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Resource-constrained edge deployments demand AI solutions that balance high performance with stringent compute, memory, and energy limitations. In this survey, we present a comprehensive overview of the primary strategies for accelerating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Jacob Sander , Achraf Cohen , Venkat R. Dasari , Brent Venable , Brian Jalaian

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

Embedded deep learning platforms have witnessed two simultaneous improvements. First, the accuracy of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has been significantly improved through the use of automated neural-architecture search (NAS)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Lile Cai , Anne-Maelle Barneche , Arthur Herbout , Chuan Sheng Foo , Jie Lin , Vijay Ramaseshan Chandrasekhar , Mohamed M. Sabry

This work proposes a novel Energy-Aware Network Operator Search (ENOS) approach to address the energy-accuracy trade-offs of a deep neural network (DNN) accelerator. In recent years, novel inference operators have been proposed to improve…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-13 Shamma Nasrin , Ahish Shylendra , Yuti Kadakia , Nick Iliev , Wilfred Gomes , Theja Tulabandhula , Amit Ranjan Trivedi

Contemporary Deep Neural Network (DNN) contains millions of synaptic connections with tens to hundreds of layers. The large computation and memory requirements pose a challenge to the hardware design. In this work, we leverage the intrinsic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Jingyang Zhu , Jingbo Jiang , Xizi Chen , Chi-Ying Tsui

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

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been established as the state-of-the-art algorithm for advanced machine learning applications. Recently proposed by the Google Brain's team, the Capsule Networks (CapsNets) have improved the generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Alberto Marchisio , Vojtech Mrazek , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Muhammad Shafique

Training time budget and size of the dataset are among the factors affecting the performance of a Deep Neural Network (DNN). This paper shows that Neural Architecture Search (NAS), Hyper Parameters Optimization (HPO), and Data Augmentation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Mahdi Zolnouri , Dounia Lakhmiri , Christophe Tribes , Eyyüb Sari , Sébastien Le Digabel

An accelerator is a specialized integrated circuit designed to perform specific computations faster than if those were performed by CPU or GPU. A Field-Programmable DNN learning and inference accelerator (FProg-DNN) using hybrid systolic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Luiz M Franca-Neto

Deep learning has shown promising results on many machine learning tasks but DL models are often complex networks with large number of neurons and layers, and recently, complex layer structures known as building blocks. Finding the best…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Jayanta K Dutta , Jiayi Liu , Unmesh Kurup , Mohak Shah

High quality AI solutions require joint optimization of AI algorithms, such as deep neural networks (DNNs), and their hardware accelerators. To improve the overall solution quality as well as to boost the design productivity, efficient…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Cong Hao , Yao Chen , Xiaofan Zhang , Yuhong Li , Jinjun Xiong , Wen-mei Hwu , Deming Chen

Nowadays, the rapid growth of Deep Neural Network (DNN) architectures has established them as the defacto approach for providing advanced Machine Learning tasks with excellent accuracy. Targeting low-power DNN computing, this paper examines…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Vasileios Leon , Georgios Makris , Sotirios Xydis , Kiamal Pekmestzi , Dimitrios Soudris

The increasing demand for on-device training of deep neural networks (DNNs) aims to leverage personal data for high-performance applications while addressing privacy concerns and reducing communication latency. However, resource-constrained…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jinming Lu , Jiayi Tian , Hai Li , Ian Young , Zheng Zhang

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Qiuwen Lou , Chenyun Pan , John McGuiness , Andras Horvath , Azad Naeemi , Michael Niemier , X. Sharon Hu

The training phases of Deep neural network~(DNN) consumes enormous processing time and energy. Compression techniques utilizing the sparsity of DNNs can effectively accelerate the inference phase of DNNs. However, it is hardly used in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Zhuoran Song , Yihong Xu , Han Li , Naifeng Jing , Xiaoyao Liang , Li Jiang

The state-of-the-art approaches employ approximate computing to reduce the energy consumption of DNN hardware. Approximate DNNs then require extensive retraining afterwards to recover from the accuracy loss caused by the use of approximate…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Vojtech Mrazek , Zdenek Vasicek , Lukas Sekanina , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Muhammad Shafique

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

Recent advances in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) which extract specialized hardware-aware configurations (a.k.a. "sub-networks") from a hardware-agnostic "super-network" have become increasingly popular. While considerable effort has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Anthony Sarah , Daniel Cummings , Sharath Nittur Sridhar , Sairam Sundaresan , Maciej Szankin , Tristan Webb , J. Pablo Munoz

The process of optimizing the latency of DNN operators with ML models and hardware-in-the-loop, called auto-tuning, has established itself as a pervasive method for the deployment of neural networks. From a search space of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Dennis Rieber , Moritz Reiber , Oliver Bringmann , Holger Fröning

Traditional computers with von Neumann architecture are unable to meet the latency and scalability challenges of Deep Neural Network (DNN) workloads. Various DNN accelerators based on Conventional compute Hardware Accelerator (CHA),…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Tom Glint , Chandan Kumar Jha , Manu Awasthi , Joycee Mekie