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Convolutional neural network (CNN) accelerators implemented on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are typically designed with a primary focus on maximizing performance, often measured in giga-operations per second (GOPS). However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Panagiotis Mousouliotis , Georgios Keramidas

Offloading compute-intensive kernels to hardware accelerators relies on the large degree of parallelism offered by these platforms. However, the effective bandwidth of the memory interface often causes a bottleneck, hindering the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Corentin Ferry , Tomofumi Yuki , Steven Derrien , Sanjay Rajopadhye

We introduce an automated tool for deploying ultra low-latency, low-power deep neural networks with convolutional layers on FPGAs. By extending the hls4ml library, we demonstrate an inference latency of $5\,\mu$s using convolutional…

Sparsity is a growing trend in modern DNN models. Existing Sparse-Sparse Matrix Multiplication (SpMSpM) accelerators are tailored to a particular SpMSpM dataflow (i.e., Inner Product, Outer Product or Gustavsons), that determines their…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Francisco Muñoz-Martínez , Raveesh Garg , José L. Abellán , Michael Pellauer , Manuel E. Acacio , Tushar Krishna

Deep convolutional neural networks have achieved remarkable progress in recent years. However, the large volume of intermediate results generated during inference poses a significant challenge to the accelerator design for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Gang Li , Zejian Liu , Fanrong Li , Jian Cheng

Event-based sensors are drawing increasing attention due to their high temporal resolution, low power consumption, and low bandwidth. To efficiently extract semantically meaningful information from sparse data streams produced by such…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Alfio Di Mauro , Arpan Suravi Prasad , Zhikai Huang , Matteo Spallanzani , Francesco Conti , Luca Benini

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely deployed in the fields of computer vision and pattern recognition because of their high accuracy. However, large convolution operations are computing-intensive that often requires a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-10 Lin Bai , Yiming Zhao , Xinming Huang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated their effectiveness in numerous vision tasks. However, their high processing requirements necessitate efficient hardware acceleration to meet the application's performance targets. In…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Petros Toupas , Zhewen Yu , Christos-Savvas Bouganis , Dimitrios Tzovaras

The computational workload involved in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is typically out of reach for low-power embedded devices. There are a large number of approximation techniques to address this problem. These methods have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Etienne Dupuis , David Novo , Ian O'Connor , Alberto Bosio

To address the challenge of increasing network size, researchers have developed sparse models through network pruning. However, maintaining model accuracy while achieving significant speedups on general computing devices remains an open…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Haitao Xu , Songwei Liu , Yuyang Xu , Shuai Wang , Jiashi Li , Chenqian Yan , Liangqiang Li , Lean Fu , Xin Pan , Fangmin Chen

Accelerating the deep learning inference is very important for real-time applications. In this paper, we propose a novel method to fuse the layers of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), which applies…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Xueying Wang , Guangli Li , Xiao Dong , Jiansong Li , Lei Liu , Xiaobing Feng

Deploying Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) on resource-constrained devices necessitates efficient management of computational resources, often via distributed environments susceptible to latency from straggler nodes. This paper…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Shuo Tan , Rui Liu , Xuesong Han , XianLei Long , Kai Wan , Linqi Song , Yong Li

Recurrent neural networks have been shown to be effective architectures for many tasks in high energy physics, and thus have been widely adopted. Their use in low-latency environments has, however, been limited as a result of the…

Hyperspectral image (HSI) classification has been widely adopted in applications involving remote sensing imagery analysis which require high classification accuracy and real-time processing speed. Methods based on Convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-21 Shuanglong Liu , Ringo S. W. Chu , Xiwei Wang , Wayne Luk

The energy consumption of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is a critical factor in deploying deep learning models on resource-limited equipment such as mobile devices and autonomous vehicles. We propose an approach involving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Minh David Thao Chan , Ruoyu Zhao , Yukuan Jia , Ruiqing Mao , Sheng Zhou

We show that, during inference with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), more than 2x to $8x ineffectual work can be exposed if instead of targeting those weights and activations that are zero, we target different combinations of value…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Alberto Delmas , Patrick Judd , Dylan Malone Stuart , Zissis Poulos , Mostafa Mahmoud , Sayeh Sharify , Milos Nikolic , Andreas Moshovos

Recent neural networks (NNs) with self-attention exhibit competitiveness across different AI domains, but the essential attention mechanism brings massive computation and memory demands. To this end, various sparsity patterns are introduced…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Haibin Wu , Wenming Li , Kai Yan , Zhihua Fan , Peiyang Wu , Yuqun Liu , Yanhuan Liu , Ziqing Qiang , Meng Wu , Kunming Liu , Xiaochun Ye , Dongrui Fan

With the increasing reliance of users on smart devices, bringing essential computation at the edge has become a crucial requirement for any type of business. Many such computations utilize Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) to perform AI…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Tanmay Jain , Avaneesh , Rohit Verma , Rajeev Shorey

The success of DNN pruning has led to the development of energy-efficient inference accelerators that support pruned models with sparse weight and activation tensors. Because the memory layouts and dataflows in these architectures are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Dingqing Yang , Amin Ghasemazar , Xiaowei Ren , Maximilian Golub , Guy Lemieux , Mieszko Lis

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have shown state of the art results for speech recognition, natural language processing, image captioning and video summarizing applications. Many of these applications run on low-power platforms, so their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Urmish Thakker , Ganesh Dasika , Jesse Beu , Matthew Mattina