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Due to limited resources on edge and different characteristics of deep neural network (DNN) models, it is a big challenge to optimize DNN inference performance in terms of energy consumption and end-to-end latency on edge devices. In…

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Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are extremely computationally demanding, which presents a large barrier to their deployment on resource-constrained devices. Since such devices are where many emerging deep learning applications lie (e.g.,…

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The spread of deep learning on embedded devices has prompted the development of numerous methods to optimise the deployment of deep neural networks (DNN). Works have mainly focused on: i) efficient DNN architectures, ii) network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Miguel de Prado , Andrew Mundy , Rabia Saeed , Maurizio Denna , Nuria Pazos , Luca Benini

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have become an essential component in many application domains including web-based services. A variety of these services require high throughput and (close to) real-time features, for instance, to respond or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Mohammadamin Abedi , Yanni Iouannou , Pooyan Jamshidi , Hadi Hemmati

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved great success in a variety of machine learning (ML) applications, delivering high-quality inferencing solutions in computer vision, natural language processing, and virtual reality, etc. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Xiaofan Zhang , Yao Chen , Cong Hao , Sitao Huang , Yuhong Li , Deming Chen

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have emerged as the core enabler of many major applications on mobile devices. To achieve high accuracy, DNN models have become increasingly deep with hundreds or even thousands of operator layers, leading to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Wei Niu , Jiexiong Guan , Yanzhi Wang , Gagan Agrawal , Bin Ren

This paper addresses a challenging problem - how to reduce energy consumption without incurring performance drop when deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) at the inference stage. In order to alleviate the computation and storage burdens,…

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Along with the fast evolution of deep neural networks, the hardware system is also developing rapidly. As a promising solution achieving high scalability and low manufacturing cost, multi-accelerator systems widely exist in data centers,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Guan Shen , Jieru Zhao , Zeke Wang , Zhe Lin , Wenchao Ding , Chentao Wu , Quan Chen , Minyi Guo

Deep networks consume a large amount of memory by their nature. A natural question arises can we reduce that memory requirement whilst maintaining performance. In particular, in this work we address the problem of memory efficient learning…

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The demand for executing Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) with low latency and minimal power consumption at the edge has led to the development of advanced heterogeneous Systems-on-Chips (SoCs) that incorporate multiple specialized computing…

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Efficient deployment of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), such as Large Language Models (LLMs), on tensor accelerators is essential for maximizing computational efficiency in modern AI systems. However, achieving this is challenging due to the…

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For image-related deep learning tasks, the first step often involves reading data from external storage and performing preprocessing on the CPU. As accelerator speed increases and the number of single compute node accelerators increases,…

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As artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies disrupt a wide range of industries, cloud datacenters face ever-increasing demand in inference workloads. However, conventional CPU-based servers cannot handle excessive…

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Training deep neural networks (DNNs) on edge devices has attracted increasing attention due to its potential to address challenges related to domain adaptation and privacy preservation. However, DNNs typically rely on large datasets for…

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The rapid deployment of deep neural network (DNN) accelerators in safety-critical domains such as autonomous vehicles, healthcare systems, and financial infrastructure necessitates robust mechanisms to safeguard data confidentiality and…

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As the landscape of deep neural networks evolves, heterogeneous dataflow accelerators, in the form of multi-core architectures or chiplet-based designs, promise more flexibility and higher inference performance through scalability. So far,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Arne Symons , Linyan Mei , Steven Colleman , Pouya Houshmand , Sebastian Karl , Marian Verhelst

Deep learning has become widely used in complex AI applications. Yet, training a deep neural network (DNNs) model requires a considerable amount of calculations, long running time, and much energy. Nowadays, many-core AI accelerators (e.g.,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Yuxin Wang , Qiang Wang , Shaohuai Shi , Xin He , Zhenheng Tang , Kaiyong Zhao , Xiaowen Chu

Currently, there is a growing trend of outsourcing the execution of DNNs to cloud services. For service providers, managing multi-tenancy and ensuring high-quality service delivery, particularly in meeting stringent execution time…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Francesco G. Blanco , Enrico Russo , Maurizio Palesi , Davide Patti , Giuseppe Ascia , Vincenzo Catania

Memory is a critical design consideration in current data-intensive DNN accelerators, as it profoundly determines energy consumption, bandwidth requirements, and area costs. As DNN structures become more complex, a larger on-chip memory…

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Since emerging edge applications such as Internet of Things (IoT) analytics and augmented reality have tight latency constraints, hardware AI accelerators have been recently proposed to speed up deep neural network (DNN) inference run by…

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