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Recent efforts to improve the performance of neural network (NN) accelerators that meet today's application requirements have given rise to a new trend of logic-based NN inference relying on fixed-function combinational logic (FFCL). This…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Jingkai Hong , Arash Fayyazi , Amirhossein Esmaili , Mahdi Nazemi , Massoud Pedram

Neural rendering has gained prominence for its high-quality output, which is crucial for AR/VR applications. However, its large voxel grid data size and irregular access patterns challenge real-time processing on edge devices. While…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Yipu Zhang , Jiawei Liang , Jian Peng , Jiang Xu , Wei Zhang

The inference and training stages of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are often dominated by the time required to compute a long sequence of matrix multiplications between the sparse graph adjacency matrix and its embedding. To accelerate these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-05 João N. F. Alves , Samir Moustafa , Siegfried Benkner , Alexandre P. Francisco , Wilfried N. Gansterer , Luís M. S. Russo

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are emerging as a powerful technique for modeling graph structures. Due to the sparsity of real-world graph data, GNN performance is limited by extensive sparse matrix multiplication (SpMM) operations involved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Shenghao Qiu , You Liang , Zheng Wang

This paper presents GraphAGILE, a domain-specific FPGA-based overlay accelerator for graph neural network (GNN) inference. GraphAGILE consists of (1) \emph{a novel unified architecture design} with an \emph{instruction set}, and (2) \emph{a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Bingyi Zhang , Hanqing Zeng , Viktor Prasanna

The Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) model and its variants are powerful graph embedding tools for facilitating classification and clustering on graphs. However, a major challenge is to reduce the complexity of layered GCNs and make them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Hanqing Zeng , Hongkuan Zhou , Ajitesh Srivastava , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

In the acceleration of deep neural network training, the GPU has become the mainstream platform. GPUs face substantial challenges on GNNs, such as workload imbalance and memory access irregularities, leading to underutilized hardware.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Hongwu Peng , Xi Xie , Kaustubh Shivdikar , MD Amit Hasan , Jiahui Zhao , Shaoyi Huang , Omer Khan , David Kaeli , Caiwen Ding

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) multiplies a sparse matrix with a dense vector. SpMV plays a crucial role in many applications, from graph analytics to deep learning. The random memory accesses of the sparse matrix make…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Linghao Song , Yuze Chi , Licheng Guo , Jason Cong

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown significant accuracy improvements in a variety of graph learning domains, sparking considerable research interest. To translate these accuracy improvements into practical applications, it is essential…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Shuwen Lu , Zhihui Zhang , Cong Guo , Jingwen Leng , Yangjie Zhou , Minyi Guo

We present a new efficient OpenCL-based Accelerator for large scale Convolutional Neural Networks called Fast Inference on FPGAs for Convolution Neural Network (FFCNN). FFCNN is based on a deeply pipelined OpenCL kernels architecture. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 F. Keddous , H-N. Nguyen , A. Nakib

Graph Neural Network (GNN) inference is used in many real-world applications. Data sparsity in GNN inference, including sparsity in the input graph and the GNN model, offer opportunities to further speed up inference. Also, many pruning…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Bingyi Zhang , Viktor Prasanna

Graph-based representations for samples of computational mechanics-related datasets can prove instrumental when dealing with problems like irregular domains or molecular structures of materials, etc. To effectively analyze and process such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Isha Jain , Shailesh Garg , Shaurya Shriyam , Souvik Chakraborty

Deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on those resource-constrained edge platforms is hindered by their substantial computation and storage demands. Quantized multi-precision DNNs, denoted as MP-DNNs, offer a promising solution for these…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Chuanning Wang , Chao Fang , Xiao Wu , Zhongfeng Wang , Jun Lin

Though CNNs are highly parallel workloads, in the absence of efficient on-chip memory reuse techniques, an accelerator for them quickly becomes memory bound. In this paper, we propose a CNN accelerator design for inference that is able to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Kingshuk Majumder , Shubham Nema , Uday Bondhugula

The network embedding problem that maps nodes in a graph to vectors in Euclidean space can be very useful for addressing several important tasks on a graph. Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs) have been proposed for solving such a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Ping-En Lu , Cheng-Shang Chang

General sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is an integral part of many scientific computing, high-performance computing (HPC), and graph analytic applications. This paper presents a new compressed sparse vector (CSV) format for…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Erfan Bank Tavakoli , Michael Riera , Masudul Hassan Quraishi , Fengbo Ren

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are often trained on individual datasets, requiring specialized models and significant hyperparameter tuning due to the unique structures and features of each dataset. This approach limits the scalability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Divyansha Lachi , Mehdi Azabou , Vinam Arora , Eva Dyer

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are widely used in graph-based applications, such as social networks and recommendation systems. Nevertheless, large-scale graphs or deep aggregation layers in full-batch GCNs consume significant GPU…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Shengwei Ji , Yujie Tian , Fei Liu , Xinlu Li , Le Wu

The rapid progress in image classification has been largely driven by the adoption of Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs), which offer a robust framework for handling complex data structures. This study introduces a novel approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Mustafa Mohammadi Gharasuie , Luis Rueda

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have demonstrated superiority in graph-based learning tasks. However, training GCNs on full graphs is particularly challenging, due to the following two challenges: (1) the associated feature tensors can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Cheng Wan , Runkai Tao , Zheng Du , Yang Katie Zhao , Yingyan Celine Lin