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Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are popular models of brain function. The typical training strategy is to adjust their input-output behavior so that it matches that of the biological circuit of interest. Even though this strategy ensures…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-09 Alessandro Salatiello , Martin A. Giese

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

Sparse neural networks have been widely applied to reduce the computational demands of training and deploying over-parameterized deep neural networks. For inference acceleration, methods that discover a sparse network from a pre-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Shiwei Liu , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Yulong Pei , Mykola Pechenizkiy

We study the problem of compressing recurrent neural networks (RNNs). In particular, we focus on the compression of RNN acoustic models, which are motivated by the goal of building compact and accurate speech recognition systems which can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Rohit Prabhavalkar , Ouais Alsharif , Antoine Bruguier , Ian McGraw

With the emergence of massively parallel processing units, parallelization has become a desirable property for new sequence models. The ability to parallelize the processing of sequences with respect to the sequence length during training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Florent De Geeter , Gaspard Lambrechts , Damien Ernst , Guillaume Drion

Recurrent neural networks (RNN) are simple dynamical systems whose computational power has been attributed to their short-term memory. Short-term memory of RNNs has been previously studied analytically only for the case of orthogonal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Alireza Goudarzi , Sarah Marzen , Peter Banda , Guy Feldman , Christof Teuscher , Darko Stefanovic

Recurrent neural networks (RNN) are used in many real-world text and speech applications. They include complex modules such as recurrence, exponential-based activation, gate interaction, unfoldable normalization, bi-directional dependence,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Eyyüb Sari , Vanessa Courville , Vahid Partovi Nia

Exploiting sparsity in deep neural networks (DNNs) has been a promising area for meeting the growing computation requirements. To minimize the overhead of sparse acceleration, hardware designers have proposed structured sparsity support,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Geonhwa Jeong , Po-An Tsai , Abhimanyu R. Bambhaniya , Stephen W. Keckler , Tushar Krishna

We present a comprehensive study of deep bidirectional long short-term memory (LSTM) recurrent neural network (RNN) based acoustic models for automatic speech recognition (ASR). We study the effect of size and depth and train models of up…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Albert Zeyer , Patrick Doetsch , Paul Voigtlaender , Ralf Schlüter , Hermann Ney

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) achieve cutting-edge performance on a variety of problems. However, due to their high computational and memory demands, deploying RNNs on resource constrained mobile devices is a challenging task. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Jie Zhang , Xiaolong Wang , Dawei Li , Yalin Wang

Speech recognition on smart devices is challenging owing to the small memory footprint. Hence small size ASR models are desirable. With the use of popular transducer-based models, it has become possible to practically deploy streaming…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-11 Nauman Dawalatabad , Tushar Vatsal , Ashutosh Gupta , Sungsoo Kim , Shatrughan Singh , Dhananjaya Gowda , Chanwoo Kim

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Zirui Liu , Shengyuan Chen , Kaixiong Zhou , Daochen Zha , Xiao Huang , Xia Hu

Our previously proposed MossFormer has achieved promising performance in monaural speech separation. However, it predominantly adopts a self-attention-based MossFormer module, which tends to emphasize longer-range, coarser-scale…

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) of single channel far-field recordings with an unknown number of speakers is traditionally tackled by cascaded modules. Recent research shows that end-to-end (E2E) multi-speaker ASR models can achieve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-11 Ilya Sklyar , Anna Piunova , Xianrui Zheng , Yulan Liu

We propose Mobile Audio Streaming Networks (MASnet) for efficient low-latency speech enhancement, which is particularly suitable for mobile devices and other applications where computational capacity is a limitation. MASnet processes…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Michał Romaniuk , Piotr Masztalski , Karol Piaskowski , Mateusz Matuszewski

Recurrent neural networks are a powerful tool for modeling sequential data, but the dependence of each timestep's computation on the previous timestep's output limits parallelism and makes RNNs unwieldy for very long sequences. We introduce…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-22 James Bradbury , Stephen Merity , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

Deep Neural Network (DNN) based inference at the edge is challenging as these compute and data-intensive algorithms need to be implemented at low cost and low power while meeting the latency constraints of the target applications. Sparsity,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Adithya Krishna , Srikanth Rohit Nudurupati , Chandana D G , Pritesh Dwivedi , André van Schaik , Mahesh Mehendale , Chetan Singh Thakur

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have been a prominent concept within artificial intelligence. They are inspired by Biological Neural Networks (BNNs) and provide an intuitive and abstract representation of how BNNs work. Derived from the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Stefano Nichele , Andreas Molund

Non-autoregressive (NAR) modeling has gained more and more attention in speech processing. With recent state-of-the-art attention-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) structure, NAR can realize promising real-time factor (RTF)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-21 Tianzi Wang , Yuya Fujita , Xuankai Chang , Shinji Watanabe

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained significant interest for applications such as citation network analysis and drug discovery due to their ability to apply machine learning techniques on graph-structured data. GNNs typically employ a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Siddhartha Raman Sundara Raman , Lizy John , Jaydeep P. Kulkarni