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Over the past few years, deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved tremendous success and have been continuously applied in many application domains. However, during the practical deployment in the industrial tasks, DNNs are found to be…

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Current state-of-the-art employs approximate multipliers to address the highly increased power demands of DNN accelerators. However, evaluating the accuracy of approximate DNNs is cumbersome due to the lack of adequate support for…

Exploiting sparsity in deep neural networks (DNNs) has been a promising area for meeting the growing computation requirements. To minimize the overhead of sparse acceleration, hardware designers have proposed structured sparsity support,…