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In this paper, we present a novel technique to search for hardware architectures of accelerators optimized for end-to-end training of deep neural networks (DNNs). Our approach addresses both single-device and distributed pipeline and tensor…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Muhammad Adnan , Amar Phanishayee , Janardhan Kulkarni , Prashant J. Nair , Divya Mahajan

The searching procedure of neural architecture search (NAS) is notoriously time consuming and cost prohibitive.To make the search space continuous, most existing gradient-based NAS methods relax the categorical choice of a particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Shoufa Chen , Yunpeng Chen , Shuicheng Yan , Jiashi Feng

Deep Learning models have experienced exponential growth in complexity and resource demands in recent years. Accelerating these models for efficient execution on resource-constrained devices has become more crucial than ever. Two notable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Inas Bachiri , Hadjer Benmeziane , Smail Niar , Riyadh Baghdadi , Hamza Ouarnoughi , Abdelkrime Aries

Recent advances in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) which extract specialized hardware-aware configurations (a.k.a. "sub-networks") from a hardware-agnostic "super-network" have become increasingly popular. While considerable effort has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Anthony Sarah , Daniel Cummings , Sharath Nittur Sridhar , Sairam Sundaresan , Maciej Szankin , Tristan Webb , J. Pablo Munoz

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) algorithms aim at finding efficient Deep Neural Network (DNN) architectures for a given application under given system constraints. DNNs are computationally-complex as well as vulnerable to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Alberto Marchisio , Vojtech Mrazek , Andrea Massa , Beatrice Bussolino , Maurizio Martina , Muhammad Shafique

Deep neural networks achieve outstanding results in challenging image classification tasks. However, the design of network topologies is a complex task and the research community makes a constant effort in discovering top-accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Florian Scheidegger , Luca Benini , Costas Bekas , Cristiano Malossi

The recent breakthroughs and prohibitive complexities of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have excited extensive interest in domain-specific DNN accelerators, among which optical DNN accelerators are particularly promising thanks to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Mengquan Li , Zhongzhi Yu , Yongan Zhang , Yonggan Fu , Yingyan Lin

The increasing spread of artificial neural networks does not stop at ultralow-power edge devices. However, these very often have high computational demand and require specialized hardware accelerators to ensure the design meets power and…

Edge computing aims to enable edge devices, such as IoT devices, to process data locally instead of relying on the cloud. However, deep learning techniques like computer vision and natural language processing can be computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Oshin Dutta , Tanu Kanvar , Sumeet Agarwal

Automatic neural architecture design has shown its potential in discovering powerful neural network architectures. Existing methods, no matter based on reinforcement learning or evolutionary algorithms (EA), conduct architecture search in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Renqian Luo , Fei Tian , Tao Qin , Enhong Chen , Tie-Yan Liu

Deployment of dynamic neural networks on edge accelerators requires careful consideration of hardware constraints beyond conventional complexity metrics such as Multiply-Accumulate operations. In Early-Exiting Neural Networks (EENN), exit…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Alaa Zniber , Arne Symons , Ouassim Karrakchou , Marian Verhelst , Mounir Ghogho

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have gained widespread popularity in the field of computer vision and image processing. Due to huge computational requirements of CNNs, dedicated hardware-based implementations are being explored to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-06 Afzal Ahmad , Muhammad Adeel Pasha

Efficient deployment of neural networks (NN) requires the co-optimization of accuracy and latency. For example, hardware-aware neural architecture search has been used to automatically find NN architectures that satisfy a latency constraint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Yash Akhauri , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah

This paper introduces MARCO (Multi-Agent Reinforcement learning with Conformal Optimization), a novel hardware-aware framework for efficient neural architecture search (NAS) targeting resource-constrained edge devices. By significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Arya Fayyazi , Mehdi Kamal , Massoud Pedram

To speedup Deep Neural Networks (DNN) accelerator design and enable effective implementation, we propose HybridDNN, a framework for building high-performance hybrid DNN accelerators and delivering FPGA-based hardware implementations. Novel…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Hanchen Ye , Xiaofan Zhang , Zhize Huang , Gengsheng Chen , Deming Chen

Embedded deep learning platforms have witnessed two simultaneous improvements. First, the accuracy of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has been significantly improved through the use of automated neural-architecture search (NAS)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Lile Cai , Anne-Maelle Barneche , Arthur Herbout , Chuan Sheng Foo , Jie Lin , Vijay Ramaseshan Chandrasekhar , Mohamed M. Sabry

High quality AI solutions require joint optimization of AI algorithms, such as deep neural networks (DNNs), and their hardware accelerators. To improve the overall solution quality as well as to boost the design productivity, efficient…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Cong Hao , Yao Chen , Xiaofan Zhang , Yuhong Li , Jinjun Xiong , Wen-mei Hwu , Deming Chen

As machine learning (ML) algorithms get deployed in an ever-increasing number of applications, these algorithms need to achieve better trade-offs between high accuracy, high throughput and low latency. This paper introduces NASH, a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Mengfei Ji , Yuchun Chang , Baolin Zhang , Zaid Al-Ars

The rapid proliferation of computing domains relying on Internet of Things (IoT) devices has created a pressing need for efficient and accurate deep-learning (DL) models that can run on low-power devices. However, traditional DL models tend…

While there is a large body of research on efficient processing of deep neural networks (DNNs), ultra-low-latency realization of these models for applications with stringent, sub-microsecond latency requirements continues to be an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Mahdi Nazemi , Arash Fayyazi , Amirhossein Esmaili , Atharva Khare , Soheil Nazar Shahsavani , Massoud Pedram