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Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) is an emerging device for processing-in-memory (PIM) architecture to accelerate convolutional neural network (CNN). However, due to the highly coupled crossbar structure in the RRAM array, it is…
Modern hardware architectures for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), other than targeting high performance, aim at dissipating limited energy. Reducing the data movement cost between the computing cores and the memory is a way to…
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…
Structured sparsity enables deploying large language models (LLMs) on resource-constrained systems. Approaches like dense-to-sparse fine-tuning are particularly compelling, achieving remarkable structured sparsity by reducing the model size…
FPGA architectures have recently been enhanced to meet the substantial computational demands of modern deep neural networks (DNNs). To this end, both FPGA vendors and academic researchers have proposed in-fabric blocks that perform…
Sparse matrix-vector and matrix-matrix multiplication (SpMV and SpMM) are fundamental in both conventional (graph analytics, scientific computing) and emerging (sparse DNN, GNN) domains. Workload-balancing and parallel-reduction are…
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized artificial intelligence, yet their deployment faces significant memory and computational challenges, especially in resource-constrained environments.…
Sparse convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have gained significant traction over the past few years as sparse CNNs can drastically decrease the model size and computations, if exploited befittingly, as compared to their dense counterparts.…
Unstructured pruning reduces the memory footprint in deep neural networks (DNNs). Recently, researchers proposed different types of structural pruning intending to reduce also the computation complexity. In this work, we first suggest a new…
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…
In recent years, Transformer-based language models have become the standard approach for natural language processing tasks. However, stringent throughput and latency requirements in industrial applications are limiting their adoption. To…
Deep learning models have become pivotal in the field of video processing and is increasingly critical in practical applications such as autonomous driving and object detection. Although Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated their…
Network pruning can reduce the high computation cost of deep neural network (DNN) models. However, to maintain their accuracies, sparse models often carry randomly-distributed weights, leading to irregular computations. Consequently, sparse…
The study of sparsity in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has become widespread to compress and accelerate models in environments with limited resources. By constraining N consecutive weights along the output channel to be group-wise…
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have proven to be extremely accurate for image recognition, even outperforming human recognition capability. When deployed on battery-powered mobile devices, efficient computer architectures are required…
Structured sparsity is an efficient way to prune the complexity of modern Machine Learning (ML) applications and to simplify the handling of sparse data in hardware. In such cases, the acceleration of structured-sparse ML models is handled…
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a computationally efficient method to learn embeddings and classifications on graph data. However, GNN training has low computational intensity, making communication costs the bottleneck for scalability.…
Graph Neural Network (GNN) inference is used in many real-world applications. Data sparsity in GNN inference, including sparsity in the input graph and the GNN model, offer opportunities to further speed up inference. Also, many pruning…
Phenomenally successful in practical inference problems, convolutional neural networks (CNN) are widely deployed in mobile devices, data centers, and even supercomputers. The number of parameters needed in CNNs, however, are often large and…