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Diffusion models have significant advantages in the field of real-world video super-resolution and have demonstrated strong performance in past research. In recent diffusion-based video super-resolution (VSR) models, the number of sampling…

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Machine learning has demonstrated remarkable promise for solving the trajectory generation problem and in paving the way for online use of trajectory optimization for resource-constrained spacecraft. However, a key shortcoming in current…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Julia Briden , Breanna Johnson , Richard Linares , Abhishek Cauligi

Using FPGAs to accelerate ConvNets has attracted significant attention in recent years. However, FPGA accelerator design has not leveraged the latest progress of ConvNets. As a result, the key application characteristics such as…

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Power system security assessment methods require large datasets of operating points to train or test their performance. As historical data often contain limited number of abnormal situations, simulation data are necessary to accurately…

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In recent years, domain-specific accelerators (DSAs) have gained popularity for applications such as deep learning and autonomous driving. To facilitate DSA designs, programmers use high-level synthesis (HLS) to compile a high-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Zongyue Qin , Yunsheng Bai , Atefeh Sohrabizadeh , Zijian Ding , Ziniu Hu , Yizhou Sun , Jason Cong

Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) have emerged as a compelling alternative to autoregressive (AR) LLMs, owing to their capacity for parallel token generation. This paradigm is particularly well-suited for code generation, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Haolei Bai , Lingcheng Kong , Xueyi Chen , Jianmian Wang , Zhiqiang Tao , Huan Wang

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) Design Space Exploration (DSE) is a widely accepted approach for efficiently exploring Pareto-optimal and optimal hardware solutions during the HLS process. Several HLS benchmarks and datasets are available for…

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Recent advances in image data processing through machine learning and especially deep neural networks (DNNs) allow for new optimization and performance-enhancement schemes for radiation detectors and imaging hardware through data-endowed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-02-23 S. Lin , S. Ning , H. Zhu , T. Zhou , C. L. Morris , S. Clayton , M. Cherukara , R. T. Chen , Z. Wang

In this paper, we present a dynamically reconfigurable hardware accelerator called FADES (Fused Architecture for DEnse and Sparse matrices). The FADES design offers multiple configuration options that trade off parallelism and complexity…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Jose Nunez-Yanez , Andres Otero , Eduardo de la Torre

The growing demand for deploying Small Language Models (SLMs) on edge devices, including laptops, smartphones, and embedded platforms, has exposed fundamental inefficiencies in existing accelerators. While GPUs handle prefill workloads…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jinane Bazzi , Mariam Rakka , Fadi Kurdahi , Mohammed E. Fouda , Ahmed Eltawil

Diffusion-based large language models (dLLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive (AR) LLMs, leveraging denoising-based generation to enable inherent parallelism. Even more and more open-sourced dLLM models emerge, yet…

The rapid progress in 6G communication and high-bandwidth radar has driven an unprecedented surge in the spatial density of signal sources, resulting in an increasingly congested electromagnetic (EM) environment. When resolving closely…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Sheng Gao , Songtao Yang , Haiou Zhang , Yuan Shen , Xing Lin

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable performance on a wide range of generative tasks, yet training them from scratch is notoriously resource-intensive, typically requiring millions of training images and many GPU days. Motivated by a…

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The computational workload involved in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is typically out of reach for low-power embedded devices. There are a large number of approximation techniques to address this problem. These methods have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Etienne Dupuis , David Novo , Ian O'Connor , Alberto Bosio

Deep diffusion models have revolutionized image generation by producing high-quality outputs. However, achieving specific objectives with these models often requires costly adaptations such as fine-tuning, which can be resource-intensive…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Domício Pereira Neto , João Correia , Penousal Machado

Tensors play a vital role in machine learning (ML) and often exhibit properties best explored while maintaining high-order. Efficiently performing ML computations requires taking advantage of sparsity, but generalized hardware support is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Gabriel Kulp , Andrew Ensinger , Lizhong Chen

Diffusion models have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in generating high-fidelity images but typically suffer from inefficient sampling. Many solver designs and noise scheduling strategies have been proposed to dramatically improve…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-01 Tianrong Chen , Huangjie Zheng , David Berthelot , Jiatao Gu , Josh Susskind , Shuangfei Zhai

Deep Recommender Models (DLRMs) inference is a fundamental AI workload accounting for more than 79% of the total AI workload in Meta's data centers. DLRMs' performance bottleneck is found in the embedding layers, which perform many random…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Giuseppe Ruggeri , Renzo Andri , Daniele Jahier Pagliari , Lukas Cavigelli

Denoising diffusion models (DDMs) offer a promising generative approach for combinatorial optimization, yet they often lack the robust exploration capabilities of traditional metaheuristics like evolutionary algorithms (EAs). We propose a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Joan Salvà Soler , Günther R. Raidl

Diffusion models (DMs) are powerful generative models capable of producing high-fidelity images but are constrained by high computational costs due to iterative multi-step inference. While Neural Architecture Search (NAS) can optimize DMs,…

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