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The state-of-art DNN structures involve intensive computation and high memory storage. To mitigate the challenges, the memristor crossbar array has emerged as an intrinsically suitable matrix computation and low-power acceleration framework…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have revolutionized the field of artificial intelligence and have achieved unprecedented success in cognitive tasks such as image and speech recognition. Training of large DNNs, however, is computationally…

Emerging non-volatile memory (NVM)-based Computing-in-Memory (CiM) architectures show substantial promise in accelerating deep neural networks (DNNs) due to their exceptional energy efficiency. However, NVM devices are prone to device…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Zheyu Yan , Xiaobo Sharon Hu , Yiyu Shi

We present VitaLLM, a mixed precision accelerator that enables ternary weight large language models to run efficiently on edge devices. The design combines two compute cores, a multiplier free TINT core for ternary-INT projections and a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Zi-Wei Lin , Tian-Sheuan Chang

Accommodating all the weights on-chip for large-scale NNs remains a great challenge for SRAM based computing-in-memory (SRAM-CIM) with limited on-chip capacity. Previous non-volatile SRAM-CIM (nvSRAM-CIM) addresses this issue by integrating…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Dengfeng Wang , Liukai Xu , Songyuan Liu , Zhi Li , Yiming Chen , Weifeng He , Xueqing Li , Yanan Sun

Applications of Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are promising for embedded systems with hard constraints on computing power. Contrary to conventional neural networks with the floating-point datatype, BNNs use binarized weights and activations…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Mahdi Zahedi , Taha Shahroodi , Stephan Wong , Said Hamdioui

Deep learning (DL) models are piquing high interest and scaling at an unprecedented rate. To this end, a handful of tiled accelerators have been proposed to support such large-scale training tasks. However, these accelerators often…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Jiahao Fang , Huizheng Wang , Qize Yang , Dehao Kong , Xu Dai , Jinyi Deng , Yang Hu , Shouyi Yin

In this paper, we propose StruM, a novel structured mixed-precision-based deep learning inference method, co-designed with its associated hardware accelerator (DPU), to address the escalating computational and memory demands of deep…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Michael Wu , Arnab Raha , Deepak A. Mathaikutty , Martin Langhammer , Engin Tunali , Daksha Sharma

Traditional computers with von Neumann architecture are unable to meet the latency and scalability challenges of Deep Neural Network (DNN) workloads. Various DNN accelerators based on Conventional compute Hardware Accelerator (CHA),…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Tom Glint , Chandan Kumar Jha , Manu Awasthi , Joycee Mekie

Compute-in-memory (CIM) accelerators for spiking neural networks (SNNs) are promising solutions to enable $\mu$s-level inference latency and ultra-low energy in edge vision applications. Yet, their current lack of flexibility at both the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Nicolas Chauvaux , Adrian Kneip , Christoph Posch , Kofi Makinwa , Charlotte Frenkel

Computing-in-memory (CIM) has attracted significant attentions in recent years due to its massive parallelism and low power consumption. However, current CIM designs suffer from large area overhead of small CIM macros and bad programmablity…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Shu-Hung Kuo , Tian-Sheuan Chang

The design of systems implementing low precision neural networks with emerging memories such as resistive random access memory (RRAM) is a major lead for reducing the energy consumption of artificial intelligence (AI). Multiple works have…

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become state-of-the art for computer vision and other signal processing tasks due to their superior accuracy. In recent years, large efforts have been made to reduce the computational costs of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Mario Fischer , Juergen Wassner

Computing-in-Memory architectures based on non-volatile emerging memories have demonstrated great potential for deep neural network (DNN) acceleration thanks to their high energy efficiency. However, these emerging devices can suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Zheyu Yan , Xiaobo Sharon Hu , Yiyu Shi

Computing-in-Memory (CiM) architectures based on emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) devices have demonstrated great potential for deep neural network (DNN) acceleration thanks to their high energy efficiency. However, NVM devices suffer…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Zheyu Yan , Xiaobo Sharon Hu , Yiyu Shi

Architectures that incorporate Computing-in-Memory (CiM) using emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) devices have become strong contenders for deep neural network (DNN) acceleration due to their impressive energy efficiency. Yet, a significant…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Zheyu Yan , Xiaobo Sharon Hu , Yiyu Shi

Deep neural networks (DNN) have shown superior performance in a variety of tasks. As they rapidly evolve, their escalating computation and memory demands make it challenging to deploy them on resource-constrained edge devices. Though…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Jiaqi Gu , Hanqing Zhu , Chenghao Feng , Mingjie Liu , Zixuan Jiang , Ray T. Chen , David Z. Pan

Embedded deep learning platforms have witnessed two simultaneous improvements. First, the accuracy of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has been significantly improved through the use of automated neural-architecture search (NAS)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Lile Cai , Anne-Maelle Barneche , Arthur Herbout , Chuan Sheng Foo , Jie Lin , Vijay Ramaseshan Chandrasekhar , Mohamed M. Sabry

Non-volatile memory (NVM) crossbars have been identified as a promising technology, for accelerating important machine learning operations, with matrix-vector multiplication being a key example. Binary neural networks (BNNs) are especially…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Ruirong Huang , Zichao Yue , Caroline Huang , Janarbek Matai , Zhiru Zhang

Recently, analog compute-in-memory (CIM) architectures based on emerging analog non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies have been explored for deep neural networks (DNN) to improve energy efficiency. Such architectures, however, leverage…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 Zhe Wan , Tianyi Wang , Yiming Zhou , Subramanian S. Iyer , Vwani P. Roychowdhury