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Distributed deep neural networks (DNNs) have become central to modern computer vision, yet their deployment on resource-constrained edge devices remains hindered by substantial parameter counts, computational demands, and the probability of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Mahadev Sunil Kumar , Arnab Raha , Debayan Das , Gopakumar G , Rounak Chatterjee , Amitava Mukherjee

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are currently widely used for many artificial intelligence (AI) applications including computer vision, speech recognition, and robotics. While DNNs deliver state-of-the-art accuracy on many AI tasks, it comes at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Vivienne Sze , Yu-Hsin Chen , Tien-Ju Yang , Joel Emer

The computing wall and data movement challenges of deep neural networks (DNNs) have exposed the limitations of conventional CMOS-based DNN accelerators. Furthermore, the deep structure and large model size will make DNNs prohibitive to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-12 Geng Yuan , Xiaolong Ma , Sheng Lin , Zhengang Li , Caiwen Ding

Deep neural network (DNN) inference is increasingly being executed on mobile and embedded platforms due to low latency and better privacy. However, efficient deployment on these platforms is challenging due to the intensive computation and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Lei Xun , Bashir M. Al-Hashimi , Jonathon Hare , Geoff V. Merrett

Deployment of deep neural networks in resource-constrained embedded systems requires innovative algorithmic solutions to facilitate their energy and memory efficiency. To further ensure the reliability of these systems against malicious…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Mathias Schmolli , Maximilian Baronig , Robert Legenstein , Ozan Özdenizci

The spread of deep learning on embedded devices has prompted the development of numerous methods to optimise the deployment of deep neural networks (DNN). Works have mainly focused on: i) efficient DNN architectures, ii) network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Miguel de Prado , Andrew Mundy , Rabia Saeed , Maurizio Denna , Nuria Pazos , Luca Benini

While machine learning is traditionally a resource intensive task, embedded systems, autonomous navigation, and the vision of the Internet of Things fuel the interest in resource-efficient approaches. These approaches aim for a carefully…

The effectiveness of deep neural networks (DNN) in vision, speech, and language processing has prompted a tremendous demand for energy-efficient high-performance DNN inference systems. Due to the increasing memory intensity of most DNN…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Skanda Koppula , Lois Orosa , Abdullah Giray Yağlıkçı , Roknoddin Azizi , Taha Shahroodi , Konstantinos Kanellopoulos , Onur Mutlu

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

In recent times, the trend in very large scale integration (VLSI) industry is multi-dimensional, for example, reduction of energy consumption, occupancy of less space, precise result, less power dissipation, faster response. To meet these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Gaurab Bhattacharya

This paper presents a state-of-the-art overview on how to architect, design, and optimize Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) such that performance is improved and accuracy is preserved. The paper covers a set of optimizations that span the entire…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Humberto Carvalho , Pavel Zaykov , Asim Ukaye

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples where inputs with imperceptible perturbations mislead DNNs to incorrect results. Despite the potential risk they bring, adversarial examples are also valuable for providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Chongzhi Zhang , Aishan Liu , Xianglong Liu , Yitao Xu , Hang Yu , Yuqing Ma , Tianlin Li

The success of deep neural networks (DNNs) is attributable to three factors: increased compute capacity, more complex models, and more data. These factors, however, are not always present, especially for edge applications such as autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Bichen Wu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. A range of defense methods have been proposed to train adversarially robust DNNs, among which adversarial training has demonstrated promising results. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Hanxun Huang , Yisen Wang , Sarah Monazam Erfani , Quanquan Gu , James Bailey , Xingjun Ma

The advent of deep learning has considerably accelerated machine learning development. The deployment of deep neural networks at the edge is however limited by their high memory and energy consumption requirements. With new memory…

The state-of-art DNN structures involve intensive computation and high memory storage. To mitigate the challenges, the memristor crossbar array has emerged as an intrinsically suitable matrix computation and low-power acceleration framework…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Xiaolong Ma , Geng Yuan , Sheng Lin , Caiwen Ding , Fuxun Yu , Tao Liu , Wujie Wen , Xiang Chen , Yanzhi Wang

As deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly deployed in sensitive applications, ensuring their security and robustness has become critical. A major threat to DNNs arises from adversarial attacks, where small input perturbations can lead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Erh-Chung Chen , Pin-Yu Chen , I-Hsin Chung , Che-Rung Lee

With the increasing extent of malware attacks in the present day along with the difficulty in detecting modern malware, it is necessary to evaluate the effectiveness and performance of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) for malware classification.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Akhil M R , Adithya Krishna V Sharma , Harivardhan Swamy , Pavan A , Ashray Shetty , Anirudh B Sathyanarayana

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 adversarial vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs) has been actively investigated in the past several years. This paper investigates the scale-variant property of cross-entropy loss, which is the most commonly used loss function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Ziquan Liu , Antoni B. Chan