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Typically, Ultra-deep neural network(UDNN) tends to yield high-quality model, but its training process is usually resource intensive and time-consuming. Modern GPU's scarce DRAM capacity is the primary bottleneck that hinders the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Jinrong Guo , Wantao Liu , Wang Wang , Qu Lu , Songlin Hu , Jizhong Han , Ruixuan Li

Ensembles of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved qualitative predictions but they are computing and memory intensive. Therefore, the demand is growing to make them answer a heavy workload of requests with available computational…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Pierrick Pochelu , Serge G. Petiton , Bruno Conche

This paper presents an instruction-based coordination architecture for Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based systems with multiple high-performance Processing Units (PUs) for accelerating Deep Neural Network (DNN) inference. This…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Anastasios Petropoulos , Theodore Antonakopoulos

Existing FPGA-based DNN accelerators typically fall into two design paradigms. Either they adopt a generic reusable architecture to support different DNN networks but leave some performance and efficiency on the table because of the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Xiaofan Zhang , Hanchen Ye , Junsong Wang , Yonghua Lin , Jinjun Xiong , Wen-mei Hwu , Deming Chen

The record-breaking achievements of deep neural networks (DNNs) in image classification and detection tasks resulted in a surge of new computer vision applications during the past years. However, their computational complexity is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-25 Petar Jokic , Stephane Emery , Luca Benini

FPGA-based accelerators are becoming more popular for deep neural network due to the ability to scale performance with increasing degree of specialization with dataflow architectures or custom data types. To reduce the barrier for software…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Syed Asad Alam , David Gregg , Giulio Gambardella , Thomas Preusser , Michaela Blott

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have been introduced to effectively process non-euclidean graph data. However, GCNs incur large amounts of irregularity in computation and memory access, which prevents efficient use of traditional neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Zhuofu Tao , Chen Wu , Yuan Liang , Lei He

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have shown significant advantages in a wide variety of domains. However, DNNs are becoming computationally intensive and energy hungry at an exponential pace, while at the same time, there is a vast demand for…

Gated DeltaNet (GDN) is a linear attention mechanism that replaces the growing KV cache with a fixed-size recurrent state. Hybrid LLMs like Qwen3-Next use 75% GDN layers and achieve competitive accuracy to attention-only models. However, at…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Neelesh Gupta , Peter Wang , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor K. Prasanna

Energy efficiency of hardware accelerators of deep neural networks (DNN) can be improved by introducing approximate arithmetic circuits. In order to quantify the error introduced by using these circuits and avoid the expensive hardware…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Filip Vaverka , Vojtech Mrazek , Zdenek Vasicek , Lukas Sekanina

Transformer neural networks (TNN) have been widely utilized on a diverse range of applications, including natural language processing (NLP), machine translation, and computer vision (CV). Their widespread adoption has been primarily driven…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Ehsan Kabir , Jason D. Bakos , David Andrews , Miaoqing Huang

Single-channel speech enhancement algorithms are often used in resource-constrained embedded devices, where low latency and low complexity designs gain more importance. In recent years, researchers have proposed a wide variety of novel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Nicolás Arrieta Larraza , Niels de Koeijer

The increasing demand for on-device training of deep neural networks (DNNs) aims to leverage personal data for high-performance applications while addressing privacy concerns and reducing communication latency. However, resource-constrained…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jinming Lu , Jiayi Tian , Hai Li , Ian Young , Zheng Zhang

Recently, FPGA has been increasingly applied to problems such as speech recognition, machine learning, and cloud computation such as the Bing search engine used by Microsoft. This is due to FPGAs great parallel computation capacity as well…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Yufeng Hao , Steven Quigley

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

The advancement of Deep Learning (DL) is driven by efficient Deep Neural Network (DNN) design and new hardware accelerators. Current DNN design is primarily tailored for general-purpose use and deployment on commercially viable platforms.…

Research has shown that convolutional neural networks contain significant redundancy, and high classification accuracy can be obtained even when weights and activations are reduced from floating point to binary values. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-22 Yaman Umuroglu , Nicholas J. Fraser , Giulio Gambardella , Michaela Blott , Philip Leong , Magnus Jahre , Kees Vissers

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs), particularly LSTMs, are effective for time-series tasks like sentiment analysis and short-term stock prediction. However, their computational complexity poses challenges for real-time deployment in resource…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Shashwat Khandelwal , Jakoba Petri-Koenig , Thomas B. Preußer , Michaela Blott , Shreejith Shanker

FPGA-based hardware accelerators for convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have obtained great attentions due to their higher energy efficiency than GPUs. However, it is challenging for FPGA-based solutions to achieve a higher throughput…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Yixing Li , Zichuan Liu , Kai Xu , Hao Yu , Fengbo Ren

With the popularity of the deep neural network (DNN), hardware accelerators are demanded for real time execution. However, lengthy design process and fast evolving DNN models make hardware evaluation hard to meet the time to market need.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Chih-Chyau Yang , Tian-Sheuan Chang