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Deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) are widely used in modern artificial intelligence (AI) and smart vision systems but also limited by computation latency, throughput, and energy efficiency on a resource-limited scenario, such as…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Yuan Du , Li Du , Yilei Li , Junjie Su , Mau-Chung Frank Chang

Conventional integrated circuits (ICs) struggle to meet the escalating demands of artificial intelligence (AI). This has sparked a renewed interest in an unconventional computing paradigm: neuromorphic (brain-inspired) computing. However,…

Following the explosive growth of global data, there is an ever-increasing demand for high-throughput optical fiber communication (OFC) systems to perform massive data transmission and processing. Existing OFC methods mainly rely on…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-09 Yitong Chen , Tiankuang Zhou , Jiamin Wu , Hui Qiao , Xing Lin , Lu Fang , Qionghai Dai

In this work we show how we can build a technology platform for cognitive imaging sensors using recent advances in recurrent neural network architectures and training methods inspired from biology. We demonstrate learning and processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Samiran Ganguly , Yunfei Gu , Mircea R. Stan , Avik W. Ghosh

Recent hardware acceleration advances have enabled powerful specialized accelerators for finite element computations, spiking neural network inference, and sparse tensor operations. However, existing approaches face fundamental limitations:…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Chuanzhen Wang , Leo Zhang , Eric Liu

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

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have shown excellent performance in a wide range of machine learning applications. Knowing the latency of running a DNN model or tensor program on a specific device is useful in various tasks, such as DNN graph-…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Hanpeng Hu , Junwei Su , Juntao Zhao , Yanghua Peng , Yibo Zhu , Haibin Lin , Chuan Wu

Neuro-symbolic Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, blending neural networks with symbolic AI, have facilitated transparent reasoning and context understanding without the need for explicit rule-based programming. However, implementing such…

Modern deep learning relies nearly exclusively on dedicated electronic hardware accelerators. Photonic approaches, with low consumption and high operation speed, are increasingly considered for inference but, to date, remain mostly limited…

Ternary Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have shown a large potential for highly energy-constrained systems by virtue of their low power operation (due to ultra-low precision) with only a mild degradation in accuracy. To enable an…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Niharika Thakuria , Akul Malhotra , Sandeep K. Thirumala , Reena Elangovan , Anand Raghunathan , Sumeet K. Gupta

To speedup Deep Neural Networks (DNN) accelerator design and enable effective implementation, we propose HybridDNN, a framework for building high-performance hybrid DNN accelerators and delivering FPGA-based hardware implementations. Novel…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Hanchen Ye , Xiaofan Zhang , Zhize Huang , Gengsheng Chen , Deming Chen

We introduce TensorFlow Agents, an efficient infrastructure paradigm for building parallel reinforcement learning algorithms in TensorFlow. We simulate multiple environments in parallel, and group them to perform the neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Danijar Hafner , James Davidson , Vincent Vanhoucke

Deep neural networks (DNN) are increasingly being accelerated on application-specific hardware such as the Google TPU designed especially for deep learning. Timing speculation is a promising approach to further increase the energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Jeff Zhang , Siddharth Garg

Diffusion models achieve superior performance in image generation tasks. However, it incurs significant computation overheads due to its iterative structure. To address these overheads, we analyze this iterative structure and observe that…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Sungbin Kim , Hyunwuk Lee , Wonho Cho , Mincheol Park , Won Woo Ro

Photonic computing chips have made significant progress in accelerating linear computations, but nonlinear computations are usually implemented in the digital domain, which introduces additional system latency and power consumption, and…

In this work we numerically analyze a passive photonic integrated neuromorphic accelerator based on hardware-friendly optical spectrum slicing nodes. The proposed scheme can act as a fully analogue convolutional layer, preprocessing…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Aris Tsirigotis , George Sarantoglou , Stavros Deligiannidis , Kostas Sozos , Adonis Bogris , Charis Mesaritakis

Processing-in-Memory (PIM) architectures offer promising solutions for efficiently handling AI applications in energy-constrained edge environments. While traditional PIM designs enhance performance and energy efficiency by reducing data…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Sangmin Jeon , Kangju Lee , Kyeongwon Lee , Woojoo Lee

Current federated-learning models deteriorate under heterogeneous (non-I.I.D.) client data, as their feature representations diverge and pixel- or patch-level objectives fail to capture the global topology which is essential for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ke Hu , Liyao Xiang , Peng Tang , Weidong Qiu

Radar-Camera depth estimation aims to predict dense and accurate metric depth by fusing input images and Radar data. Model efficiency is crucial for this task in pursuit of real-time processing on autonomous vehicles and robotic platforms.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Yiran Wang , Jiaqi Li , Chaoyi Hong , Ruibo Li , Liusheng Sun , Xiao Song , Zhe Wang , Zhiguo Cao , Guosheng Lin

Over the past few years, silicon photonics-based computing has emerged as a promising alternative to CMOS-based computing for Deep Neural Networks (DNN). Unfortunately, the non-linear operations and the high-precision requirements of DNNs…