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The use of deep learning has grown at an exponential rate, giving rise to numerous specialized hardware and software systems for deep learning. Because the design space of deep learning software stacks and hardware accelerators is diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Zhan Shi , Chirag Sakhuja , Milad Hashemi , Kevin Swersky , Calvin Lin

As the machine learning and systems communities strive to achieve higher energy-efficiency through custom deep neural network (DNN) accelerators, varied precision or quantization levels, and model compression techniques, there is a need for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Ahmet Inci , Siri Garudanagiri Virupaksha , Aman Jain , Ting-Wu Chin , Venkata Vivek Thallam , Ruizhou Ding , Diana Marculescu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely applied in diverse applications, but the problems of high latency and energy overhead are inevitable on resource-constrained devices. To address this challenge, most researchers focus on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yunchu Han , Zhaojun Nan , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

Executing deep neural networks (DNNs) on edge artificial intelligence (AI) devices enables various autonomous mobile computing applications. However, the memory budget of edge AI devices restricts the number and complexity of DNNs allowed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Kun Wang , Jiani Cao , Zimu Zhou , Zhenjiang Li

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have made breakthroughs in various fields including image recognition and language processing. DNNs execute hundreds of millions of multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) operations. To efficiently accelerate such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Amro Eldebiky , Grace Li Zhang , Xunzhao Yin , Cheng Zhuo , Ing-Chao Lin , Ulf Schlichtmann , Bing Li

Neural network (NN) models are increasingly used in scientific simulations, AI, and other high performance computing (HPC) fields to extract knowledge from datasets. Each dataset requires tailored NN model architecture, but designing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Ariel Keller Rorabaugh , Silvina Caíno-Lores , Michael R. Wyatt , Travis Johnston , Michela Taufer

Having large batch sizes is one of the most critical aspects of increasing the accelerator efficiency and the performance of DNN model inference. However, existing model serving systems cannot achieve adequate batch sizes while meeting…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Lequn Chen , Weixin Deng , Anirudh Canumalla , Yu Xin , Danyang Zhuo , Matthai Philipose , Arvind Krishnamurthy

Deep learning has become widely used in complex AI applications. Yet, training a deep neural network (DNNs) model requires a considerable amount of calculations, long running time, and much energy. Nowadays, many-core AI accelerators (e.g.,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Yuxin Wang , Qiang Wang , Shaohuai Shi , Xin He , Zhenheng Tang , Kaiyong Zhao , Xiaowen Chu

In edge inference, wireless resource allocation and accelerator-level deep neural network (DNN) scheduling have yet to be co-optimized in an end-to-end manner. The lack of coordination between wireless transmission and accelerator-level DNN…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Sai Xu , Kai-Kit Wong , Yanan Du , Hyundong Shin

The recent breakthroughs in deep neural networks (DNNs) have spurred a tremendously increased demand for DNN accelerators. However, designing DNN accelerators is non-trivial as it often takes months/years and requires cross-disciplinary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Yang Zhao , Chaojian Li , Yue Wang , Pengfei Xu , Yongan Zhang , Yingyan Lin

This paper presents a hardware-efficient deep neural network (DNN), optimized through hardware-aware neural architecture search (HW-NAS); the DNN supports the classification of session-level encrypted traffic on resource-constrained…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Adel Chehade , Edoardo Ragusa , Paolo Gastaldo , Rodolfo Zunino

Partitioning and distributing deep neural networks (DNNs) across end-devices, edge resources and the cloud has a potential twofold advantage: preserving privacy of the input data, and reducing the ingress bandwidth demand beyond the edge.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Luke Lockhart , Paul Harvey , Pierre Imai , Peter Willis , Blesson Varghese

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have emerged as the core enabler of many major applications on mobile devices. To achieve high accuracy, DNN models have become increasingly deep with hundreds or even thousands of operator layers, leading to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Wei Niu , Jiexiong Guan , Yanzhi Wang , Gagan Agrawal , Bin Ren

As artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies disrupt a wide range of industries, cloud datacenters face ever-increasing demand in inference workloads. However, conventional CPU-based servers cannot handle excessive…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Jung-Hoon Kim , Sungyeob Yoo , Seungjae Moon , Joo-Young Kim

Data-intensive scientific workflows increasingly rely on high-performance computing (HPC) systems, complementing traditional Grid and Cloud platforms. However, workflow scheduling on HPC infrastructures remains challenging due to the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Aurelio Vivas , Harold Castro

This paper introduces FlexNN, a Flexible Neural Network accelerator, which adopts agile design principles to enable versatile dataflows, enhancing energy efficiency. Unlike conventional convolutional neural network accelerator architectures…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Arnab Raha , Deepak A. Mathaikutty , Soumendu K. Ghosh , Shamik Kundu

Hardware accelerators such as GPUs are required for real-time, low-latency inference with Deep Neural Networks (DNN). However, due to the inherent limits to the parallelism they can exploit, DNNs often under-utilize the capacity of today's…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Aditya Dhakal , Sameer G. Kulkarni , K. K. Ramakrishnan

Design space exploration (DSE) plays a crucial role in enabling custom hardware architectures, particularly for emerging applications like AI, where optimized and specialized designs are essential. With the growing complexity of deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Jamin Seo , Akshat Ramachandran , Yu-Chuan Chuang , Anirudh Itagi , Tushar Krishna

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are capable of solving complex problems in domains related to embedded systems, such as image and natural language processing. To efficiently implement DNNs on a specific FPGA platform for a given cost criterion,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Jonas Ney , Dominik Loroch , Vladimir Rybalkin , Nico Weber , Jens Krüger , Norbert Wehn

Edge computing has been emerging as a popular scenario for model inference. However, the inference performance on edge devices (e.g., Multi-Core DSP, FGPA, etc.) suffers from inefficiency due to the lack of highly optimized inference…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Zhang Runhua , Jiang Hongxu , Tian Fangzheng , Geng Jinkun , Li Xiaobin , Ma Yuhang , Zhu Chenhui , Dong Dong , Li Xin , Wang Haojie