English
Related papers

Related papers: MINISA: Minimal Instruction Set Architecture for N…

200 papers

Vector processors frequently suffer from inefficient memory accesses, particularly for strided and segment patterns. While coalescing strided accesses is a natural solution, effectively gathering or scattering elements at fixed strides…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Hongyi Guan , Yichuan Gao , Chenlu Miao , Haoyang Wu , Hang Zhu , Mingfeng Lin , Huayue Liang

Targeting vision applications at the edge, in this work, we systematically explore and propose a high-performance and energy-efficient Optical In-Sensor Accelerator architecture called OISA for the first time. Taking advantage of the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Mehrdad Morsali , Sepehr Tabrizchi , Deniz Najafi , Mohsen Imani , Mahdi Nikdast , Arman Roohi , Shaahin Angizi

Multi-Head Attention (MHA) is a critical computational kernel in transformer-based AI models. Emerging scalable tile-based accelerator architectures integrate increasing numbers of tightly-packed processing elements (PEs) with tensor units.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Chi Zhang , Luca Colagrande , Renzo Andri , Thomas Benz , Gamze Islamoglu , Alessandro Nadalini , Francesco Conti , Yawei Li , Luca Benini

This work proposes a hybrid modeling framework based on recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and the finite element (FE) method to approximate model discrepancies in time dependent, multi-fidelity problems, and use the trained hybrid models to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Moritz von Tresckow , Herbert De Gersem , Dimitrios Loukrezis

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been widely used for boosting the performance of many machine intelligence tasks. However, the CNN models are usually computationally intensive and energy consuming, since they are often designed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Yunhe Wang , Mingqiang Huang , Kai Han , Hanting Chen , Wei Zhang , Chunjing Xu , Dacheng Tao

Transformer-based models have become the \textit{de facto} backbone across many fields, such as computer vision and natural language processing. However, as these models scale in size, external memory access (EMA) for weight and activations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Tseng-Jen Li , Tian-Sheuan Chang

In this paper, we propose a low-power hardware for efficient deployment of binarized neural networks (BNNs) that have been trained for physiological datasets. BNNs constrain weights and feature-map to 1 bit, can pack in as many 1-bit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-28 Morteza Hosseini , Hirenkumar Paneliya , Uttej Kallakuri , Mohit Khatwani , Tinoosh Mohsenin

Nowadays most research in visual recognition using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) follows the "deeper model with deeper confidence" belief to gain a higher recognition accuracy. At the same time, deeper model brings heavier…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Mohammad Farhadi , Mehdi Ghasemi , Yezhou Yang

The rapid adaptation of data driven AI models, such as deep learning inference, training, Vision Transformers (ViTs), and other HPC applications, drives a strong need for runtime precision configurable different non linear activation…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Mukul Lokhande , Gopal Raut , Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma

Robust generalization under climate change remains a major challenge for machine learning applications in climate science. Most existing approaches struggle to extrapolate beyond the climate they were trained on, leading to a strong…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Shuchang Liu , Paul A. O'Gorman

FPGA accelerators for lightweight neural convolutional networks (LWCNNs) have recently attracted significant attention. Most existing LWCNN accelerators focus on single-Computing-Engine (CE) architecture with local optimization. However,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zhiyuan Zhao , Yihao Chen , Pengcheng Feng , Jixing Li , Gang Chen , Rongxuan Shen , Huaxiang Lu

The challenges involved in executing neural networks (NNs) at the edge include providing diversity, flexibility, and sustainability. That implies, for instance, supporting evolving applications and algorithms energy-efficiently. Using…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Federico Manca , Francesco Ratto , Francesca Palumbo

Reconfigurable accelerators for deep neural networks (DNNs) promise to improve performance such as inference latency. STONNE is the first cycle-accurate simulator for reconfigurable DNN inference accelerators which allows for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Axel Stjerngren , Perry Gibson , José Cano

Abrupt changes in the environment, such as unforeseen events due to climate change, have triggered massive and precipitous changes in human mobility. The ability to quickly predict traffic patterns in different scenarios has become more…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-03-12 Pavan Yedavalli , Krishna Kumar , Paul Waddell

Acceleration of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) on edge devices has recently achieved a remarkable performance in image classification and object detection applications. This paper proposes an efficient and scalable CNN-based SoC-FPGA…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Azzam Alhussain , Mingjie Lin

The irregular nature of memory accesses of graph workloads makes their performance poor on modern computing platforms. On manycore reconfigurable architectures (MRAs), in particular, even state-of-the-art graph prefetchers do not work well…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Yichen Yang , Jingtao Li , Nishil Talati , Subhankar Pal , Siying Feng , Chaitali Chakrabarti , Trevor Mudge , Ronald Dreslinski

As a result of the increasing demand for deep neural network (DNN)-based services, efforts to develop dedicated hardware accelerators for DNNs are growing rapidly. However,while accelerators with high performance and efficiency on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Sung Kim , Patrick Howe , Thierry Moreau , Armin Alaghi , Luis Ceze , Visvesh Sathe

The rapid growth of AI training has dramatically increased datacenter traffic demand and energy consumption, which has motivated renewed interest in optical circuit switches (OCSes) as a high-bandwidth, energy-efficient alternative for AI…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Kevin Liang , Litao Qiao , Isaac Keslassy , Bill Lin

AI acceleration has been dominated by GPUs, but the growing need for lower latency, energy efficiency, and fine-grained hardware control exposes the limits of fixed architectures. In this context, Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Arturo Urías Jiménez

The use of reconfigurable computing, and FPGAs in particular, to accelerate computational kernels has the potential to be of great benefit to scientific codes and the HPC community in general. However, whilst recent advanced in FPGA tooling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Nick Brown , David Dolman