English
Related papers

Related papers: RAMAN: A Re-configurable and Sparse tinyML Acceler…

200 papers

Low-latency, low-power portable recurrent neural network (RNN) accelerators offer powerful inference capabilities for real-time applications such as IoT, robotics, and human-machine interaction. We propose a lightweight Gated Recurrent Unit…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Chang Gao , Antonio Rios-Navarro , Xi Chen , Shih-Chii Liu , Tobi Delbruck

Deep neural network (DNN) inference is increasingly being executed on mobile and embedded platforms due to low latency and better privacy. However, efficient deployment on these platforms is challenging due to the intensive computation and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Lei Xun , Bashir M. Al-Hashimi , Jonathon Hare , Geoff V. Merrett

Graph Neural Network (GNN) inference is used in many real-world applications. Data sparsity in GNN inference, including sparsity in the input graph and the GNN model, offer opportunities to further speed up inference. Also, many pruning…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Bingyi Zhang , Viktor Prasanna

ReRAM-based accelerators exhibit enormous potential to increase computational efficiency for DNN inference tasks, delivering significant performance and energy savings over traditional platforms. By incorporating adaptive scheduling, these…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Mohammad Sabri , Marc Riera , Antonio Gonzalez

The acceleration of pruned Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on edge devices such as Microcontrollers (MCUs) is a challenging task, given the tight area- and power-constraints of these devices. In this work, we propose a three-fold contribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Francesco Daghero , Daniele Jahier Pagliari , Francesco Conti , Luca Benini , Massimo Poncino , Alessio Burrello

Almost in every heavily computation-dependent application, from 6G communication systems to autonomous driving platforms, a large portion of computing should be near to the client side. Edge computing (AI at Edge) in mobile devices is one…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Seyed Nima Omidsajedi , Rekha Reddy , Jianming Yi , Jan Herbst , Christoph Lipps , Hans Dieter Schotten

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

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional proficiency in understanding and generating human language, but efficient inference on resource-constrained embedded devices remains challenging due to large model sizes and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Weihong Xu , Haein Choi , Po-kai Hsu , Shimeng Yu , Tajana Rosing

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown to provide superb performance in many real life applications, but their large computation cost and storage requirement have prevented them from being deployed to many edge and internet-of-things (IoT)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Minghai Qin , Tianyun Zhang , Fei Sun , Yen-Kuang Chen , Makan Fardad , Yanzhi Wang , Yuan Xie

The paradigm shift towards local and on-device inference under stringent resource constraints is represented by the tiny machine learning (TinyML) domain. The primary goal of TinyML is to integrate intelligence into tiny, low-cost devices…

It is appealing but challenging to achieve real-time deep neural network (DNN) inference on mobile devices because even the powerful modern mobile devices are considered as ``resource-constrained'' when executing large-scale DNNs. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Wei Niu , Zhengang Li , Xiaolong Ma , Peiyan Dong , Gang Zhou , Xuehai Qian , Xue Lin , Yanzhi Wang , Bin Ren

Machine learning, particularly deep neural network inference, has become a vital workload for many computing systems, from data centers and HPC systems to edge-based computing. As advances in sparsity have helped improve the efficiency of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Miao Yu , Tingting Xiang , Venkata Pavan Kumar Miriyala , Trevor E. Carlson

Scaling deep learning recommendation models is an effective way to improve model expressiveness. Existing approaches often incur substantial computational overhead, making them difficult to deploy in large-scale industrial systems under…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Shikang Wu , Hui Lu , Jinqiu Jin , Zheng Chai , Shiyong Hong , Junjie Zhang , Shanlei Mu , Kaiyuan Ma , Tianyi Liu , Yuchao Zheng , Zhe Wang , Jingjian Lin

Wide adoption of complex RNN based models is hindered by their inference performance, cost and memory requirements. To address this issue, we develop AntMan, combining structured sparsity with low-rank decomposition synergistically, to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Samyam Rajbhandari , Harsh Shrivastava , Yuxiong He

The advancement of Deep Learning (DL) is driven by efficient Deep Neural Network (DNN) design and new hardware accelerators. Current DNN design is primarily tailored for general-purpose use and deployment on commercially viable platforms.…

The need to execute Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) at low latency and low power at the edge has spurred the development of new heterogeneous Systems-on-Chips (SoCs) encapsulating a diverse set of hardware accelerators. How to optimally map a…

The exponential emergence of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) has accelerated the research of hardware implementation of Deep Neural Network (DNN). Among all DNN processors, domain specific architectures, such as, Google's Tensor…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Rourab Paul , Sreetama Sarkar , Suman Sau , Koushik Chakraborty , Sanghamitra Roy , Amlan Chakrabarti

Deep neural nets (DNNs) compression is crucial for adaptation to mobile devices. Though many successful algorithms exist to compress naturally trained DNNs, developing efficient and stable compression algorithms for robustly trained DNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Thu Dinh , Bao Wang , Andrea L. Bertozzi , Stanley J. Osher

This paper proposes Capstan: a scalable, parallel-patterns-based, reconfigurable dataflow accelerator (RDA) for sparse and dense tensor applications. Instead of designing for one application, we start with common sparse data formats, each…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Alexander Rucker , Matthew Vilim , Tian Zhao , Yaqi Zhang , Raghu Prabhakar , Kunle Olukotun

The increased demand for data privacy and security in machine learning (ML) applications has put impetus on effective edge training on Internet-of-Things (IoT) nodes. Edge training aims to leverage speed, energy efficiency and adaptability…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Gang Mao , Tousif Rahman , Sidharth Maheshwari , Bob Pattison , Zhuang Shao , Rishad Shafik , Alex Yakovlev