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The plethora of complex artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and available high performance computing (HPC) power stimulates the expeditious development of AI components with heterogeneous designs. Consequently, the need for cross-stack…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Zhixiang Ren , Yongheng Liu , Tianhui Shi , Lei Xie , Yue Zhou , Jidong Zhai , Youhui Zhang , Yunquan Zhang , Wenguang Chen

Machine learning tasks are generally formulated as optimization problems, where one searches for an optimal function within a certain functional space. In practice, parameterized functional spaces are considered, in order to be able to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Manon Verbockhaven , Sylvain Chevallier , Guillaume Charpiat , Théo Rudkiewicz

Comprehending the performance bottlenecks at the core of the intricate hardware-software interactions exhibited by highly parallel programs on HPC clusters is crucial. This paper sheds light on the issue of automatically asynchronous MPI…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ayesha Afzal , Georg Hager , Stefano Markidis , Gerhard Wellein

Current AI training infrastructure is dominated by single instruction multiple data (SIMD) and systolic array architectures, such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), that excel at accelerating parallel…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Jan Finkbeiner , Thomas Gmeinder , Mark Pupilli , Alexander Titterton , Emre Neftci

The exponential growth of large language models has outpaced the capabilities of traditional CPU and GPU architectures due to the slowdown of Moore's Law. Dataflow AI accelerators present a promising alternative; however, there remains a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Ziyu Hu , Zhiqing Zhong , Weijian Zheng , Zhijing Ye , Xuwei Tan , Xueru Zhang , Zheng Xie , Rajkumar Kettimuthu , Xiaodong Yu

In recent years, there has been tremendous advances in hardware acceleration of deep neural networks. However, most of the research has focused on optimizing accelerator microarchitecture for higher performance and energy efficiency on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Sam Likun Xi , Yuan Yao , Kshitij Bhardwaj , Paul Whatmough , Gu-Yeon Wei , David Brooks

In this article, we investigate the impact of architectural parameters of array-based DNN accelerators on accelerator's energy consumption and performance in a wide variety of network topologies. For this purpose, we have developed a tool…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Mohammad Ali Maleki , Mehdi Kamal , Ali Afzali-Kusha

Implementing Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on resource-constrained edge devices is a challenging task that requires tailored hardware accelerator architectures and a clear understanding of their performance characteristics when executing the…

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has enabled automatic discovery of more efficient neural network architectures, especially for mobile and embedded vision applications. Although recent research has proposed ways of quickly estimating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Saeejith Nair , Saad Abbasi , Alexander Wong , Mohammad Javad Shafiee

Recent advances in probabilistic modelling have led to a large number of simulation-based inference algorithms which do not require numerical evaluation of likelihoods. However, a public benchmark with appropriate performance metrics for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-12 Jan-Matthis Lueckmann , Jan Boelts , David S. Greenberg , Pedro J. Gonçalves , Jakob H. Macke

Neuromorphic accelerators promise unparalleled energy efficiency and computational density for spiking neural networks (SNNs), especially in edge intelligence applications. However, most existing platforms exhibit rigid architectures with…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Mohammad Farahani , Mohammad Rasoul Roshanshah , Saeed Safari

The transition from standard generative AI to \emph{reasoning-centric architectures}, exemplified by models capable of extensive Chain-of-Thought~(CoT) processing, marks a fundamental paradigm shift in system requirements. Unlike…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Moiz Arif , Avinash Maurya , Sudharshan Vazhkudai , Bogdan Nicolae

Emerging computing architectures such as near-memory computing (NMC) promise improved performance for applications by reducing the data movement between CPU and memory. However, detecting such applications is not a trivial task. In this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Stefano Corda , Gagandeep Singh , Ahsan Javed Awan , Roel Jordans , Henk Corporaal

Recent advancements in robotic rehabilitation therapy have provided modular exercise systems for post-stroke muscle recovery with basic control schemes. But these systems struggle to adapt to patients' complex and ever-changing behaviour,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Phani Pavan Kambhampati , Chainesh Gautam , Jagan Palaniswamy , Madhav Rao

Spiking neural networks (SNNs), central to computational neuroscience and neuromorphic machine learning (ML), require efficient simulation and gradient-based training. While AI accelerators offer promising speedups, gradient-based SNNs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Lennart P. L. Landsmeer , Amirreza Movahedin , Said Hamdioui , Christos Strydis

Deep learning has become widely used in complex AI applications. Yet, training a deep neural network (DNNs) model requires a considerable amount of calculations, long running time, and much energy. Nowadays, many-core AI accelerators (e.g.,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Yuxin Wang , Qiang Wang , Shaohuai Shi , Xin He , Zhenheng Tang , Kaiyong Zhao , Xiaowen Chu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are extensively utilized in brain-inspired computing and neuroscience research. To enhance the speed and energy efficiency of SNNs, several many-core accelerators have been developed. However, maintaining the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Zhuo Chen , De Ma , Xiaofei Jin , Qinghui Xing , Ouwen Jin , Xin Du , Shuibing He , Gang Pan

Neuromorphic architectures, which incorporate parallel and in-memory processing, are crucial for accelerating artificial neural network (ANN) computations. This work presents a novel memristor-based multi-layer neural network (memristive…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Santlal Prajapat , Manobendra Nath Mondal , Susmita Sur-Kolay

Semantic understanding and completion of real world scenes is a foundational primitive of 3D Visual perception widely used in high-level applications such as robotics, medical imaging, autonomous driving and navigation. Due to the curse of…

As robots become smarter and more ubiquitous, optimizing the power consumption of intelligent compute becomes imperative towards ensuring the sustainability of technological advancements. Neuromorphic computing hardware makes use of…