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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), a prominent type of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), have emerged as a state-of-the-art solution for solving machine learning tasks. To improve the performance and energy efficiency of CNN inference, the…

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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…

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Overlays have shown significant promise for field-programmable gate-arrays (FPGAs) as they allow for fast development cycles and remove many of the challenges of the traditional FPGA hardware design flow. However, this often comes with a…

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Video and image streaming on edge devices requires low latency. To address this, Neural Networks (NNs) are widely used, and prior work mainly focuses on accelerating them with single hardware units such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs),…

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Neural networks have demonstrated their outstanding performance in a wide range of tasks. Specifically recurrent architectures based on long-short term memory (LSTM) cells have manifested excellent capability to model time dependencies in…

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Deformable convolutional networks have demonstrated outstanding performance in object recognition tasks with an effective feature extraction. Unlike standard convolution, the deformable convolution decides the receptive field size using…

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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) has become more popular choice for various tasks such as computer vision, speech recognition and natural language processing. Thanks to their large computational capability and throughput, GPUs ,which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Natan Liss , Chaim Baskin , Avi Mendelson , Alex M. Bronstein , Raja Giryes

Transformer neural networks (TNNs) are being applied across a widening range of application domains, including natural language processing (NLP), machine translation, and computer vision (CV). Their popularity is largely attributed to the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Ehsan Kabir , Md. Arafat Kabir , Austin R. J. Downey , Jason D. Bakos , David Andrews , Miaoqing Huang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are state-of-the-art in numerous computer vision tasks such as object classification and detection. However, the large amount of parameters they contain leads to a high computational complexity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Ghouthi Boukli Hacene , Vincent Gripon , Matthieu Arzel , Nicolas Farrugia , Yoshua Bengio

RRAM-based multi-core systems improve the energy efficiency and performance of CNNs. Thereby, the distributed parallel execution of convolutional layers causes critical data dependencies that limit the potential speedup. This paper presents…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Rebecca Pelke , Nils Bosbach , Jose Cubero , Felix Staudigl , Rainer Leupers , Jan Moritz Joseph

The state-of-the-art accelerators for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) typically focus on accelerating only the convolutional layers, but do not prioritize the fully-connected layers much. Hence, they lack a synergistic optimization of…

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High-order tensor decomposition has been widely adopted to obtain compact deep neural networks for edge deployment. However, existing studies focus primarily on its algorithmic advantages such as accuracy and compression ratio-while…

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Running deep neural networks on microcontroller units (MCUs) is severely constrained by limited memory resources. While TinyML techniques reduce model size and computation, they often fail in practice due to excessive peak Random Access…

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An accelerator is a specialized integrated circuit designed to perform specific computations faster than if those were performed by CPU or GPU. A Field-Programmable DNN learning and inference accelerator (FProg-DNN) using hybrid systolic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Luiz M Franca-Neto

Efficient and timely calculations of Machine Learning (ML) algorithms are essential for emerging technologies like autonomous driving, the Internet of Things (IoT), and edge computing. One of the primary ML algorithms used in such systems…

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Many FPGAs vendors have recently included embedded processors in their devices, like Xilinx with ARM-Cortex A cores, together with programmable logic cells. These devices are known as Programmable System on Chip (PSoC). Their ARM cores…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-05 A. Rios-Navarro , R. Tapiador-Morales , A. Jimenez-Fernandez , M. Dominguez-Morales , C. Amaya , A. Linares-Barranco

We report FPGA implementation results of low precision CNN convolution layers optimized for sparse and constant parameters. We describe techniques that amortizes the cost of common factor multiplication and automatically leverage dense hand…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Thiam Khean Hah , Yeong Tat Liew , Jason Ong

The deep learning accelerator is one of the methods to accelerate deep learning network computations, which is mainly based on convolutional neural network acceleration. To address the fact that concurrent convolutional neural network…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Shi Shi

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) require high throughput hardware accelerators for real time applications owing to their huge computational cost. Most traditional CNN accelerators rely on single core, linear processing elements (PEs) in…

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