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With the popularity of deep learning, the hardware implementation platform of deep learning has received increasing interest. Unlike the general purpose devices, e.g., CPU, or GPU, where the deep learning algorithms are executed at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Lang Feng , Wenjian Liu , Chuliang Guo , Ke Tang , Cheng Zhuo , Zhongfeng Wang

Deep neural networks are gaining in popularity as they are used to generate state-of-the-art results for a variety of computer vision and machine learning applications. At the same time, these networks have grown in depth and complexity in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Soheil Hashemi , Nicholas Anthony , Hokchhay Tann , R. Iris Bahar , Sherief Reda

As Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) continue to drive advancements in artificial intelligence, the design of hardware accelerators faces growing concerns over embodied carbon footprint due to complex fabrication processes. 3D integration…

Edge computing must be capable of executing computationally intensive algorithms, such as Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) while operating within a constrained computational resource budget. Such computations involve Matrix Vector…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Arani Roy , Kaushik Roy

Specialized accelerators have recently garnered attention as a method to reduce the power consumption of neural network inference. A promising category of accelerators utilizes nonvolatile memory arrays to both store weights and perform…

Lightweight design, as a key approach to mitigate disparity between computational requirements of deep learning models and hardware performance, plays a pivotal role in advancing application of deep learning technologies on mobile and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Hanhua Long , Wenbin Bi , Jian Sun

Major advancements in the capabilities of computer vision models have been primarily fueled by rapid expansion of datasets, model parameters, and computational budgets, leading to ever-increasing demands on computational infrastructure.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Steven Walton

Accelerators such as neural processing units (NPUs) deliver an enticing balance of performance and efficiency compared to general purpose compute architectures. However, effectively leveraging accelerator capabilities is not always simple:…

Neural networks have become dominant computational workloads across cloud and edge platforms, but their rapid growth in model size and deployment diversity has exposed hardware bottlenecks increasingly dominated by memory movement,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Bin Xu , Ayan Banerjee , Sandeep Gupta

Embedded systems become more and more widespread, especially autonomous ones, and clearly tend to be ubiquitous. In such systems, low-power and low-energy usage get ever more crucial. Furthermore, these issues also become paramount in…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Olivier Zendra

It remains a challenge to run Deep Learning in devices with stringent power budget in the Internet-of-Things. This paper presents a low-power accelerator for processing Deep Neural Networks in the embedded devices. The power reduction is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Yuxiang Huan , Yifan Qin , Yantian You , Lirong Zheng , Zhuo Zou

Edge computing devices inherently face tight resource constraints, which is especially apparent when deploying Deep Neural Networks (DNN) with high memory and compute demands. FPGAs are commonly available in edge devices. Since these…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Jude Haris , Perry Gibson , José Cano , Nicolas Bohm Agostini , David Kaeli

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been widely used for boosting the performance of many machine intelligence tasks. However, the CNN models are usually computationally intensive and energy consuming, since they are often designed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Yunhe Wang , Mingqiang Huang , Kai Han , Hanting Chen , Wei Zhang , Chunjing Xu , Dacheng Tao

Edge computing is a popular target for accelerating machine learning algorithms supporting mobile devices without requiring the communication latencies to handle them in the cloud. Edge deployments of machine learning primarily consider…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Sébastien Ollivier , Sheng Li , Yue Tang , Chayanika Chaudhuri , Peipei Zhou , Xulong Tang , Jingtong Hu , Alex K. Jones

Resource-constrained edge deployments demand AI solutions that balance high performance with stringent compute, memory, and energy limitations. In this survey, we present a comprehensive overview of the primary strategies for accelerating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Jacob Sander , Achraf Cohen , Venkat R. Dasari , Brent Venable , Brian Jalaian

Efficient and compact neural network models are essential for enabling the deployment on mobile and embedded devices. In this work, we point out that typical design metrics for gauging the efficiency of neural network architectures -- total…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Liangzhen Lai , Naveen Suda , Vikas Chandra

Many recent works have designed accelerators for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). While digital accelerators have relied on near data processing, analog accelerators have further reduced data movement by performing in-situ computation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Anirban Nag , Ali Shafiee , Rajeev Balasubramonian , Vivek Srikumar , Naveen Muralimanohar

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) reach high accuracies in various application domains, but require large amounts of computation and incur costly data movements. One method to decrease these costs while trading accuracy is weight and/or…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Cecilia Latotzke , Tim Ciesielski , Tobias Gemmeke

Learn in-situ is a growing trend for Edge AI. Training deep neural network (DNN) on edge devices is challenging because both energy and memory are constrained. Low precision training helps to reduce the energy cost of a single training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Tian Huang , Tao Luo , Joey Tianyi Zhou

Artificial neural networks have gone through a recent rise in popularity, achieving state-of-the-art results in various fields, including image classification, speech recognition, and automated control. Both the performance and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Sean C. Smithson , Guang Yang , Warren J. Gross , Brett H. Meyer