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Complex-Valued Neural Networks (CVNNs) have significant advantages in handling tasks that involve complex numbers. However, existing CVNNs are unable to quantify predictive uncertainty. We propose, for the first time, dropout-based Bayesian…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Zehuan Zhang , Mark Chen , He Li , Wayne Luk

Deep convolutional neural networks have achieved remarkable progress in recent years. However, the large volume of intermediate results generated during inference poses a significant challenge to the accelerator design for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Gang Li , Zejian Liu , Fanrong Li , Jian Cheng

Convolutional Neural Networks with 3D kernels (3D-CNNs) currently achieve state-of-the-art results in video recognition tasks due to their supremacy in extracting spatiotemporal features within video frames. There have been many successful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Okan Köpüklü , Stefan Hörmann , Fabian Herzog , Hakan Cevikalp , Gerhard Rigoll

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are rapidly gaining popularity in varied fields. Due to their increasingly deep and computationally heavy structures, it is difficult to deploy them on energy constrained mobile applications. Hardware…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Akanksha Baranwal , Ishan Bansal , Roopal Nahar , K. Madhava Krishna

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), a prominent type of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), have emerged as a state-of-the-art solution for solving machine learning tasks. To improve the performance and energy efficiency of CNN inference, the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Muhammad Shafique

This paper introduces the first low-power hardware accelerator for Spiking Transformers, an emerging alternative to traditional artificial neural networks. By modifying the base Spikformer model to use IAND instead of residual addition, the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Bo-Yu Chen , Tian-Sheuan Chang

Sparsity is an intrinsic property of convolutional neural network(CNN) and worth exploiting for CNN accelerators, but extra processing comes with hardware overhead, causing many architectures suffering from only minor profit. Meanwhile,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Wenhao Sun , Deng Liu , Zhiwei Zou , Wendi Sun , Yi Kang , Song Chen

Deep convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) of 3-dimensional kernels allow joint modeling of spatiotemporal features. These networks have improved performance of video and volumetric image analysis, but have been limited in size due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-13 David Budden , Alexander Matveev , Shibani Santurkar , Shraman Ray Chaudhuri , Nir Shavit

Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) is an emerging device for processing-in-memory (PIM) architecture to accelerate convolutional neural network (CNN). However, due to the highly coupled crossbar structure in the RRAM array, it is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Songming Yu , Yongpan Liu , Lu Zhang , Jingyu Wang , Jinshan Yue , Zhuqing Yuan , Xueqing Li , Huazhong Yang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have begun to permeate all corners of electronic society (from voice recognition to scene generation) due to their high accuracy and machine efficiency per operation. At their core, CNN computations are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Kartik Hegde , Jiyong Yu , Rohit Agrawal , Mengjia Yan , Michael Pellauer , Christopher W. Fletcher

The acceleration of CNNs has gained increasing atten-tion since their success in computer vision. With the heterogeneous functional layers that cannot be pro-cessed by the accelerators proposed for convolution layers only, modern end-to-end…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Jiaqi Zhang , Xiangru Chen , Sandip Ray

This paper introduces channel gating, a dynamic, fine-grained, and hardware-efficient pruning scheme to reduce the computation cost for convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Channel gating identifies regions in the features that contribute…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Weizhe Hua , Yuan Zhou , Christopher De Sa , Zhiru Zhang , G. Edward Suh

Since introduced, Swin Transformer has achieved remarkable results in the field of computer vision, it has sparked the need for dedicated hardware accelerators, specifically catering to edge computing demands. For the advantages of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Zhiyang Liu , Pengyu Yin , Zhenhua Ren

This paper considers a convolutional neural network transformation that reduces computation complexity and thus speedups neural network processing. Usage of convolutional neural networks (CNN) is the standard approach to image recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Elena Limonova , Alexander Sheshkus , Dmitry Nikolaev

We present both a novel Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) accelerator architecture and a network compiler for FPGAs that outperforms all prior work. Instead of having generic processing elements that together process one layer at a time,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Mathew Hall , Vaughn Betz

Recently, RRAM-based Binary Neural Network (BNN) hardware has been gaining interests as it requires 1-bit sense-amp only and eliminates the need for high-resolution ADC and DAC. However, RRAM-based BNN hardware still requires…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Yulhwa Kim , Hyungjun Kim , Jae-Joon Kim

End-to-end performance estimation and measurement of deep neural network (DNN) systems become more important with increasing complexity of DNN systems consisting of hardware and software components. The methodology proposed in this paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Michael J. Klaiber , Sebastian Vogel , Axel Acosta , Robert Korn , Leonardo Ecco , Kristine Back , Andre Guntoro , Ingo Feldner

The past several years have seen both an explosion in the use of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and the design of accelerators to make CNN inference practical. In the architecture community, the lion share of effort has targeted CNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Kartik Hegde , Rohit Agrawal , Yulun Yao , Christopher W. Fletcher

Binary Neural Networks enable smart IoT devices, as they significantly reduce the required memory footprint and computational complexity while retaining a high network performance and flexibility. This paper presents ChewBaccaNN, a 0.7…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-01 Renzo Andri , Geethan Karunaratne , Lukas Cavigelli , Luca Benini

Deploying state-of-the-art CNNs requires power-hungry processors and off-chip memory. This precludes the implementation of CNNs in low-power embedded systems. Recent research shows CNNs sustain extreme quantization, binarizing their weights…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Andrawes Al Bahou , Geethan Karunaratne , Renzo Andri , Lukas Cavigelli , Luca Benini