradigm in massive and heterogeneous networks. Although many FL algorithms have been proposed, few of them have considered the matrix…

Graph analytics techniques based on spectral methods process extremely large sparse matrices with millions or even billions of non-zero values. Behind these algorithms lies the Top-K sparse eigenproblem, the computation of the largest…

In this paper, we report the results obtained from the acceleration of multi-binary64-type multiple precision matrix multiplication with AVX2. We target double-double (DD), triple-double (TD), and quad-double (QD) precision arithmetic…

Training with larger number of parameters while keeping fast iterations is an increasingly adopted strategy and trend for developing better performing Deep Neural Network (DNN) models. This necessitates increased memory footprint and…

Fine-tuning is a crucial process for adapting large language models (LLMs) to diverse applications. In certain scenarios, such as multi-tenant serving, deploying multiple LLMs becomes necessary to meet complex demands. Recent studies…

This work proposes a mixed learning-based and optimization-based approach to the weighted-sum-rates beamforming problem in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless network. The conventional methods, i.e., the fractional programming…