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Neural networks (NNs) have demonstrated their potential in a wide range of applications such as image recognition, decision making or recommendation systems. However, standard NNs are unable to capture their model uncertainty which is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Hongxiang Fan , Martin Ferianc , Miguel Rodrigues , Hongyu Zhou , Xinyu Niu , Wayne Luk

The recent surge of interest in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has led to increasingly complex networks that tax computational and memory resources. Many DNNs presently use 16-bit or 32-bit floating point operations. Significant performance…

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Dedicated hardware accelerators are suitable for parallel computational tasks. Moreover, they have the tendency to accept inexact results. These hardware accelerators are extensively used in image processing and computer vision…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Mahmoud Masadeh , Osman Hasan , Sofiene Tahar

Mixed-precision quantization is a popular approach for compressing deep neural networks (DNNs). However, it is challenging to scale the performance efficiently with mixed-precision DNNs given the current FPGA architecture and conventional…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Yuzong Chen , Jordan Dotzel , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah

Adapting Foundation Models (FMs) for downstream tasks through Federated Learning (FL) emerges a promising strategy for protecting data privacy and valuable FMs. Existing methods fine-tune FM by allocating sub-FM to clients in FL, however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Zhaopeng Peng , Xiaoliang Fan , Yufan Chen , Zheng Wang , Shirui Pan , Chenglu Wen , Ruisheng Zhang , Cheng Wang

Training of convolutional neural networks (CNNs)on embedded platforms to support on-device learning is earning vital importance in recent days. Designing flexible training hard-ware is much more challenging than inference hardware, due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Shreyas Kolala Venkataramanaiah , Yufei Ma , Shihui Yin , Eriko Nurvithadhi , Aravind Dasu , Yu Cao , Jae-sun Seo

Fluid dynamics simulations with the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) are very memory-intensive. Alongside reduction in memory footprint, significant performance benefits can be achieved by using FP32 (single) precision compared to FP64…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-07-28 Moritz Lehmann , Mathias J. Krause , Giorgio Amati , Marcello Sega , Jens Harting , Stephan Gekle

Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across a wide range of real-world tasks, but their inference cost remains prohibitively high due to the quadratic complexity of attention and the memory…

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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) combine large amounts of parallelizable computation with frequent memory access. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) can achieve low latency and high throughput CNN inference by implementing dataflow…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Mario Doumet , Marius Stan , Mathew Hall , Vaughn Betz

Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is an essential tool in scientific and engineering computation. The increasing demand for mixed-precision FFT has made it possible to utilize half-precision floating-point (FP16) arithmetic for faster speed and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Binrui Li , Shenggan Cheng , James Lin

For image classification problems, various neural network models are commonly used due to their success in yielding high accuracies. Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is one of the most frequently used deep learning methods for image…

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For millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, hybrid processing architecture is usually used to reduce the complexity and cost, which poses a very challenging issue in channel estimation. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Peihao Dong , Hua Zhang , Geoffrey Ye Li , Ivan Simoes Gaspar , Navid NaderiAlizadeh

Deep learning has become a useful data analysis method, however mainstream adaption in distributed computer software and embedded devices has been low so far. Often, adding deep learning inference in mainstream applications and devices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Fabian Tschopp

In this paper, the authors propose the idea of a combined integer and floating point multiplier(CIFM) for FPGAs. The authors propose the replacement of existing 18x18 dedicated multipliers in FPGAs with dedicated 24x24 multipliers designed…

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Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for leveraging diverse datasets from multiple sources while preserving data privacy by avoiding centralized storage. However, many existing approaches fail to account for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Liangyan Li , Yangyi Liu , Yimo Ning , Stefano Rini , Jun Chen

Energy efficiency and memory footprint of a convolutional neural network (CNN) implemented on a CNN inference accelerator depend on many factors, including a weight quantization strategy (i.e., data types and bit-widths) and mapping (i.e.,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Jan Klhufek , Miroslav Safar , Vojtech Mrazek , Zdenek Vasicek , Lukas Sekanina

Ootomo, Ozaki, and Yokota [Int. J. High Perform. Comput. Appl., 38 (2024), p. 297-313] have proposed a strategy to recast a floating-point matrix multiplication in terms of integer matrix products. The factors A and B are split into integer…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Ahmad Abdelfattah , Jack Dongarra , Massimiliano Fasi , Mantas Mikaitis , Françoise Tisseur

During the last years, algorithms known as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) had become increasingly popular, expanding its application range to several areas. In particular, the image processing field has experienced a remarkable…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Federico Nicolas Peccia , Luciano Ferreyro , Alejandro Furfaro

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have a large number of variables and hence suffer from a complexity problem for their implementation. Different methods and techniques have developed to alleviate the problem of CNN's complexity, such as…

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Deep Neural Networks are becoming the de-facto standard models for image understanding, and more generally for computer vision tasks. As they involve highly parallelizable computations, CNN are well suited to current fine grain programmable…

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