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The use of low numerical precision is a fundamental optimization included in modern accelerators for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). The number of bits of the numerical representation is set to the minimum precision that is able to retain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-12 Franyell Silfa , Jose-Maria Arnau , Antonio Gonzàlez

Designing architectures for deep neural networks requires expert knowledge and substantial computation time. We propose a technique to accelerate architecture selection by learning an auxiliary HyperNet that generates the weights of a main…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Andrew Brock , Theodore Lim , J. M. Ritchie , Nick Weston

We introduce the Differentiable Weightless Neural Network (DWN), a model based on interconnected lookup tables. Training of DWNs is enabled by a novel Extended Finite Difference technique for approximate differentiation of binary values. We…

The surge in AI usage demands innovative power reduction strategies. Novel Compute-in-Memory (CIM) architectures, leveraging advanced memory technologies, hold the potential for significantly lowering energy consumption by integrating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 José Cubero-Cascante , Arunkumar Vaidyanathan , Rebecca Pelke , Lorenzo Pfeifer , Rainer Leupers , Jan Moritz Joseph

Energy efficient implementations and deployments of Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have been of great interest due to the possibility of developing artificial systems that can achieve the computational powers and energy efficiency of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Clemens JS Schaefer , Pooria Taheri , Mark Horeni , Siddharth Joshi

The recent success of neural networks for solving difficult decision tasks has incentivized incorporating smart decision making "at the edge." However, this work has traditionally focused on neural network inference, rather than training,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Albert Gural , Phillip Nadeau , Mehul Tikekar , Boris Murmann

Processing in-memory (PIM) is promising to accelerate neural networks (NNs) because it minimizes data movement and provides large computational parallelism. Similar to machine learning accelerators, application mapping, which determines the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Xuan Wang , Minxuan Zhou , Tajana Rosing

Weighted sum rate maximization (WSRM) for precoder optimization effectively balances performance and fairness among users. Recent studies have demonstrated the potential of deep learning in precoder optimization for sum rate maximization.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-10 Mingyu Deng , Shengqian Han

Analog Compute-In-Memory (CIM) architectures promise significant energy efficiency gains for neural network inference, but suffer from complex hardware-induced noise that poses major challenges for deployment. While noise-aware training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yuannuo Feng , Wenyong Zhou , Yuexi Lyu , Yixiang Zhang , Zhengwu Liu , Ngai Wong , Wang Kang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become the driving force behind recent artificial intelligence (AI) research. An important problem with implementing a neural network is the design of its architecture. Typically, such an architecture is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Shayan Hassantabar , Zeyu Wang , Niraj K. Jha

Processing-in-memory (PIM) architectures have demonstrated great potential in accelerating numerous deep learning tasks. Particularly, resistive random-access memory (RRAM) devices provide a promising hardware substrate to build PIM…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Weidong Cao , Yilong Zhao , Adith Boloor , Yinhe Han , Xuan Zhang , Li Jiang

As neural networks make their way into safety-critical systems, where misbehavior can lead to catastrophes, there is a growing interest in certifying the equivalence of two structurally similar neural networks. For example, compression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Brandon Paulsen , Jingbo Wang , Jiawei Wang , Chao Wang

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…

Machine learning algorithms, such as Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Deep Neural Network (DNN), have gained a lot of interests recently. When training a machine learning algorithm, randomly shuffle all the training data can improve the…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Zhi-Lin Ke , Hsiang-Yun Cheng , Chia-Lin Yang

Weight pruning has been widely acknowledged as a straightforward and effective method to eliminate redundancy in Deep Neural Networks (DNN), thereby achieving acceleration on various platforms. However, most of the pruning techniques are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Xiaolong Ma , Wei Niu , Tianyun Zhang , Sijia Liu , Sheng Lin , Hongjia Li , Xiang Chen , Jian Tang , Kaisheng Ma , Bin Ren , Yanzhi Wang

Neural networks (NNs) are growing in importance and complexity. A neural network's performance (and energy efficiency) can be bound either by computation or memory resources. The processing-in-memory (PIM) paradigm, where computation is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Geraldo F. Oliveira , Juan Gómez-Luna , Saugata Ghose , Amirali Boroumand , Onur Mutlu

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have shown advantages in computation and energy efficiency over traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs) thanks to their event-driven representations. SNNs also replace weight multiplications in ANNs with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Yangfan Hu , Qian Zheng , Xudong Jiang , Gang Pan

For the goal of automated design of high-performance deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methodology is becoming increasingly important for both academia and industries.Due to the costly stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Shengran Hu , Ran Cheng , Cheng He , Zhichao Lu , Jing Wang , Miao Zhang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) excel on clean images but struggle with corrupted ones. Incorporating specific corruptions into the data augmentation pipeline can improve robustness to those corruptions but may harm performance on clean images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Trung Trinh , Markus Heinonen , Luigi Acerbi , Samuel Kaski

The recent focus on the efficiency of deep neural networks (DNNs) has led to significant work on model compression approaches, of which weight pruning is one of the most popular. At the same time, there is rapidly-growing computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Elias Frantar , Dan Alistarh