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Resistive random access memories (RRAM) are novel nonvolatile memory technologies, which can be embedded at the core of CMOS, and which could be ideal for the in-memory implementation of deep neural networks. A particularly exciting vision…
Realizing today's cloud-level artificial intelligence functionalities directly on devices distributed at the edge of the internet calls for edge hardware capable of processing multiple modalities of sensory data (e.g. video, audio) at…
Charge-domain compute-in-memory (CIM) SRAMs have recently become an enticing compromise between computing efficiency and accuracy to process sub-8b convolutional neural networks (CNNs) at the edge. Yet, they commonly make use of a fixed…
Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) is the de-facto choice for main memory devices due to its cost-effectiveness. It offers a larger capacity and higher bandwidth compared to SRAM but is slower than the latter. With each passing generation,…
In many learning situations, resources at inference time are significantly more constrained than resources at training time. This paper studies a general paradigm, called Differentiable ARchitecture Compression (DARC), that combines model…
Deep Neural Networks (DNN) achieve human level performance in many image analytics tasks but DNNs are mostly deployed to GPU platforms that consume a considerable amount of power. New hardware platforms using lower precision arithmetic…
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are an important class of neural networks designed to retain and incorporate context into current decisions. RNNs are particularly well suited for machine learning problems in which context is important,…
The advancement of Deep Learning (DL) is driven by efficient Deep Neural Network (DNN) design and new hardware accelerators. Current DNN design is primarily tailored for general-purpose use and deployment on commercially viable platforms.…
The second-order training methods can converge much faster than first-order optimizers in DNN training. This is because the second-order training utilizes the inversion of the second-order information (SOI) matrix to find a more accurate…
This article presents design techniques proposed for efficient hardware implementation of feedforward artificial neural networks (ANNs) under parallel and time-multiplexed architectures. To reduce their design complexity, after the weights…
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) demonstrate promising accuracy in a wide range of applications. Among all layers in CNNs, convolution layers are the most computation-intensive and consume the most energy. As the maturity of device and…
The cost involved in training deep neural networks (DNNs) on von-Neumann architectures has motivated the development of novel solutions for efficient DNN training accelerators. We propose a hybrid in-memory computing (HIC) architecture for…
Co-exploration of neural architectures and hardware design is promising to simultaneously optimize network accuracy and hardware efficiency. However, state-of-the-art neural architecture search algorithms for the co-exploration are…
Memristor-based crossbar arrays represent a promising emerging memory technology to replace conventional memories by offering a high density and enabling computing-in-memory (CIM) paradigms. While analog computing provides the best…
RRAM crossbars have been studied to construct in-memory accelerators for neural network applications due to their in-situ computing capability. However, prior RRAM-based accelerators show efficiency degradation when executing the popular…
Deep neural nets (DNNs) compression is crucial for adaptation to mobile devices. Though many successful algorithms exist to compress naturally trained DNNs, developing efficient and stable compression algorithms for robustly trained DNNs…
Neural processor development is reducing our reliance on remote server access to process deep learning operations in an increasingly edge-driven world. By employing in-memory processing, parallelization techniques, and algorithm-hardware…
In recent years, processing in memory (PIM) based mixedsignal designs have been proposed as energy- and area-efficient solutions with ultra high throughput to accelerate DNN computations. However, PIM designs are sensitive to imperfections…
While general-purpose computing follows Von Neumann's architecture, the data movement between memory and processor elements dictates the processor's performance. The evolving compute-in-memory (CiM) paradigm tackles this issue by…
The prediction accuracy of the deep neural networks (DNNs) after deployment at the edge can suffer with time due to shifts in the distribution of the new data. To improve robustness of DNNs, they must be able to update themselves to enhance…