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Lookup-table (LUT) based neural networks can deliver ultra-low latency and excellent hardware efficiency on FPGAs by mapping arithmetic operations directly onto the logic primitives. However, state-of-the-art LUT-aware training (LAT)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Chang Sun , Zhiqiang Que , Bakhtiar Zadeh , Qibin Liu , Kevin H. Alvarez , Wayne Luk , Maria Spiropulu

FPGA-specific DNN architectures using the native LUTs as independently trainable inference operators have been shown to achieve favorable area-accuracy and energy-accuracy tradeoffs. The first work in this area, LUTNet, exhibited…

The success of AI/ML in terrestrial applications and the commercialization of space are now paving the way for the advent of AI/ML in satellites. However, the limited processing power of classical onboard processors drives the community…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Vasileios Leon , George Lentaris , Dimitrios Soudris , Simon Vellas , Mathieu Bernou

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) play a crucial role in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) applications, which have been widely used in safety-critical environments, including aerospace, chip manufacturing, and medical devices. A…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zhihao Xu , Shikai Guo , Guilin Zhao , Siwen Wang , Qian Ma , Hui Li , Furui Zhan

The rapid scaling of large language models demands more efficient hardware. Quantization offers a promising trade-off between efficiency and performance. With ultra-low-bit quantization, there are abundant opportunities for results reuse,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Haoxuan Shan , Cong Guo , Chiyue Wei , Feng Cheng , Junyao Zhang , Hai "Helen" Li , Yiran Chen

In recent years fused-multiply-add (FMA) units with lower-precision multiplications and higher-precision accumulation have proven useful in machine learning/artificial intelligence applications, most notably in training deep neural networks…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Greg Henry , Ping Tak Peter Tang , Alexander Heinecke

This paper proposes a turbo equalizer for intersymbol interference channels (ISI) that uses coarsely quantized messages across all receiver components. Lookup tables (LUTs) carry out compression operations designed with the information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Philipp Mohr , Jasper Brüggmann , Gerhard Bauch

This paper presents a path balancing technology mapping algorithm, which is a new algorithm for generating a mapping solution for a given Boolean network such that the average logic level difference among fanin gates of each gate in the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Ghasem Pasandi , Massoud Pedram

The rapid advancement of AI workloads and domain-specific architectures has led to increasingly diverse processor microarchitectures, whose design exploration requires fast and accurate performance validation. However, traditional workflows…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Chengzhen Meng , Xiuzhuang Chen , Bingcai Sui , Zhenyu Zhao , Tun Li , Hongjun Dai

Aiming at a drastic speedup for point-data embeddings at test time, we propose a new framework that uses a pair of multi-layer perceptron (MLP) and look-up table (LUT) to transform point-coordinate inputs into high-dimensional features.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Yusuke Sekikawa , Teppei Suzuki

Efficient all-digital post-correction of low-resolution analog-to-digital converters can be achieved by using Look-Up Tables (LUTs). The performance of a LUT can be optimized by incorporating a parametric model for the expected input…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Morriel Kasher , Michael Tinston , Predrag Spasojevic

The widespread use of high-definition screens in edge devices, such as end-user cameras, smartphones, and televisions, is spurring a significant demand for image enhancement. Existing enhancement models often optimize for high performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Sidi Yang , Binxiao Huang , Mingdeng Cao , Yatai Ji , Hanzhong Guo , Ngai Wong , Yujiu Yang

Contrastive language-image pre-training aligns the features of text-image pairs in a common latent space via distinct encoders for each modality. While this approach achieves impressive performance in several zero-shot tasks, it cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Christian Schlarmann , Francesco Croce , Nicolas Flammarion , Matthias Hein

Flexibility and customization are key strengths of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) when compared to other computing devices. For instance, FPGAs can efficiently implement arbitrary-precision arithmetic operations, and can perform…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Junius Pun , Xilai Dai , Grace Zgheib , Mahesh A. Iyer , Andrew Boutros , Vaughn Betz , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah

The energy and latency costs of deep neural network inference are increasingly driven by deployment rather than training, motivating hardware-specialized alternatives to arithmetic-heavy models. Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Simon Bührer , Andreas Plesner , Aczel Till , Roger Wattenhofer

Subgraph matching in logic circuits is foundational for numerous Electronic Design Automation (EDA) applications, including datapath optimization, arithmetic verification, and hardware trojan detection. However, existing techniques rely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Ziyang Zheng , Kezhi Li , Zhengyuan Shi , Qiang Xu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive progress in mathematical reasoning. While data augmentation is promising to enhance mathematical problem-solving ability, current approaches are predominantly limited to instance-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Qizhi Pei , Lijun Wu , Zhuoshi Pan , Yu Li , Honglin Lin , Chenlin Ming , Xin Gao , Conghui He , Rui Yan

Aiming at drastic speedup for point-feature embeddings at test time, we propose a new framework that uses a pair of multi-layer perceptrons (MLP) and a lookup table (LUT) to transform point-coordinate inputs into high-dimensional features.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Yusuke Sekikawa , Teppei Suzuki

Multi-Focus Image Fusion (MFIF) is a promising image enhancement technique to obtain all-in-focus images meeting visual needs and it is a precondition of other computer vision tasks. One of the research trends of MFIF is to avoid the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Yicheng Wang , Shuang Xu , Junmin Liu , Zixiang Zhao , Chunxia Zhang , Jiangshe Zhang

We present a system for the boresighting of sensors using inertial measurement devices as the basis for developing a range of dynamic real-time sensor fusion applications. The proof of concept utilizes a COTS FPGA platform for sensor fusion…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Steve Chappell , Alistair Macarthur , Dan Preston , Dave Olmstead , Bob Flint , Chris Sullivan