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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have revolutionized the world of computer vision over the last few years, pushing image classification beyond human accuracy. The computational effort of today's CNNs requires power-hungry parallel…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Renzo Andri , Lukas Cavigelli , Davide Rossi , Luca Benini

In this article, we investigate the impact of architectural parameters of array-based DNN accelerators on accelerator's energy consumption and performance in a wide variety of network topologies. For this purpose, we have developed a tool…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Mohammad Ali Maleki , Mehdi Kamal , Ali Afzali-Kusha

The increasing scale and complexity of integrated circuit design have led to increased challenges in Electronic Design Automation (EDA). Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a promising approach to assist EDA design as circuits can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yuebo Luo , Shiyang Li , Junran Tao , Kiran Thorat , Xi Xie , Hongwu Peng , Nuo Xu , Caiwen Ding , Shaoyi Huang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are becoming a promising technique in various domains due to their excellent capabilities in modeling non-Euclidean data. Although a spectrum of accelerators has been proposed to accelerate the inference of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Zeyu Zhu , Fanrong Li , Gang Li , Zejian Liu , Zitao Mo , Qinghao Hu , Xiaoyao Liang , Jian Cheng

The channel estimation (CE) in wireless receivers is one of the most critical and computationally complex signal processing operations. Recently, various works have shown that the deep learning (DL) based CE outperforms conventional minimum…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Syed Asrar ul haq , Varun Singh , Bhanu Teja Tanaji , Sumit Darak

Miniature imaging systems are essential for space-constrained applications but are limited by memory and power constraints. While machine learning can reduce data size by extracting key features, its high energy demands often exceed the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yuyang Li , Swasthik Muloor , Jack Laudati , Nickolas Dematteis , Yidam Park , Hana Kim , Nathan Chang , Inhee Lee

The high accuracy of detector simulation is crucial for modern particle physics experiments. However, this accuracy comes with a high computational cost, which will be exacerbated by the large datasets and complex detector upgrades…

Recently ConvNets or convolutional neural networks (CNN) have come up as state-of-the-art classification and detection algorithms, achieving near-human performance in visual detection. However, ConvNet algorithms are typically very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Bert Moons , Bert De Brabandere , Luc Van Gool , Marian Verhelst

This paper presents a study showing the benefits of the EfficientNet models compared with heavier Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in the Document Classification task, essential problem in the digitalization process of institutions. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Javier Ferrando , Juan Luis Dominguez , Jordi Torres , Raul Garcia , David Garcia , Daniel Garrido , Jordi Cortada , Mateo Valero

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art accuracy in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Automatic Target Recognition (ATR). However, their high computational cost, latency, and memory footprint make its deployment…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Sachini Wickramasinghe , Tian Ye , Cauligi Raghavendra , Viktor Prasanna

Deep Neural Networks are becoming the de-facto standard models for image understanding, and more generally for computer vision tasks. As they involve highly parallelizable computations, CNN are well suited to current fine grain programmable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Kamel Abdelouahab , Cedric Bourrasset , Maxime Pelcat , François Berry , Jean-Charles Quinton , Jocelyn Serot

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained significant interest for applications such as citation network analysis and drug discovery due to their ability to apply machine learning techniques on graph-structured data. GNNs typically employ a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Siddhartha Raman Sundara Raman , Lizy John , Jaydeep P. Kulkarni

This paper introduces FlexNN, a Flexible Neural Network accelerator, which adopts agile design principles to enable versatile dataflows, enhancing energy efficiency. Unlike conventional convolutional neural network accelerator architectures…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Arnab Raha , Deepak A. Mathaikutty , Soumendu K. Ghosh , Shamik Kundu

An algorithm for digital signal analysis using convolutional neural networks (CNN) was developed in this work. The main objective of this algorithm is to make the analysis of experiments with active target time projection chambers more…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-11 G. F. Fortino , J. C. Zamora , L. E. Tamayose , N. S. T. Hirata , V. Guimaraes

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved great success in a variety of machine learning (ML) applications, delivering high-quality inferencing solutions in computer vision, natural language processing, and virtual reality, etc. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Xiaofan Zhang , Yao Chen , Cong Hao , Sitao Huang , Yuhong Li , Deming Chen

Reduced voltage operation is an effective technique for substantial energy efficiency improvement in digital circuits. This brief introduces a simple approach for enabling reduced voltage operation of Deep Neural Network (DNN) accelerators…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Mikael Rinkinen , Lauri Koskinen , Olli Silven , Mehdi Safarpour

Spiking-neural-networks (SNNs) are promising at edge devices since the event-driven operations of SNNs provides significantly lower power compared to analog-neural-networks (ANNs). Although it is difficult to efficiently train SNNs, many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Nguyen-Dong Ho , Ik-Joon Chang

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…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Adrian Kneip , Martin Lefebvre , Pol Maistriaux , David Bol

Herein, a bit-wise Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) in-memory accelerator is implemented using Spin-Orbit Torque Magnetic Random Access Memory (SOT-MRAM) computational sub-arrays. It utilizes a novel AND-Accumulation method capable of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Arman Roohi , Shaahin Angizi , Deliang Fan , Ronald F DeMara

In this paper, we introduce the first machine learning framework for predicting optimal processing times in Single-Level Tree Network (SLTN) architectures for the Divisible Load Theory (DLT) paradigm. Using a feedforward neural network(FNN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Bharadwaj Veeravalli