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Using multiple nodes and parallel computing algorithms has become a principal tool to improve training and execution times of deep neural networks as well as effective collective intelligence in sensor networks. In this paper, we consider…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Afshin Abdi , Saeed Rashidi , Faramarz Fekri , Tushar Krishna

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have emerged as key enablers of machine learning. Applying larger DNNs to more diverse applications is an important challenge. The computations performed during DNN training and inference are dominated by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Jeremy Kepner , Vijay Gadepally , Hayden Jananthan , Lauren Milechin , Sid Samsi

This paper introduces Progressively Diffused Networks (PDNs) for unifying multi-scale context modeling with deep feature learning, by taking semantic image segmentation as an exemplar application. Prior neural networks, such as ResNet, tend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Ruimao Zhang , Wei Yang , Zhanglin Peng , Xiaogang Wang , Liang Lin

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are state-of-the-art solutions for many machine learning applications, and have been widely used on mobile devices. Running DNNs on resource-constrained mobile devices often requires the help from edge servers…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Wenqi Shi , Yunzhong Hou , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu , Yang Zhang , Lu Geng

Recently, there has been an explosive growth of mobile and embedded applications using convolutional neural networks(CNNs). To alleviate their excessive computational demands, developers have traditionally resorted to cloud offloading,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Mario Almeida , Stefanos Laskaridis , Stylianos I. Venieris , Ilias Leontiadis , Nicholas D. Lane

Model compression has emerged as an important area of research for deploying deep learning models on Internet-of-Things (IoT). However, for extremely memory-constrained scenarios, even the compressed models cannot fit within the memory of a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-30 Kartikeya Bhardwaj , Chingyi Lin , Anderson Sartor , Radu Marculescu

Currently, progressively larger deep neural networks are trained on ever growing data corpora. As this trend is only going to increase in the future, distributed training schemes are becoming increasingly relevant. A major issue in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Felix Sattler , Simon Wiedemann , Klaus-Robert Müller , Wojciech Samek

We propose a reconfigurable hardware architecture for deep neural networks (DNNs) capable of online training and inference, which uses algorithmically pre-determined, structured sparsity to significantly lower memory and computational…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Sourya Dey , Yinan Shao , Keith M. Chugg , Peter A. Beerel

This paper proposes DisCo, an automatic deep learning compilation module for data-parallel distributed training. Unlike most deep learning compilers that focus on training or inference on a single device, DisCo optimizes a DNN model for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Xiaodong Yi , Shiwei Zhang , Lansong Diao , Chuan Wu , Zhen Zheng , Shiqing Fan , Siyu Wang , Jun Yang , Wei Lin

Distributed Deep Neural Network (DNN) training is a technique to reduce the training overhead by distributing the training tasks into multiple accelerators, according to a parallelization strategy. However, high-performance compute and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Saeed Rashidi , William Won , Sudarshan Srinivasan , Puneet Gupta , Tushar Krishna

Computer vision on low-power edge devices enables applications including search-and-rescue and security. State-of-the-art computer vision algorithms, such as Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), are too large for inference on low-power edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Abhinav Goel , Caleb Tung , Xiao Hu , George K. Thiruvathukal , James C. Davis , Yung-Hsiang Lu

Many techniques have been developed, such as model compression, to make Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) inference more efficiently. Nevertheless, DNNs still lack excellent run-time dynamic inference capability to enable users trade-off accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Li Yang , Zhezhi He , Yu Cao , Deliang Fan

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have recently shown state of the art performance on semantic segmentation tasks, however, they still suffer from problems of poor boundary localization and spatial fragmented predictions. The difficulties lie in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Peng Jiang , Fanglin Gu , Yunhai Wang , Changhe Tu , Baoquan Chen

Combinatorial Optimization (CO) problems are fundamentally important in numerous real-world applications across diverse industries, characterized by entailing enormous solution space and demanding time-sensitive response. Despite recent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hang Zhao , Kexiong Yu , Yuhang Huang , Renjiao Yi , Chenyang Zhu , Kai Xu

The MIT/IEEE/Amazon GraphChallenge.org encourages community approaches to developing new solutions for analyzing graphs and sparse data. Sparse AI analytics present unique scalability difficulties. The proposed Sparse Deep Neural Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Jeremy Kepner , Simon Alford , Vijay Gadepally , Michael Jones , Lauren Milechin , Ryan Robinett , Sid Samsi

Despite the notable success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in solving complex tasks, the training process still remains considerable challenges. A primary obstacle is the substantial time required for training, particularly as high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Viet Hoang Pham , Hyo-Sung Ahn

Deep neural networks ( DNNs ) are becoming a key enabling technology for many application domains. However, on-device inference on battery-powered, resource-constrained embedding systems is often infeasible due to prohibitively long…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Vicent Sanz Marco , Ben Taylor , Zheng Wang , Yehia Elkhatib

Parallel training of neural networks at scale is challenging due to significant overheads arising from communication. Recently, deep learning researchers have developed a variety of pruning algorithms that are capable of pruning (i.e.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Siddharth Singh , Abhinav Bhatele

Embedded distributed inference of Neural Networks has emerged as a promising approach for deploying machine-learning models on resource-constrained devices in an efficient and scalable manner. The inference task is distributed across a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Federico Nicolás Peccia , Oliver Bringmann

As the accuracy of machine learning models increases at a fast rate, so does their demand for energy and compute resources. On a low level, the major part of these resources is consumed by data movement between different memory units.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Niels Gleinig , Tal Ben-Nun , Torsten Hoefler