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We present both a novel Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) accelerator architecture and a network compiler for FPGAs that outperforms all prior work. Instead of having generic processing elements that together process one layer at a time,…
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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are extremely computationally demanding, presenting a large barrier to their deployment on resource-constrained devices. Since such systems are where some of their most useful applications lie (e.g.…
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Conventional deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) apply convolution operators uniformly in space across all feature maps for hundreds of layers - this incurs a high computational cost for real-time applications. For many problems such…
Deep convolutional neural networks have liberated its extraordinary power on various tasks. However, it is still very challenging to deploy state-of-the-art models into real-world applications due to their high computational complexity. How…
Weight pruning methods of DNNs have been demonstrated to achieve a good model pruning rate without loss of accuracy, thereby alleviating the significant computation/storage requirements of large-scale DNNs. Structured weight pruning methods…
During the last years, algorithms known as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) had become increasingly popular, expanding its application range to several areas. In particular, the image processing field has experienced a remarkable…
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) combine large amounts of parallelizable computation with frequent memory access. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) can achieve low latency and high throughput CNN inference by implementing dataflow…
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely employed in many applications such as image classification, video analysis and speech recognition. Being compute-intensive, CNN computations are mainly accelerated by GPUs with high…
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are currently adopted to solve an ever greater number of problems, ranging from speech recognition to image classification and segmentation. The large amount of processing required by CNNs calls for…
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are becoming a common presence in many applications and services, due to their superior recognition accuracy. They are increasingly being used on mobile devices, many times just by porting large models…
Weight pruning is among the most popular approaches for compressing deep convolutional neural networks. Recent work suggests that in a randomly initialized deep neural network, there exist sparse subnetworks that achieve performance…
While CNNs naturally lend themselves to densely sampled data, and sophisticated implementations are available, they lack the ability to efficiently process sparse data. In this work we introduce a suite of tools that exploit sparsity in…
In trained deep neural networks, unstructured pruning can reduce redundant weights to lower storage cost. However, it requires the customization of hardwares to speed up practical inference. Another trend accelerates sparse model inference…
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…
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) reach high accuracies in various application domains, but require large amounts of computation and incur costly data movements. One method to decrease these costs while trading accuracy is weight and/or…
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely used in deep learning applications, e.g. visual systems, robotics etc. However, existing software solutions are not efficient. Therefore, many hardware accelerators have been proposed…
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In recent years, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based methods have achieved great success in a large number of applications and have been among the most powerful and widely used techniques in computer vision. However, CNN-based methods…