English
Related papers

Related papers: LUNA-CIM: Lookup Table based Programmable Neural P…

200 papers

The demand for efficient machine learning (ML) accelerators is growing rapidly, driving the development of novel computing concepts such as resistive random access memory (RRAM)-based tiled computing-in-memory (CIM) architectures. CIM…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Rebecca Pelke , Jose Cubero-Cascante , Nils Bosbach , Felix Staudigl , Rainer Leupers , Jan Moritz Joseph

In this paper, we present Q# implementations for arbitrary single-variabled fixed-point arithmetic operations for a gate-based quantum computer based on lookup tables (LUTs). In general, this is an inefficent way of implementing a function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-06 Rajiv Krishnakumar , Mathias Soeken , Martin Roetteler , William J. Zeng

Large language model (LLM) inference has been a prevalent demand in daily life and industries. The large tensor sizes and computing complexities in LLMs have brought challenges to memory, computing, and databus. This paper proposes a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yimin Wang , Yue Jiet Chong , Xuanyao Fong

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

Modular arithmetic, particularly modular reduction, is widely used in cryptographic applications such as homomorphic encryption (HE) and zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP). High-bit-width operations are crucial for enhancing security; however,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Fangxin Liu , Haomin Li , Zongwu Wang , Bo Zhang , Mingzhe Zhang , Shoumeng Yan , Li Jiang , Haibing Guan

Super-resolution (SR) has been a pivotal task in image processing, aimed at enhancing image resolution across various applications. Recently, look-up table (LUT)-based approaches have attracted interest due to their efficiency and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Sejin Park , Sangmin Lee , Kyong Hwan Jin , Seung-Won Jung

Processing-in-cache (PiC) and Processing-in-memory (PiM) architectures, especially those utilizing bit-line computing, offer promising solutions to mitigate data movement bottlenecks within the memory hierarchy. While previous studies have…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Dhruv Gajaria , Tosiron Adegbija , Kevin Gomez

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed on edge devices with Neural Processing Units (NPUs), yet the decode phase remains memory-intensive, limiting performance. Processing-in-Memory (PIM) offers a promising solution, but…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Hai Huang

Computing-in-memory (CIM) has attracted significant attentions in recent years due to its massive parallelism and low power consumption. However, current CIM designs suffer from large area overhead of small CIM macros and bad programmablity…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Shu-Hung Kuo , Tian-Sheuan Chang

Vision Transformers have been tremendously successful in computer vision tasks. However, their large computational, memory, and energy demands are a challenge for edge inference on FPGAs -- a field that has seen a recent surge in demand. We…

Operating deep neural networks (DNNs) on devices with limited resources requires the reduction of their memory as well as computational footprint. Popular reduction methods are network quantization or pruning, which either reduce the word…

Processing-in-memory (PIM) is a promising computing paradigm to tackle the "memory wall" challenge. However, PIM system-level benefits over traditional von Neumann architecture can be reduced when the memory array cannot fully store all the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Peilin Chen , Xiaoxuan Yang

Lookup table (LUT) has shown its efficacy in low-level vision tasks due to the valuable characteristics of low computational cost and hardware independence. However, recent attempts to address the problem of single image super-resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-16 Cheng Ma , Jingyi Zhang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Compute-in-memory (CiM) is a promising approach to improving the computing speed and energy efficiency in dataintensive applications. Beyond existing CiM techniques of bitwise logic-in-memory operations and dot product operations, this…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Yiming Chen , Yushen Fu , Mingyen Lee , Sumitha George , Yongpan Liu , Vijaykrishnan Narayanan , Huazhong Yang , Xueqing Li

In this paper, we propose a framework of the mutual information-maximizing (MIM) quantized decoding for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes by using simple mappings and fixed-point additions. Our decoding method is generic in the sense…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Peng Kang , Kui Cai , Xuan He , Shuangyang Li , Jinhong Yuan

Tone mapping aims to convert high dynamic range (HDR) images to low dynamic range (LDR) representations, a critical task in the camera imaging pipeline. In recent years, 3-Dimensional LookUp Table (3D LUT) based methods have gained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Feng Zhang , Ming Tian , Zhiqiang Li , Bin Xu , Qingbo Lu , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang

The growing volume of data in scientific domains has made spatial query processing increasingly challenging due to high data transfer costs across the memory hierarchy and limited memory bandwidth. To address these bottlenecks and reduce…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Tasmia Jannat , Michael Gowanlock , Satish Puri

This work presents a novel approach to configure 2T-nC ferroelectric RAM (FeRAM) for performing single cell logic-in-memory operations, highlighting its advantages in energy-efficient computation over conventional DRAM-based approaches.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Rudra Biswas , Jiahui Duan , Shan Deng , Xuezhong Niu , Yixin Qin , Prapti Panigrahi , Varun Parekh , Rajiv Joshi , Kai Ni , Vijaykrishnan Narayanan

Efficient neural networks (NNs) leveraging lookup tables (LUTs) have demonstrated significant potential for emerging AI applications, particularly when deployed on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for edge computing. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Marta Andronic , George A. Constantinides

Recently, several look-up table (LUT) methods were developed to greatly expedite the inference of CNNs in a classical strategy of trading space for speed. However, these LUT methods suffer from a common drawback of limited receptive field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Xi Zhang , Xiaolin Wu