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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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, 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…