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The unprecedented performance of deep neural networks (DNNs) has led to large strides in various Artificial Intelligence (AI) inference tasks, such as object and speech recognition. Nevertheless, deploying such AI models across commodity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Stylianos I. Venieris , Ioannis Panopoulos , Ilias Leontiadis , Iakovos S. Venieris

Modern deep neural networks (DNNs) are extremely powerful; however, this comes at the price of increased depth and having more parameters per layer, making their training and inference more computationally challenging. In an attempt to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-04 Lingyu Gu , Yongqi Du , Yuan Zhang , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu , Robert C. Qiu , Zhenyu Liao

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) excel in learning hierarchical representations from raw data, such as images, audio, and text. To compute these DNN models with high performance and energy efficiency, these models are usually deployed onto…

Large Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are the backbone of today's artificial intelligence due to their ability to make accurate predictions when being trained on huge datasets. With advancing technologies, such as the Internet of Things,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Mark Deutel , Philipp Woller , Christopher Mutschler , Jürgen Teich

As deep neural networks (DNNs) grow in complexity and size, the resultant increase in communication overhead during distributed training has become a significant bottleneck, challenging the scalability of distributed training systems.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Haoyu Li , Yuchen Xu , Jiayi Chen , Rohit Dwivedula , Wenfei Wu , Keqiang He , Aditya Akella , Daehyeok Kim

The rise of mobile AI accelerators allows latency-sensitive applications to execute lightweight Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on the client side. However, critical applications require powerful models that edge devices cannot host and must…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-02 Alireza Furutanpey , Philipp Raith , Schahram Dustdar

This paper introduces FlexNN, a Flexible Neural Network accelerator, which adopts agile design principles to enable versatile dataflows, enhancing energy efficiency. Unlike conventional convolutional neural network accelerator architectures…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Arnab Raha , Deepak A. Mathaikutty , Soumendu K. Ghosh , Shamik Kundu

FullSubNet is our recently proposed real-time single-channel speech enhancement network that achieves outstanding performance on the Deep Noise Suppression (DNS) Challenge dataset. A number of variants of FullSubNet have been proposed, but…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-08 Xiang Hao , Xiaofei Li

Despite showing state-of-the-art performance, deep learning for speech recognition remains challenging to deploy in on-device edge scenarios such as mobile and other consumer devices. Recently, there have been greater efforts in the design…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-15 Zhong Qiu Lin , Audrey G. Chung , Alexander Wong

This paper presents a unified framework for codifying and automating optimization strategies to efficiently deploy deep neural networks (DNNs) on resource-constrained hardware, such as FPGAs, while maintaining high performance, accuracy,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Zhiqiang Que , Jose G. F. Coutinho , Ce Guo , Hongxiang Fan , Wayne Luk

With recent advancing of Internet of Things (IoTs), it becomes very attractive to implement the deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) onto embedded/portable systems. Presently, executing the software-based DCNNs requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Ao Ren , Ji Li , Zhe Li , Caiwen Ding , Xuehai Qian , Qinru Qiu , Bo Yuan , Yanzhi Wang

Deploying deep neural networks on edge devices is often limited by the memory traffic and compute cost of dense linear operators. While quaternion neural networks improve parameter efficiency by coupling multiple channels through Hamilton…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Vladimir Frants , Sos Agaian , Karen Panetta

Most of the existing work on FPGA acceleration of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) focus on employing a single strategy (algorithm, dataflow, etc.) across all the layers. Such an approach does not achieve optimal latency on complex and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Yuan Meng , Sanmukh Kuppannagari , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

Inverse-designed nanophotonic devices offer promising solutions for analog optical computation. High-density photonic integration is critical for scaling such architectures toward more complex computational tasks and large-scale…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-09 Joel Sved , Shijie Song , Liwei Li , George Li , Debin Meng , Xiaoke Yi

This paper proposes an low power approximate multiplier architecture for deep neural network (DNN) applications. A 4:2 compressor, introducing only a single combination error, is designed and integrated into an 8x8 unsigned multiplier. This…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Pragun Jaswal , L. Hemanth Krishna , B. Srinivasu

We introduce a high-throughput neural network accelerator that embeds most network layers directly in hardware, minimizing data transfer and memory usage while preserving a degree of flexibility via a small neural processing unit for the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jonathan Herbst , Michael Pellauer , Sherief Reda

Edge AI systems often operate under stringent energy and volume constraints that demand extreme efficiency under limited battery capacity, with requirements worsening as intelligent capability demands advance. Prior literature suggests that…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Paul Chen , Jeongeun Kim , Wenbo Zhu , Yuanhan Li , Shunyao Huang , Chenjie Weng , Christopher Torng

The increasing adoption of Deep Neural Network (DNN)-based Digital Pre-distortion (DPD) in modern communication systems necessitates efficient hardware implementations. This paper presents DPD-NeuralEngine, an ultra-fast, tiny-area, and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Ang Li , Haolin Wu , Yizhuo Wu , Qinyu Chen , Leo C. N. de Vreede , Chang Gao

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) is a computationally expensive job, which can take weeks or months even with high performance GPUs. As a remedy for this challenge, community has started exploring the use of more efficient data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Seock-Hwan Noh , Jahyun Koo , Seunghyun Lee , Jongse Park , Jaeha Kung

Many long short-term memory (LSTM) applications need fast yet compact models. Neural network compression approaches, such as the grow-and-prune paradigm, have proved to be promising for cutting down network complexity by skipping…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Hongxu Yin , Guoyang Chen , Yingmin Li , Shuai Che , Weifeng Zhang , Niraj K. Jha