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Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are useful in temporal sequence tasks. However, training RNNs involves dense matrix multiplications which require hardware that can support a large number of arithmetic operations and memory accesses.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Xi Chen , Chang Gao , Zuowen Wang , Longbiao Cheng , Sheng Zhou , Shih-Chii Liu , Tobi Delbruck

Binary neural networks (BNNs) are an attractive solution for developing and deploying deep neural network (DNN)-based applications in resource constrained devices. Despite their success, BNNs still suffer from a fixed and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Riccardo Schiavone , Francesco Galati , Maria A. Zuluaga

The state-of-the-art deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely applied for various real-world applications, and achieved significant performance for cognitive problems. However, the increment of DNNs' width and depth in architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Xiao Peng Li , Qi Liu , Hing Cheung So

Neural networks have dramatically increased our capacity to learn from large, high-dimensional datasets across innumerable disciplines. However, their decisions are not easily interpretable, their computational costs are high, and building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Mackenzie J. Meni , Ryan T. White , Michael Mayo , Kevin Pilkiewicz

Deep neural networks are state-of-the-art models for understanding the content of images, video and raw input data. However, implementing a deep neural network in embedded systems is a challenging task, because a typical deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Xichuan Zhou , Shengli Li , Kai Qin , Kunping Li , Fang Tang , Shengdong Hu , Shujun Liu , Zhi Lin

Contemporary Deep Neural Network (DNN) contains millions of synaptic connections with tens to hundreds of layers. The large computation and memory requirements pose a challenge to the hardware design. In this work, we leverage the intrinsic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Jingyang Zhu , Jingbo Jiang , Xizi Chen , Chi-Ying Tsui

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are used in many applications, but their large size and high computational cost make them hard to run on devices with limited resources. Two widely used techniques to address this challenge are weight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Dan Liu , Nikita Dvornik , Xue Liu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely and successfully applied to various applications, but they require large amounts of memory and computational power. This severely restricts their deployment on resource-limited devices. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Xiang Deng , Zhongfei Zhang

This paper addresses the topic of sparsifying deep neural networks (DNN's). While DNN's are powerful models that achieve state-of-the-art performance on a large number of tasks, the large number of model parameters poses serious storage and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Igor Fedorov , Bhaskar D. Rao

We present a novel network pruning algorithm called Dynamic Sparse Training that can jointly find the optimal network parameters and sparse network structure in a unified optimization process with trainable pruning thresholds. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Junjie Liu , Zhe Xu , Runbin Shi , Ray C. C. Cheung , Hayden K. H. So

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have emerged as a core tool for machine learning. The computations performed during DNN training and inference are dominated by operations on the weight matrices describing the DNN. As DNNs incorporate more…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Jeremy Kepner , Manoj Kumar , José Moreira , Pratap Pattnaik , Mauricio Serrano , Henry Tufo

This paper introduces a method based on a deep neural network (DNN) that is perfectly capable of processing radar data from extremely thinned radar apertures. The proposed DNN processing can provide both aliasing-free radar imaging and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-12 Christian Schuessler , Marcel Hoffmann , Martin Vossiek

The success of DNN pruning has led to the development of energy-efficient inference accelerators that support pruned models with sparse weight and activation tensors. Because the memory layouts and dataflows in these architectures are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Dingqing Yang , Amin Ghasemazar , Xiaowei Ren , Maximilian Golub , Guy Lemieux , Mieszko Lis

Quantization of weights of deep neural networks (DNN) has proven to be an effective solution for the purpose of implementing DNNs on edge devices such as mobiles, ASICs and FPGAs, because they have no sufficient resources to support…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Tianyu Zhang , Lei Zhu , Qian Zhao , Kilho Shin

The brain, as the source of inspiration for Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), is based on a sparse structure. This sparse structure helps the brain to consume less energy, learn easier and generalize patterns better than any other ANN. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Seyed Majid Naji , Azra Abtahi , Farokh Marvasti

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) produce state-of-art performance on many machine learning tasks but their demand on resources in terms of memory and computational power are often high. Therefore, there is a great interest in optimizing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Joachim Ott , Zhouhan Lin , Ying Zhang , Shih-Chii Liu , Yoshua Bengio

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are powerful tools for sequential modeling, but typically require significant overparameterization and regularization to achieve optimal performance. This leads to difficulties in the deployment of large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Charles C. Onu , Jacob E. Miller , Doina Precup

Despite their tremendous success and versatility, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) such as Large Language Models (LLMs) suffer from inference inefficiency and rely on advanced computational infrastructure. To address these challenges and make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Mohsen Dehghankar , Mahdi Erfanian , Abolfazl Asudeh

The extensive need for computational resources poses a significant obstacle to deploying large-scale Deep Neural Networks (DNN) on devices with constrained resources. At the same time, studies have demonstrated that a significant number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Yehonathan Refael , Iftach Arbel , Wasim Huleihel

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are reported to be overparametrized. The search for optimal (minimal) and sufficient architecture is an NP-hard problem as the hyperparameter space for possible network configurations is vast. Here, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Tin Barisin , Illia Horenko