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Modern microelectronic devices are composed of interfaces between a large number of materials, many of which are in amorphous or polycrystalline phases. Modeling such non-crystalline materials using first-principles methods such as density…

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Advanced nodes decouple contacted poly pitch (CPP) and lower-metal pitch to improve routability. We present CPCell, an efficient standard-cell layout generation framework, to support arbitrary gear ratio (GR) and offset parameters through a…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are increasingly explored for physical design analysis in Electronic Design Automation, particularly for modeling Clock Tree Synthesis behavior such as clock skew and buffering complexity. However, practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Barsat Khadka , Kawsher Roxy , Md Rubel Ahmed

The successful integration of machine learning models into decision support tools for grid operation hinges on effectively capturing the topological changes in daily operations. Frequent grid reconfigurations and N-k security analyses have…

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Hardware accelerations of deep learning systems have been extensively investigated in industry and academia. The aim of this paper is to achieve ultra-high energy efficiency and performance for hardware implementations of deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Yanzhi Wang , Caiwen Ding , Zhe Li , Geng Yuan , Siyu Liao , Xiaolong Ma , Bo Yuan , Xuehai Qian , Jian Tang , Qinru Qiu , Xue Lin

Resource is an important constraint when deploying Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on mobile and edge devices. Existing works commonly adopt the cell-based search approach, which limits the flexibility of network patterns in learned cell…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Tunhou Zhang , Hsin-Pai Cheng , Zhenwen Li , Feng Yan , Chengyu Huang , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a powerful tool for handling structured graph data and addressing tasks such as node classification, graph classification, and clustering. However, the sparse nature of GNN computation poses new challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Julia Bazinska , Andrei Ivanov , Tal Ben-Nun , Nikoli Dryden , Maciej Besta , Siyuan Shen , Torsten Hoefler

This study presents a deep learning approach to predicting structural and electronic properties of materials using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Leveraging data from the Materials Project database, we construct graph representations of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-12-20 Selva Chandrasekaran Selvaraj

Recent deep learning models have moved beyond low-dimensional regular grids such as image, video, and speech, to high-dimensional graph-structured data, such as social networks, brain connections, and knowledge graphs. This evolution has…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Lingxiao Ma , Zhi Yang , Youshan Miao , Jilong Xue , Ming Wu , Lidong Zhou , Yafei Dai

Tucker decomposition is one of the SOTA CNN model compression techniques. However, unlike the FLOPs reduction, we observe very limited inference time reduction with Tucker-compressed models using existing GPU software such as cuDNN. To this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Lizhi Xiang , Miao Yin , Chengming Zhang , Aravind Sukumaran-Rajam , P. Sadayappan , Bo Yuan , Dingwen Tao

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have become an integral part of High-Performance Computing to achieve an Exascale performance. The main goal of application developers of GPU is to tune their code extensively to obtain optimal performance,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Gargi Alavani , Santonu Sarkar

Graph neural networks (GNN) have achieved state-of-the-art performance on various industrial tasks. However, the poor efficiency of GNN inference and frequent Out-Of-Memory (OOM) problem limit the successful application of GNN on edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Ao Zhou , Jianlei Yang , Yeqi Gao , Tong Qiao , Yingjie Qi , Xiaoyi Wang , Yunli Chen , Pengcheng Dai , Weisheng Zhao , Chunming Hu

OPF problems are formulated and solved for power system operations, especially for determining generation dispatch points in real-time. For large and complex power system networks with large numbers of variables and constraints, finding the…

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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a promising approach to improve the energy efficiency of machine learning models, as they naturally implement event-driven computations while avoiding expensive multiplication operations. In…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Anagha Nimbekar , Prabodh Katti , Chen Li , Bashir M. Al-Hashimi , Amit Acharyya , Bipin Rajendran

The design and optimization of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) schematics is crucial for the development of high-quality electronic devices. Thereby, an important task is to optimize drafts by adding components that improve the robustness and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Pascal Plettenberg , André Alcalde , Bernhard Sick , Josephine M. Thomas

Accurately simulating physics is crucial across scientific domains, with applications spanning from robotics to materials science. While traditional mesh-based simulations are precise, they are often computationally expensive and require…

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In user-centric cell-free multi-antenna systems, pilot contamination degrades spectral efficiency (SE) severely. To mitigate pilot contamination, existing works jointly optimize pilot assignment and power allocation by assuming fixed pilot…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Yao Peng , Tingting Liu , Chenyang Yang

This paper proposes DisCo, an automatic deep learning compilation module for data-parallel distributed training. Unlike most deep learning compilers that focus on training or inference on a single device, DisCo optimizes a DNN model for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Xiaodong Yi , Shiwei Zhang , Lansong Diao , Chuan Wu , Zhen Zheng , Shiqing Fan , Siyu Wang , Jun Yang , Wei Lin

Time, cost, and energy efficiency are critical considerations in Deep-Learning (DL), particularly when processing long texts. Transformers, which represent the current state of the art, exhibit quadratic computational complexity relative to…

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We develop a polycrystal graph neural network (PGNN) model for predicting the effective properties of polycrystalline materials, using the Li7La3Zr2O12 ceramic as an example. A large-scale dataset with >5000 different three-dimensional…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-09 Minyi Dai , Mehmet F. Demirel , Xuanhan Liu , Yingyu Liang , Jia-Mian Hu