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In this paper, we develop an in-memory analog computing (IMAC) architecture realizing both synaptic behavior and activation functions within non-volatile memory arrays. Spin-orbit torque magnetoresistive random-access memory (SOT-MRAM)…

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This paper investigates deep neural network (DNN) compression from the perspective of compactly representing and storing trained parameters. We explore the previously overlooked opportunity of cross-layer architecture-agnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Yuezhou Sun , Wenlong Zhao , Lijun Zhang , Xiao Liu , Hui Guan , Matei Zaharia

SRAM-based Analog Compute-in-Memory (ACiM) demonstrates promising energy efficiency for deep neural network (DNN) processing. Nevertheless, efforts to optimize efficiency frequently compromise accuracy, and this trade-off remains…

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`In-memory computing' is being widely explored as a novel computing paradigm to mitigate the well known memory bottleneck. This emerging paradigm aims at embedding some aspects of computations inside the memory array, thereby avoiding…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Mustafa Ali , Akhilesh Jaiswal , Sangamesh Kodge , Amogh Agrawal , Indranil Chakraborty , Kaushik Roy

The hardware implementation of deep neural networks (DNNs) has recently received tremendous attention: many applications in fact require high-speed operations that suit a hardware implementation. However, numerous elements and complex…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Arash Ardakani , François Leduc-Primeau , Naoya Onizawa , Takahiro Hanyu , Warren J. Gross

The last decade has witnessed the breakthrough of deep neural networks (DNNs) in many fields. With the increasing depth of DNNs, hundreds of millions of multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) operations need to be executed. To accelerate such…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Amro Eldebiky , Grace Li Zhang , Georg Boecherer , Bing Li , Ulf Schlichtmann

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have gained immense success in cognitive applications and greatly pushed today's artificial intelligence forward. The biggest challenge in executing DNNs is their extremely data-extensive computations. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Fuqiang Liu , C. Liu

Analog In-Memory Compute (AIMC) can improve the energy efficiency of Deep Learning by orders of magnitude. Yet analog-domain device and circuit non-idealities -- within the analog ``Tiles'' performing Matrix-Vector Multiply (MVM) operations…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-03 J. Luquin , C. Mackin , S. Ambrogio , A. Chen , F. Baldi , G. Miralles , M. J. Rasch , J. Büchel , M. Lalwani , W. Ponghiran , P. Solomon , H. Tsai , G. W. Burr , P. Narayanan

Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) provide superior estimates of uncertainty by generating an ensemble of predictive distributions. However, inference via ensembling is resource-intensive, requiring additional entropy sources to generate…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Prabodh Katti , Clement Ruah , Osvaldo Simeone , Bashir M. Al-Hashimi , Bipin Rajendran

Crossbar-based in-memory computing (IMC) has emerged as a promising platform for hardware acceleration of deep neural networks (DNNs). However, the energy and latency of IMC systems are dominated by the large overhead of the peripheral…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Ethan G Rogers , Sohan Salahuddin Mugdho , Kshemal Kshemendra Gupte , Cheng Wang

Resistive crossbars enabling analog In-Memory Computing (IMC) have emerged as a promising architecture for Deep Neural Network (DNN) acceleration, offering high memory bandwidth and in-situ computation. However, the manual,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Deepak Vungarala , Md Hasibul Amin , Pietro Mercati , Arnob Ghosh , Arman Roohi , Ramtin Zand , Shaahin Angizi

Deep 'Analog Artificial Neural Networks' (ANNs) perform complex classification problems with remarkably high accuracy. However, they rely on humongous amount of power to perform the calculations, veiling the accuracy benefits. The…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Parami Wijesinghe , Aayush Ankit , Abhronil Sengupta , Kaushik Roy

In-memory computing (IMC) is an effectual solution for energy-efficient artificial intelligence applications. Analog IMC amortizes the power consumption of multiple sensing amplifiers with analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Hao Cai , Yanan Guo , Bo Liu , Mingyang Zhou , Juntong Chen , Xinning Liu , Jun Yang

Analog in-memory computing (AIMC) -- a promising approach for energy-efficient acceleration of deep learning workloads -- computes matrix-vector multiplications (MVMs) but only approximately, due to nonidealities that often are…

In memory computing (IMC) architectures for deep learning (DL) accelerators leverage energy-efficient and highly parallel matrix vector multiplication (MVM) operations, implemented directly in memory arrays. Such IMC designs have been…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Arkapravo Ghosh , Hemkar Reddy Sadana , Mukut Debnath , Panthadip Maji , Shubham Negi , Sumeet Gupta , Mrigank Sharad , Kaushik Roy

Deployment of modern TinyML tasks on small battery-constrained IoT devices requires high computational energy efficiency. Analog In-Memory Computing (IMC) using non-volatile memory (NVM) promises major efficiency improvements in deep neural…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Angelo Garofalo , Gianmarco Ottavi , Francesco Conti , Geethan Karunaratne , Irem Boybat , Luca Benini , Davide Rossi

Deep neural networks have revolutionized the field of machine learning by providing unprecedented human-like performance in solving many real-world problems such as image and speech recognition. Training of large DNNs, however, is a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Nandakumar S. R. , Manuel Le Gallo , Irem Boybat , Bipin Rajendran , Abu Sebastian , Evangelos Eleftheriou

DNNs deployed on analog processing in memory (PIM) architectures are subject to fabrication-time variability. We developed a new joint variability- and quantization-aware DNN training algorithm for highly quantized analog PIM-based models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Zihao Deng , Michael Orshansky

Deep learning hardware designs have been bottlenecked by conventional memories such as SRAM due to density, leakage and parallel computing challenges. Resistive devices can address the density and volatility issues, but have been limited by…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Shihui Yin , Xiaoyu Sun , Shimeng Yu , Jae-sun Seo

The cost involved in training deep neural networks (DNNs) on von-Neumann architectures has motivated the development of novel solutions for efficient DNN training accelerators. We propose a hybrid in-memory computing (HIC) architecture for…

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