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An accelerator is a specialized integrated circuit designed to perform specific computations faster than if those were performed by CPU or GPU. A Field-Programmable DNN learning and inference accelerator (FProg-DNN) using hybrid systolic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Luiz M Franca-Neto

Processing-In-Memory (PIM) accelerators have the potential to efficiently run Deep Neural Network (DNN) inference by reducing costly data movement and by using resistive RAM (ReRAM) for efficient analog compute. Unfortunately, overall PIM…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Tanner Andrulis , Joel S. Emer , Vivienne Sze

Implementing Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on resource-constrained edge devices is a challenging task that requires tailored hardware accelerator architectures and a clear understanding of their performance characteristics when executing the…

The ever-increasing computation complexity of fast-growing Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has requested new computing paradigms to overcome the memory wall in conventional Von Neumann computing architectures. The emerging Computing-In-Memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Kaining Zhou , Yangshuo He , Rui Xiao , Kejie Huang

The performance and efficiency of running large-scale datasets on traditional computing systems exhibit critical bottlenecks due to the existing "power wall" and "memory wall" problems. To resolve those problems, processing-in-memory (PIM)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Yinglin Zhao , Jianlei Yang , Bing Li , Xingzhou Cheng , Xucheng Ye , Xueyan Wang , Xiaotao Jia , Zhaohao Wang , Youguang Zhang , Weisheng Zhao

Dynamic programming (DP) algorithms, such as All-Pairs Shortest Path (APSP) and genomic sequence alignment, are fundamental to many scientific domains but are severely bottlenecked by data movement on conventional architectures. While…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Tsung-Han Lu , Weihong Xu , Tajana Rosing

The relentless advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications necessitates the development of specialized hardware accelerators capable of handling the increasing complexity and computational demands.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Hongwu Peng , Caiwen Ding , Tong Geng , Sutanay Choudhury , Kevin Barker , Ang Li

The excellent performance of modern deep neural networks (DNNs) comes at an often prohibitive training cost, limiting the rapid development of DNN innovations and raising various environmental concerns. To reduce the dominant data movement…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Hongjie Wang , Yang Zhao , Chaojian Li , Yue Wang , Yingyan Lin

Most of the existing work on FPGA acceleration of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) focus on employing a single strategy (algorithm, dataflow, etc.) across all the layers. Such an approach does not achieve optimal latency on complex and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Yuan Meng , Sanmukh Kuppannagari , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

Multi Scale Deformable Attention (MSDAttn) has become a fundamental component in various vision tasks due to its effective multi scale grid sampling (MSGS). However, its reliance on random sampling results in highly irregular memory access…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Huize Li , Qinggang Wang , Bing Gao , Dan Chen , Yu Huang , Xin Xin

DL inference queries play an important role in diverse internet services and a large fraction of datacenter cycles are spent on processing DL inference queries. Specifically, the matrix-matrix multiplication (GEMM) operations of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Benjamin Y. Cho , Jeageun Jung , Mattan Erez

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been widely deployed for many Machine Learning applications. Recently, CapsuleNets have overtaken traditional DNNs, because of their improved generalization ability due to the multi-dimensional capsules, in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Alberto Marchisio , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Muhammad Shafique

The constant growth of DNNs makes them challenging to implement and run efficiently on traditional compute-centric architectures. Some accelerators have attempted to add more compute units and on-chip buffers to solve the memory wall…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Bahareh Khabbazan , Marc Riera , Antonio González

Deep neural networks (DNN) have shown superior performance in a variety of tasks. As they rapidly evolve, their escalating computation and memory demands make it challenging to deploy them on resource-constrained edge devices. Though…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Jiaqi Gu , Hanqing Zhu , Chenghao Feng , Mingjie Liu , Zixuan Jiang , Ray T. Chen , David Z. Pan

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have the advantage that they can take into account a large number of parameters, which enables them to solve complex tasks. In computer vision and speech recognition, they have a better accuracy than common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Lukas Baischer , Matthias Wess , Nima TaheriNejad

The substantial memory bandwidth and computational demands of large language models (LLMs) present critical challenges for efficient inference. To tackle this, the literature has explored heterogeneous systems that combine neural processing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yuzong Chen , Chao Fang , Xilai Dai , Yuheng Wu , Thierry Tambe , Marian Verhelst , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah

Recently DRAM-based PIMs (processing-in-memories) with unmodified cell arrays have demonstrated impressive performance for accelerating AI applications. However, due to the very restrictive hardware constraints, PIM remains an accelerator…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Jaewoo Park , Sugil Lee , Jongeun Lee

Accelerating end-to-end inference of transformer-based large language models (LLMs) is a critical component of AI services in datacenters. However, diverse compute characteristics of end-to-end LLM inference present challenges as previously…

The rapid deployment of deep neural network (DNN) accelerators in safety-critical domains such as autonomous vehicles, healthcare systems, and financial infrastructure necessitates robust mechanisms to safeguard data confidentiality and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Wei Xuan , Zihao Xuan , Rongliang Fu , Ning Lin , Kwunhang Wong , Zikang Yuan , Lang Feng , Zhongrui Wang , Tsung-Yi Ho , Yuzhong Jiao , Luhong Liang

While deep neural network (DNN)-based video denoising has demonstrated significant performance, deploying state-of-the-art models on edge devices remains challenging due to stringent real-time and energy efficiency requirements.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Shan Gao , Zhiqiang Wu , Yawen Niu , Xiaotao Li , Qingqing Xu