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This paper presents Systolic-CNN, an OpenCL-defined scalable, run-time-flexible FPGA accelerator architecture, optimized for accelerating the inference of various convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in multi-tenancy cloud/edge computing.…

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) and transformers represent two powerful paradigms in neural computation, known for their low power consumption and ability to capture feature dependencies, respectively. However, transformer architectures…

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Very deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been firmly established as the primary methods for many computer vision tasks. However, most state-of-the-art CNNs are large, which results in high inference latency. Recently, depth-wise…

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