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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have the advantage that they can take into account a large number of parameters, which enables them to solve complex tasks. In computer vision and speech recognition, they have a better accuracy than common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Lukas Baischer , Matthias Wess , Nima TaheriNejad

Edge AI deployment faces critical challenges balancing computational performance, energy efficiency, and resource constraints. This paper presents FPGA-accelerated RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) extensions for efficient neural…

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Distributed deep neural networks (DNNs) have become central to modern computer vision, yet their deployment on resource-constrained edge devices remains hindered by substantial parameter counts, computational demands, and the probability of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Mahadev Sunil Kumar , Arnab Raha , Debayan Das , Gopakumar G , Rounak Chatterjee , Amitava Mukherjee

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) represent a performance-hungry application. Floating-Point (FP) and custom floating-point-like arithmetic satisfies this hunger. While there is need for speed, inference in DNNs does not seem to have any need for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Christoph Lauter , Anastasia Volkova

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) achieve human level performance in many image analytics tasks but DNNs are mostly deployed to GPU platforms that consume a considerable amount of power. New hardware platforms using lower precision arithmetic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Antonio Jimeno Yepes , Jianbin Tang , Benjamin Scott Mashford

Real-time Deep Neural Network (DNN) inference with low-latency requirement has become increasingly important for numerous applications in both cloud computing (e.g., Apple's Siri) and edge computing (e.g., Google/Waymo's driverless car).…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Weiwen Jiang , Edwin H. -M. Sha , Xinyi Zhang , Lei Yang , Qingfeng Zhuge , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

Automated feature extraction capability and significant performance of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) make them suitable for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. However, deploying DNN on edge devices becomes prohibitive due to the colossal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Rahul Mishra , Hari Prabhat Gupta

The rising demand for energy-efficient edge AI systems (e.g., mobile agents/robots) has increased the interest in neuromorphic computing, since it offers ultra-low power/energy AI computation through spiking neural network (SNN) algorithms…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra , Pasindu Wickramasinghe , Muhammad Shafique

The prediction accuracy of the deep neural networks (DNNs) after deployment at the edge can suffer with time due to shifts in the distribution of the new data. To improve robustness of DNNs, they must be able to update themselves to enhance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Kshitij Bhardwaj , James Diffenderfer , Bhavya Kailkhura , Maya Gokhale

On-device training of DNNs allows models to adapt and fine-tune to newly collected data or changing domains while deployed on microcontroller units (MCUs). However, DNN training is a resource-intensive task, making the implementation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Mark Deutel , Frank Hannig , Christopher Mutschler , Jürgen Teich

Due to limited resources on edge and different characteristics of deep neural network (DNN) models, it is a big challenge to optimize DNN inference performance in terms of energy consumption and end-to-end latency on edge devices. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Ziyang Zhang , Yang Zhao , Huan Li , Changyao Lin , Jie Liu

Existing FPGA-based DNN accelerators typically fall into two design paradigms. Either they adopt a generic reusable architecture to support different DNN networks but leave some performance and efficiency on the table because of the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Xiaofan Zhang , Hanchen Ye , Junsong Wang , Yonghua Lin , Jinjun Xiong , Wen-mei Hwu , Deming Chen

Recent technological advances have proliferated the available computing power, memory, and speed of modern Central Processing Units (CPUs), Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Consequently, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Corey Lammie , Wei Xiang , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been demonstrated as effective prognostic models across various domains, e.g. natural language processing, computer vision, and genomics. However, modern-day DNNs demand high compute and memory storage for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Zachariah Carmichael , Hamed F. Langroudi , Char Khazanov , Jeffrey Lillie , John L. Gustafson , Dhireesha Kudithipudi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are state-of-the-art solutions for many machine learning applications, and have been widely used on mobile devices. Running DNNs on resource-constrained mobile devices often requires the help from edge servers…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Wenqi Shi , Yunzhong Hou , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu , Yang Zhang , Lu Geng

Acceleration of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) on edge devices has recently achieved a remarkable performance in image classification and object detection applications. This paper proposes an efficient and scalable CNN-based SoC-FPGA…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Azzam Alhussain , Mingjie Lin

Object detection using deep neural networks (DNNs) involves a huge amount of computation which impedes its implementation on resource/energy-limited user-end devices. The reason for the success of DNNs is due to having knowledge over all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Mohammad Farhadi Bajestani , Mehdi Ghasemi , Sarma Vrudhula , Yezhou Yang

We propose distributed deep neural networks (DDNNs) over distributed computing hierarchies, consisting of the cloud, the edge (fog) and end devices. While being able to accommodate inference of a deep neural network (DNN) in the cloud, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Surat Teerapittayanon , Bradley McDanel , H. T. Kung

The ability to accurately predict deep neural network (DNN) inference performance metrics, such as latency, power, and memory footprint, for an arbitrary DNN on a target hardware platform is essential to the design of DNN based models. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Yuji Chai , Devashree Tripathy , Chuteng Zhou , Dibakar Gope , Igor Fedorov , Ramon Matas , David Brooks , Gu-Yeon Wei , Paul Whatmough

The growing number of low-power smart devices in the Internet of Things is coupled with the concept of "Edge Computing", that is moving some of the intelligence, especially machine learning, towards the edge of the network. Enabling machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Xiaying Wang , Michele Magno , Lukas Cavigelli , Luca Benini