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Deep neural networks (DNN) have demonstrated effectiveness for various applications such as image processing, video segmentation, and speech recognition. Running state-of-the-art DNNs on current systems mostly relies on either…

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TensorDash is a hardware level technique for enabling data-parallel MAC units to take advantage of sparsity in their input operand streams. When used to compose a hardware accelerator for deep learning, TensorDash can speedup the training…

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Pruning of deep neural networks has been an effective technique for reducing model size while preserving most of the performance of dense networks, crucial for deploying models on memory and power-constrained devices. While recent sparse…

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There exists a plethora of techniques for inducing structured sparsity in parametric models during the optimization process, with the final goal of resource-efficient inference. However, few methods target a specific number of…

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We propose to execute deep neural networks (DNNs) with dynamic and sparse graph (DSG) structure for compressive memory and accelerative execution during both training and inference. The great success of DNNs motivates the pursuing of…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) are currently widely used for many artificial intelligence (AI) applications including computer vision, speech recognition, and robotics. While DNNs deliver state-of-the-art accuracy on many AI tasks, it comes at…

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Data are often accommodated on centralized storage servers. This is the case, for instance, in remote sensing and astronomy, where projects produce several petabytes of data every year. While machine learning models are often trained on…

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