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Convolution neural network demonstrates great capability for multiple tasks, such as image classification and many others. However, much resource is required to train a network. Hence much effort has been made to accelerate neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Fuyuan Lyu , Shien Zhu , Weichen Liu

Optical neural networks (ONN) based on micro-ring resonators (MRR) have emerged as a promising alternative to significantly accelerating the massive matrix-vector multiplication (MVM) operations in artificial intelligence (AI) applications.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Bo Xu , Yuetong Fang , Shaoliang Yu , Renjing Xu

Resistive random-access memory (RRAM) is gaining popularity due to its ability to offer computing within the memory and its non-volatile nature. The unique properties of RRAM, such as binary switching, multi-state switching, and device…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Simranjeet Singh , Farhad Merchant , Sachin Patkar

Computational workloads are growing exponentially, driving power consumption to unsustainable levels. Efficiently distributing large-scale networks is an NP-Complete problem equivalent to Boolean satisfiability (SAT), making it one of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Everest Bloomer , Irem Didin , Ching-Yi Lin , Sahil Shah

Binary neural networks utilize 1-bit quantized weights and activations to reduce both the model's storage demands and computational burden. However, advanced binary architectures still incorporate millions of inefficient and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Ruichen Ma , Guanchao Qiao , Yian Liu , Liwei Meng , Ning Ning , Yang Liu , Shaogang Hu

Resistance switching random access memory (ReRAM), with the ability to repeatedly modulate electrical resistance, has been highlighted as a feasible high-density memory with the potential to replace negative-AND (NAND) flash memory. Such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 Yang Lu , Jung Ho Yoon , Yanhao Dong , I-Wei Chen

The high computation and memory storage of large deep neural networks (DNNs) models pose intensive challenges to the conventional Von-Neumann architecture, incurring substantial data movements in the memory hierarchy. The memristor crossbar…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Geng Yuan , Xiaolong Ma , Caiwen Ding , Sheng Lin , Tianyun Zhang , Zeinab S. Jalali , Yilong Zhao , Li Jiang , Sucheta Soundarajan , Yanzhi Wang

Recent trends show recognition accuracy increasing even more profoundly. Inference process of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) has a large number of parameters, requires a large amount of computation, and can be very slow. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Ryuji Kamiya , Takayoshi Yamashita , Mitsuru Ambai , Ikuro Sato , Yuji Yamauchi , Hironobu Fujiyoshi

Since its invention, Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown outstanding results in many applications. Generative Adversarial Networks are powerful yet, resource-hungry deep-learning models. Their main difference from ordinary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Dina Tantawy , Mohamed Zahran , Amr Wassal

Deep neural networks (DNN) have demonstrated effectiveness for various applications such as image processing, video segmentation, and speech recognition. Running state-of-the-art DNNs on current systems mostly relies on either…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Mohsen Imani , Mohammad Samragh , Yeseong Kim , Saransh Gupta , Farinaz Koushanfar , Tajana Rosing

Neural networks powered by artificial intelligence play a pivotal role in current estimation and classification applications due to the escalating computational demands of evolving deep learning systems. The hindrances posed by existing…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-06 Wenwen Zhang , Hao Zhang

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are becoming the de facto solution for speech recognition. RNNs exploit long-term temporal relationships in data by applying repeated, learned transformations. Unlike fully-connected (FC) layers with single…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-27 Udit Gupta , Brandon Reagen , Lillian Pentecost , Marco Donato , Thierry Tambe , Alexander M. Rush , Gu-Yeon Wei , David Brooks

Graph Neural Network (GNN) is a variant of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) operating on graphs. However, GNNs are more complex compared to traditional DNNs as they simultaneously exhibit features of both DNN and graph applications. As a result,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Aqeeb Iqbal Arka , Biresh Kumar Joardar , Janardhan Rao Doppa , Partha Pratim Pande , Krishnendu Chakrabarty

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been proven to be extremely successful at solving computer vision tasks. State-of-the-art methods favor such deep network architectures for its accuracy performance, with the cost of having massive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Jiahui Huang , Kshitij Dwivedi , Gemma Roig

The increasing computational demands of modern AI systems have exposed fundamental limitations of digital hardware, driving interest in alternative paradigms for efficient large-scale inference. Dense Associative Memory (DenseAM) is a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Marc Gong Bacvanski , Xincheng You , John Hopfield , Dmitry Krotov

Traditional von Neumann architecture based processors become inefficient in terms of energy and throughput as they involve separate processing and memory units, also known as~\textit{memory wall}. The memory wall problem is further…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-20 Abhash Kumar , Jawar Singh , Sai Manohar Beeraka , Bharat Gupta

Due to the crossbar array architecture, the sneak-path problem severely degrades the data integrity in the resistive random access memory (ReRAM). In this letter, we investigate the channel quantizer design for ReRAM arrays with multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Zhen Mei , Kui Cai , Long Shi , Jun Li

Memristive crossbars can efficiently implement Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) wherein the weights are stored in high-resistance states (HRS) and low-resistance states (LRS) of the synapses. We propose SwitchX mapping of BNN weights onto…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Abhiroop Bhattacharjee , Priyadarshini Panda

This paper presents an implementation of multilayer feed forward neural networks (NN) to optimize CMOS analog circuits. For modeling and design recently neural network computational modules have got acceptance as an unorthodox and useful…

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The human brain simultaneously optimizes synaptic weights and topology by growing, pruning, and strengthening synapses while performing all computation entirely in memory. In contrast, modern artificial-intelligence systems separate weight…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Songqi Wang , Yue Zhang , Jia Chen , Xinyuan Zhang , Yi Li , Ning Lin , Yangu He , Jichang Yang , Yingjie Yu , Yi Li , Zhongrui Wang , Xiaojuan Qi , Han Wang