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The training of graph neural networks (GNNs) is extremely time consuming because sparse graph-based operations are hard to be accelerated by hardware. Prior art explores trading off the computational precision to reduce the time complexity…

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Deep learning's performance has been extensively recognized recently. Graph neural networks (GNNs) are designed to deal with graph-structural data that classical deep learning does not easily manage. Since most GNNs were created using…

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We present a generic framework for spatio-temporal (ST) data modeling, analysis, and forecasting, with a special focus on data that is sparse in both space and time. Our multi-scaled framework is a seamless coupling of two major components:…

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Deep neural networks are being increasingly used for short-term traffic flow prediction, which can be generally categorized as convolutional (CNNs) or graph neural networks (GNNs). CNNs are preferable for region-wise traffic prediction by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-10-12 Wei Zeng , Chengqiao Lin , Kang Liu , Juncong Lin , Anthony K. H. Tung

Graph neural networks (GNN) analysis engines are vital for real-world problems that use large graph models. Challenges for a GNN hardware platform include the ability to (a) host a variety of GNNs, (b) handle high sparsity in input vertex…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Sudipta Mondal , Susmita Dey Manasi , Kishor Kunal , S. Ramprasath , Sachin S. Sapatnekar

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

We explore the use of graph neural networks (GNNs) to model spatial processes in which there is no a priori graphical structure. Similar to finite element analysis, we assign nodes of a GNN to spatial locations and use a computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Ferran Alet , Adarsh K. Jeewajee , Maria Bauza , Alberto Rodriguez , Tomas Lozano-Perez , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

This paper introduces a novel optimization framework for deep neural network (DNN) hardware accelerators, enabling the rapid development of customized and automated design flows. More specifically, our approach aims to automate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Zhiqiang Que , Shuo Liu , Markus Rognlien , Ce Guo , Jose G. F. Coutinho , Wayne Luk

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a popular strategy for handling non-Euclidean data due to their state-of-the-art performance. However, most of the current GNN model designs mainly focus on task accuracy, lacking in considering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Ao Zhou , Jianlei Yang , Yingjie Qi , Yumeng Shi , Tong Qiao , Weisheng Zhao , Chunming Hu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to outperform conventional machine learning algorithms across a wide range of applications, e.g., image recognition, object detection, robotics, and natural language processing. However, the high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Ye Yu , Yingmin Li , Shuai Che , Niraj K. Jha , Weifeng Zhang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful deep learning models to generate node embeddings on graphs. When applying deep GNNs on large graphs, it is still challenging to perform training in an efficient and scalable way. We propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Hanqing Zeng , Hongkuan Zhou , Ajitesh Srivastava , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool to process graph-based data in fields like communication networks, molecular interactions, chemistry, social networks, and neuroscience. GNNs are characterized by the ultra-sparse…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Nanda K. Unnikrishnan , Joe Gould , Keshab K. Parhi

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been widely used in various domains, and GNNs with sophisticated computational graph lead to higher latency and larger memory consumption. Optimizing the GNN computational graph suffers from: (1) Redundant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Hengrui Zhang , Zhongming Yu , Guohao Dai , Guyue Huang , Yufei Ding , Yuan Xie , Yu Wang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are designed to process data associated with graphs. They are finding an increasing range of applications; however, as with other modern machine learning techniques, their theoretical understanding is limited.…

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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

We present GraphTensor, a comprehensive open-source framework that supports efficient parallel neural network processing on large graphs. GraphTensor offers a set of easy-to-use programming primitives that appreciate both graph and neural…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Junhyeok Jang , Miryeong Kwon , Donghyun Gouk , Hanyeoreum Bae , Myoungsoo Jung

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a powerful tool for handling structured graph data and addressing tasks such as node classification, graph classification, and clustering. However, the sparse nature of GNN computation poses new challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Julia Bazinska , Andrei Ivanov , Tal Ben-Nun , Nikoli Dryden , Maciej Besta , Siyuan Shen , Torsten Hoefler

Latency and energy consumption are key metrics in the performance of deep neural network (DNN) accelerators. A significant factor contributing to latency and energy is data transfers. One method to reduce transfers or data is reusing data…

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Modern microelectronic devices are composed of interfaces between a large number of materials, many of which are in amorphous or polycrystalline phases. Modeling such non-crystalline materials using first-principles methods such as density…

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