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Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) obtain outstanding results in tasks that require human-level understanding of data, like image or speech recognition. However, their computational load is significant, motivating the development of…

Quantum computing crucially relies on the ability to efficiently characterize the quantum states output by quantum hardware. Conventional methods which probe these states through direct measurements and classically computed correlations…

In the current era of Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) computing, efficient digital simulation of quantum systems holds significant importance for quantum algorithm development, verification and validation. However, analysis of…

Spiking Neural Network (SNN) inference has a clear potential for high energy efficiency as computation is triggered by events. However, the inherent sparsity of events poses challenges for conventional computing systems, driving the…

Handling vast amounts of data is crucial in today's world. The growth of high-performance computing has created a need for parallelization, particularly in the area of machine learning algorithms such as ANN (Approximate Nearest Neighbors).…

The last few years have seen gigantic leaps in algorithms and systems to support efficient deep learning inference. Pruning and quantization algorithms can now consistently compress neural networks by an order of magnitude. For a compressed…

With the development of hardware-optimized deployment of spiking neural networks (SNNs), SNN processors based on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have become a research hotspot due to their efficiency and flexibility. However,…

We introduce Larq Compute Engine, the world's fastest Binarized Neural Network (BNN) inference engine, and use this framework to investigate several important questions about the efficiency of BNNs and to design a new state-of-the-art BNN…

The high demand for computational and storage resources severely impede the deployment of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in limited-resource devices. Recent CNN architectures have proposed reduced complexity versions (e.g.…

We present PULP-NN, an optimized computing library for a parallel ultra-low-power tightly coupled cluster of RISC-V processors. The key innovation in PULP-NN is a set of kernels for Quantized Neural Network (QNN) inference, targeting byte…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated remarkable ability throughout the field of computer vision. However, CNN inference requires a large number of arithmetic operations, making them expensive to deploy in hardware. Current…

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely employed in modern computer vision algorithms, where the input image is convolved iteratively by many kernels to extract the knowledge behind it. However, with the depth of convolutional…

Data parallelism can boost the training speed of convolutional neural networks (CNN), but could suffer from significant communication costs caused by gradient aggregation. To alleviate this problem, several scalar quantization techniques…

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool to process graph-based data in fields like communication networks, molecular interactions, chemistry, social networks, and neuroscience. GNNs are characterized by the ultra-sparse…

The customizability of RISC-V makes it an attractive choice for accelerating deep neural networks (DNNs). It can be achieved through instruction set extensions and corresponding custom functional units. Yet, efficiently exploiting these…

Over the most recent years, quantized graph neural network (QGNN) attracts lots of research and industry attention due to its high robustness and low computation and memory overhead. Unfortunately, the performance gains of QGNN have never…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) can be made hardware-efficient by reducing the numerical precision of the weights and activations of the network and by improving the network's resilience to noise. However, this gain in efficiency often comes at…

The rapid development of programmable network devices and the widespread use of machine learning (ML) in networking have facilitated efficient research into intelligent data plane (IDP). Offloading ML to programmable data plane (PDP)…

This paper presents a configurable Convolutional Neural Network Accelerator (CNNA) for a System on Chip design (SoC). The goal was to accelerate inference of different deep learning networks on an embedded SoC platform. The presented CNNA…