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CNNs achieve remarkable performance by leveraging deep, over-parametrized architectures, trained on large datasets. However, they have limited generalization ability to data outside the training domain, and a lack of robustness to noise and…

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in a wide range of applications. However, deeper CNN models, which are usually computation consuming, are widely required for complex Artificial…

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We introduce an automated tool for deploying ultra low-latency, low-power deep neural networks with convolutional layers on FPGAs. By extending the hls4ml library, we demonstrate an inference latency of $5\,\mu$s using convolutional…

Though CNNs are highly parallel workloads, in the absence of efficient on-chip memory reuse techniques, an accelerator for them quickly becomes memory bound. In this paper, we propose a CNN accelerator design for inference that is able to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Kingshuk Majumder , Shubham Nema , Uday Bondhugula

Recent researches on neural network have shown significant advantage in machine learning over traditional algorithms based on handcrafted features and models. Neural network is now widely adopted in regions like image, speech and video…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Kaiyuan Guo , Shulin Zeng , Jincheng Yu , Yu Wang , Huazhong Yang

Deep convolution neural network has achieved great success in many artificial intelligence applications. However, its enormous model size and massive computation cost have become the main obstacle for deployment of such powerful algorithm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Zhezhi He , Boqing Gong , Deliang Fan

Deep networks are now able to achieve human-level performance on a broad spectrum of recognition tasks. Independently, neuromorphic computing has now demonstrated unprecedented energy-efficiency through a new chip architecture based on…

Nowadays most research in visual recognition using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) follows the "deeper model with deeper confidence" belief to gain a higher recognition accuracy. At the same time, deeper model brings heavier…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Mohammad Farhadi , Mehdi Ghasemi , Yezhou Yang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) emerge as a powerful approach to process non-euclidean data structures and have been proved powerful in various application domains such as social networks and e-commerce. While such graph data maintained in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Shengwen Liang , Ying Wang , Cheng Liu , Lei He , Huawei Li , Xiaowei Li

Convolutional Neural Networks have rapidly become the most successful machine learning algorithm, enabling ubiquitous machine vision and intelligent decisions on even embedded computing-systems. While the underlying arithmetic is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Michaela Blott , Thomas Preusser , Nicholas Fraser , Giulio Gambardella , Kenneth O'Brien , Yaman Umuroglu

Neural Networks are function approximators that have achieved state-of-the-art accuracy in numerous machine learning tasks. In spite of their great success in terms of accuracy, their large training time makes it difficult to use them for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Abhishek Sinha , Mausoom Sarkar , Aahitagni Mukherjee , Balaji Krishnamurthy

Network compression reduces the computational complexity and memory consumption of deep neural networks by reducing the number of parameters. In SVD-based network compression, the right rank needs to be decided for every layer of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Hyeji Kim , Muhammad Umar Karim Khan , Chong-Min Kyung

Binary neural networks (BNNs) have 1-bit weights and activations. Such networks are well suited for FPGAs, as their dominant computations are bitwise arithmetic and the memory requirement is also significantly reduced. However, compared to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Yichi Zhang , Junhao Pan , Xinheng Liu , Hongzheng Chen , Deming Chen , Zhiru Zhang

Ternary and binary neural networks enable multiplication-free computation and promise multiple orders of magnitude efficiency gains over full-precision networks if implemented on specialized hardware. However, since both the parameter and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Zechun Liu , Barlas Oguz , Aasish Pappu , Yangyang Shi , Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are becoming increasingly important for time series-related applications which require efficient and real-time implementations. The recent pruning based work ESE suffers from degradation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Zhe Li , Shuo Wang , Caiwen Ding , Qinru Qiu , Yanzhi Wang , Yun Liang

Deep convolutional neural network (CNN) inference requires significant amount of memory and computation, which limits its deployment on embedded devices. To alleviate these problems to some extent, prior research utilize low precision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Liangzhen Lai , Naveen Suda , Vikas Chandra

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have shown excellent performance in processing sequence data. However, they are both complex and memory intensive due to their recursive nature. These limitations make RNNs difficult to embed on mobile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Arash Ardakani , Zhengyun Ji , Sean C. Smithson , Brett H. Meyer , Warren J. Gross

Deep neural networks (DNNs) can be made hardware-efficient by reducing the numerical precision of the weights and activations of the network and by improving the network's resilience to noise. However, this gain in efficiency often comes at…

Deep neural networks can suffer from the exploding and vanishing activation problem, in which the networks fail to train properly because the neural signals either amplify or attenuate across the layers and become saturated. While other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Hao-Yuan Chang , Kang L. Wang

Tensor neural networks (TNNs) have demonstrated their superiority in solving high-dimensional problems. However, similar to conventional neural networks, TNNs are also influenced by the Frequency Principle, which limits their ability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Jizu Huang , Yue Qiu , Rukang You