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Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) represent a promising direction within Quantum Machine Learning (QML), yet their realization on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices remains constrained by decoherence, gate imperfections,…

Today's performance analysis frameworks for deep learning accelerators suffer from two significant limitations. First, although modern convolutional neural network (CNNs) consist of many types of layers other than convolution, especially…

Deep convolution Neural Network (DCNN) has been widely used in computer vision tasks. However, for edge devices even inference has too large computational complexity and data access amount. The inference latency of state-of-the-art models…

A lot of recent progress has been made in ultra low-bit quantization, promising significant improvements in latency, memory footprint and energy consumption on edge devices. Quantization methods such as Learned Step Size Quantization can…

Quantum computing crucially relies on the ability to efficiently characterize the quantum states output by quantum hardware. Conventional methods which probe these states through direct measurements and classically computed correlations…

The limited energy available in most embedded systems poses a significant challenge in enhancing the performance of embedded processors and microcontrollers. One promising approach to address this challenge is the use of approximate…

Finding the convex hull is a fundamental problem in computational geometry. Quickhull is a fast algorithm for finding convex hulls. In this paper, we present VQhull, a fast parallel implementation of Quickhull that exploits vector…

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