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We developed a new front-end application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for the upgrade of the Maia x-ray microprobe. The ASIC instruments 32 configurable front-end channels that perform either positive or negative charge amplification,…

We present a comparison between the performance of a selection of source finders using a new software tool called Hydra. The companion paper, Paper~I, introduced the Hydra tool and demonstrated its performance using simulated data. Here we…

The emergence of machine learning, image and audio processing on edge devices has motivated research towards power efficient custom hardware accelerators. Though FPGAs are an ideal target for energy efficient custom accelerators, the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Kingshuk Majumder , Uday Bondhugula

Efficient Nearest Neighbor (NN) search in high-dimensional spaces is a foundation of many multimedia retrieval systems. A common approach is to rely on Product Quantization, which allows the storage of large vector databases in memory and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Fabien André , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Nicolas Le Scouarnec

Edge acceleration for large language models is crucial for their widespread application; however, achieving fast attention inference and efficient decoding on resource-constrained edge accelerators remains challenging. This paper presents…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Junming Zhang , Qinyan Zhang , Huajun Sun , Feiyang Gao , Sheng Hu , Rui Nie , Xiangshui Miao

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) relies on large-scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) to retrieve semantically relevant context for large language models. Among ANNS methods, IVF-PQ offers an attractive balance between…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Po-Kai Hsu , Weihong Xu , Qunyou Liu , Tajana Rosing , Shimeng Yu

HQC is one of the code-based finalists in the last round of the NIST post quantum cryptography standardization process. In this process, security and implementation efficiency are key metrics for the selection of the candidates. A critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Maximilian Schöffel , Johannes Feldmann , Norbert Wehn

This paper presents a machine learning-accelerated optimization framework for RF power amplifier design that reduces simulation requirements by 65% while maintaining $\pm0.4$ dBm accuracy for the majority of the modes. The proposed method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Abhishek Sriram , Neal Tuffy

This paper explores applying the wav2vec2 framework to speaker recognition instead of speech recognition. We study the effectiveness of the pre-trained weights on the speaker recognition task, and how to pool the wav2vec2 output sequence…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Nik Vaessen , David A. van Leeuwen

We report on the assessment of the imaging performance of CITIUS -- a high-speed X-ray detector developed for the large-scale synchrotron radiation facility SPring-8-II -- for heavy charged particles and neutrons. To characterize the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-25 Yoshio Kamiya , Haruki Nishino , Takaki Hatsui

This paper presents software implementations of batch computations, dealing with multi-precision integer operations. In this work, we use the Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) AVX512 instruction set of the x86-64 processors, in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Laurent-Stéphane Didier , Nadia Mrabet , Léa Glandus , Jean-Marc Robert

We present the extension of the Tinker-HP package (Lagard\`ere et al., Chem. Sci., 2018,9, 956-972) to the use of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) cards to accelerate molecular dynamics simulations using polarizable many-body force fields.…

Transformer-based trackers have achieved strong accuracy on the standard benchmarks. However, their efficiency remains an obstacle to practical deployment on both GPU and CPU platforms. In this paper, to overcome this issue, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Yutao Cui , Tianhui Song , Gangshan Wu , Limin Wang

We present GAMER-2, a GPU-accelerated adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) code for astrophysics. It provides a rich set of features, including adaptive time-stepping, several hydrodynamic schemes, magnetohydrodynamics, self-gravity, particles,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-05 Hsi-Yu Schive , John A. ZuHone , Nathan J. Goldbaum , Matthew J. Turk , Massimo Gaspari , Chin-Yu Cheng

We demonstrate high accuracy classification for handwritten digits from the MNIST dataset ($\sim$98.00$\%$) and RGB images from the CIFAR-10 dataset ($\sim$86.80$\%$) by using resistive memories based on a 2D van-der-Waals semiconductor:…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Aferdita Xhameni , Antonio Lombardo

While Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) models deliver state-of-the-art accuracy in automated speech recognition (ASR) pipelines, their performance has been limited by CPU-based beam search decoding. We introduce a GPU-accelerated…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-10 Daniel Galvez , Tim Kaldewey

ALFE2 is an ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter (LAr) Front-End ASIC designed for the HL-LHC upgrade. ALFE2 comprises four channels of pre-amplifiers and CR-(RC)2 shapers with adjustable input impedance. ALFE2 features two separate gain outputs…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-02-15 D. Matakias , G. Carini , H. Chen , M. Dabrowski , G. Deptuch , L. Duflot , J. Kierstead , T. Liu , H. Ma , N. Morange , S. Rescia , S. Tang , H. Xu

In this paper, we propose a novel way of addressing text-dependent automatic speaker verification (TD-ASV) by using a shared-encoder with task-specific decoders. An autoregressive predictive coding (APC) encoder is pre-trained in an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Vijay Ravi , Ruchao Fan , Amber Afshan , Huanhua Lu , Abeer Alwan

In our previous work, we proposed a neural vocoder called APNet, which directly predicts speech amplitude and phase spectra with a 5 ms frame shift in parallel from the input acoustic features, and then reconstructs the 16 kHz speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Hui-Peng Du , Ye-Xin Lu , Yang Ai , Zhen-Hua Ling