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Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ehsan Kabir , Jason D. Bakos , David Andrews , Miaoqing Huang

In recent years, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been widely adopted in computer vision. Complex CNN architecture running on CPU or GPU has either insufficient throughput or prohibitive power consumption. Hence, there is a need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Zhengdong Li , Frederick Ziyang Hong , C. Patrick Yue

Training convolutional neural networks (CNNs) requires intense compute throughput and high memory bandwidth. Especially, convolution layers account for the majority of the execution time of CNN training, and GPUs are commonly used to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Sangkug Lym , Donghyuk Lee , Mike O'Connor , Niladrish Chatterjee , Mattan Erez

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are state-of-the-art in numerous computer vision tasks such as object classification and detection. However, the large amount of parameters they contain leads to a high computational complexity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Ghouthi Boukli Hacene , Vincent Gripon , Matthieu Arzel , Nicolas Farrugia , Yoshua Bengio

Due to the ability to implement customized topology, FPGA is increasingly used to deploy SNNs in both embedded and high-performance applications. In this paper, we survey state-of-the-art SNN implementations and their applications on FPGA.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Murat Isik

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been the centerpiece of many applications including but not limited to computer vision, speech processing, and Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, the computationally expensive convolution…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Armin Mehrabian , Yousra Al-Kabani , Volker J Sorger , Tarek El-Ghazawi

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are central to modern AI, but their performance is often limited by hardware constraints. NVIDIA Tensor Cores, for instance, require input channels to be multiples of 8 and sometimes 512 for efficient…

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Leveraging large data sets, deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) achieve state-of-the-art recognition accuracy. Due to the substantial compute and memory operations, however, they require significant execution time. The massive…

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Recent advancements in deep learning techniques have spurred considerable interest in their application to hyperspectral imagery processing. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the latest developments in this field, focusing on…

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Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have recently been increasingly used for highly-parallel processing of compute intensive tasks. This paper introduces an FPGA hardware platform architecture that is PC-based, allows for fast…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Andreas Weisensee , Darran Nathan

We examine the performance profile of Convolutional Neural Network training on the current generation of NVIDIA Graphics Processing Units. We introduce two new Fast Fourier Transform convolution implementations: one based on NVIDIA's cuFFT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Nicolas Vasilache , Jeff Johnson , Michael Mathieu , Soumith Chintala , Serkan Piantino , Yann LeCun

Various hardware accelerators have been developed for energy-efficient and real-time inference of neural networks on edge devices. However, most training is done on high-performance GPUs or servers, and the huge memory and computing costs…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Kaiqi Zhang , Cole Hawkins , Xiyuan Zhang , Cong Hao , Zheng Zhang

Mixed-precision neural networks (MPNNs) that enable the use of just enough data width for a deep learning task promise significant advantages of both inference accuracy and computing overhead. FPGAs with fine-grained reconfiguration…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Erjing Luo , Haitong Huang , Cheng Liu , Guoyu Li , Bing Yang , Ying Wang , Huawei Li , Xiaowei Li

Generative neural network is a new category of neural networks and it has been widely utilized in applications such as content generation, unsupervised learning, segmentation and pose estimation. It typically involves massive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Dawen Xu , Ying Wang , Kaijie Tu , Cheng Liu , Bingsheng He , Lei Zhang

In order to handle modern convolutional neural networks (CNNs) efficiently, a hardware architecture of CNN inference accelerator is proposed to handle depthwise convolutions and regular convolutions, which are both essential building blocks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Tse-Wei Chen , Wei Tao , Deyu Wang , Dongchao Wen , Kinya Osa , Masami Kato

This research introduces an FPGA-based hardware accelerator to optimize the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and Fast Fourier transform (FFT) operations in AI models. The proposed design aims to improve processing speed and reduce…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Hong Ding , Chia Chao Kang , SuYang Xi , Zehang Liu , Xuan Zhang , Yi Ding

Deep learning refers to the shining branch of machine learning that is based on learning levels of representations. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) is one kind of deep neural network. It can study concurrently. In this article, we gave…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-05 Tianyi Liu , Shuangsang Fang , Yuehui Zhao , Peng Wang , Jun Zhang

An accelerator is a specialized integrated circuit designed to perform specific computations faster than if those were performed by CPU or GPU. A Field-Programmable DNN learning and inference accelerator (FProg-DNN) using hybrid systolic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Luiz M Franca-Neto

While there is a large body of research on efficient processing of deep neural networks (DNNs), ultra-low-latency realization of these models for applications with stringent, sub-microsecond latency requirements continues to be an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Mahdi Nazemi , Arash Fayyazi , Amirhossein Esmaili , Atharva Khare , Soheil Nazar Shahsavani , Massoud Pedram

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have emerged as the state-of-the-art deep learning model for representation learning on graphs. It is challenging to accelerate training of GCNs, due to (1) substantial and irregular data communication to…

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