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Commercial FPGAs, such as AMD Versal devices, increasingly incorporate AI engines that exploit low-precision packed-SIMD fused multiply-accumulate (FMA) to achieve proportional throughput gains. However, trans-precision FMA (e.g.,…

Data detection in massive multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems is among the most critical tasks due to the excessively high implementation complexity. In this paper, we propose a novel, equalization-based…

While Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) push the state-of-the-art in many machine learning applications, they often require millions of expensive floating-point operations for each input classification. This computation overhead limits the…

Deep neural network (DNN) inference relies increasingly on specialized hardware for high computational efficiency. This work introduces a field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based dynamically configurable accelerator featuring systolic…

Deep neural network (DNN) inference using reduced integer precision has been shown to achieve significant improvements in memory utilization and compute throughput with little or no accuracy loss compared to full-precision floating-point.…

Feature Coding for Machines (FCM) aims to compress intermediate features effectively for remote intelligent analytics, which is crucial for future intelligent visual applications. In this paper, we propose a Multiscale Feature…

Attention-based neural networks have become pervasive in many AI tasks. Despite their excellent algorithmic performance, the use of the attention mechanism and feed-forward network (FFN) demands excessive computational and memory resources,…

Backpropagation has been the cornerstone of neural network training for decades, yet its inefficiencies in time and energy consumption limit its suitability for resource-constrained edge devices. While low-precision neural network…

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) is a computationally expensive job, which can take weeks or months even with high performance GPUs. As a remedy for this challenge, community has started exploring the use of more efficient data…

It is well known that many types of artificial neural networks, including recurrent networks, can achieve a high classification accuracy even with low-precision weights and activations. The reduction in precision generally yields much more…

The proliferation of Transformer models is often constrained by the significant computational and memory bandwidth demands of deployment. To address this, we present MXFormer, a novel, hybrid, weight-stationary Compute-in-Memory (CIM)…

Stochastic computing (SC) offers hardware simplicity but suffers from low throughput, while high-throughput Digital Computing-in-Memory (DCIM) is bottlenecked by costly adder logic for matrix-vector multiplication (MVM). To address this…

Modern AI hardware, such as Nvidia's Blackwell architecture, is increasingly embracing low-precision floating-point (FP) formats to handle the pervasive activation outliers in Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite this industry trend, a…

As the increasing complexity of Neural Network(NN) models leads to high demands for computation, AMD introduces a heterogeneous programmable system-on-chip (SoC), i.e., Versal ACAP architectures featured with programmable logic (PL), CPUs,…

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved extraordinary performance in various application domains. To support diverse DNN models, efficient implementations of DNN inference on edge-computing platforms, e.g., ASICs, FPGAs, and embedded…

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in image synthesis and related generative tasks. Nevertheless, their practicality for real-world applications is constrained by substantial computational costs and latency issues.…

This study addresses the deployment challenges of integer-only quantized Transformers on resource-constrained embedded FPGAs (Xilinx Spartan-7 XC7S15). We enhanced the flexibility of our VHDL template by introducing a selectable resource…

This paper evaluates the efficacy of recent commercial processing-in-memory (PIM) solutions to accelerate fast Fourier transform (FFT), an important primitive across several domains. Specifically, we observe that efficient implementations…

As the demand for deep learning grows, cost reduction through quantization has become essential for both training and inference. In 2022, the Open Compute Project (OCP) consortium standardized narrow precision formats for deep learning,…

The substantial computational and memory demands of Large Language Models (LLMs) hinder their deployment. Block Floating Point (BFP) has proven effective in accelerating linear operations, a cornerstone of LLM workloads. However, as…