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Advanced deep learning architectures consist of tens of fully connected and convolutional hidden layers, currently extended to hundreds, are far from their biological realization. Their implausible biological dynamics relies on changing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Yuval Meir , Itamar Ben-Noam , Yarden Tzach , Shiri Hodassman , Ido Kanter

Modern convolutional networks such as ResNet and NASNet have achieved state-of-the-art results in many computer vision applications. These architectures consist of stages, which are sets of layers that operate on representations in the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Artur Jordao , Fernando Akio , Maiko Lie , William Robson Schwartz

With the rise of deep learning technology in practical applications, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been able to assist humans in solving many real-world problems. To enhance the performance of CNNs, numerous network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Qi Wang , Zijun Gao , Mingxiu Sui , Taiyuan Mei , Xiaohan Cheng , Iris Li

FPGA-specific DNN architectures using the native LUTs as independently trainable inference operators have been shown to achieve favorable area-accuracy and energy-accuracy tradeoffs. The first work in this area, LUTNet, exhibited…

While neural networks are good at learning unspecified functions from training samples, they cannot be directly implemented in hardware and are often not interpretable or formally verifiable. On the other hand, logic circuits are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Tobias Brudermueller , Dennis L. Shung , Adrian J. Stanley , Johannes Stegmaier , Smita Krishnaswamy

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have constantly achieved better performance over years by introducing more complex topology, and enlarging the capacity towards deeper and wider CNNs. This makes the manual design of CNNs extremely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Bin Wang , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

Owing to its potential advantages such as scalability, low latency and power efficiency, optical computing has seen rapid advances over the last decades. A core unit of a potential all-optical processor would be the NAND gate, which can be…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-04 Yi Luo , Deniz Mengu , Aydogan Ozcan

We break the linear link between the layer size and its inference cost by introducing the fast feedforward (FFF) architecture, a log-time alternative to feedforward networks. We demonstrate that FFFs are up to 220x faster than feedforward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Peter Belcak , Roger Wattenhofer

The concept of conditional computation for deep nets has been proposed previously to improve model performance by selectively using only parts of the model conditioned on the sample it is processing. In this paper, we investigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Zhourong Chen , Yang Li , Samy Bengio , Si Si

This work attempts to interpret modern deep (convolutional) networks from the principles of rate reduction and (shift) invariant classification. We show that the basic iterative gradient ascent scheme for optimizing the rate reduction of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Kwan Ho Ryan Chan , Yaodong Yu , Chong You , Haozhi Qi , John Wright , Yi Ma

Research has shown that deep neural networks contain significant redundancy, and thus that high classification accuracy can be achieved even when weights and activations are quantized down to binary values. Network binarization on FPGAs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Erwei Wang , James J. Davis , Peter Y. K. Cheung , George A. Constantinides

This paper presents a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) design of a segmentation algorithm based on convolutional neural network (CNN) that can process light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data in real-time. For autonomous vehicles,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-07 Yecheng Lyu , Lin Bai , Xinming Huang

Fast and efficient AI inference is increasingly important, and recent models that directly learn low-level logic operations have achieved state-of-the-art performance. However, existing logic neural networks incur high training costs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Lino Gerlach , Thore Gerlach , Liv Våge , Elliott Kauffman , Isobel Ojalvo

To design fast neural networks, many works have been focusing on reducing the number of floating-point operations (FLOPs). We observe that such reduction in FLOPs, however, does not necessarily lead to a similar level of reduction in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Jierun Chen , Shiu-hong Kao , Hao He , Weipeng Zhuo , Song Wen , Chul-Ho Lee , S. -H. Gary Chan

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have the advantage that they can take into account a large number of parameters, which enables them to solve complex tasks. In computer vision and speech recognition, they have a better accuracy than common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Lukas Baischer , Matthias Wess , Nima TaheriNejad

Adaptive inference is a promising technique to improve the computational efficiency of deep models at test time. In contrast to static models which use the same computation graph for all instances, adaptive networks can dynamically adjust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Hao Li , Hong Zhang , Xiaojuan Qi , Ruigang Yang , Gao Huang

Latest algorithms for automatic neural architecture search perform remarkable but few of them can effectively design the number of channels for convolutional neural networks and consume less computational efforts. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Hui Zhu , Zhulin An , Chuanguang Yang , Xiaolong Hu , Kaiqiang Xu , Yongjun Xu

Deep learning (DL) is becoming the cornerstone of numerous applications both in datacenters and at the edge. Specialized hardware is often necessary to meet the performance requirements of state-of-the-art DL models, but the rapid pace of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Andrew Boutros , Aman Arora , Vaughn Betz

We propose a novel learning paradigm for Deep Neural Networks (DNN) by using Boolean logic algebra. We first present the basic differentiable operators of a Boolean system such as conjunction, disjunction and exclusive-OR and show how these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Ali Payani , Faramarz Fekri

Differentiable logic gate networks (DLGNs) learn compact, interpretable Boolean circuits via gradient-based training, but all existing variants are restricted to the 16 two-input binary gates. Extending DLGNs to Ternary Kleene $K_3$ logic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Sai Sandeep Damera , Ryan Matheu , Aniruddh G. Puranic , John S. Baras