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This paper presents an adaptive convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture that can automate diverse topology optimization (TO) problems having different underlying physics. The architecture uses the encoder-decoder networks with dense…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Khaish Singh Chadha , Prabhat Kumar

The work in this paper is driven by the question if spatio-temporal correlations are enough for 3D convolutional neural networks (CNN)? Most of the traditional 3D networks use local spatio-temporal features. We introduce a new block that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Ali Diba , Mohsen Fayyaz , Vivek Sharma , M. Mahdi Arzani , Rahman Yousefzadeh , Juergen Gall , Luc Van Gool

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have proven to be extremely accurate for image recognition, even outperforming human recognition capability. When deployed on battery-powered mobile devices, efficient computer architectures are required…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Mehdi Ahmadi , Shervin Vakili , J. M. Pierre Langlois

Modern Deep Neural Network (DNN) accelerators are equipped with increasingly larger on-chip buffers to provide more opportunities to alleviate the increasingly severe DRAM bandwidth pressure. However, most existing research on buffer…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Jingwei Cai , Xuan Wang , Mingyu Gao , Sen Peng , Zijian Zhu , Yuchen Wei , Zuotong Wu , Kaisheng Ma

Many recent works have designed accelerators for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). While digital accelerators have relied on near data processing, analog accelerators have further reduced data movement by performing in-situ computation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Anirban Nag , Ali Shafiee , Rajeev Balasubramonian , Vivek Srikumar , Naveen Muralimanohar

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

The efficient scheduling of independent computational tasks in a heterogeneous computing environment is an important problem that occurs in domains such as Grid and Cloud computing. Finding optimal schedules is an NP-hard problem in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-24 John Levine , Graeme Ritchie , Alastair Andrew , Simon Gates

Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets or CNNs) have been candidly deployed in the scope of computer vision and related fields. Nevertheless, the dynamics of training of these neural networks lie still elusive: it is hard and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Nguyen Huu Phong , Augusto Santos , Bernardete Ribeiro

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are pivotal in extracting latent information from graph data across various domains, yet their acceleration on mainstream GPUs is challenged by workload imbalance and memory access irregularity. To…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Xi Xie , Hongwu Peng , Amit Hasan , Shaoyi Huang , Jiahui Zhao , Haowen Fang , Wei Zhang , Tong Geng , Omer Khan , Caiwen Ding

This paper proposes a new topology optimization method that applies a convolutional neural network (CNN), which is one deep learning technique for topology optimization problems. Using this method, we acquire a structure with a little…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Yusuke Takahashi , Yoshiro Suzuki , Akira Todoroki

For millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, hybrid processing architecture is usually used to reduce the complexity and cost, which poses a very challenging issue in channel estimation. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Peihao Dong , Hua Zhang , Geoffrey Ye Li , Ivan Simoes Gaspar , Navid NaderiAlizadeh

Hardware support for deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is critical to advanced computer vision in mobile and embedded devices. Current designs, however, accelerate generic CNNs; they do not exploit the unique characteristics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Mark Buckler , Philip Bedoukian , Suren Jayasuriya , Adrian Sampson

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

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) achieved great cognitive performance at the expense of considerable computation load. To relieve the computation load, many optimization works are developed to reduce the model redundancy by identifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Fuxun Yu , Chenchen Liu , Di Wang , Yanzhi Wang , Xiang Chen

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are promising biologically plausible models of computation which utilize a spiking binary activation function similar to that of biological neurons. SNNs are well positioned to process spatiotemporal data, and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Boxun Xu , Richard Boone , Peng Li

Brain-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have attracted attention for their event-driven characteristics and high energy efficiency. However, the temporal dependency and irregularity of spikes present significant challenges for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Kainan Wang , Chengyi Yang , Chengting Yu , Yee Sin Ang , Bo Wang , Aili Wang

This paper introduces an adaptive convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture capable of automating various topology optimization (TO) problems with diverse underlying physics. The proposed architecture has an encoder-decoder-type…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Khaish Singh Chadha , Prabhat Kumar

To employ a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) in an energy-constrained embedded system, it is critical for the CNN implementation to be highly energy efficient. Many recent studies propose CNN accelerator architectures with custom…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Syed M. A. H. Jafri , Hasan Hassan , Ahmed Hemani , Onur Mutlu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are developed as a promising alternative to Artificial Neural networks (ANNs) due to their more realistic brain-inspired computing models. SNNs have sparse neuron firing over time, i.e., spatio-temporal…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Qinyu Chen , Chang Gao , Xinyuan Fang , Haitao Luan