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Large language model (LLM) inference has been a prevalent demand in daily life and industries. The large tensor sizes and computing complexities in LLMs have brought challenges to memory, computing, and databus. This paper proposes a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yimin Wang , Yue Jiet Chong , Xuanyao Fong

Computational memory (CM) is a promising approach for accelerating inference on neural networks (NN) by using enhanced memories that, in addition to storing data, allow computations on them. One of the main challenges of this approach is…

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Matrix multiplication is a fundamental kernel in large-scale artificial intelligence and scientific computing, but its performance on conventional electronic accelerators is increasingly constrained by memory bandwidth and energy…

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This paper proposes a multi-level cooperative architecture to balance the spectral efficiency and scalability of cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. In the proposed architecture, spatial expansion units (SEUs)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Jiamin Li , Xiaoyu Sun , Pengcheng Zhu , Dongming Wang , Xiaohu You

Modern multicore systems are migrating from homogeneous systems to heterogeneous systems with accelerator-based computing in order to overcome the barriers of performance and power walls. In this trend, FPGA-based accelerators are becoming…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Zhe Lin , Sharad Sinha , Hao Liang , Liang Feng , Wei Zhang

Model parameter synchronization across GPUs introduces high overheads for data-parallel training at scale. Existing parameter synchronization protocols cannot effectively leverage available network resources in the face of ever increasing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Guanhua Wang , Shivaram Venkataraman , Amar Phanishayee , Jorgen Thelin , Nikhil Devanur , Ion Stoica

Partitioning graphs into blocks of roughly equal size such that few edges run between blocks is a frequently needed operation when processing graphs on a parallel computer. When a topology of a distributed system is known an important task…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Marcelo Fonseca Faraj , Alexander van der Grinten , Henning Meyerhenke , Jesper Larsson Träff , Christian Schulz

The increasing density of transistors in Integrated Circuits (ICs) has enabled the development of highly integrated Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) and, more recently, Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoCs). To address scalability challenges in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Rodrigo Cataldo , Cesar Marcon , Debora Matos

Recent success in deep neural networks has generated strong interest in hardware accelerators to improve speed and energy consumption. This paper presents a new type of photonic accelerator based on coherent detection that is scalable to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Ryan Hamerly , Liane Bernstein , Alexander Sludds , Marin Soljačić , Dirk Englund

Matrix-accelerated stencil computation is a hot research topic, yet its application to three-dimensional (3D) high-order stencils and HPC remains underexplored. With the emergence of matrix units on multicore CPUs, we analyze matrix-based…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Yinuo Wang , Tianqi Mao , Lin Gan , Wubing Wan , Zeyu Song , Jiayu Fu , Lanke He , Wenqiang Wang , Zekun Yin , Wei Xue , Guangwen Yang

The insatiable appetite of Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads for computing power is pushing the industry to develop faster and more efficient accelerators. The rigidity of custom hardware, however, conflicts with the need for scalable…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Emmanuel Irabor , Mariam Musavi , Abhijit Das , Sergi Abadal

We introduce Multi-Lane Capsule Networks (MLCN), which are a separable and resource efficient organization of Capsule Networks (CapsNet) that allows parallel processing, while achieving high accuracy at reduced cost. A MLCN is composed of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Vanderson Martins do Rosario , Edson Borin , Mauricio Breternitz

The increasing demand for on-device intelligence in Edge AI and TinyML applications requires the efficient execution of modern Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). While lightweight architectures like MobileNetV2 employ Depthwise Separable…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Muhammed Yildirim , Ozcan Ozturk

Multichip systems with memory stacks and various processing chips are at the heart of platform based designs such as servers and embedded systems. Full utilization of the benefits of these integrated multichip systems need a seamless, and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Md Shahriar Shamim , M Meraj Ahmed , Naseef Mansoor , Amlan Ganguly

Training machine learning models in parallel is an increasingly important workload. We accelerate distributed parallel training by designing a communication primitive that uses a programmable switch dataplane to execute a key step of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Amedeo Sapio , Marco Canini , Chen-Yu Ho , Jacob Nelson , Panos Kalnis , Changhoon Kim , Arvind Krishnamurthy , Masoud Moshref , Dan R. K. Ports , Peter Richtárik

Machine learning methods have revolutionized the discovery process of new molecules and materials. However, the intensive training process of neural networks for molecules with ever-increasing complexity has resulted in exponential growth…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Hui Zhang , Jonathan Wei Zhong Lau , Lingxiao Wan , Liang Shi , Hong Cai , Xianshu Luo , Patrick Lo , Chee-Kong Lee , Leong-Chuan Kwek , Ai Qun Liu

Machine-learned interatomic potentials can offer near first-principles accuracy but are computationally expensive, limiting their application to large-scale molecular dynamics simulations. Inspired by quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics…

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Machine learning is playing an increasingly significant role in emerging mobile application domains such as AR/VR, ADAS, etc. Accordingly, hardware architects have designed customized hardware for machine learning algorithms, especially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Yuhao Zhu , Matthew Mattina , Paul Whatmough

In this work, we discuss our vision for neuromorphic accelerators based on integrated photonics within the framework of the Horizon Europe NEUROPULS project. Augmented integrated photonic architectures that leverage phase-change and III-V…

Sequential computation is well understood but does not scale well with current technology. Within the next decade, systems will contain large numbers of processors with potentially thousands of processors per chip. Despite this, many…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-11-17 James Hanlon