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Analog computing has reemerged as a promising avenue for accelerating deep neural networks (DNNs) due to its potential to overcome the energy efficiency and scalability challenges posed by traditional digital architectures. However,…

The emergence of heterogeneity and domain-specific architectures targeting deep learning inference show great potential for enabling the deployment of modern CNNs on resource-constrained embedded platforms. A significant development is the…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been ubiquitously applied in many applications, and accelerators are emerged as an enabler to support the fast and efficient inference tasks of these applications. However, to achieve high model coverage…

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…

In recent years, autonomous vehicles have attracted the attention of many research groups, both in academia and business, including researchers from leading companies such as Google, Uber and Tesla. This type of vehicles are equipped with…

There are plenty of graph neural network (GNN) accelerators being proposed. However, they highly rely on users' hardware expertise and are usually optimized for one specific GNN model, making them challenging for practical use. Therefore,…

Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) that possess a property of uncertainty estimation have been increasingly adopted in a wide range of safety-critical AI applications which demand reliable and robust decision making, e.g., self-driving, rescue…

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are very popular because of their high performance in various cognitive tasks in Machine Learning (ML). Recent advancements in DNNs have brought beyond human accuracy in many tasks, but at the cost of high…

FPGA accelerators for lightweight neural convolutional networks (LWCNNs) have recently attracted significant attention. Most existing LWCNN accelerators focus on single-Computing-Engine (CE) architecture with local optimization. However,…

Inverse-designed nanophotonic devices offer promising solutions for analog optical computation. High-density photonic integration is critical for scaling such architectures toward more complex computational tasks and large-scale…

Convolutional neural network (CNN) accelerators implemented on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are typically designed with a primary focus on maximizing performance, often measured in giga-operations per second (GOPS). However,…

Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) applications impose uJ/Inference constraints, with a maximum power consumption of tens of mW. It is extremely challenging to meet these requirements at a reasonable accuracy level. This work addresses the…

Real-time unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) acoustic detection at the edge demands low-latency inference under strict power and hardware limits. This paper presents SHIELD8-UAV, a sequential 8-bit hardware implementation of a precision-aware 1D…

In recent decades, neuromorphic computing aiming to imitate brains' behaviors has been developed in various fields of computer science. The Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is an important concept in Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) reach high accuracies in various application domains, but require large amounts of computation and incur costly data movements. One method to decrease these costs while trading accuracy is weight and/or…

The state-of-the-art approaches employ approximate computing to reduce the energy consumption of DNN hardware. Approximate DNNs then require extensive retraining afterwards to recover from the accuracy loss caused by the use of approximate…

Intelligent edge devices with built-in processors vary widely in terms of capability and physical form to perform advanced Computer Vision (CV) tasks such as image classification and object detection, for example. With constant advances in…

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…

In this paper, we introduce the design and verification frameworks for developing a fully-functional emerging ternary processor. Based on the existing compiling environments for binary processors, for the given ternary instructions, the…