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The growing computational demand for deep neural networks ( DNNs) has raised concerns about their energy consumption and carbon footprint, particularly as the size and complexity of the models continue to increase. To address these…

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As artificial intelligence (AI) applications continue to expand in next-generation networks, there is a growing need for deep neural network (DNN) models. Although DNN models deployed at the edge are promising for providing AI as a service…

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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…

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Advances in hybrid bonding and packaging have driven growing interest in 3D DRAM-stacked accelerators with higher memory bandwidth and capacity. As LLMs scale to hundreds of billions or trillions of parameters, distributed inference across…

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are becoming a promising technique in various domains due to their excellent capabilities in modeling non-Euclidean data. Although a spectrum of accelerators has been proposed to accelerate the inference of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Zeyu Zhu , Fanrong Li , Gang Li , Zejian Liu , Zitao Mo , Qinghao Hu , Xiaoyao Liang , Jian Cheng

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has demonstrated its power on various AI accelerating platforms such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and Graphic Processing Units (GPUs). However, it remains an open problem, how to integrate NAS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Lei Yang , Zheyu Yan , Meng Li , Hyoukjun Kwon , Liangzhen Lai , Tushar Krishna , Vikas Chandra , Weiwen Jiang , Yiyu Shi

Multiplication is arguably the most cost-dominant operation in modern deep neural networks (DNNs), limiting their achievable efficiency and thus more extensive deployment in resource-constrained applications. To tackle this limitation,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Huihong Shi , Haoran You , Yang Zhao , Zhongfeng Wang , Yingyan Lin

Relational data present in real world graph representations demands for tools capable to study it accurately. In this regard Graph Neural Network (GNN) is a powerful tool, wherein various models for it have also been developed over the past…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Robert Guirado , Akshay Jain , Sergi Abadal , Eduard Alarcón

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been established as the state-of-the-art algorithm for advanced machine learning applications. Recently, CapsuleNets have improved the generalization ability, as compared to DNNs, due to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Alberto Marchisio , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Mohammad Taghi Teimoori , Muhammad Shafique

Deep neural network (DNN) accelerators with improved energy and delay are desirable for meeting the requirements of hardware targeted for IoT and edge computing systems. Convolutional neural networks (CoNNs) belong to one of the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Qiuwen Lou , Chenyun Pan , John McGuiness , Andras Horvath , Azad Naeemi , Michael Niemier , X. Sharon Hu

As the technology industry is moving towards implementing tasks such as natural language processing, path planning, image classification, and more on smaller edge computing devices, the demand for more efficient implementations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Peyton Chandarana , Mohammadreza Mohammadi , James Seekings , Ramtin Zand

The research interest in specialized hardware accelerators for deep neural networks (DNN) spikes recently owing to their superior performance and efficiency. However, today's DNN accelerators primarily focus on accelerating specific…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Cong Guo , Yangjie Zhou , Jingwen Leng , Yuhao Zhu , Zidong Du , Quan Chen , Chao Li , Bin Yao , Minyi Guo

Automatic algorithm-hardware co-design for DNN has shown great success in improving the performance of DNNs on FPGAs. However, this process remains challenging due to the intractable search space of neural network architectures and hardware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Zhen Dong , Yizhao Gao , Qijing Huang , John Wawrzynek , Hayden K. H. So , Kurt Keutzer

This work proposes a novel Energy-Aware Network Operator Search (ENOS) approach to address the energy-accuracy trade-offs of a deep neural network (DNN) accelerator. In recent years, novel inference operators have been proposed to improve…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-13 Shamma Nasrin , Ahish Shylendra , Yuti Kadakia , Nick Iliev , Wilfred Gomes , Theja Tulabandhula , Amit Ranjan Trivedi

Neural network (NN) models are increasingly used in scientific simulations, AI, and other high performance computing (HPC) fields to extract knowledge from datasets. Each dataset requires tailored NN model architecture, but designing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Ariel Keller Rorabaugh , Silvina Caíno-Lores , Michael R. Wyatt , Travis Johnston , Michela Taufer

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have succeeded in many different perception tasks, e.g., computer vision, natural language processing, reinforcement learning, etc. The high-performed DNNs heavily rely on intensive resource consumption. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Zhongnan Qu

Efficient on-device neural network (NN) inference offers predictable latency, improved privacy and reliability, and lower operating costs for vendors than cloud-based inference. This has sparked recent development of microcontroller-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Josh Millar , Yushan Huang , Sarab Sethi , Hamed Haddadi , Anil Madhavapeddy

The exponential growth of large language models has outpaced the capabilities of traditional CPU and GPU architectures due to the slowdown of Moore's Law. Dataflow AI accelerators present a promising alternative; however, there remains a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Ziyu Hu , Zhiqing Zhong , Weijian Zheng , Zhijing Ye , Xuwei Tan , Xueru Zhang , Zheng Xie , Rajkumar Kettimuthu , Xiaodong Yu

With the rapid development of in-depth learning, neural network and deep learning algorithms have been widely used in various fields, e.g., image, video and voice processing. However, the neural network model is getting larger and larger,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Teng Wang , Chao Wang , Xuehai Zhou , Huaping Chen

The constant growth of DNNs makes them challenging to implement and run efficiently on traditional compute-centric architectures. Some accelerators have attempted to add more compute units and on-chip buffers to solve the memory wall…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Bahareh Khabbazan , Marc Riera , Antonio González