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The future of main memory appears to lie in the direction of new technologies that provide strong capacity-to-performance ratios, but have write operations that are much more expensive than reads in terms of latency, bandwidth, and energy.…
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained significant interest for applications such as citation network analysis and drug discovery due to their ability to apply machine learning techniques on graph-structured data. GNNs typically employ a…
Efficient deployment of neural networks on resource-constrained hardware demands optimal use of on-chip memory. In event-based processors, this is particularly critical for routing architectures, where substantial memory is dedicated to…
This paper introduces MARCO (Multi-Agent Reinforcement learning with Conformal Optimization), a novel hardware-aware framework for efficient neural architecture search (NAS) targeting resource-constrained edge devices. By significantly…
SoCs are now designed with their own AI accelerator segment to accommodate the ever-increasing demand of Deep Learning (DL) applications. With powerful MAC engines for matrix multiplications, these accelerators show high computing…
As both ML training and inference are increasingly distributed, parallelization techniques that shard (divide) ML model across GPUs of a distributed system, are often deployed. With such techniques, there is a high prevalence of…
Most of the existing work on FPGA acceleration of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) focus on employing a single strategy (algorithm, dataflow, etc.) across all the layers. Such an approach does not achieve optimal latency on complex and…
Latency and energy consumption are key metrics in the performance of deep neural network (DNN) accelerators. A significant factor contributing to latency and energy is data transfers. One method to reduce transfers or data is reusing data…
We present the Cuckoo Trie, a fast, memory-efficient ordered index structure. The Cuckoo Trie is designed to have memory-level parallelism -- which a modern out-of-order processor can exploit to execute DRAM accesses in parallel -- without…
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…
We propose DFModel, a modeling framework for mapping dataflow computation graphs onto large-scale systems. Mapping a workload to a system requires optimizing dataflow mappings at various levels, including the inter-chip (between chips)…
Machine learning applications that are implemented with spike-based computation model, e.g., Spiking Neural Network (SNN), have a great potential to lower the energy consumption when they are executed on a neuromorphic hardware. However,…
For the past four decades, cost and features have driven CMOS scaling. Severe lithography and material limitations seen below the 20 nm node, however, are challenging the fundamental premise of affordable CMOS scaling. Just continuing to…
Large-scale graph processing has drawn great attention in recent years. Most of the modern-day datacenter workloads can be represented in the form of Graph Processing such as MapReduce etc. Consequently, a lot of designs for Domain-Specific…
Specialized compute blocks have been developed for efficient DNN execution. However, due to the vast amount of data and parameter movements, the interconnects and on-chip memories form another bottleneck, impairing power and performance.…
The design of DNN accelerators includes two key parts: HW resource configuration and mapping strategy. Intensive research has been conducted to optimize each of them independently. Unfortunately, optimizing for both together is extremely…
Recent advances in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have led to active development of specialized DNN accelerators, many of which feature a large number of processing elements laid out spatially, together with a multi-level memory hierarchy and…
Spatio-Temporal Convolutional Neural Networks (ST-CNN) allow extending CNN capabilities from image processing to consecutive temporal-pattern recognition. Generally, state-of-the-art (SotA) ST-CNNs inflate the feature maps and weights from…
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have great potential to solve many real-world problems, but they usually require an extensive amount of computation and memory. It is of great difficulty to deploy a large DNN model to a single resource-limited…
In Network on Chip (NoC) rooted system, energy consumption is affected by task scheduling and allocation schemes which affect the performance of the system. In this paper we test the pre-existing proposed algorithms and introduced a new…