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While FPGAs have been used extensively as hardware accelerators in industrial computation, no theoretical model of computation has been devised for the study of FPGA-based accelerators. In this paper, we present a theoretical model of…

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High-order tensor decomposition has been widely adopted to obtain compact deep neural networks for edge deployment. However, existing studies focus primarily on its algorithmic advantages such as accuracy and compression ratio-while…

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Keyword Spotting nowadays is an integral part of speech-oriented user interaction targeted for smart devices. To this extent, neural networks are extensively used for their flexibility and high accuracy. However, coming up with a suitable…

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