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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a promising solution for energy-efficient edge intelligence; however, their hardware deployment is constrained by memory overhead, inefficient scaling operations, and limited parallelism. This work…

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The rapid advancement of neural network applications necessitates hardware that not only accelerates computation but also adapts efficiently to dynamic processing requirements. While processing-in-pixel has emerged as a promising solution…

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As safety-critical applications increasingly rely on data-parallel floating-point computations, there is an increasing need for flexible and configurable fault tolerance in parallel floating-point accelerators such as tensor engines. While…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) such as LLaMA and DeepSeek, are built on transformer architectures, which have become a standard model for achieving state-of-the-art performance in natural language processing tasks. Recently, there has been…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Bas Ahn , Xingjian Tao , Manil Dev Gomony , Marc Geilen , Henk Corporaal

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

Recent hardware acceleration advances have enabled powerful specialized accelerators for finite element computations, spiking neural network inference, and sparse tensor operations. However, existing approaches face fundamental limitations:…

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The slowdown of Moore's law and the power wall necessitates a shift towards finely tunable precision (a.k.a. transprecision) computing to reduce energy footprint. Hence, we need circuits capable of performing floating-point operations on a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Stefan Mach , Fabian Schuiki , Florian Zaruba , Luca Benini

With the increased penetration and proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, there is a growing trend towards distributing the power of deep learning (DL) across edge devices rather than centralizing it in the cloud. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Yuhao Chen , Qianqian Yang , Shibo He , Zhiguo Shi , Jiming Chen

AI-powered autonomous experimentation (AI/AE) can accelerate materials discovery but its effectiveness for electronic materials is hindered by data scarcity from lengthy and complex design-fabricate-test-analyze cycles. Unlike experienced…

Learn in-situ is a growing trend for Edge AI. Training deep neural network (DNN) on edge devices is challenging because both energy and memory are constrained. Low precision training helps to reduce the energy cost of a single training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Tian Huang , Tao Luo , Joey Tianyi Zhou

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) remain prevalent in computer vision applications, and FPGAs, known for their flexibility and energy efficiency, have become essential components in heterogeneous acceleration systems. However,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Guoyu Li , Pengbo Zheng , Jian Weng , Enshan Yang

Artificial intelligence necessitates adaptable hardware accelerators for efficient high-throughput million operations. We present pipelined architecture with CORDIC block for linear MAC computations and nonlinear iterative Activation…

This paper presents a mixed-computation neural network processing approach for edge applications that incorporates low-precision (low-width) Posit and low-precision fixed point (FixP) number systems. This mixed-computation approach employs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Seyedarmin Azizi , Mahdi Nazemi , Mehdi Kamal , Massoud Pedram

Edge AI is often framed as model compression and deployment under tight constraints. We argue a stronger operational thesis: Edge AI in realistic deployments is necessarily adaptive. In long-horizon operation, a fixed (non-adaptive)…

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Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models enable scalable neural networks through conditional computation, offering enhanced effectiveness and efficiency for next-generation wireless communications. However, deploying MoE with federated learning (FL)…

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To speedup Deep Neural Networks (DNN) accelerator design and enable effective implementation, we propose HybridDNN, a framework for building high-performance hybrid DNN accelerators and delivering FPGA-based hardware implementations. Novel…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Hanchen Ye , Xiaofan Zhang , Zhize Huang , Gengsheng Chen , Deming Chen

Energy harvesting (EH) IoT devices that operate intermittently without batteries, coupled with advances in deep neural networks (DNNs), have opened up new opportunities for enabling sustainable smart applications. Nevertheless, implementing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Sahidul Islam , Jieren Deng , Shanglin Zhou , Chen Pan , Caiwen Ding , Mimi Xie

Edge computing facilitates deep learning in resource-constrained environments, but challenges such as resource heterogeneity and dynamic constraints persist. This paper introduces AMP4EC, an Adaptive Model Partitioning framework designed to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Guilin Zhang , Wulan Guo , Ziqi Tan , Hailong Jiang

Surface integral equation (SIE) methods are of great interest for the efficient electromagnetic modeling of various devices, from integrated circuits to antenna arrays. Existing acceleration algorithms for SIEs, such as the adaptive…

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