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The demand for efficient machine learning (ML) accelerators is growing rapidly, driving the development of novel computing concepts such as resistive random access memory (RRAM)-based tiled computing-in-memory (CIM) architectures. CIM…

Resistive memory-based reconfigurable systems constructed by CMOS-RRAM integration hold great promise for low energy and high throughput neuromorphic computing. However, most RRAM technologies relying on filamentary switching suffer from…

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…

The surge in AI usage demands innovative power reduction strategies. Novel Compute-in-Memory (CIM) architectures, leveraging advanced memory technologies, hold the potential for significantly lowering energy consumption by integrating…

Attention mechanisms, particularly within Transformer architectures and large language models (LLMs), have revolutionized sequence modeling in machine learning and artificial intelligence applications. To compute attention for increasingly…

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have become a ubiquitous algorithm with growing applications in mobile and edge settings. We describe a compute-in-memory (CIM) technique called FPIRM using Racetrack Memory (RM) to accelerate CNNs for…

In scenarios with limited training data or where explainability is crucial, conventional neural network-based machine learning models often face challenges. In contrast, Bayesian inference-based algorithms excel in providing interpretable…

Co-exploration of neural architectures and hardware design is promising to simultaneously optimize network accuracy and hardware efficiency. However, state-of-the-art neural architecture search algorithms for the co-exploration are…

Digital In-memory computing improves energy efficiency and throughput of a data-intensive process, which incur memory thrashing and, resulting multiple same memory accesses in a von Neumann architecture. Digital in-memory computing involves…

With the staggering increase of edge compute applications like Internet-of-Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI), the demand for fast, energy-efficient on-chip memory is growing. While the fast and mature static random-access memory…

Multimodal Transformers are emerging artificial intelligence (AI) models designed to process a mixture of signals from diverse modalities. Digital computing-in-memory (CIM) architectures are considered promising for achieving high…

Processing-in-memory (PIM) has emerged as an enabler for the energy-efficient and high-performance acceleration of deep learning (DL) workloads. Resistive random-access memory (ReRAM) is one of the most promising technologies to implement…

This work presents a novel approach to configure 2T-nC ferroelectric RAM (FeRAM) for performing single cell logic-in-memory operations, highlighting its advantages in energy-efficient computation over conventional DRAM-based approaches.…

Transformer-based models dominate modern AI workloads but exacerbate memory bottlenecks due to their quadratic attention complexity and ever-growing model sizes. Existing accelerators, such as Groq and Cerebras, mitigate off-chip traffic…

Traditional machine learning depends on high-precision arithmetic and near-ideal hardware assumptions, which is increasingly challenged by variability in aggressively scaled semiconductor devices. Compute-in-memory (CIM) architectures…

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) continue to grow in complexity with Large Language Models (LLMs) incorporating vast numbers of parameters. Handling these parameters efficiently in traditional accelerators is limited by data-transmission…

Performing data-intensive tasks in the von Neumann architecture is challenging to achieve both high performance and power efficiency due to the memory wall bottleneck. Computing-in-memory (CiM) is a promising mitigation approach by enabling…

Multilinear transformations are key in high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, where data is represented as tensors. However, their high computational and memory demands, which grow with dimensionality,…

Compute-in-memory (CIM) is an efficient method for implementing deep neural networks (DNNs) but suffers from substantial overhead from analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), especially as ADC precision increases. Low-precision ADCs can reduce…

In this work, we propose SEE-MCAM, scalable and compact multi-bit CAM (MCAM) designs that utilize the three-terminal ferroelectric FET (FeFET) as the proxy. By exploiting the multi-level-cell characteristics of FeFETs, our proposed SEE-MCAM…