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Deep Learning (DL) algorithms have become the {\em de facto} choice for data analysis. Several DL implementations -- primarily limited to a single compute node -- such as Caffe, TensorFlow, Theano and Torch have become readily available.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Abhinav Vishnu , Joseph Manzano , Charles Siegel , Jeff Daily

The increased interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) raised the need for highly optimized and sophisticated AI frameworks. Starting with the Lua-based Torch many frameworks have emerged over time, such as Theano, Caffe, Chainer, CNTK,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Nicolas Weber

Deep neural network (DNN) inference relies increasingly on specialized hardware for high computational efficiency. This work introduces a field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based dynamically configurable accelerator featuring systolic…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Anastasios Petropoulos , Theodore Antonakopoulos

In recent years, Deep Learning (DL) has found great success in domains such as multimedia understanding. However, the complex nature of multimedia data makes it difficult to develop DL-based software. The state-of-the art tools, such as…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Tian Zhao , Xiaobing Huang , Yu Cao

The spread of deep learning on embedded devices has prompted the development of numerous methods to optimise the deployment of deep neural networks (DNN). Works have mainly focused on: i) efficient DNN architectures, ii) network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Miguel de Prado , Andrew Mundy , Rabia Saeed , Maurizio Denna , Nuria Pazos , Luca Benini

The record-breaking performance of deep neural networks (DNNs) comes with heavy parameterization, leading to external dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) for storage. The prohibitive energy of DRAM accesses makes it non-trivial to deploy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Xiaohan Chen , Yang Zhao , Yue Wang , Pengfei Xu , Haoran You , Chaojian Li , Yonggan Fu , Yingyan Lin , Zhangyang Wang

Neural architecture search (NAS) is a promising technique to design efficient and high-performance deep neural networks (DNNs). As the performance requirements of ML applications grow continuously, the hardware accelerators start playing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Guihong Li , Sumit K. Mandal , Umit Y. Ogras , Radu Marculescu

A surge in artificial intelligence and autonomous technologies have increased the demand toward enhanced edge-processing capabilities. Computational complexity and size of state-of-the-art Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are rising…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Rawan Naous , Lazar Supic , Yoonhwan Kang , Ranko Sredojevic , Anish Singhani , Vladimir Stojanovic

Early programming languages for software-defined networking (SDN) were built on top of the simple match-action paradigm offered by OpenFlow 1.0. However, emerging hardware and software switches offer much more sophisticated support for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-07-06 Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo , Yaron Koral , Michael Greenberg , Jennifer Rexford , David Walker

Deep learning software demands reliability and performance. However, many of the existing deep learning frameworks are software libraries that act as an unsafe DSL in Python and a computation graph interpreter. We present DLVM, a design and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Richard Wei , Lane Schwartz , Vikram Adve

To alleviate hardware scarcity in training large deep neural networks (DNNs), particularly large language models (LLMs), we present FusionLLM, a decentralized training system designed and implemented for training DNNs using geo-distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Zhenheng Tang , Xueze Kang , Yiming Yin , Xinglin Pan , Yuxin Wang , Xin He , Qiang Wang , Rongfei Zeng , Kaiyong Zhao , Shaohuai Shi , Amelie Chi Zhou , Bo Li , Bingsheng He , Xiaowen Chu

The scientific community increasingly relies on machine learning (ML) for near-sensor processing, leveraging its strengths in tasks such as pattern recognition, anomaly detection, and real-time decision-making. These deployments demand…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-30 G Abarajithan , Zhenghua Ma , Ravidu Munasinghe , Francesco Restuccia , Ryan Kastner

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely adopted for various mobile inference tasks, yet their ever-increasing computational demands are hindering their deployment on resource-constrained mobile devices. Hybrid deep learning partitions…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jing Wu , Lin Wang , Qirui Jin , Fangming Liu

The recent ground-breaking advances in deep learning networks ( DNNs ) make them attractive for embedded systems. However, it can take a long time for DNNs to make an inference on resource-limited embedded devices. Offloading the…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Ben Taylor , Vicent Sanz Marco , Willy Wolff , Yehia Elkhatib , Zheng Wang

Low-latency, energy-efficient deep neural networks (DNNs) inference are critical for edge applications, where traditional cloud-based deployment suffers from high latency and security risks. Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) offer a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Zeyu Guo

High-level synthesis (HLS) has enabled the rapid development of custom hardware circuits for many software applications. However, developing high-performance hardware circuits using HLS is still a non-trivial task requiring expertise in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Suhail Basalama , Jason Cong

We present a library of efficient implementations of deep learning primitives. Deep learning workloads are computationally intensive, and optimizing their kernels is difficult and time-consuming. As parallel architectures evolve, kernels…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Sharan Chetlur , Cliff Woolley , Philippe Vandermersch , Jonathan Cohen , John Tran , Bryan Catanzaro , Evan Shelhamer

Domain-specific languages (DSLs) play an increasingly important role in the generation of high performing software. They allow the user to exploit specific knowledge encoded in the constructs for the generation of code adapted to a…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Pramod Kumbhar , Omar Awile , Liam Keegan , Jorge Blanco Alonso , James King , Michael Hines , Felix Schürmann

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being deployed on mobile devices, but the limited DRAM capacity constrains the deployable model size. This paper introduces ActiveFlow, the first LLM inference framework that can achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Fucheng Jia , Zewen Wu , Shiqi Jiang , Huiqiang Jiang , Qianxi Zhang , Yuqing Yang , Yunxin Liu , Ju Ren , Deyu Zhang , Ting Cao

Tensor processing units (TPUs) are one of the most well-known machine learning (ML) accelerators utilized at large scale in data centers as well as in tiny ML applications. TPUs offer several improvements and advantages over conventional ML…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Mohammed Elbtity , Peyton Chandarana , Ramtin Zand