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Ternary Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have shown a large potential for highly energy-constrained systems by virtue of their low power operation (due to ultra-low precision) with only a mild degradation in accuracy. To enable an…

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Accelerating the inference of a trained DNN is a well studied subject. In this paper we switch the focus to the training of DNNs. The training phase is compute intensive, demands complicated data communication, and contains multiple levels…

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A standard hardware bottleneck when training deep neural networks is GPU memory. The bulk of memory is occupied by caching intermediate tensors for gradient computation in the backward pass. We propose a novel method to reduce this…

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On-device learning allows AI models to adapt to user data, thereby enhancing service quality on edge platforms. However, training AI on resource-limited devices poses significant challenges due to the demanding computing workload and the…

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While accelerators such as GPUs have limited memory, deep neural networks are becoming larger and will not fit with the memory limitation of accelerators for training. We propose an approach to tackle this problem by rewriting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Tung D. Le , Haruki Imai , Yasushi Negishi , Kiyokuni Kawachiya

Recent research implies that training and inference of deep neural networks (DNN) can be computed with low precision numerical representations of the training/test data, weights and gradients without a general loss in accuracy. The benefit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Dominik Marek Loroch , Norbert Wehn , Franz-Josef Pfreundt , Janis Keuper

The in-memory computing paradigm with emerging memory devices has been recently shown to be a promising way to accelerate deep learning. Resistive processing unit (RPU) has been proposed to enable the vector-vector outer product in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Varun Bhatt , Shalini Shrivastava , Tanmay Chavan , Udayan Ganguly

While deep neural network (DNN)-based video denoising has demonstrated significant performance, deploying state-of-the-art models on edge devices remains challenging due to stringent real-time and energy efficiency requirements.…

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The term GreenAI refers to a novel approach to Deep Learning, that is more aware of the ecological impact and the computational efficiency of its methods. The promoters of GreenAI suggested the use of Floating Point Operations (FLOPs) as a…

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As deep neural networks develop significantly more diverse and complex, achieving high performance and efficiency on complicated DNN models faces pressing challenges. Modern DNN workloads are increasingly diverse in operation types, tensor…

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Flow-based Generative Models (FGMs) effectively transform noise into complex data distributions. Incorporating Optimal Transport (OT) to couple noise and data during FGM training has been shown to improve the straightness of flow…

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Capsule Networks have emerged as a powerful class of deep learning architectures, known for robust performance with relatively few parameters compared to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, their inherent efficiency is often…

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A trend towards energy-efficiency, security and privacy has led to a recent focus on deploying DNNs on microcontrollers. However, limits on compute and memory resources restrict the size and the complexity of the ML models deployable in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Fernando García-Redondo , Shidhartha Das , Glen Rosendale

High-performance computing systems are moving towards 2.5D and 3D memory hierarchies, based on High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) and Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) to mitigate the main memory bottlenecks. This trend is also creating new opportunities…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Erfan Azarkhish , Davide Rossi , Igor Loi , Luca Benini

Recent years have seen many successful applications of machine learning (ML) to facilitate fluid dynamic computations. As simulations grow, generating new training datasets for traditional offline learning creates I/O and storage…

With the development of hardware-optimized deployment of spiking neural networks (SNNs), SNN processors based on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have become a research hotspot due to their efficiency and flexibility. However,…

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In this paper, we present an energy-efficient SNN architecture, which can seamlessly run deep spiking neural networks (SNNs) with improved accuracy. First, we propose a conversion aware training (CAT) to reduce ANN-to-SNN conversion loss…

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