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Machine learning applications are computationally demanding and power intensive. Hardware acceleration of these software tools is a natural step being explored using various technologies. A recurrent processing unit (RPU) is fast and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Heidi Komkov , Alessandro Restelli , Brian Hunt , Liam Shaughnessy , Itamar Shani , Daniel P. Lathrop

Many hardware vendors have introduced specialized deep neural networks (DNN) accelerators owing to their superior performance and efficiency. As such, how to generate and optimize the code for the hardware accelerator becomes an important…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Zihan Liu , Jingwen Leng , Quan Chen , Chao Li , Wenli Zheng , Li Li , Minyi Guo

Networks-on-Chips (NoCs) recently became widely used, from multi-core CPUs to edge-AI accelerators. Emulation on FPGAs promises to accelerate their RTL modeling compared to slow simulations. However, realistic test stimuli are challenging…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Yee Yang Tan , Felix Staudigl , Lukas Jünger , Anna Drewes , Rainer Leupers , Jan Moritz Joseph

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Martin Ferianc , Zhiqiang Que , Hongxiang Fan , Wayne Luk , Miguel Rodrigues

As machine learning applications continue to evolve, the demand for efficient hardware accelerators, specifically tailored for deep neural networks (DNNs), becomes increasingly vital. In this paper, we propose a configurable memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Oliver Bause , Paul Palomero Bernardo , Oliver Bringmann

In many neuromorphic workflows, simulators play a vital role for important tasks such as training spiking neural networks (SNNs), running neuroscience simulations, and designing, implementing and testing neuromorphic algorithms. Currently…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Prasanna Date , Chathika Gunaratne , Shruti Kulkarni , Robert Patton , Mark Coletti , Thomas Potok

In this paper, we use graphics processing units(GPU) to accelerate sparse and arbitrary structured neural networks. Sparse networks have nodes in the network that are not fully connected with nodes in preceding and following layers, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Aavaas Gajurel , Sushil J. Louis , Frederick C Harris

In recent years, deep neural networks (DNN) have demonstrated significant business impact in large scale analysis and classification tasks such as speech recognition, visual object detection, pattern extraction, etc. Training of large DNNs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Tayfun Gokmen , Yurii Vlasov

Designing hardware accelerators for deep neural networks (DNNs) has been much desired. Nonetheless, most of these existing accelerators are built for either convolutional neural networks (CNNs) or recurrent neural networks (RNNs). Recently,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-21 Siyuan Lu , Meiqi Wang , Shuang Liang , Jun Lin , Zhongfeng Wang

Recent efforts to improve the performance of neural network (NN) accelerators that meet today's application requirements have given rise to a new trend of logic-based NN inference relying on fixed-function combinational logic (FFCL). This…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Jingkai Hong , Arash Fayyazi , Amirhossein Esmaili , Mahdi Nazemi , Massoud Pedram

Deep neural networks (DNNs) offer plenty of challenges in executing efficient computation at edge nodes, primarily due to the huge hardware resource demands. The article proposes HYDRA, hybrid data multiplexing, and runtime layer…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Sonu Kumar , Komal Gupta , Gopal Raut , Mukul Lokhande , Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma

This paper introduces and evaluates a freely available cellular nonlinear network simulator optimized for the effective use of GPUs, to achieve fast modelling and simulations. Its relevance is demonstrated for several applications in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Radu Dogaru , Ioana Dogaru

With the growing demand for deploying deep learning models to the "edge", it is paramount to develop techniques that allow to execute state-of-the-art models within very tight and limited resource constraints. In this work we propose a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Simon Wiedemann , Suhas Shivapakash , Pablo Wiedemann , Daniel Becking , Wojciech Samek , Friedel Gerfers , Thomas Wiegand

Computing at the edge is important in remote settings, however, conventional hardware is not optimized for utilizing deep neural networks. The Google Edge TPU is an emerging hardware accelerator that is cost, power and speed efficient, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Yipeng Sun , Andreas M Kist

Deep learning (DL) has emerged as a rapidly developing advanced technology, enabling the performance of complex tasks involving image recognition, natural language processing, and autonomous decision-making with high levels of accuracy.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Soumita Chatterjee , Sudip Ghosh , Tamal Ghosh , Hafizur Rahaman

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional proficiency in understanding and generating human language, but efficient inference on resource-constrained embedded devices remains challenging due to large model sizes and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Weihong Xu , Haein Choi , Po-kai Hsu , Shimeng Yu , Tajana Rosing

The increase in open-source availability of Large Language Models (LLMs) has enabled users to deploy them on more and more resource-constrained edge devices to reduce reliance on network connections and provide more privacy. However, the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Jude Haris , Rappy Saha , Wenhao Hu , José Cano

Recently, the demand of low-power deep-learning hardware for industrial applications has been increasing. Most existing artificial intelligence (AI) chips have evolved to rely on new chip technologies rather than on radically new hardware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Byungik Ahn

In recent years Deep Learning reached significant results in many practical problems, such as computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition and many others. For many years the main goal of the research was to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Alexey Letunovskiy , Vladimir Korviakov , Vladimir Polovnikov , Anastasiia Kargapoltseva , Ivan Mazurenko , Yepan Xiong

In this paper, we describe the algorithms we implemented in FDPS to make efficient use of accelerator hardware such as GPGPUs. We have developed FDPS to make it possible for many researchers to develop their own high-performance parallel…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Masaki Iwasawa , Daisuke Namekata , Keigo Nitadori , Kentaro Nomura , Long Wang , Miyuki Tsubouchi , Junichiro Makino