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We propose a framework for the design, optimization, and implementation of Look-Up Tables (LUTs) used to recover noisy, oversampled, quantized signals given a parametric input model. The LUTs emulate the spectral effects of pre-quantization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-28 Morriel Kasher , Michael Tinston , Predrag Spasojevic

Operating deep neural networks on devices with limited resources requires the reduction of their memory footprints and computational requirements. In this paper we introduce a training method, called look-up table quantization, LUT-Q, which…

Lookup table (LUT) methods demonstrate considerable potential in accelerating image super-resolution inference. However, pursuing higher image quality through larger receptive fields and bit-depth triggers exponential growth in the LUT's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Yuxuan Zhang , Zhikai Dong , Xinning Chai , Xiangyun Zhou , Yi Xu , Zhengxue Cheng , Li Song

The deployment of large language models (LLMs) is often constrained by memory bandwidth, where the primary bottleneck is the cost of transferring model parameters from the GPU's global memory to its registers. When coupled with custom…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Han Guo , William Brandon , Radostin Cholakov , Jonathan Ragan-Kelley , Eric P. Xing , Yoon Kim

Processing-in-Memory (PIM) enhances memory with computational capabilities, potentially solving energy and latency issues associated with data transfer between memory and processors. However, managing concurrent computation and data flow…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Ahmed Mamdouh , Haoran Geng , Michael Niemier , Xiaobo Sharon Hu , Dayane Reis

Lookup-table (LUT) based neural networks can deliver ultra-low latency and excellent hardware efficiency on FPGAs by mapping arithmetic operations directly onto the logic primitives. However, state-of-the-art LUT-aware training (LAT)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Chang Sun , Zhiqiang Que , Bakhtiar Zadeh , Qibin Liu , Kevin H. Alvarez , Wayne Luk , Maria Spiropulu

Image-adaptive lookup tables (LUTs) have achieved great success in real-time image enhancement tasks due to their high efficiency for modeling color transforms. However, they embed the complete transform, including the color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Canqian Yang , Meiguang Jin , Yi Xu , Rui Zhang , Ying Chen , Huaida Liu

Qubit readout is a critical operation in quantum computing systems, which maps the analog response of qubits into discrete classical states. Deep neural networks (DNNs) have recently emerged as a promising solution to improve readout…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 M. A. Farooq , G. Di Guglielmo , A. Rajagopala , N. Tran , V. A. Chhabria , A. Arora

The increasing prevalence and growing size of data in modern applications have led to high costs for computation in traditional processor-centric computing systems. Moving large volumes of data between memory devices (e.g., DRAM) and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Geraldo F. Oliveira , Juan Gómez-Luna , Saugata Ghose , Onur Mutlu

Conventional super-resolution (SR) schemes make heavy use of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which involve intensive multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations, and require specialized hardware such as graphics processing units. This…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-09 Binxiao Huang , Jason Chun Lok Li , Jie Ran , Boyu Li , Jiajun Zhou , Dahai Yu , Ngai Wong

Among many existing algorithms, convergence methods are the most popular means of computing square root and the reciprocal of square root of numbers. An initial approximation is required in these methods. Look up tables (LUT) are employed…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Shadrokh Samavi , Mohammad Reza Jahangir

PIM architectures aim to reduce data transfer costs between processors and memory by integrating processing units within memory layers. Prior PIM architectures have shown potential to improve energy efficiency and performance. However, such…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Parker Hao Tian , Zahra Yousefijamarani , Alaa Alameldeen

Look-up table(LUT)-based methods have shown the great efficacy in single image super-resolution (SR) task. However, previous methods ignore the essential reason of restricted receptive field (RF) size in LUT, which is caused by the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Guandu Liu , Yukang Ding , Mading Li , Ming Sun , Xing Wen , Bin Wang

In this paper, we propose FusionCIM, an operator-fusion-driven compute-in-memory (CIM) accelerator architecture for efficient and scalable LLM inference, with three key innovations: (1) a hybrid CIM pipeline architecture that maps QKT…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Zihao Xuan , Jia Chen , Yewen Li , Wei Xuan , Hegan Chen , Xiao Huo , Fengbin Tu

Memory management operations that modify page-tables, typically performed during memory allocation/deallocation, are infamous for their poor performance in highly threaded applications, largely due to process-wide TLB shootdowns that the OS…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Bin Gao , Qingxuan Kang , Hao-Wei Tee , Kyle Timothy Ng Chu , Alireza Sanaee , Djordje Jevdjic

Unrolling a decoding algorithm allows to achieve extremely high throughput at the cost of increased area. Look-up tables (LUTs) can be used to replace functions otherwise implemented as circuits. In this work, we show the impact of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Pascal Giard , Syed Aizaz Ali Shah , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Maximilian Stark , Gerhard Bauch

FPGAs have distinct advantages as a technology for deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) at the edge. Lookup Table (LUT) based networks, where neurons are directly modeled using LUTs, help maximize this promise of offering ultra-low latency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Binglei Lou , Richard Rademacher , David Boland , Philip H. W. Leong

3D color lookup tables (LUTs) enable precise color manipulation by mapping input RGB values to specific output RGB values. 3D LUTs are instrumental in various applications, including video editing, in-camera processing, photographic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Vahid Zehtab , David B. Lindell , Marcus A. Brubaker , Michael S. Brown

The speed of modern digital systems is severely limited by memory latency (the ``Memory Wall'' problem). Data exchange between Logic and Memory is also responsible for a large part of the system energy consumption. Logic--In--Memory (LiM)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Fabrizio Ottati , Giovanna Turvani , Marco Vacca , Guido Masera

The widespread usage of high-definition screens on edge devices stimulates a strong demand for efficient image restoration algorithms. The way of caching deep learning models in a look-up table (LUT) is recently introduced to respond to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Jiacheng Li , Chang Chen , Zhen Cheng , Zhiwei Xiong