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Deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on those resource-constrained edge platforms is hindered by their substantial computation and storage demands. Quantized multi-precision DNNs, denoted as MP-DNNs, offer a promising solution for these…

Embedded machine learning (ML) systems have now become the dominant platform for deploying ML serving tasks and are projected to become of equal importance for training ML models. With this comes the challenge of overall efficient…

Reduced-precision arithmetic improves the size, cost, power and performance of neural networks in digital logic. In convolutional neural networks, the use of 1b weights can achieve state-of-the-art error rates while eliminating…

DNN+NeuroSim is an integrated framework to benchmark compute-in-memory (CIM) accelerators for deep neural networks, with hierarchical design options from device-level, to circuit-level and up to algorithm-level. A python wrapper is…

Unstructured pruning reduces the memory footprint in deep neural networks (DNNs). Recently, researchers proposed different types of structural pruning intending to reduce also the computation complexity. In this work, we first suggest a new…

When neural circuits learn to perform a task, it is often the case that there are many sets of synaptic connections that are consistent with the task. However, only a small number of possible solutions are robust to noise in the input and…

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have been widely adopted in temporal sequence analysis, where realtime performance is often in demand. However, RNNs suffer from heavy computational workload as the model often comes with large weight…

Triangles are the basic substructure of networks and triangle counting (TC) has been a fundamental graph computing problem in numerous fields such as social network analysis. Nevertheless, like other graph computing problems, due to the…

Shifted-and-Duplicated-Kernel (SDK) mapping has emerged as an effective strategy to accelerate convolutional layers on compute-in-memory (CIM) hardware. However, existing SDK variants (e.g., VWC-SDK) merely optimize mapping for a single CIM…

The customizability of RISC-V makes it an attractive choice for accelerating deep neural networks (DNNs). It can be achieved through instruction set extensions and corresponding custom functional units. Yet, efficiently exploiting these…

On-chip DNN inference and training at the Extreme-Edge (TinyML) impose strict latency, throughput, accuracy and flexibility requirements. Heterogeneous clusters are promising solutions to meet the challenge, combining the flexibility of…

Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) applications impose uJ/Inference constraints, with a maximum power consumption of tens of mW. It is extremely challenging to meet these requirements at a reasonable accuracy level. This work addresses the…

The rapid growth of deep neural network (DNN) workloads has significantly increased the demand for large-capacity on-chip SRAM in machine learning (ML) applications, with SRAM arrays now occupying a substantial fraction of the total die…

On-device training is essential for user personalisation and privacy. With the pervasiveness of IoT devices and microcontroller units (MCUs), this task becomes more challenging due to the constrained memory and compute resources, and the…

As a generic modeling tool, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been widely employed in image generation and translation tasks. However, when fed with a flat input, current CNN models may fail to generate vivid results due to the…

The increasing demand for on-device intelligence in Edge AI and TinyML applications requires the efficient execution of modern Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). While lightweight architectures like MobileNetV2 employ Depthwise Separable…

State-of-the-Art (SotA) hardware implementations of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) incur high latencies and costs. Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are potential alternative solutions to realize faster implementations without losing accuracy. In…

We propose Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM), a simple yet effective attention module for feed-forward convolutional neural networks. Given an intermediate feature map, our module sequentially infers attention maps along two…

The recently established Convolution Nuclear Norm Minimization (CNNM) addresses the problem of \textit{tensor completion with arbitrary sampling} (TCAS), which involves restoring a tensor from a subset of its entries sampled in an arbitrary…

Structured sparsity enables deploying large language models (LLMs) on resource-constrained systems. Approaches like dense-to-sparse fine-tuning are particularly compelling, achieving remarkable structured sparsity by reducing the model size…