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Convolutional neural network (CNN) dataflow inference accelerators implemented in Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have demonstrated increased energy efficiency and lower latency compared to CNN execution on CPUs or GPUs. However, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Mairin Kroes , Lucian Petrica , Sorin Cotofana , Michaela Blott

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely employed to solve various problems, e.g., image classification. Due to their compute- and data-intensive nature, CNN accelerators have been developed as ASICs or on FPGAs. Increasing…

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Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) applications form a major class of AI-powered, low-latency data center workloads. Most execution models for RNN acceleration break computation graphs into BLAS kernels, which lead to significant inter-kernel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Tian Zhao , Yaqi Zhang , Kunle Olukotun

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) reach high accuracies in various application domains, but require large amounts of computation and incur costly data movements. One method to decrease these costs while trading accuracy is weight and/or…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Cecilia Latotzke , Tim Ciesielski , Tobias Gemmeke

With the rapidly-developing high-speed wireless communications, the 60 GHz millimeter-wave frequency range and radio-over-fiber systems have been investigated as a promising solution to deliver mm-wave signals. Neural networks have been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-20 Jeonghun Lee , Jiayuan He , Ke Wang

We present both a novel Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) accelerator architecture and a network compiler for FPGAs that outperforms all prior work. Instead of having generic processing elements that together process one layer at a time,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Mathew Hall , Vaughn Betz

With the ever-growing popularity of Artificial Intelligence, there is an increasing demand for more performant and efficient underlying hardware. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are a workload of particular importance, which achieve…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Alexander Montgomerie-Corcoran , Zhewen Yu , Jianyi Cheng , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

The increasing demand for real-time, low-latency artificial intelligence applications has propelled the use of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) for Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) implementations. FPGAs offer reconfigurability,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Philippe Magalhães , Virginie Fresse , Benoît Suffran , Olivier Alata

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are revolutionizing machine learning, but they present significant computational challenges. Recently, many FPGA-based accelerators have been proposed to improve the performance and efficiency of CNNs.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Yongming Shen , Michael Ferdman , Peter Milder

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown outstanding accuracy for many vision tasks during recent years. When deploying CNNs on portable devices and embedded systems, however, the large number of parameters and computations result in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Mehdi Ahmadi , Shervin Vakili , J. M. Pierre Langlois

Although state-of-the-art (SOTA) CNNs achieve outstanding performance on various tasks, their high computation demand and massive number of parameters make it difficult to deploy these SOTA CNNs onto resource-constrained devices. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Shiyu Li , Edward Hanson , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

Contemporary Deep Neural Network (DNN) contains millions of synaptic connections with tens to hundreds of layers. The large computation and memory requirements pose a challenge to the hardware design. In this work, we leverage the intrinsic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Jingyang Zhu , Jingbo Jiang , Xizi Chen , Chi-Ying Tsui

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have garnered a lot of recent interest because of their success in learning representations from graph-structured data across several critical applications in cloud and HPC. Owing to their unique compute and…

Intensive computation is entering data centers with multiple workloads of deep learning. To balance the compute efficiency, performance, and total cost of ownership (TCO), the use of a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Xiaoyu Yu , Yuwei Wang , Jie Miao , Ephrem Wu , Heng Zhang , Yu Meng , Bo Zhang , Biao Min , Dewei Chen , Jianlin Gao

Mini-batch inference of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is a key problem in many real-world applications. Recently, a GNN design principle of model depth-receptive field decoupling has been proposed to address the well-known issue of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Bingyi Zhang , Hanqing Zeng , Viktor Prasanna

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) require both intensive computation and frequent memory access, which lead to a low processing speed and large power dissipation. Although the characteristics of the different layers in a CNN are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Duy Thanh Nguyen , Hyun Kim , Hyuk-Jae Lee

In the era of artificial intelligence, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are emerging as a powerful technique for computational imaging. They have shown superior quality for reconstructing fine textures from badly-distorted images and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Chao-Tsung Huang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are currently adopted to solve an ever greater number of problems, ranging from speech recognition to image classification and segmentation. The large amount of processing required by CNNs calls for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Kamel Abdelouahab , Maxime Pelcat , Jocelyn Serot , François Berry

FPGA is appropriate for fix-point neural networks computing due to high power efficiency and configurability. However, its design must be intensively refined to achieve high performance using limited hardware resources. We present an…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Qingyang Yi , Heming Sun , Masahiro Fujita

Compressing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has received ever-increasing research focus. However, most existing CNN compression methods do not interpret their inherent structures to distinguish the implicit redundancy. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Yuchao Li , Shaohui Lin , Baochang Zhang , Jianzhuang Liu , David Doermann , Yongjian Wu , Feiyue Huang , Rongrong Ji