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Multiplication is arguably the most cost-dominant operation in modern deep neural networks (DNNs), limiting their achievable efficiency and thus more extensive deployment in resource-constrained applications. To tackle this limitation,…

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Processing large-scale graph datasets is computationally intensive and time-consuming. Processor-centric CPU and GPU architectures, commonly used for graph applications, often face bottlenecks caused by extensive data movement between the…

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Deep neural networks use skip connections to improve training convergence. However, these skip connections are costly in hardware, requiring extra buffers and increasing on- and off-chip memory utilization and bandwidth requirements. In…

Distributed quantum computing (DQC) connects many small quantum processors into a single logical machine, offering a practical route to scalable quantum computation. However, most existing DQC paradigms are structure-agnostic. Circuit…

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We introduce a mapping framework for deep learning inference that takes advantage of predictable neural network behavior to plan both computation and communication ahead of time. The framework generates a unified stream of instructions and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Md Rownak Hossain Chowdhury , Mostafizur Rahman

Leveraging large data sets, deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) achieve state-of-the-art recognition accuracy. Due to the substantial compute and memory operations, however, they require significant execution time. The massive…

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Deploying Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on different hardware platforms is challenging due to varying resource constraints. Besides handcrafted approaches aiming at making deep models hardware-friendly, Neural Architectures Search is rising…

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While maximizing deep neural networks' (DNNs') acceleration efficiency requires a joint search/design of three different yet highly coupled aspects, including the networks, bitwidths, and accelerators, the challenges associated with such a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yonggan Fu , Yongan Zhang , Yang Zhang , David Cox , Yingyan Celine Lin

As machine learning applications continue to evolve, the demand for efficient hardware accelerators, specifically tailored for deep neural networks (DNNs), becomes increasingly vital. In this paper, we propose a configurable memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Oliver Bause , Paul Palomero Bernardo , Oliver Bringmann

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown significant accuracy improvements in a variety of graph learning domains, sparking considerable research interest. To translate these accuracy improvements into practical applications, it is essential…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Shuwen Lu , Zhihui Zhang , Cong Guo , Jingwen Leng , Yangjie Zhou , Minyi Guo

Weight pruning is an effective model compression technique to tackle the challenges of achieving real-time deep neural network (DNN) inference on mobile devices. However, prior pruning schemes have limited application scenarios due to…

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Scalability of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) remains a significant challenge. To tackle this, methods like coarsening, condensation, and computation trees are used to train on a smaller graph, resulting in faster computation. Nonetheless,…

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As the machine learning and systems communities strive to achieve higher energy-efficiency through custom deep neural network (DNN) accelerators, varied precision or quantization levels, and model compression techniques, there is a need for…

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Energy efficiency is one of the most critical issue in design of System on Chip. In Network On Chip (NoC) based system, energy consumption is influenced dramatically by mapping of Intellectual Property (IP) which affect the performance of…

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Deep neural network (DNN) accelerators with improved energy and delay are desirable for meeting the requirements of hardware targeted for IoT and edge computing systems. Convolutional neural networks (CoNNs) belong to one of the most…

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In recent years, graph neural networks (GNNs) have become increasingly popular for solving NP-hard combinatorial optimization (CO) problems, such as maximum cut and maximum independent set. The core idea behind these methods is to represent…

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The computing wall and data movement challenges of deep neural networks (DNNs) have exposed the limitations of conventional CMOS-based DNN accelerators. Furthermore, the deep structure and large model size will make DNNs prohibitive to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-12 Geng Yuan , Xiaolong Ma , Sheng Lin , Zhengang Li , Caiwen Ding

Emerging chips with hundreds and thousands of cores require networks with unprecedented energy/area efficiency and scalability. To address this, we propose Slim NoC (SN): a new on-chip network design that delivers significant improvements…

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With the advent of multi-core processors, network-on-chip design has been key in addressing network performances, such as bandwidth, power consumption, and communication delays when dealing with on-chip communication between the increasing…

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