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In the era of artificial intelligence, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are emerging as a powerful technique for computational imaging. They have shown superior quality for reconstructing fine textures from badly-distorted images and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Chao-Tsung Huang

Computer vision performances have been significantly improved in recent years by Convolutional Neural Networks(CNN). Currently, applications using CNN algorithms are deployed mainly on general purpose hardwares, such as CPUs, GPUs or FPGAs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Baohua Sun , Lin Yang , Patrick Dong , Wenhan Zhang , Jason Dong , Charles Young

We propose to execute deep neural networks (DNNs) with dynamic and sparse graph (DSG) structure for compressive memory and accelerative execution during both training and inference. The great success of DNNs motivates the pursuing of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Liu Liu , Lei Deng , Xing Hu , Maohua Zhu , Guoqi Li , Yufei Ding , Yuan Xie

Linear recurrent neural networks enable powerful long-range sequence modeling with constant memory usage and time-per-token during inference. These architectures hold promise for streaming applications at the edge, but deployment in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Alessandro Pierro , Steven Abreu , Jonathan Timcheck , Philipp Stratmann , Andreas Wild , Sumit Bam Shrestha

We address the problem of reconstructing sparse signals from noisy and compressive measurements using a feed-forward deep neural network (DNN) with an architecture motivated by the iterative shrinkage-thresholding algorithm (ISTA). We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Debabrata Mahapatra , Subhadip Mukherjee , Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula

The study of sparsity in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has become widespread to compress and accelerate models in environments with limited resources. By constraining N consecutive weights along the output channel to be group-wise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Jingyang Xiang , Siqi Li , Jun Chen , Shipeng Bai , Yukai Ma , Guang Dai , Yong Liu

Resistive Random-Access-Memory (ReRAM) crossbar is a promising technique for deep neural network (DNN) accelerators, thanks to its in-memory and in-situ analog computing abilities for Vector-Matrix Multiplication-and-Accumulations (VMMs).…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Fangxin Liu , Wenbo Zhao , Yilong Zhao , Zongwu Wang , Tao Yang , Zhezhi He , Naifeng Jing , Xiaoyao Liang , Li Jiang

Six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) is an innovative and transformative technology to improve wireless network capacity by adjusting the 3D positions and 3D rotations of antennas/surfaces (sub-arrays) based on the channel spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Xiaodan Shao , Rui Zhang , Jihong Park , Tony Q. S. Quek , Robert Schober , Xuemin Shen

Recently, deep neural networks (DNN) have been widely used in speaker recognition area. In order to achieve fast response time and high accuracy, the requirements for hardware resources increase rapidly. However, as the speaker recognition…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Jingchi Zhang , Jonathan Huang , Michael Deisher , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have become popular for their more bio-realistic behavior than Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). However, effectively leveraging the intrinsic, unstructured sparsity of SNNs in hardware is challenging,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Ilkin Aliyev , Tosiron Adegbija

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

In the past decade, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) achieved state-of-the-art performance in a broad range of problems, spanning from object classification and action recognition to smart building and healthcare. The flexibility that makes DNNs…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have proven to be extremely accurate for image recognition, even outperforming human recognition capability. When deployed on battery-powered mobile devices, efficient computer architectures are required…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Mehdi Ahmadi , Shervin Vakili , J. M. Pierre Langlois

Leveraging high degrees of unstructured sparsity is a promising approach to enhance the efficiency of deep neural network DNN accelerators - particularly important for emerging Edge-AI applications. We introduce VUSA, a systolic-array…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Shereef Helal , Alberto Garcia-Ortiz , Lennart Bamberg

Energy efficiency and memory footprint of a convolutional neural network (CNN) implemented on a CNN inference accelerator depend on many factors, including a weight quantization strategy (i.e., data types and bit-widths) and mapping (i.e.,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Jan Klhufek , Miroslav Safar , Vojtech Mrazek , Zdenek Vasicek , Lukas Sekanina

Network pruning can reduce the high computation cost of deep neural network (DNN) models. However, to maintain their accuracies, sparse models often carry randomly-distributed weights, leading to irregular computations. Consequently, sparse…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Cong Guo , Bo Yang Hsueh , Jingwen Leng , Yuxian Qiu , Yue Guan , Zehuan Wang , Xiaoying Jia , Xipeng Li , Minyi Guo , Yuhao Zhu

Transformer-based diffusion models offer superior scalability and performance but suffer from high computational overhead due to the iterative nature and quadratic complexity of self-attention at high resolutions. In this paper, we propose…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jieon Yoon , Hangyeol Lee , Jaehoon Heo , Joo-Young Kim

To improve the execution speed and efficiency of neural networks in embedded systems, it is crucial to decrease the model size and computational complexity. In addition to conventional compression techniques, e.g., weight pruning and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Qing Yang , Jiachen Mao , Zuoguan Wang , Hai Li

Sparsity is a well-studied technique for compressing deep neural networks (DNNs) without compromising performance. In deep reinforcement learning (DRL), neural networks with up to 5% of their original weights can still be trained with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Isam Vrce , Andreas Kassler , Gökçe Aydos

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known for their inability to utilize underlying hardware resources due to hardware susceptibility to sparse activations and weights. Even in finer granularities, many of the non-zero values hold a portion of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Gil Shomron , Uri Weiser