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In modern computer architectures, the performance of many memory-bound workloads (e.g., machine learning, graph processing, databases) is limited by the data movement bottleneck that emerges when transferring large amounts of data between…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Pedro Carrinho , Hamid Moghadaspour , Oscar Ferraz , João Dinis Ferreira , Yann Falevoz , Vitor Silva , Gabriel Falcao

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is a core primitive in modern AI systems, and graph-based methods currently offer the best accuracy-efficiency trade-off at scale. The workload is fundamentally memory-bound: graph traversal…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Sitian Chen , Yusen Li , Yao Chen , Minwen Deng , Jintao Meng , Amelie Chi Zhou

Processing-in-memory (PIM) has emerged as an enabler for the energy-efficient and high-performance acceleration of deep learning (DL) workloads. Resistive random-access memory (ReRAM) is one of the most promising technologies to implement…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Harsh Sharma , Gaurav Narang , Janardhan Rao Doppa , Umit Ogras , Partha Pratim Pande

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) is essential for applications like recommendation systems and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) but is highly I/O-intensive and memory-demanding. CPUs face I/O bottlenecks, while GPUs are…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Mingkai Chen , Tianhua Han , Cheng Liu , Shengwen Liang , Kuai Yu , Lei Dai , Ziming Yuan , Ying Wang , Lei Zhang , Huawei Li , Xiaowei Li

Bit-serial Processing-In-Memory (PIM) is an attractive paradigm for accelerator architectures, for parallel workloads such as Deep Learning (DL), because of its capability to achieve massive data parallelism at a low area overhead and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Aman Arora , Jian Weng , Siyuan Ma , Tony Nowatzki , Lizy K. John

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

The resurgence of near-memory processing (NMP) with the advent of big data has shifted the computation paradigm from processor-centric to memory-centric computing. To meet the bandwidth and capacity demands of memory-centric computing, 3D…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Pritam Majumder , Jiayi Huang , Sungkeun Kim , Abdullah Muzahid , Dylan Siegers , Chia-Che Tsai , Eun Jung Kim

Recent advances in machine learning (ML) have spotlighted the pressing need for computing architectures that bridge the gap between memory bandwidth and processing power. The advent of deep neural networks has pushed traditional Von Neumann…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Febin Sunny , Amin Shafiee , Abhishek Balasubramaniam , Mahdi Nikdast , Sudeep Pasricha

In-DRAM Processing-In-Memory (DRAM-PIM) has emerged as a promising approach to accelerate memory-intensive workloads by mitigating data transfer overhead between DRAM and the host processor. Bit-serial DRAM-PIM architectures, further…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Siyuan Ma , Jiajun Hu , Jeeho Ryoo , Aman Arora , Lizy Kurian John

Traditional computers with von Neumann architecture are unable to meet the latency and scalability challenges of Deep Neural Network (DNN) workloads. Various DNN accelerators based on Conventional compute Hardware Accelerator (CHA),…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Tom Glint , Chandan Kumar Jha , Manu Awasthi , Joycee Mekie

Decoder-only Transformer models such as GPT have demonstrated exceptional performance in text generation, by autoregressively predicting the next token. However, the efficacy of running GPT on current hardware systems is bounded by low…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yuting Wu , Ziyu Wang , Wei D. Lu

With the rapid growth of deep neural networks (DNNs), compute-in-memory (CIM) has emerged as a promising energy-efficient paradigm for accelerating multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) operations. Yet, current CIM architectures are largely limited…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Subhradip Chakraborty , Ankur Singh , Akhilesh R. Jaiswal

3D point cloud neural networks have significantly enhanced the perceptual capabilities of resource-limited mobile intelligent systems. However, despite the transformative impact, the point cloud algorithm suffers from substantial memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Dengfeng Wang , Shunqin Cai , Yanan Sun

Computing-in-Memory (CIM) architectures have emerged as a promising solution for accelerating Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) by mitigating data movement bottlenecks. However, realizing the potential of CIM requires specialized dataflow…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Xiaolin He , Cenlin Duan , Yingjie Qi , Xiao Ma , Jianlei Yang

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

Processing-in-memory (PIM), as a novel computing paradigm, provides significant performance benefits from the aspect of effective data movement reduction. SRAM-based PIM has been demonstrated as one of the most promising candidates due to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Cenlin Duan , Jianlei Yang , Xiaolin He , Yingjie Qi , Yikun Wang , Yiou Wang , Ziyan He , Bonan Yan , Xueyan Wang , Xiaotao Jia , Weitao Pan , Weisheng Zhao

Processing-In-Memory (PIM) is a novel approach that augments existing DRAM memory chips with lightweight logic. By allowing to offload computations to the PIM system, this architecture allows for circumventing the data-bottleneck problem…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-18 André Lopes , Daniel Castro , Paolo Romano

The ever-increasing computation complexity of fastgrowing 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 2021-12-14 Kaining Zhou , Yangshuo He , Rui Xiao , Jiayi Liu , Kejie Huang

Training machine learning algorithms is a computationally intensive process, which is frequently memory-bound due to repeatedly accessing large training datasets. As a result, processor-centric systems (e.g., CPU, GPU) suffer from costly…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Juan Gómez-Luna , Yuxin Guo , Sylvan Brocard , Julien Legriel , Remy Cimadomo , Geraldo F. Oliveira , Gagandeep Singh , Onur Mutlu

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed on edge devices with Neural Processing Units (NPUs), yet the decode phase remains memory-intensive, limiting performance. Processing-in-Memory (PIM) offers a promising solution, but…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Hai Huang