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Logic synthesis is a crucial phase in the circuit design process, responsible for transforming hardware description language (HDL) designs into optimized netlists. However, traditional logic synthesis methods are computationally intensive,…

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

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) plays a crucial role in modern hardware design by transforming high-level code into optimized hardware implementations. However, progress in applying machine learning (ML) to HLS optimization has been hindered by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zedong Peng , Zeju Li , Mingzhe Gao , Qiang Xu , Chen Zhang , Jieru Zhao

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a promising alternative to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) for deep learning applications, particularly in resource-constrained systems. This is largely due to their inherent sparsity, influenced by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Ilkin Aliyev. Kama Svoboda , Tosiron Adegbija

In recent times, a plethora of hardware accelerators have been put forth for graph learning applications such as vertex classification and graph classification. However, previous works have paid little attention to Knowledge Graph…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Hanning Chen , Yang Ni , Ali Zakeri , Zhuowen Zou , Sanggeon Yun , Fei Wen , Behnam Khaleghi , Narayan Srinivasa , Hugo Latapie , Mohsen Imani

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) compiles C/C++ into RTL, but exploring pragma-driven optimization choices remains expensive because each design point requires time-consuming synthesis. We propose \textbf{\DiffHLS}, a differential learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Zedong Peng , Zeju Li , Qiang Xu , Jieru Zhao

Convolutional neural network (CNN) accelerators implemented on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are typically designed with a primary focus on maximizing performance, often measured in giga-operations per second (GOPS). However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Panagiotis Mousouliotis , Georgios Keramidas

High-level synthesis (HLS) tools have provided significant productivity enhancements to the design flow of digital systems in recent years, resulting in highly-optimized circuits, in terms of area and latency. Given the evolution of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Amalia Artemis Koufopoulou , Athanasios Papadimitriou , Aggelos Pikrakis , Mihalis Psarakis , David Hely

Despite the stride made by machine learning (ML) based performance modeling, two major concerns that may impede production-ready ML applications in EDA are stringent accuracy requirements and generalization capability. To this end, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Nan Wu , Jiwon Lee , Yuan Xie , Cong Hao

High-level synthesis, source-to-source compilers, and various Design Space Exploration techniques for pragma insertion have significantly improved the Quality of Results of generated designs. These tools offer benefits such as reduced…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Stéphane Pouget , Louis-Noël Pouchet , Jason Cong

High-level synthesis (HLS) refers to the automatic translation of a software program written in a high-level language into a hardware design. Modern HLS tools have moved away from the traditional approach of static (compile time) scheduling…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Aditya Rajagopal , Diederik Adriaan Vink , Jianyi Cheng , Yann Herklotz

The increasing complexity of large-scale FPGA accelerators poses significant challenges in achieving high performance while maintaining design productivity. High-level synthesis (HLS) has been adopted as a solution, but the mismatch between…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Jason Lau , Yuanlong Xiao , Yutong Xie , Yuze Chi , Linghao Song , Shaojie Xiang , Michael Lo , Zhiru Zhang , Jason Cong , Licheng Guo

Recently, the field of deep learning has received great attention by the scientific community and it is used to provide improved solutions to many computer vision problems. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been successfully used to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Panagiotis G. Mousouliotis , Loukas P. Petrou

Scene graph generation aims to produce structured representations for images, which requires to understand the relations between objects. Due to the continuous nature of deep neural networks, the prediction of scene graphs is divided into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Meng Wei , Chun Yuan , Xiaoyu Yue , Kuo Zhong

Designing field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based accelerators for modern artificial intelligence workloads requires navigating a large and complex hardware design space encompassing architectural parameters, dataflow strategies, and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Vinamra Sharma , Xingjian Fu , Jude Haris , José Cano

Efficient GPU programming is crucial for achieving high performance in deep learning (DL) applications. The performance of GPU programs depends on how data is parallelized across threads and arranged within memory subsystems. The mapping…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xiao Zhang , Yaoyao Ding , Bolin Sun , Yang Hu , Tatiana Shpeisman , Gennady Pekhimenko

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

With the unprecedented proliferation of machine learning software, there is an ever-increasing need to generate efficient code for such applications. State-of-the-art deep-learning compilers like TVM and Halide incorporate a learning-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Shikhar Singh , Benoit Steiner , James Hegarty , Hugh Leather

Machine Learning (ML) has been widely adopted in design exploration using high level synthesis (HLS) to give a better and faster performance, and resource and power estimation at very early stages for FPGA-based design. To perform…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Zhigang Wei , Aman Arora , Ruihao Li , Lizy K. John

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) compiles algorithmic C/C++ descriptions into hardware, with Quality of Results (QoR) -- latency and resource utilization -- critically governed by pragma configurations and code structure. Existing LLM-based HLS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Qingyun Zou , Feng Yu , Hongshi Tan , Yao Chen , Bingsheng He , WengFai Wong