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Transformer, originally devised for natural language processing, has also attested significant success in computer vision. Thanks to its super expressive power, researchers are investigating ways to deploy transformers to reinforcement…

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Transformers' compute-intensive operations pose enormous challenges for their deployment in resource-constrained EdgeAI / tinyML devices. As an established neural network compression technique, quantization reduces the hardware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Alberto Marchisio , Davide Dura , Maurizio Capra , Maurizio Martina , Guido Masera , Muhammad Shafique

Deep learning has led to unprecedented successes in solving some very difficult problems in domains such as computer vision, natural language processing, and general pattern recognition. These achievements are the culmination of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Febin P Sunny , Ebadollah Taheri , Mahdi Nikdast , Sudeep Pasricha

We present Transfer Orthology Networks (TRON), a novel neural network architecture designed for cross-species transfer learning. TRON leverages orthologous relationships, represented as a bipartite graph between species, to guide knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Vikash Singh

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been the centerpiece of many applications including but not limited to computer vision, speech processing, and Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, the computationally expensive convolution…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Armin Mehrabian , Yousra Al-Kabani , Volker J Sorger , Tarek El-Ghazawi

Transformers have become a predominant machine learning workload, they are not only the de-facto standard for natural language processing tasks, but they are also being deployed in other domains such as vision and speech recognition. Many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Ibrahim Ahmed , Sahil Parmar , Matthew Boyd , Michael Beidler , Kris Kang , Bill Liu , Kyle Roach , John Kim , Dennis Abts

Tartan (TRT), a hardware accelerator for inference with Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), is presented and evaluated on Convolutional Neural Networks. TRT exploits the variable per layer precision requirements of DNNs to deliver execution time…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Alberto Delmas , Sayeh Sharify , Patrick Judd , Andreas Moshovos

Parameter quantization in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can help generate efficient models with lower memory footprint and computational complexity. But, homogeneous quantization can result in significant degradation of CNN model…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Febin Sunny , Mahdi Nikdast , Sudeep Pasricha

With an ongoing trend in computing hardware towards increased heterogeneity, domain-specific co-processors are emerging as alternatives to centralized paradigms. The tensor core unit (TPU) has shown to outperform graphic process units by…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-11-24 Mario Miscuglio , Volker J. Sorger

Photonic systems for high-performance information processing have attracted renewed interest. Neuromorphic silicon photonics has the potential to integrate processing functions that vastly exceed the capabilities of electronics. We report…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-17 Alexander N. Tait , Thomas Ferreira de Lima , Ellen Zhou , Allie X. Wu , Mitchell A. Nahmias , Bhavin J. Shastri , Paul R. Prucnal

Transformer has achieved impressive successes for various computer vision tasks. However, most of existing studies require to pretrain the Transformer backbone on a large-scale labeled dataset (e.g., ImageNet) for achieving satisfactory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Yuexiang Li , Yawen Huang , Nanjun He , Kai Ma , Yefeng Zheng

Artificial Neural Networks are computational network models inspired by signal processing in the brain. These models have dramatically improved the performance of many learning tasks, including speech and object recognition. However,…

Transformer neural networks (TNN) excel in natural language processing (NLP), machine translation, and computer vision (CV) without relying on recurrent or convolutional layers. However, they have high computational and memory demands,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ehsan Kabir , Jason D. Bakos , David Andrews , Miaoqing Huang

One of the most efficient methods to solve L2-regularized primal problems, such as logistic regression and linear support vector machine (SVM) classification, is the widely used trust region Newton algorithm, TRON. While TRON has recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 John T. Halloran , David M. Rocke

The transformer architecture has revolutionized Natural Language Processing (NLP) and other machine-learning tasks, due to its unprecedented accuracy. However, their extensive memory and parameter requirements often hinder their practical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Subhadra Vadlamannati , Ryan Solgi

Neural Networks (NNs) have become the mainstream technology in the artificial intelligence (AI) renaissance over the past decade. Among different types of neural networks, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely adopted as…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Armin Mehrabian , Mario Miscuglio , Yousra Alkabani , Volker J. Sorger , Tarek El-Ghazawi

Deep learning is highly pervasive in today's data-intensive era. In particular, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are being widely adopted in a variety of fields for superior accuracy. However, computing deep CNNs on traditional CPUs and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Dharanidhar Dang , Bill Lin , Debashis Sahoo

Optical artificial neural networks (ONNs), analog computing hardware tailored for machine learning, have significant potential for ultra-high computing speed and energy efficiency. We propose a new approach to architectures for ONNs based…

The recent progress of artificial intelligence (AI) has boosted the computational possibilities in fields where standard computers are not able to perform. The AI paradigm is to emulate human intelligence and therefore breaks the familiar…

Image-text matching is an interesting and fascinating task in modern AI research. Despite the evolution of deep-learning-based image and text processing systems, multi-modal matching remains a challenging problem. In this work, we consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Nicola Messina , Fabrizio Falchi , Andrea Esuli , Giuseppe Amato