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The miniaturization of transistors down to 5nm and beyond, plus the increasing complexity of integrated circuits, significantly aggravate short channel effects, and demand analysis and optimization of more design corners and modes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Mohammad Saeed Abrishami , Massoud Pedram , Shahin Nazarian

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

Deep convolution Neural Network (DCNN) has been widely used in computer vision tasks. However, for edge devices even inference has too large computational complexity and data access amount. The inference latency of state-of-the-art models…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Kuan-Ting Lin , Ching-Te Chiu , Jheng-Yi Chang , Shi-Zong Huang , Yu-Ting Li

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence in recent years, mankind is facing an unprecedented demand for data processing. Today, almost all data processing is performed using electrons in conventional complementary…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Qi Wang , Gyorgy Csaba , Roman Verba , Andrii V. Chumak , Philipp Pirro

Transposed Convolutions (TCONV) enable the up-scaling mechanism within generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) models. However, the predominant Input-Oriented Mapping (IOM) method for implementing TCONV has complex output mapping,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Jude Haris , José Cano

Generative neural network is a new category of neural networks and it has been widely utilized in applications such as content generation, unsupervised learning, segmentation and pose estimation. It typically involves massive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Dawen Xu , Ying Wang , Kaijie Tu , Cheng Liu , Bingsheng He , Lei Zhang

Convolution layers are prevalent in many classes of deep neural networks, including Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) which provide state-of-the-art results for tasks like image recognition, neural machine translation and speech…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Evangelos Georganas , Sasikanth Avancha , Kunal Banerjee , Dhiraj Kalamkar , Greg Henry , Hans Pabst , Alexander Heinecke

Recently ConvNets or convolutional neural networks (CNN) have come up as state-of-the-art classification and detection algorithms, achieving near-human performance in visual detection. However, ConvNet algorithms are typically very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Bert Moons , Bert De Brabandere , Luc Van Gool , Marian Verhelst

Extremely efficient convolutional neural network architectures are one of the most important requirements for limited-resource devices (such as embedded and mobile devices). The computing power and memory size are two important constraints…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Fahimeh Fooladgar , Shohreh Kasaei

Herein, a bit-wise Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) in-memory accelerator is implemented using Spin-Orbit Torque Magnetic Random Access Memory (SOT-MRAM) computational sub-arrays. It utilizes a novel AND-Accumulation method capable of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Arman Roohi , Shaahin Angizi , Deliang Fan , Ronald F DeMara

Due to the high price and heavy energy consumption of GPUs, deploying deep models on IoT devices such as microcontrollers makes significant contributions for ecological AI. Conventional methods successfully enable convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Yinan Liang , Ziwei Wang , Xiuwei Xu , Yansong Tang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Convolutional neural networks have recently achieved significant breakthroughs in various image classification tasks. However, they are computationally expensive,which can make their feasible mplementation on embedded and low-power devices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Mir Khan , Heikki Huttunen , Jani Boutellier

The deployment of Quantized Neural Networks (QNNs) on resource-constrained edge devices, such as microcontrollers (MCUs), introduces fundamental challenges in balancing model performance, computational complexity, and memory constraints.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Hamza A. Abushahla , Dara Varam , Ariel Justine N. Panopio , Mohamed I. AlHajri

A novel energy-efficient edge computing paradigm is proposed for real-time deep learning-based image upsampling applications. State-of-the-art deep learning solutions for image upsampling are currently trained using either resize or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Ian Colbert , Ken Kreutz-Delgado , Srinjoy Das

Photonic convolutional accelerators have emerged as low-energy alternatives to power-demanding digital convolutional neural networks, though they often face limitations in scalability. In this work, we introduce a convolutional photonic…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-24 Georgios Moustakas , Adonis Bogris , Charis Mesaritakis

With power consumption becoming a critical processor design issue, specialized architectures for low power processing are becoming popular. Several studies have shown that neural networks can be used for signal processing and pattern…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Raqibul Hasan , Tarek M. Taha , Chris Yakopcic , David J. Mountain

Continual demand for memory bandwidth has made it worthwhile for memory vendors to reassess processing in memory (PIM), which enables higher bandwidth by placing compute units in/near-memory. As such, memory vendors have recently proposed…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Johnathan Alsop , Shaizeen Aga , Mohamed Ibrahim , Mahzabeen Islam , Andrew Mccrabb , Nuwan Jayasena

We propose a new frontier: Neural Computers (NCs) that unify computation, memory, and I/O of traditional computers in a learned runtime state. Our long-term goal is the Completely Neural Computer (CNC): the mature, general-purpose…

Processing-in-memory (PIM) architectures are emerging to reduce data movement in data-intensive applications. These architectures seek to exploit the same physical devices for both information storage and logic, thereby dwarfing the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Orian Leitersdorf , Ronny Ronen , Shahar Kvatinsky

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