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Deep neural networks (DNNs) are state-of-the-art algorithms for multiple applications, spanning from image classification to speech recognition. While providing excellent accuracy, they often have enormous compute and memory requirements.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Ussama Zahid , Giulio Gambardella , Nicholas J. Fraser , Michaela Blott , Kees Vissers

We consider deep neural networks, in which the output of each node is a quadratic function of its inputs. Similar to other deep architectures, these networks can compactly represent any function on a finite training set. The main goal of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-21 Roi Livni , Shai Shalev-Shwartz , Ohad Shamir

There is a need for machine learning models to evolve in unsupervised circumstances. New classifications may be introduced, unexpected faults may occur, or the initial dataset may be small compared to the data-points presented to the system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Samuel Prescott , Adrian Wheeldon , Rishad Shafik , Tousif Rahman , Alex Yakovlev , Ole-Christoffer Granmo

Deep learning has delivered its powerfulness in many application domains, especially in image and speech recognition. As the backbone of deep learning, deep neural networks (DNNs) consist of multiple layers of various types with hundreds to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Sheng Lin , Ning Liu , Mahdi Nazemi , Hongjia Li , Caiwen Ding , Yanzhi Wang , Massoud Pedram

Due to recent advances in digital technologies, and availability of credible data, an area of artificial intelligence, deep learning, has emerged, and has demonstrated its ability and effectiveness in solving complex learning problems not…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Ahmad Shawahna , Sadiq M. Sait , Aiman El-Maleh

The rapid development of large language models (LLM) has greatly enhanced everyday applications. While many FPGA-based accelerators, with flexibility for fine-grained data control, exhibit superior speed and energy efficiency compared to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zifan He , Shengyu Ye , Rui Ma , Yang Wang , Jason Cong

This work introduces a highly efficient implementation of the transformer architecture on a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) by using the \texttt{hls4ml} tool. Given the demonstrated effectiveness of transformer models in addressing a…

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) plays an increasingly important role in data sampling and processing industries due to its highly parallel architecture, low power consumption, and flexibility in custom algorithms. Especially, in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Yufeng Hao

The softmax function is a widely used activation function in the output layers of neural networks, responsible for converting raw scores into class probabilities while introducing essential non-linearity. Implementing Softmax efficiently…

Domain-specialized FPGAs have delivered unprecedented performance for low-latency inference across scientific and industrial workloads, yet nearly all existing accelerators assume static models trained offline, relegating learning and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Duc Hoang

A new field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based emulation platform is proposed to accelerate fault tolerance analysis of inference accelerators of convolutional neural networks (CNN). For a given CNN model, hardware accelerator…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Filip Masar , Vojtech Mrazek , Lukas Sekanina

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are fundamental to deep learning, driving applications across various domains. However, their growing complexity has significantly increased computational demands, necessitating efficient hardware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Junye Jiang , Yaan Zhou , Yuanhao Gong , Haoxuan Yuan , Shuanglong Liu

Fault-tolerant Quantum Processing Units (QPUs) promise to deliver exponential speed-ups in select computational tasks, yet their integration into modern deep learning pipelines remains unclear. In this work, we take a step towards bridging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Arthur G. Rattew , Po-Wei Huang , Naixu Guo , Lirandë Pira , Patrick Rebentrost

This work presents a novel reconfigurable architecture for Low Latency Graph Neural Network (LL-GNN) designs for particle detectors, delivering unprecedented low latency performance. Incorporating FPGA-based GNNs into particle detectors…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Zhiqiang Que , Hongxiang Fan , Marcus Loo , He Li , Michaela Blott , Maurizio Pierini , Alexander Tapper , Wayne Luk

General-purpose processors feature a limited number of instructions based on an instruction set. They can be numerous, such as with vector extensions that include hundreds or thousands of instructions, but this comes at a cost; they are…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Philippos Papaphilippou

Benefitted from its great success on many tasks, deep learning is increasingly used on low-computational-cost devices, e.g. smartphone, embedded devices, etc. To reduce the high computational and memory cost, in this work, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Xijun Wang , Meina Kan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

New heterogeneous computing paradigms on dedicated hardware with increased parallelization, such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), offer exciting solutions with large potential gains. The growing applications of machine learning…

We consider the use of look-up tables (LUT) to simplify the hardware implementation of a deep learning network for inferencing after weights have been successfully trained. The use of LUT replaces the matrix multiply and add operations with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Chai Wah Wu

Differentiable logic gate networks (DLGNs) learn compact, interpretable Boolean circuits via gradient-based training, but all existing variants are restricted to the 16 two-input binary gates. Extending DLGNs to Ternary Kleene $K_3$ logic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Sai Sandeep Damera , Ryan Matheu , Aniruddh G. Puranic , John S. Baras

Recently, the field of deep learning has received great attention by the scientific community and it is used to provide improved solutions to many computer vision problems. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been successfully used to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Panagiotis G. Mousouliotis , Loukas P. Petrou