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Highly distributed training of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on future compute platforms (offering 100 of TeraOps/s of computational capacity) is expected to be severely communication constrained. To overcome this limitation, new gradient…

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Design space exploration (DSE) is critical for developing optimized hardware architectures, especially for AI workloads such as deep neural networks (DNNs) and large language models (LLMs), which require specialized acceleration. As model…

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Achieving high accuracy, while maintaining good energy efficiency, in analog DNN accelerators is challenging as high-precision data converters are expensive. In this paper, we overcome this challenge by using the residue number system (RNS)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Cansu Demirkiran , Rashmi Agrawal , Vijay Janapa Reddi , Darius Bunandar , Ajay Joshi

The creation of practical deep learning data-products often requires parallelization across processors and computers to make deep learning feasible on large data sets, but bottlenecks in communication bandwidth make it difficult to attain…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Tim Dettmers

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been extremely successful in solving many challenging AI tasks in natural language processing, speech recognition, and computer vision nowadays. However, DNNs are typically computation intensive, memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Cody Blakeney , Xiaomin Li , Yan Yan , Ziliang Zong

Recent technological advances have proliferated the available computing power, memory, and speed of modern Central Processing Units (CPUs), Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Consequently, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Corey Lammie , Wei Xiang , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

In this article, we investigate the impact of architectural parameters of array-based DNN accelerators on accelerator's energy consumption and performance in a wide variety of network topologies. For this purpose, we have developed a tool…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Mohammad Ali Maleki , Mehdi Kamal , Ali Afzali-Kusha

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been shown to achieve optimal approximation and estimation error rates (in minimax sense) in several function classes. However, previous analyzed optimal CNNs are unrealistically wide and difficult…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-15 Kenta Oono , Taiji Suzuki

The last decade has witnessed the breakthrough of deep neural networks (DNNs) in many fields. With the increasing depth of DNNs, hundreds of millions of multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) operations need to be executed. To accelerate such…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Amro Eldebiky , Grace Li Zhang , Georg Boecherer , Bing Li , Ulf Schlichtmann

Deep neural networks (DNN) have achieved remarkable success in various fields, including computer vision and natural language processing. However, training an effective DNN model still poses challenges. This paper aims to propose a method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Hejie Ying , Mengmeng Song , Yaohong Tang , Shungen Xiao , Zimin Xiao

Convolutional neural network (CNN) has been widely used for vision-based tasks. Due to the high computational complexity and memory storage requirement, it is hard to directly deploy a full-precision CNN on embedded devices. The…

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We develop an Accelerated Back Pressure (ABP) algorithm using Accelerated Dual Descent (ADD), a distributed approximate Newton-like algorithm that only uses local information. Our construction is based on writing the backpressure algorithm…

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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely employed in many applications such as image classification, video analysis and speech recognition. Being compute-intensive, CNN computations are mainly accelerated by GPUs with high…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-09 Dong Wang , Jianjing An , Ke Xu

While Deep Learning (DL) technologies are a promising tool to solve networking problems that map to classification tasks, their computational complexity is still too high with respect to real-time traffic measurements requirements. To…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Alessandro Finamore , James Roberts , Massimo Gallo , Dario Rossi

Applications in the AI and HPC fields require much memory capacity, and the amount of energy consumed by main memory of server machines is ever increasing. Energy consumption of main memory can be greatly reduced by applying approximate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Shinsuke Hamada , Soramichi Akiyama , Mitaro Namiki

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are computationally and memory intensive, which makes their hardware implementation a challenging task especially for resource constrained devices such as IoT nodes. To address this challenge, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Mohammed F. Tolba , Huruy Tekle Tesfai , Hani Saleh , Baker Mohammad , Mahmoud Al-Qutayri

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved great success in the area of computer vision. The disparity estimation problem tends to be addressed by DNNs which achieve much better prediction accuracy than traditional hand-crafted feature-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Qiang Wang , Shaohuai Shi , Shizhen Zheng , Kaiyong Zhao , Xiaowen Chu

In this paper, we consider approximating the parameter-to-solution maps of parametric partial differential equations (PPDEs) using deep neural networks (DNNs). We propose an efficient approach combining reduced collocation methods (RCMs)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Guanhang Lei , Zhen Lei , Lei Shi , Chenyu Zeng

The exponential emergence of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) has accelerated the research of hardware implementation of Deep Neural Network (DNN). Among all DNN processors, domain specific architectures, such as, Google's Tensor…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Rourab Paul , Sreetama Sarkar , Suman Sau , Koushik Chakraborty , Sanghamitra Roy , Amlan Chakrabarti

This work investigates how using reduced precision data in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) affects network accuracy during classification. More specifically, this study considers networks where each layer may use different precision…