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Analog computing has been recognized as a promising low-power alternative to digital counterparts for neural network acceleration. However, conventional analog computing is mainly in a mixed-signal manner. Tedious analog/digital (A/D)…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Hanqing Zhu , Keren Zhu , Jiaqi Gu , Harrison Jin , Ray Chen , Jean Anne Incorvia , David Z. Pan

Deep neural networks (DNN) have shown superior performance in a variety of tasks. As they rapidly evolve, their escalating computation and memory demands make it challenging to deploy them on resource-constrained edge devices. Though…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Jiaqi Gu , Hanqing Zhu , Chenghao Feng , Mingjie Liu , Zixuan Jiang , Ray T. Chen , David Z. Pan

The development of deep neural networks is witnessing fast growth in network size, which requires novel hardware computing platforms with large bandwidth and low energy consumption. Optical computing has been a potential candidate for…

To address the challenges of sensor fusion and safety risk prediction, contemporary closed-loop autonomous driving neural networks leveraging imitation learning typically require a substantial volume of parameters and computational…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Yipin Guo , Yilin Lang , Qinyuan Ren

There has been much interest in deploying deep learning algorithms on low-powered devices, including smartphones, drones, and medical sensors. However, full-scale deep neural networks are often too resource-intensive in terms of energy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yoshitomo Matsubara , Ruihan Yang , Marco Levorato , Stephan Mandt

Motor-Imagery Brain--Machine Interfaces (MI-BMIs)promise direct and accessible communication between human brains and machines by analyzing brain activities recorded with Electroencephalography (EEG). Latency, reliability, and privacy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Tibor Schneider , Xiaying Wang , Michael Hersche , Lukas Cavigelli , Luca Benini

During the past decade, interest has grown significantly in developing ultrasensitive widefield diamond magnetometry for various applications. Despite attempts to improve the adoption of conventional frame-based sensors, achieving high…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-06-27 Zhiyuan Du , Madhav Gupta , Feng Xu , Kai Zhang , Jiahua Zhang , Yan Zhou , Yiyao Liu , Zhenyu Wang , Jorg Wrachtrup , Ngai Wong , Can Li , Zhiqin Chu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) demonstrate promising accuracy in a wide range of applications. Among all layers in CNNs, convolution layers are the most computation-intensive and consume the most energy. As the maturity of device and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Sho Ko , Yun Joon Soh , Jishen Zhao

Spiking neural networks encode information in spike timing and offer a pathway toward energy efficient artificial intelligence. However, a key challenge in spiking neural networks is realizing nonlinear and expressive computation in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Steven Louis , Hannah Bradley , Artem Litvinenko , Cody Trevillian , Darrin Hanna , Vasyl Tyberkevych

With the growing demand for deploying deep learning models to the "edge", it is paramount to develop techniques that allow to execute state-of-the-art models within very tight and limited resource constraints. In this work we propose a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Simon Wiedemann , Suhas Shivapakash , Pablo Wiedemann , Daniel Becking , Wojciech Samek , Friedel Gerfers , Thomas Wiegand

In neuromorphic photonic systems, device operations are typically governed by analog signals, necessitating digital-to-analog converters (DAC) and analog-to-digital converters (ADC). However, data movement between memory and these…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Sean Lam , Ahmed Khaled , Simon Bilodeau , Bicky A. Marquez , Paul R. Prucnal , Lukas Chrostowski , Bhavin J. Shastri , Sudip Shekhar

Conventional computing paradigm struggles to fulfill the rapidly growing demands from emerging applications, especially those for machine intelligence, because much of the power and energy is consumed by constant data transfers between…

As the technology industry is moving towards implementing tasks such as natural language processing, path planning, image classification, and more on smaller edge computing devices, the demand for more efficient implementations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Peyton Chandarana , Mohammadreza Mohammadi , James Seekings , Ramtin Zand

The increasing computational demands of deep learning models pose significant challenges for edge devices. To address this, we propose a memristor-based circuit design for MobileNetV3, specifically for image classification tasks. Our design…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Jiale Li , Zhihang Liu , Sean Longyu Ma , Chiu-Wing Sham , Chong Fu

Recent success in deep neural networks has generated strong interest in hardware accelerators to improve speed and energy consumption. This paper presents a new type of photonic accelerator based on coherent detection that is scalable to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Ryan Hamerly , Liane Bernstein , Alexander Sludds , Marin Soljačić , Dirk Englund

Convolutional neural network (CNN) offers significant accuracy in image detection. To implement image detection using CNN in the internet of things (IoT) devices, a streaming hardware accelerator is proposed. The proposed accelerator…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Li Du , Yuan Du , Yilei Li , Mau-Chung Frank Chang

Temporal Neural Networks (TNNs) use time as a resource to represent and process information, mimicking the behavior of the mammalian neocortex. This work focuses on implementing TNNs using off-the-shelf digital CMOS technology. A…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Harideep Nair , John Paul Shen , James E. Smith

This paper proposes a special-purpose system to achieve high-accuracy and high-efficiency machine learning (ML) molecular dynamics (MD) calculations. The system consists of field programmable gate array (FPGA) and application specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Zhuoying Zhao , Ziling Tan , Pinghui Mo , Xiaonan Wang , Dan Zhao , Xin Zhang , Ming Tao , Jie Liu

Gesture recognition is a cornerstone of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) for smart eyewear, enabling natural and device-free control in augmented reality environments. Traditional vision-based approaches face significant challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Pietro Bartoli , Christian Veronesi , Tommaso Bondini , Andrea Giudici , Franco Zappa

The development of memristive device technologies has reached a level of maturity to enable the design of complex and large-scale hybrid memristive-CMOS neural processing systems. These systems offer promising solutions for implementing…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Elisabetta Chicca , Giacomo Indiveri