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This paper presents the design of a hardware accelerator for Transformers, optimized for on-device time-series forecasting in AIoT systems. It integrates integer-only quantization and Quantization-Aware Training with optimized hardware…

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We propose a generic algorithmic building block to accelerate training of machine learning models on heterogeneous compute systems. Our scheme allows to efficiently employ compute accelerators such as GPUs and FPGAs for the training of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Celestine Dünner , Thomas Parnell , Martin Jaggi

Deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) efficiently on edge devices is often constrained by limited memory capacity and high power consumption. Low-bit quantization methods, particularly ternary quantization, have demonstrated significant…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Chenyang Yin , Zhenyu Bai , Pranav Venkatram , Shivam Aggarwal , Zhaoying Li , Tulika Mitra

The field of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) is crucial for microelectronics, but the increasing complexity of Integrated Circuits (ICs) poses challenges for conventional EDA: Corresponding problems are often NP-hard and are therefore in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Matthias Jung , Sven O. Krumke , Christof Schroth , Elisabeth Lobe , Wolfgang Mauerer

Emerging edge computing platforms often contain machine learning (ML) accelerators that can accelerate inference for a wide range of neural network (NN) models. These models are designed to fit within the limited area and energy constraints…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Amirali Boroumand , Saugata Ghose , Berkin Akin , Ravi Narayanaswami , Geraldo F. Oliveira , Xiaoyu Ma , Eric Shiu , Onur Mutlu

This paper studies a federated edge learning system, in which an edge server coordinates a set of edge devices to train a shared machine learning model based on their locally distributed data samples. During the distributed training, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Xiaopeng Mo , Jie Xu

Fully Homomorphic Encryption over the Torus (TFHE) allows arbitrary computations to happen directly on ciphertexts using homomorphic logic gates. However, each TFHE gate on state-of-the-art hardware platforms such as GPUs and FPGAs is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Lei Jiang , Qian Lou , Nrushad Joshi

Binary neural networks (BNN) have been studied extensively since they run dramatically faster at lower memory and power consumption than floating-point networks, thanks to the efficiency of bit operations. However, contemporary BNNs whose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Shilin Zhu , Xin Dong , Hao Su

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

The increased demand for data privacy and security in machine learning (ML) applications has put impetus on effective edge training on Internet-of-Things (IoT) nodes. Edge training aims to leverage speed, energy efficiency and adaptability…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Gang Mao , Tousif Rahman , Sidharth Maheshwari , Bob Pattison , Zhuang Shao , Rishad Shafik , Alex Yakovlev

This work presents TREA, a low-precision time-multiplexed and resource-efficient edge-AI accelerator for object detection and classification, targeting stringent area-power-latency constraints of edge vision platforms. The proposed…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Vijay Pratap Sharma , Mukul Lokhande , Ratko Pilipovic , Omkar Kokane , Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma

The growing demand for real-time processing in artificial intelligence applications, particularly those involving Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), has highlighted the need for efficient computational solutions. Conventional processors,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Angelos Athanasiadis , Nikolaos Tampouratzis , Ioannis Papaefstathiou

Recently, large-scale transformer-based models have been proven to be effective over various tasks across many domains. Nevertheless, applying them in industrial production requires tedious and heavy works to reduce inference costs. To fill…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Gongzheng Li , Yadong Xi , Jingzhen Ding , Duan Wang , Bai Liu , Changjie Fan , Xiaoxi Mao , Zeng Zhao

This paper introduces EdgeProfiler, a fast profiling framework designed for evaluating lightweight Large Language Models (LLMs) on edge systems. While LLMs offer remarkable capabilities in natural language understanding and generation,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Alyssa Pinnock , Shakya Jayakody , Kawsher A Roxy , Md Rubel Ahmed

This paper presents key enhancements to our previous work~\cite{naghmouchi2024mixed} on a hybrid Benders decomposition (HBD) framework for solving mixed integer linear programs (MILPs). In our approach, the master problem is reformulated as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Anna Joliot , M. Yassine Naghmouchi , Wesley Coelho

The continuous growth of big data applications with high computational and scalability demands has resulted in increasing popularity of cloud computing. Optimizing the performance and power consumption of cloud resources is therefore…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Sahand Salamat , Behnam Khaleghi , Mohsen Imani , Tajana Rosing

Digital twins (DTs) can enable precision healthcare by continually learning a mathematical representation of patient-specific dynamics. However, mission critical healthcare applications require fast, resource-efficient DT learning, which is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Bin Xu , Ayan Banerjee , Midhat Urooj , Sandeep K. S. Gupta

With astonishing speed, bandwidth, and scale, Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has played an increasingly important role in the next generation of connectivity and service delivery. Yet, along with the massive deployment of MEC servers, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Tiansheng Huang , Weiwei Lin , Xiaobin Hong , Xiumin Wang , Qingbo Wu , Rui Li , Ching-Hsien Hsu , Albert Y. Zomaya

The power system of the future will be governed by complex interactions and non-linear phenomena at small time-scales, that should be studied more and more through computationally expensive software simulations. To solve the abovementioned…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Marius Kuhn , Evelyn Heylen , Willem Leterme

By executing offloaded tasks from mobile users, edge computing augments mobile user equipments (UEs) with computing/communications resources from edge nodes (ENs), enabling new services (e.g., real-time gaming). However, despite being more…

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