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Deep learning is finding its way into the embedded world with applications such as autonomous driving, smart sensors and aug- mented reality. However, the computation of deep neural networks is demanding in energy, compute power and memory.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Dominik Marek Loroch , Franz-Josef Pfreundt , Norbert Wehn , Janis Keuper

Deep neural networks (DNNs) usually demand a large amount of operations for real-time inference. Especially, fully-connected layers contain a large number of weights, thus they usually need many off-chip memory accesses for inference. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Yoonho Boo , Wonyong Sung

This paper is focused on the improvement the efficiency of the sparse convolutional neural networks (CNNs) layers on graphic processing units (GPU). The Nvidia deep neural network (cuDnn) library provides the most effective implementation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Marcin Pietroń , Dominik Żurek

Bit-level sparsity in quantized deep neural networks (DNNs) offers significant potential for optimizing Multiply-Accumulate (MAC) operations. However, two key challenges still limit its practical exploitation. First, conventional bit-serial…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Feilong Qiaoyuan , Jihe Wang , Zhiyu Sun , Linying Wu , Yuanhua Xiao , Danghui Wang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have seen extensive application in domains such as social networks, bioinformatics, and recommendation systems. However, the irregularity and sparsity of graph data challenge traditional computing methods, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Ka Wai Wu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have emerged as key enablers of machine learning. Applying larger DNNs to more diverse applications is an important challenge. The computations performed during DNN training and inference are dominated by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Jeremy Kepner , Vijay Gadepally , Hayden Jananthan , Lauren Milechin , Sid Samsi

Adversarial attacks have exposed serious vulnerabilities in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) through their ability to force misclassifications through human-imperceptible perturbations to DNN inputs. We explore a new direction in the field of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Sarada Krithivasan , Sanchari Sen , Anand Raghunathan

High-order tensor decomposition has been widely adopted to obtain compact deep neural networks for edge deployment. However, existing studies focus primarily on its algorithmic advantages such as accuracy and compression ratio-while…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Jinsong Zhang , Minghe Li , Jiayi Tian , Jinming Lu , Zheng Zhang

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 GPU performance optimization and scaling results for inference models of the Sparse Deep Neural Network Challenge 2020. Demands for network quality have increased rapidly, pushing the size and thus the memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Mert Hidayetoglu , Carl Pearson , Vikram Sharma Mailthody , Eiman Ebrahimi , Jinjun Xiong , Rakesh Nagi , Wen-Mei Hwu

The use of deep neural network (DNN) models as surrogates for linear and nonlinear structural dynamical systems is explored. The goal is to develop DNN based surrogates to predict structural response, i.e., displacements and accelerations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Nan Feng , Guodong Zhang , Kapil Khandelwal

Exploiting sparsity is a key technique in accelerating quantized convolutional neural network (CNN) inference on mobile devices. Prior sparse CNN accelerators largely exploit un-structured sparsity and achieve significant speedups. Due to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Zhi-Gang Liu , Paul N. Whatmough , Yuhao Zhu , Matthew Mattina

Recently, numerous sparse hardware accelerators for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), and scientific computing applications have been proposed. A common characteristic among all of these accelerators is that they…

Our community has greatly improved the efficiency of deep learning applications, including by exploiting sparsity in inputs. Most of that work, though, is for inference, where weight sparsity is known statically, and/or for specialized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Zhangxiaowen Gong , Houxiang Ji , Christopher Fletcher , Christopher Hughes , Josep Torrellas

Tensor accelerators have gained popularity because they provide a cheap and efficient solution for speeding up computational-expensive tasks in Deep Learning and, more recently, in other Scientific Computing applications. However, since…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Paolo Sylos Labini , Massimo Bernaschi , Francesco Silvestri , Flavio Vella

The customizability of RISC-V makes it an attractive choice for accelerating deep neural networks (DNNs). It can be achieved through instruction set extensions and corresponding custom functional units. Yet, efficiently exploiting these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Muhammad Sabih , Abrarul Karim , Jakob Wittmann , Frank Hannig , Jürgen Teich

Recently, there have been increasing demands to construct compact deep architectures to remove unnecessary redundancy and to improve the inference speed. While many recent works focus on reducing the redundancy by eliminating unneeded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Eunwoo Kim , Chanho Ahn , Songhwai Oh

This paper addresses the topic of sparsifying deep neural networks (DNN's). While DNN's are powerful models that achieve state-of-the-art performance on a large number of tasks, the large number of model parameters poses serious storage and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Igor Fedorov , Bhaskar D. Rao

Sparsity in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has been widely studied to compress and accelerate the models on resource-constrained environments. It can be generally categorized into unstructured fine-grained sparsity that zeroes out multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Aojun Zhou , Yukun Ma , Junnan Zhu , Jianbo Liu , Zhijie Zhang , Kun Yuan , Wenxiu Sun , Hongsheng Li

Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs), as the backbone of graph-based machine learning, demonstrate great success in various domains (e.g., e-commerce). However, the performance of GNNs is usually unsatisfactory due to the highly sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Yuke Wang , Boyuan Feng , Zheng Wang , Guyue Huang , Yufei Ding