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Computing-in-memory (CIM) is renowned in deep learning due to its high energy efficiency resulting from highly parallel computing with minimal data movement. However, current SRAM-based CIM designs suffer from long latency for loading…

The state-of-the-art driving automation system demands extreme computational resources to meet rigorous accuracy and latency requirements. Though emerging driving automation computing platforms are based on ASIC to provide better…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Yuqiong Qi , Yang Hu , Haibin Wu , Shen Li , Haiyu Mao , Xiaochun Ye , Dongrui Fan , Ninghui Sun

Most investigations into near-memory hardware accelerators for deep neural networks have primarily focused on inference, while the potential of accelerating training has received relatively little attention so far. Based on an in-depth…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Fabian Schuiki , Michael Schaffner , Frank K. Gürkaynak , Luca Benini

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained significant attention in edge computing due to their low power consumption and computational efficiency. However, existing implementations either use conventional System on Chip (SoC) architectures…

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Machine learning (ML) is successful in achieving human-level artificial intelligence in various fields. However, it lacks the ability to explain an outcome due to its black-box nature. While recent efforts on explainable AI (XAI) has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Zhixin Pan , Prabhat Mishra

The rapid growth of AI-based Internet-of-Things applications increased the demand for high-performance edge processing engines on a low-power budget and tight area constraints. As a consequence, vector processor architectures, traditionally…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) face significant challenges when deployed on resource-constrained extreme edge devices due to their computational and data-intensive nature. While standalone accelerators tailored for specific application…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Xiaoling Yi , Ryan Antonio , Joren Dumoulin , Jiacong Sun , Josse Van Delm , Guilherme Paim , Marian Verhelst

Gaussian processes are widely used in machine learning domains but remain computationally demanding, limiting their efficient scalability across emerging hardware platforms. The GPRat library addresses these challenges using the HPX…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Alexander Strack , Patrick Diehl , Dirk Pflüger

It has been a long standing problem to securely outsource computation tasks to an untrusted party with integrity and confidentiality guarantees. While fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) is a promising technique that allows computations…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Wenhao Wang , Yichen Jiang , Qintao Shen , Weihao Huang , Hao Chen , Shuang Wang , XiaoFeng Wang , Haixu Tang , Kai Chen , Kristin Lauter , Dongdai Lin

Reconfigurable architectures like Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have been used for accelerating computations in several domains because of their unique combination of flexibility, performance, and power efficiency. However, FPGAs…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Murat Isik , Kayode Inadagbo , Hakan Aktas

The proliferation of high-throughput sequencing machines ensures rapid generation of up to billions of short nucleotide fragments in a short period of time. This massive amount of sequence data can quickly overwhelm today's storage and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Subho S. Banerjee , Mohamed El-Hadedy , Jong Bin Lim , Zbigniew T. Kalbarczyk , Deming Chen , Steve Lumetta , Ravishankar K. Iyer

Whilst numerous areas of computing have adopted the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) wholesale in recent years, it is yet to become widespread in HPC. RISC-V accelerators offer a compelling option where the HPC community can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Nick Brown , Jake Davies , Felix LeClair

Datacenter servers are increasingly heterogeneous: from x86 host CPUs, to ARM or RISC-V CPUs in NICs/SSDs, to FPGAs. Previous works have demonstrated that migrating application execution at run-time across heterogeneous-ISA CPUs can yield…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Edson Horta , Ho-Ren Chuang , Naarayanan Rao VSathish , Cesar Philippidis , Antonio Barbalace , Pierre Olivier , Binoy Ravindran

There has been a recent surge in the field of Explainable AI (XAI) which tackles the problem of providing insights into the behavior of black-box machine learning models. Within this field, \textit{feature attribution} encompasses methods…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Ashwin Bhat , Adou Sangbone Assoa , Arijit Raychowdhury

We introduce a lightweight and accurate architecture for resource-efficient visual correspondence. Our method, dubbed XFeat (Accelerated Features), revisits fundamental design choices in convolutional neural networks for detecting,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Guilherme Potje , Felipe Cadar , Andre Araujo , Renato Martins , Erickson R. Nascimento

Heterogeneous, multicore SoC architectures are a critical component of today's computing landscape. However, supporting both increasing heterogeneity and multicore execution are significant design challenges. Meanwhile, the growing RISC-V…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Joseph Zuckerman , Paolo Mantovani , Davide Giri , Luca P. Carloni

The RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) has enjoyed phenomenal growth in recent years, however it still to gain popularity in HPC. Whilst adopting RISC-V CPU solutions in HPC might be some way off, RISC-V based PCIe accelerators offer…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Nick Brown , Ryan Barton

The emergence of a new, open, and free instruction set architecture, RISC-V, has heralded a new era in microprocessor architectures. Starting with low-power, low-performance prototypes, the RISC-V community has a good chance of moving…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Valentin Volokitin , Evgeny Kozinov , Valentina Kustikova , Alexey Liniov , Iosif Meyerov

Fast and energy-efficient low-bitwidth floating-point (FP) arithmetic is essential for Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. Microscaling (MX) standardized formats have recently emerged as a promising alternative to baseline low-bitwidth FP…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Gamze İslamoğlu , Luca Bertaccini , Arpan Suravi Prasad , Francesco Conti , Angelo Garofalo , Luca Benini

This paper introduces a unified, hardware-independent baremetal runtime architecture designed to enable high-performance machine learning (ML) inference on heterogeneous accelerators, such as AI Engine (AIE) arrays, without the overhead of…

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