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In this paper, we develop an in-memory analog computing (IMAC) architecture realizing both synaptic behavior and activation functions within non-volatile memory arrays. Spin-orbit torque magnetoresistive random-access memory (SOT-MRAM)…

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Aiming to accelerate the training of large deep neural networks (DNN) in an energy-efficient way, analog in-memory computing (AIMC) emerges as a solution with immense potential. AIMC accelerator keeps model weights in memory without moving…

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Traditional von Neumann architecture based processors become inefficient in terms of energy and throughput as they involve separate processing and memory units, also known as~\textit{memory wall}. The memory wall problem is further…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-20 Abhash Kumar , Jawar Singh , Sai Manohar Beeraka , Bharat Gupta

Analog In-Memory Compute (AIMC) can improve the energy efficiency of Deep Learning by orders of magnitude. Yet analog-domain device and circuit non-idealities -- within the analog ``Tiles'' performing Matrix-Vector Multiply (MVM) operations…

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The release of tabular benchmarks, such as NAS-Bench-101 and NAS-Bench-201, has significantly lowered the computational overhead for conducting scientific research in neural architecture search (NAS). Although they have been widely adopted…

Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) provide superior estimates of uncertainty by generating an ensemble of predictive distributions. However, inference via ensembling is resource-intensive, requiring additional entropy sources to generate…

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Neural Architecture Search (NAS) benchmarks significantly improved the capability of developing and comparing NAS methods while at the same time drastically reduced the computational overhead by providing meta-information about thousands of…

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Deep neural network (DNN) architectures, such as convolutional neural networks (CNN), involve heavy computation and require hardware, such as CPU, GPU, and AI accelerators, to provide the massive computing power. With the many varieties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Wei Wei , Lingjie Xu , Lingling Jin , Wei Zhang , Tianjun Zhang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a promising and rapidly evolving research area. Training a large number of neural networks requires an exceptional amount of computational power, which makes NAS unreachable for those researchers who have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Nikita Klyuchnikov , Ilya Trofimov , Ekaterina Artemova , Mikhail Salnikov , Maxim Fedorov , Evgeny Burnaev

One of the primary challenges impeding the progress of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is its extensive reliance on exorbitant computational resources. NAS benchmarks aim to simulate runs of NAS experiments at zero cost, remediating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Afzal Ahmad , Linfeng Du , Zhiyao Xie , Wei Zhang

To maximize hardware efficiency and performance accuracy in Compute-In-Memory (CIM)-based neural network accelerators for Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, co-optimizing both software and hardware design parameters is essential.…

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Graph neural architecture search (GraphNAS) has recently aroused considerable attention in both academia and industry. However, two key challenges seriously hinder the further research of GraphNAS. First, since there is no consensus for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yijian Qin , Ziwei Zhang , Xin Wang , Zeyang Zhang , Wenwu Zhu

Analog in-memory computing (AIMC) accelerators enable efficient deep neural network computation directly within memory using resistive crossbar arrays, where model parameters are represented by the conductance states of memristive devices.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Jindan Li , Zhaoxian Wu , Gaowen Liu , Tayfun Gokmen , Tianyi Chen

An effective and efficient architecture performance evaluation scheme is essential for the success of Neural Architecture Search (NAS). To save computational cost, most of existing NAS algorithms often train and evaluate intermediate neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Yixing Xu , Yunhe Wang , Kai Han , Yehui Tang , Shangling Jui , Chunjing Xu , Chang Xu

On-device ML accelerators are becoming a standard in modern mobile system-on-chips (SoC). Neural architecture search (NAS) comes to the rescue for efficiently utilizing the high compute throughput offered by these accelerators. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Berkin Akin , Suyog Gupta , Yun Long , Anton Spiridonov , Zhuo Wang , Marie White , Hao Xu , Ping Zhou , Yanqi Zhou

The recent surge of interest surrounding Multimodal Neural Networks (MM-NN) is attributed to their ability to effectively process and integrate multiscale information from diverse data sources. MM-NNs extract and fuse features from multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Mohamed Imed Eddine Ghebriout , Halima Bouzidi , Smail Niar , Hamza Ouarnoughi

HardWare-aware Neural Architecture Search (HW-NAS) has recently gained tremendous attention by automating the design of DNNs deployed in more resource-constrained daily life devices. Despite its promising performance, developing optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Chaojian Li , Zhongzhi Yu , Yonggan Fu , Yongan Zhang , Yang Zhao , Haoran You , Qixuan Yu , Yue Wang , Yingyan Celine Lin

One of the key steps in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is to estimate the performance of candidate architectures. Existing methods either directly use the validation performance or learn a predictor to estimate the performance. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Yaofo Chen , Yong Guo , Qi Chen , Minli Li , Wei Zeng , Yaowei Wang , Mingkui Tan

As the economic and environmental costs of training and deploying large vision or language models increase dramatically, analog in-memory computing (AIMC) emerges as a promising energy-efficient solution. However, the training perspective,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Zhaoxian Wu , Quan Xiao , Tayfun Gokmen , Omobayode Fagbohungbe , Tianyi Chen

In-Memory Computing (IMC) hardware using Memristive Crossbar Arrays (MCAs) are gaining popularity to accelerate Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) since it alleviates the "memory wall" problem associated with von-Neumann architecture. The hardware…

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