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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have emerged as a fundamental technology for machine learning. High performance and extreme energy efficiency are critical for deployments of CNNs in a wide range of situations, especially mobile…

The training of graph neural networks (GNNs) is extremely time consuming because sparse graph-based operations are hard to be accelerated by hardware. Prior art explores trading off the computational precision to reduce the time complexity…

Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) applications form a major class of AI-powered, low-latency data center workloads. Most execution models for RNN acceleration break computation graphs into BLAS kernels, which lead to significant inter-kernel…

In-memory computing is becoming a popular architecture for deep-learning hardware accelerators recently due to its highly parallel computing, low power, and low area cost. However, in-RRAM computing (IRC) suffered from large device…

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely employed in modern computer vision algorithms, where the input image is convolved iteratively by many kernels to extract the knowledge behind it. However, with the depth of convolutional…

Quantized CNN inference on ultra-low-power MCUs incurs unnecessary computations in neurons that produce saturated output values. These values are too extreme and are eventually clamped to the boundaries allowed by the neuron. Often times,…

Convolutional neural network (CNN) achieves excellent performance on fascinating tasks such as image recognition and natural language processing at the cost of high power consumption. Stochastic computing (SC) is an attractive paradigm…

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…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art accuracy in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Automatic Target Recognition (ATR). However, their high computational cost, latency, and memory footprint make its deployment…

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have made impressive progress in many video recognition tasks such as video pose estimation and video object detection. However, CNN inference on video is computationally expensive due to processing…

There is widespread interest in emerging technologies, especially resistive crossbars for accelerating Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Resistive crossbars offer a highly-parallel and efficient matrix-vector-multiplication (MVM) operation. MVM…

The primary operation in DNNs is the dot product of quantized input activations and weights. Prior works have proposed the design of memory-centric architectures based on the Processing-In-Memory (PIM) paradigm. Resistive RAM (ReRAM)…

Deep neural network (DNN) inference using reduced integer precision has been shown to achieve significant improvements in memory utilization and compute throughput with little or no accuracy loss compared to full-precision floating-point.…

Loom (LM), a hardware inference accelerator for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is presented. In LM every bit of data precision that can be saved translates to proportional performance gains. Specifically, for convolutional layers LM's…

The objective of this study is to illustrate the process of training a Deep Neural Network (DNN) within a Resistive RAM (ReRAM) Crossbar-based simulation environment using CrossSim, an Application Programming Interface (API) developed for…

DRAM-based in-situ accelerators have shown their potential in addressing the memory wall challenge of the traditional von Neumann architecture. Such accelerators exploit charge sharing or logic circuits for simple logic operations at the…

Resistive In-Memory Computing (RIMC) offers ultra-efficient computation for edge AI but faces accuracy degradation due to RRAM conductance drift over time. Traditional retraining methods are limited by RRAM's high energy consumption, write…

Emerging resistive-crossbar memory (RCM) technology can be promising for computationally-expensive analog pattern-matching tasks. However, the use of CMOS analog-circuits with RCM would result in large power-consumption and poor…

Crossbar architecture based devices have been widely adopted in neural network accelerators by taking advantage of the high efficiency on vector-matrix multiplication (VMM) operations. However, in the case of convolutional neural networks…

The increasing amount of data processed on edge and the demand for reducing the energy consumption for large neural network architectures have initiated the transition from traditional von Neumann architectures towards in-memory computing…