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Coarse-Grain Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) provide flexibility and energy efficiency in accelerating compute-intensive loops. Existing compilation techniques often struggle with scalability, unable to map code onto large CGRAs. To address…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Cristian Tirelli , Rodrigo Otoni , Laura Pozzi

Multi-timescale sequence modeling relies on capturing both local fast dynamics and global slow context; yet, maintaining these capabilities under the strict memory constraints common to edge devices remains an open challenge. Current…

FPGA accelerators for lightweight neural convolutional networks (LWCNNs) have recently attracted significant attention. Most existing LWCNN accelerators focus on single-Computing-Engine (CE) architecture with local optimization. However,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zhiyuan Zhao , Yihao Chen , Pengcheng Feng , Jixing Li , Gang Chen , Rongxuan Shen , Huaxiang Lu

Large-scale deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are widely used in machine learning applications. While CNNs involve huge complexity, VLSI (ASIC and FPGA) chips that deliver high-density integration of computational resources are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Xushen Han , Dajiang Zhou , Shihao Wang , Shinji Kimura

The reconfigurability, energy-efficiency, and massive parallelism on FPGAs make them one of the best choices for implementing efficient deep learning accelerators. However, state-of-art implementations seldom consider the balance between…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Feng Shi , Haochen Li , Yuhe Gao , Benjamin Kuschner , Song-Chun Zhu

Large matrix multiplication is a cornerstone of modern machine learning workloads, yet traditional approaches suffer from cubic computational complexity (e.g., $\mathcal{O}(n^3)$ for a matrix of size $n\times n$). We present Low-Rank GEMM,…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Alfredo Metere

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is an interesting technology that enables massive connectivity as required in future 5G and 6G networks. While purely linear processing already achieves good performance in NOMA systems, in certain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-14 Daniel Schäufele , Guillermo Marcus , Nikolaus Binder , Matthias Mehlhose , Alexander Keller , Sławomir Stańczak

Practical applications of mechanical metamaterials often involve solving inverse problems where the objective is to find the (multiple) microarchitectures that give rise to a given set of properties. The limited resolution of additive…

We present a novel approach for accelerating convolutions during inference for CPU-based architectures. The most common method of computation involves packing the image into the columns of a matrix (im2col) and performing general matrix…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Amir Ofir , Gil Ben-Artzi

The increasing demand for real-time, low-latency artificial intelligence applications has propelled the use of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) for Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) implementations. FPGAs offer reconfigurability,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Philippe Magalhães , Virginie Fresse , Benoît Suffran , Olivier Alata

Deep neural networks (DNNs) require very large amounts of computation both for training and for inference when deployed in the field. A common approach to implementing DNNs is to recast the most computationally expensive operations as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Andrew Anderson , Aravind Vasudevan , Cormac Keane , David Gregg

Implementing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) has emerged as a promising alternative to GPUs, offering lower latency, greater power efficiency and greater flexibility. However, this development…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Philippe Magalhães , Virginie Fresse , Benoît Suffran , Olivier Alata

Convolutional neural network (CNN) accelerators implemented on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are typically designed with a primary focus on maximizing performance, often measured in giga-operations per second (GOPS). However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Panagiotis Mousouliotis , Georgios Keramidas

The Transformer has been an indispensable staple in deep learning. However, for real-life applications, it is very challenging to deploy efficient Transformers due to immense parameters and operations of models. To relieve this burden,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Chao Fang , Aojun Zhou , Zhongfeng Wang

Deformable convolutional networks have demonstrated outstanding performance in object recognition tasks with an effective feature extraction. Unlike standard convolution, the deformable convolution decides the receptive field size using…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Saehyun Ahn , Jung-Woo Chang , Suk-Ju Kang

This paper investigates an uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-based mobile-edge computing (MEC) network. Our objective is to minimize a linear combination of the completion time of all users' tasks and the total energy consumption…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Zhaohui Yang , Cunhua Pan , Jiancao Hou , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

Offloading compute intensive nested loops to execute on FPGA accelerators have been demonstrated by numerous researchers as an effective performance enhancement technique across numerous application domains. To construct such accelerators…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Cheng Liu , Ho-Cheung Ng , Hayden Kwok-Hay So

Deploying Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) on edge platforms necessitates efficient hardware acceleration. Any unnecessary data movement in such accelerators can unacceptably degrade performance and efficiency. To address this, we…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Mark Horeni , Siddharth Joshi

A novel accelerated mobile edge generation (MEG) framework is proposed for generating high-resolution images on mobile devices. Exploiting a large-scale latent diffusion model (LDM) distributed across edge server (ES) and user equipment…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-08 Xiaoxia Xu , Yuanwei Liu , Xidong Mu , Hong Xing , Arumugam Nallanathan