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Resistive-random-access-memory (ReRAM) based processing-in-memory (R$^2$PIM) accelerators show promise in bridging the gap between Internet of Thing devices' constrained resources and Convolutional/Deep Neural Networks' (CNNs/DNNs')…

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Network-on-Chip (NoC) plays a significant role in the performance of a DNN accelerator. The scalability and modular design property of the NoC help in improving the performance of a DNN execution by providing flexibility in running…

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The rapid growth of deep neural network (DNN) workloads has significantly increased the demand for large-capacity on-chip SRAM in machine learning (ML) applications, with SRAM arrays now occupying a substantial fraction of the total die…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved unprecedented success across various applications, but their substantial memory requirements pose significant challenges to current memory system designs, especially during inference. Our work…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Zhongchun Zhou , Chengtao Lai , Wei Zhang

Transformers have emerged as the backbone of large language models (LLMs). However, generation remains inefficient due to the need to store in memory a cache of key-value representations for past tokens, whose size scales linearly with the…

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Computing-in-memory (CIM) has been demonstrated across various memory technologies, ranging from memristive crossbars performing analog dot-product computations to large-scale digital bitwise operations in commodity DRAM and other proposed…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-25 João Paulo Cardoso de Lima , Benjamin Franklin Morris , Asif Ali Khan , Jeronimo Castrillon , Alex K. Jones

The growing demand for Large Language Models (LLMs) in applications such as content generation, intelligent chatbots, and sentiment analysis poses considerable challenges for LLM service providers. To efficiently use GPU resources and boost…

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Edge inference for large language models (LLM) offers secure, low-latency, and cost-effective inference solutions. We emphasize that an edge accelerator should achieve high area efficiency and minimize external memory access (EMA) during…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Chun-Ting Chen , HanGyeol Mun , Jian Meng , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah , Jae-sun Seo

The increase in open-source availability of Large Language Models (LLMs) has enabled users to deploy them on more and more resource-constrained edge devices to reduce reliance on network connections and provide more privacy. However, the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Jude Haris , Rappy Saha , Wenhao Hu , José Cano

Deploying Small Language Models (SLMs) on edge platforms is critical for real-time, privacy-sensitive generative AI, yet constrained by memory, latency, and energy budgets. Quantization reduces model size and cost but suffers from device…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Nilesh Prasad Pandey , Jangseon Park , Onat Gungor , Flavio Ponzina , Tajana Rosing

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have demonstrated impressive performance across a wide range of tasks. However, deploying DNNs on edge devices poses significant challenges due to stringent power and computational budgets. An effective solution…

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While deep neural network (DNN)-based video denoising has demonstrated significant performance, deploying state-of-the-art models on edge devices remains challenging due to stringent real-time and energy efficiency requirements.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Shan Gao , Zhiqiang Wu , Yawen Niu , Xiaotao Li , Qingqing Xu

While mobile devices provide ever more compute power, improvements in DRAM bandwidth are much slower. This is unfortunate for large language model (LLM) token generation, which is heavily memory-bound. Previous work has proposed to leverage…

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Large language models (LLMs) have transformed numerous AI applications. On-device LLM is becoming increasingly important: running LLMs locally on edge devices can reduce the cloud computing cost and protect users' privacy. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ji Lin , Jiaming Tang , Haotian Tang , Shang Yang , Wei-Ming Chen , Wei-Chen Wang , Guangxuan Xiao , Xingyu Dang , Chuang Gan , Song Han

A mass of data transfer between the processing and storage units has been the leading bottleneck in modern Von-Neuman computing systems, especially when used for Artificial Intelligence (AI) tasks. Computing-in-Memory (CIM) has shown great…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Rui Xiao , Kejie Huang , Yewei Zhang , Haibin Shen

Memristor-based analog compute-in-memory (CIM) architectures provide a promising substrate for the efficient deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs), owing to superior energy efficiency and computational density. However, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Taiqiang Wu , Yuxin Cheng , Chenchen Ding , Runming Yang , Xincheng Feng , Wenyong Zhou , Zhengwu Liu , Ngai Wong

Aggressively quantized large language models (LLMs), such as BitNet-style 1.58-bit Transformers with ternary weights, make it feasible to deploy generative AI on low-power edge FPGAs. However, as prompts grow to tens of thousands of tokens,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Yifan Zhang , Zhiheng Chen , Ye Qiao , Sitao Huang

Computing-in-Memory (CIM) has shown great potential for enhancing efficiency and performance for deep neural networks (DNNs). However, the lack of flexibility in CIM leads to an unnecessary expenditure of computational resources on less…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Yung-Chin Chen , Shimpei Ando , Daichi Fujiki , Shinya Takamaeda-Yamazaki , Kentaro Yoshioka

In-memory computing (IMC) has gained significant attention recently as it attempts to reduce the impact of memory bottlenecks. Numerous schemes for digital IMC are presented in the literature, focusing on logic operations. Often, an…

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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) play a key role in deep learning applications. However, the large storage overheads and the substantial computation cost of CNNs are problematic in hardware accelerators. Computing-in-memory (CIM)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Syuan-Hao Sie , Jye-Luen Lee , Yi-Ren Chen , Chih-Cheng Lu , Chih-Cheng Hsieh , Meng-Fan Chang , Kea-Tiong Tang