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Deep spiking neural networks (SNNs) have emerged as a potential alternative to traditional deep learning frameworks, due to their promise to provide increased compute efficiency on event-driven neuromorphic hardware. However, to perform…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Souvik Kundu , Gourav Datta , Massoud Pedram , Peter A. Beerel

Deep neural network (DNN) inference relies increasingly on specialized hardware for high computational efficiency. This work introduces a field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based dynamically configurable accelerator featuring systolic…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Anastasios Petropoulos , Theodore Antonakopoulos

Reconfigurable accelerators for deep neural networks (DNNs) promise to improve performance such as inference latency. STONNE is the first cycle-accurate simulator for reconfigurable DNN inference accelerators which allows for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Axel Stjerngren , Perry Gibson , José Cano

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have produced state-of-the-art results for image classification tasks. However, they are limited in their ability to handle rotational and viewpoint variations due to information loss in max-pooling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Samaneh Javadinia , Amirali Baniasadi

Implantable Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) are promising for motor rehabilitation and mobility augmentation, and they demand accurate and energy-efficient algorithms. In this paper, we propose a novel spiking neural network (SNN) decoder…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-06 Jiawei Liao , Oscar Toomey , Xiaying Wang , Lars Widmer , Cynthia A. Chestek , Luca Benini , Taekwang Jang

The success of deep neural networks (DNNs) is attributable to three factors: increased compute capacity, more complex models, and more data. These factors, however, are not always present, especially for edge applications such as autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Bichen Wu

As the number of deep neural networks (DNNs) to be executed on a mobile system-on-chip (SoC) increases, the mobile SoC suffers from the real-time DNN acceleration within its limited hardware resources and power budget. Although the previous…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Dongseok Im , Gwangtae Park , Zhiyong Li , Junha Ryu , Hoi-Jun Yoo

Due to the high activation sparsity and use of accumulates (AC) instead of expensive multiply-and-accumulates (MAC), neuromorphic spiking neural networks (SNNs) have emerged as a promising low-power alternative to traditional DNNs for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Gourav Datta , Zeyu Liu , Md Abdullah-Al Kaiser , Souvik Kundu , Joe Mathai , Zihan Yin , Ajey P. Jacob , Akhilesh R. Jaiswal , Peter A. Beerel

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) reach high accuracies in various application domains, but require large amounts of computation and incur costly data movements. One method to decrease these costs while trading accuracy is weight and/or…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Cecilia Latotzke , Tim Ciesielski , Tobias Gemmeke

Stochastic computing (SC) offers significant reductions in hardware complexity for traditional convolutional neural networks(CNNs). However, despite its advantages, stochastic computing neural networks (SCNNs) often suffer from high…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Sheng Lu , Qianhou Qu , Sungyong Jung , Qilian Liang , Chenyun Pan

In an ever expanding set of research and application areas, deep neural networks (DNNs) set the bar for algorithm performance. However, depending upon additional constraints such as processing power and execution time limits, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Nathan Dahlin , Krishna Chaitanya Kalagarla , Nikhil Naik , Rahul Jain , Pierluigi Nuzzo

The emergence of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in mission- and safety-critical applications brings their reliability to the front. High performance demands of DNNs require the use of specialized hardware accelerators. Systolic array…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Natalia Cherezova , Artur Jutman , Maksim Jenihhin

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) are widely used in modern artificial intelligence (AI) and smart vision systems but also limited by computation latency, throughput, and energy efficiency on a resource-limited scenario, such as…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Yuan Du , Li Du , Yilei Li , Junjie Su , Mau-Chung Frank Chang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have recently achieved impressive success across a wide range of real-world vision and language processing tasks, spanning from image classification to many other downstream vision tasks, such as object…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Xiangzhong Luo , Di Liu , Hao Kong , Shuo Huai , Hui Chen , Guochu Xiong , Weichen Liu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are bio-plausible models that hold great potential for realizing energy-efficient implementations of sequential tasks on resource-constrained edge devices. However, commercial edge platforms based on standard…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Marco Paul E. Apolinario , Adarsh Kumar Kosta , Utkarsh Saxena , Kaushik Roy

Quantization for Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has shown significant progress with the intention of reducing the cost of computation and storage with low-bitwidth data inputs. There are, however, no systematic studies on how an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Xinheng Liu , Yao Chen , Prakhar Ganesh , Junhao Pan , Jinjun Xiong , Deming Chen

FPGA overlays are commonly implemented as coarse-grained reconfigurable architectures with a goal to improve designers' productivity through balancing flexibility and ease of configuration of the underlying fabric. To truly facilitate full…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Ho-Cheung Ng , Cheng Liu , Hayden Kwok-Hay So

Deep neural networks are widely used in personalized recommendation systems. Unlike regular DNN inference workloads, recommendation inference is memory-bound due to the many random memory accesses needed to lookup the embedding tables. The…

The past several years have witnessed the success of transformer-based models, and their scale and application scenarios continue to grow aggressively. The current landscape of transformer models is increasingly diverse: the model size…

Inference latency and trustworthiness of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are the bottlenecks in deploying them in critical applications like sensitive tasks. Early Exit (EE) DNNs overcome the latency issues by allowing samples to exit from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Divya Jyoti Bajpai , Manjesh Kumar Hanawal