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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Sahidul Islam , Jieren Deng , Shanglin Zhou , Chen Pan , Caiwen Ding , Mimi Xie

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in a wide range of applications. However, deeper CNN models, which are usually computation consuming, are widely required for complex Artificial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Chaoyang Zhu , Kejie Huang , Shuyuan Yang , Ziqi Zhu , Hejia Zhang , Haibin Shen

Low-latency, low-power portable recurrent neural network (RNN) accelerators offer powerful inference capabilities for real-time applications such as IoT, robotics, and human-machine interaction. We propose a lightweight Gated Recurrent Unit…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Chang Gao , Antonio Rios-Navarro , Xi Chen , Shih-Chii Liu , Tobi Delbruck

Porting state of the art deep learning algorithms to resource constrained compute platforms (e.g. VR, AR, wearables) is extremely challenging. We propose a fast, compact, and accurate model for convolutional neural networks that enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Hessam Bagherinezhad , Mohammad Rastegari , Ali Farhadi

Existing FPGA-based DNN accelerators typically fall into two design paradigms. Either they adopt a generic reusable architecture to support different DNN networks but leave some performance and efficiency on the table because of the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Xiaofan Zhang , Hanchen Ye , Junsong Wang , Yonghua Lin , Jinjun Xiong , Wen-mei Hwu , Deming Chen

The computational demands of computer vision tasks based on state-of-the-art Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) image classification far exceed the energy budgets of mobile devices. This paper proposes FixyNN, which consists of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Paul N. Whatmough , Chuteng Zhou , Patrick Hansen , Shreyas Kolala Venkataramanaiah , Jae-sun Seo , Matthew Mattina

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown outstanding accuracy for many vision tasks during recent years. When deploying CNNs on portable devices and embedded systems, however, the large number of parameters and computations result in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Mehdi Ahmadi , Shervin Vakili , J. M. Pierre Langlois

Deep neural networks (DNN) have become significant applications in both cloud-server and edge devices. Meanwhile, the growing number of DNNs on those platforms raises the need to execute multiple DNNs on the same device. This paper proposes…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Midia Reshadi , David Gregg

Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms, such as Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), have become an important tool for a wide range of applications, from computer vision to natural language processing. However, the computational complexity of DNN…

In Federated Learning (FL), devices that participate in the training usually have heterogeneous resources, i.e., energy availability. In current deployments of FL, devices that do not fulfill certain hardware requirements are often dropped…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Kilian Pfeiffer , Konstantinos Balaskas , Kostas Siozios , Jörg Henkel

Deep neural networks (DNNs) offer plenty of challenges in executing efficient computation at edge nodes, primarily due to the huge hardware resource demands. The article proposes HYDRA, hybrid data multiplexing, and runtime layer…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Sonu Kumar , Komal Gupta , Gopal Raut , Mukul Lokhande , Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma

On-device CNN inference for real-time computer vision applications can result in computational demands that far exceed the energy budgets of mobile devices. This paper proposes FixyNN, a co-designed hardware accelerator platform which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Paul Whatmough , Chuteng Zhou , Patrick Hansen , Matthew Mattina

In recent years deep learning algorithms have shown extremely high performance on machine learning tasks such as image classification and speech recognition. In support of such applications, various FPGA accelerator architectures have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Xinyu Zhang , Srinjoy Das , Ojash Neopane , Ken Kreutz-Delgado

The deployment of AI models on low-power, real-time edge devices requires accelerators for which energy, latency, and area are all first-order concerns. There are many approaches to enabling deep neural networks (DNNs) in this domain,…

The challenges involved in executing neural networks (NNs) at the edge include providing diversity, flexibility, and sustainability. That implies, for instance, supporting evolving applications and algorithms energy-efficiently. Using…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Federico Manca , Francesco Ratto , Francesca Palumbo

We present a new efficient OpenCL-based Accelerator for large scale Convolutional Neural Networks called Fast Inference on FPGAs for Convolution Neural Network (FFCNN). FFCNN is based on a deeply pipelined OpenCL kernels architecture. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 F. Keddous , H-N. Nguyen , A. Nakib

The recent breakthroughs in deep neural networks (DNNs) have spurred a tremendously increased demand for DNN accelerators. However, designing DNN accelerators is non-trivial as it often takes months/years and requires cross-disciplinary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Yang Zhao , Chaojian Li , Yue Wang , Pengfei Xu , Yongan Zhang , Yingyan Lin

Deep neural network (DNN) inference relies increasingly on specialized hardware for high computational efficiency. This work introduces a field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based dynamically configurable accelerator featuring systolic…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Anastasios Petropoulos , Theodore Antonakopoulos

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to outperform conventional machine learning algorithms across a wide range of applications, e.g., image recognition, object detection, robotics, and natural language processing. However, the high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Ye Yu , Yingmin Li , Shuai Che , Niraj K. Jha , Weifeng Zhang

With the development of deep neural network (DNN) enabled applications, achieving high hardware resource efficiency on diverse workloads is non-trivial in heterogeneous computing platforms. Prior works discuss dedicated architectures to…

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