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Deep convolution Neural Network (DCNN) has been widely used in computer vision tasks. However, for edge devices even inference has too large computational complexity and data access amount. The inference latency of state-of-the-art models…

Many recent works have designed accelerators for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). While digital accelerators have relied on near data processing, analog accelerators have further reduced data movement by performing in-situ computation.…

Convolutional neural network (CNN) is widely used in computer vision applications. In the networks that deal with images, CNNs are the most time-consuming layer of the networks. Usually, the solution to address the computation cost is to…

The wide adoption of deep neural networks has been accompanied by ever-increasing energy and performance demands due to the expensive nature of training them. Numerous special-purpose architectures have been proposed to accelerate training:…

Neural networks are an increasingly attractive algorithm for natural language processing and pattern recognition. Deep networks with >50M parameters are made possible by modern GPU clusters operating at <50 pJ per op and more recently,…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are one of the most successful deep machine learning technologies for processing image, voice and video data. CNNs require large amounts of processing capacity and memory, which can exceed the resources…

Resistive Random-Access Memory (RRAM) is well-suited to accelerate neural network (NN) workloads as RRAM-based Processing-in-Memory (PIM) architectures natively support highly-parallel multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations that form the…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have made breakthroughs in various fields including image recognition and language processing. DNNs execute hundreds of millions of multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) operations. To efficiently accelerate such…

Deconvolution has been widespread in neural networks. For example, it is essential for performing unsupervised learning in generative adversarial networks or constructing fully convolutional networks for semantic segmentation. Resistive RAM…

Resistive Random-Access Memory (ReRAM) crossbar arrays are promising candidates for in-situ matrix-vector multiplication (MVM), a frequent operation in Deep Learning algorithms. Despite their advantages, these emerging non-volatile memories…

Photonic Microring Resonator (MRR) based hardware accelerators have been shown to provide disruptive speedup and energy-efficiency improvements for processing deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, previous MRR-based CNN…

Graph accelerators have emerged as a promising solution for processing large-scale sparse graphs, leveraging the in-situ compu-tation of ReRAM-based crossbars to maximize computational efficiency. However, existing designs suffer from…

A compact, accurate, and bitwidth-programmable in-memory computing (IMC) static random-access memory (SRAM) macro, named CAP-RAM, is presented for energy-efficient convolutional neural network (CNN) inference. It leverages a novel…

Recently, crossbar array based in-memory accelerators have been gaining interest due to their high throughput and energy efficiency. While software and compiler support for the in-memory accelerators has also been introduced, they are…

Emerging nano-scale programmable Resistive-RAM (RRAM) has been identified as a promising technology for implementing brain-inspired computing hardware. Several neural network architectures, that essentially involve computation of scalar…

Hardware accelerators for convolution neural networks (CNNs) enable real-time applications of artificial intelligence technology. However, most of the existing designs suffer from low hardware utilization or high area cost due to complex…

Many edge devices employ Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) to enhance their product intelligence. However, the increasing computation complexity poses challenges for performance, energy efficiency and product development time. In this paper,…

Using Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) crossbars in Computing-in-Memory (CIM) architectures offers a promising solution to overcome the von Neumann bottleneck. Due to non-idealities like cell variability, RRAM crossbars are often…

Convolutional neural network (CNN) accelerators are being widely used for their efficiency, but they require a large amount of memory, leading to the use of a slow and power consuming external memory. This paper exploits two schemes to…

The accuracy of neural networks has greatly improved across various domains over the past years. Their ever-increasing complexity, however, leads to prohibitively high energy demands and latency in von Neumann systems. Several…