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The increasing scale and complexity of integrated circuit design have led to increased challenges in Electronic Design Automation (EDA). Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a promising approach to assist EDA design as circuits can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yuebo Luo , Shiyang Li , Junran Tao , Kiran Thorat , Xi Xie , Hongwu Peng , Nuo Xu , Caiwen Ding , Shaoyi Huang

The training of graph neural networks (GNNs) is extremely time consuming because sparse graph-based operations are hard to be accelerated by hardware. Prior art explores trading off the computational precision to reduce the time complexity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Zirui Liu , Shengyuan Chen , Kaixiong Zhou , Daochen Zha , Xiao Huang , Xia Hu

Currently, most spiking neural networks (SNNs) still mimic the chain-like hierarchical architecture in traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs). This method significantly differs from random connections between neurons found in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yongsheng Huang , Peibo Duan , Zhipeng Liu , Kai Sun , Changsheng Zhang , Bin Zhang , Mingkun Xu

This paper presents Systolic-CNN, an OpenCL-defined scalable, run-time-flexible FPGA accelerator architecture, optimized for accelerating the inference of various convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in multi-tenancy cloud/edge computing.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Akshay Dua , Yixing Li , Fengbo Ren

Neuromorphic computing is an emerging research field that aims to develop new intelligent systems by integrating theories and technologies from multi-disciplines such as neuroscience and deep learning. Currently, there have been various…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Chaofei Hong , Mengwen Yuan , Mengxiao Zhang , Xiao Wang , Chegnjun Zhang , Jiaxin Wang , Gang Pan , Zhaohui Wu , Huajin Tang

In recent years graphical processing units (GPUs) have become a powerful tool in scientific computing. Their potential to speed up highly parallel applications brings the power of high performance computing to a wider range of users.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Uldis Locans , Andreas Adelmann , Andreas Suter , Jannis Fischer , Werner Lustermann , Gunther Dissertori , Qiulin Wang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have seen extensive application in domains such as social networks, bioinformatics, and recommendation systems. However, the irregularity and sparsity of graph data challenge traditional computing methods, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Ka Wai Wu

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are a promising paradigm for energy-efficient event-driven computation, but large-scale SNN execution remains challenging because sparse spike communication and synchronization can dominate runtime. Existing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Muhammad Ihsan Al Hafiz , Artur Podobas

As the demand for compute power in traditional neural networks has increased significantly, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have emerged as a potential solution to increasingly power-hungry neural networks. By operating on 0/1 spikes emitted…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Andrew Fan , Simon D. Levy

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained significant interest for applications such as citation network analysis and drug discovery due to their ability to apply machine learning techniques on graph-structured data. GNNs typically employ a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Siddhartha Raman Sundara Raman , Lizy John , Jaydeep P. Kulkarni

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained significant attention in edge computing due to their low power consumption and computational efficiency. However, existing implementations either use conventional System on Chip (SoC) architectures…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Kanishka Gunawardana , Sanka Peeris , Kavishka Rambukwella , Thamish Wanduragala , Saadia Jameel , Roshan Ragel , Isuru Nawinne

Neuromorphic devices represent an attempt to mimic aspects of the brain's architecture and dynamics with the aim of replicating its hallmark functional capabilities in terms of computational power, robust learning and energy efficiency. We…

Neural Architecture Search is a powerful approach for automating model design, but existing methods struggle to accurately optimize for real hardware performance, often relying on proxy metrics such as bit operations. We present Surrogate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Jason Weitz , Dmitri Demler , Benjamin Hawks , Nhan Tran , Javier Duarte

In many neuromorphic workflows, simulators play a vital role for important tasks such as training spiking neural networks (SNNs), running neuroscience simulations, and designing, implementing and testing neuromorphic algorithms. Currently…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Prasanna Date , Chathika Gunaratne , Shruti Kulkarni , Robert Patton , Mark Coletti , Thomas Potok

Networks-on-Chips (NoCs) recently became widely used, from multi-core CPUs to edge-AI accelerators. Emulation on FPGAs promises to accelerate their RTL modeling compared to slow simulations. However, realistic test stimuli are challenging…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Yee Yang Tan , Felix Staudigl , Lukas Jünger , Anna Drewes , Rainer Leupers , Jan Moritz Joseph

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) and neuromorphic models are more efficient and have more biological realism than the activation functions typically used in deep neural networks, transformer models and generative AI. SNNs have local learning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Lars Niedermeier , Jeffrey L. Krichmar

With the continued growth in field-programmable gate array (FPGA) capacity and their incorporation into new environments such as datacenters, we have witnessed the introduction of a new class of reconfigurable acceleration devices (RADs)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Andrew Boutros , Eriko Nurvitadhi , Vaughn Betz

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) can reduce energy consumption compared to conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) when spiking activity is sparse and the neuron model is hardware-friendly. However, biologically faithful models are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Pascal Harmeling , Florent De Geeter , Guillaume Drion

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a biologically inspired computational paradigm, enabling energy-efficient data processing through spike-based information transmission. Despite notable advancements in hardware for SNNs, spike encoding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 MHD Anas Alsakkal , Runze Wang , Piotr Dudek , Jayawan Wijekoon

Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) applications form a major class of AI-powered, low-latency data center workloads. Most execution models for RNN acceleration break computation graphs into BLAS kernels, which lead to significant inter-kernel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Tian Zhao , Yaqi Zhang , Kunle Olukotun