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Low-precision arithmetic operations to accelerate deep-learning applications on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have been studied extensively, because they offer the potential to save silicon area or increase throughput. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-20 Julian Faraone , Martin Kumm , Martin Hardieck , Peter Zipf , Xueyuan Liu , David Boland , Philip H. W. Leong

A new method for the unsupervised learning of sparse representations using autoencoders is proposed and implemented by ordering the output of the hidden units by their activation value and progressively reconstructing the input in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Paul Bertens

Autoencoders are a prominent model in many empirical branches of machine learning and lossy data compression. However, basic theoretical questions remain unanswered even in a shallow two-layer setting. In particular, to what degree does a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Kevin Kögler , Alexander Shevchenko , Hamed Hassani , Marco Mondelli

Autonomous vehicles increasingly rely on cameras to provide the input for perception and scene understanding and the ability of these models to classify their environment and objects, under adverse conditions and image noise is crucial.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Andreas Papachristodoulou , Christos Kyrkou , Theocharis Theocharides

This research introduces an FPGA-based hardware accelerator to optimize the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and Fast Fourier transform (FFT) operations in AI models. The proposed design aims to improve processing speed and reduce…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Hong Ding , Chia Chao Kang , SuYang Xi , Zehang Liu , Xuan Zhang , Yi Ding

A method for musical audio synthesis using autoencoding neural networks is proposed. The autoencoder is trained to compress and reconstruct magnitude short-time Fourier transform frames. The autoencoder produces a spectrogram by activating…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Joseph Colonel , Christopher Curro , Sam Keene

Neural Networks (NN) provide a solid and reliable way of executing different types of applications, ranging from speech recognition to medical diagnosis, speeding up onerous and long workloads. The challenges involved in their…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Federico Manca , Francesco Ratto

We present a new efficient OpenCL-based Accelerator for large scale Convolutional Neural Networks called Fast Inference on FPGAs for Convolution Neural Network (FFCNN). FFCNN is based on a deeply pipelined OpenCL kernels architecture. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 F. Keddous , H-N. Nguyen , A. Nakib

We introduce an automated tool for deploying ultra low-latency, low-power deep neural networks with convolutional layers on FPGAs. By extending the hls4ml library, we demonstrate an inference latency of $5\,\mu$s using convolutional…

Learned activation functions in models like Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) outperform fixed-activation architectures in terms of accuracy and interpretability; however, their computational complexity poses critical challenges for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Mengyuan Yin , Benjamin Chen Ming Choong , Chuping Qu , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Weng-Fai Wong , Tao Luo

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…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Jinsong Zhang , Minghe Li , Jiayi Tian , Jinming Lu , Zheng Zhang

With the development of hardware-optimized deployment of spiking neural networks (SNNs), SNN processors based on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have become a research hotspot due to their efficiency and flexibility. However,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Hou Yue , Xiang Shuiying , Zou Tao , Huang Zhiquan , Shi Shangxuan , Guo Xingxing , Zhang Yahui , Zheng Ling , Hao Yue

Reducing noise in quantum systems is a major challenge towards the application of quantum technologies. Here, we propose and demonstrate a scheme to reduce noise using a quantum autoencoder with rigorous performance guarantees. The quantum…

In this paper, we show how to adapt and deploy anomaly detection algorithms based on deep autoencoders, for the unsupervised detection of new physics signatures in the extremely challenging environment of a real-time event selection system…

Deep neural networks are an extremely successful and widely used technique for various pattern recognition and machine learning tasks. Due to power and resource constraints, these computationally intensive networks are difficult to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Thorbjörn Posewsky , Daniel Ziener

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely employed to solve various problems, e.g., image classification. Due to their compute- and data-intensive nature, CNN accelerators have been developed as ASICs or on FPGAs. Increasing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Patrick Plagwitz , Frank Hannig , Jürgen Teich , Oliver Keszocze

As state of the art neural networks (NNs) continue to grow in size, their resource-efficient implementation becomes ever more important. In this paper, we introduce a compression scheme that reduces the number of computations required for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Hans Rosenberger , Rodrigo Fischer , Johanna S. Fröhlich , Ali Bereyhi , Ralf R. Müller

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are currently adopted to solve an ever greater number of problems, ranging from speech recognition to image classification and segmentation. The large amount of processing required by CNNs calls for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Kamel Abdelouahab , Maxime Pelcat , Jocelyn Serot , François Berry

In this work, we present and experimentally validate a passive photonic-integrated neuromorphic accelerator that uses a hardware-friendly optical spectrum slicing technique through a reconfigurable silicon photonic mesh. The proposed scheme…

The combination of Winograd's algorithm and systolic array architecture has demonstrated the capability of improving DSP efficiency in accelerating convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on FPGA platforms. However, handling arbitrary…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Xinheng Liu , Yao Chen , Cong Hao , Ashutosh Dhar , Deming Chen