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On-device CNN inference for real-time computer vision applications can result in computational demands that far exceed the energy budgets of mobile devices. This paper proposes FixyNN, a co-designed hardware accelerator platform which…

Deep learning models typically use single-precision (FP32) floating point data types for representing activations and weights, but a slew of recent research work has shown that computations with reduced-precision data types (FP16, 16-bit…

In the era of big data, it is desired to develop efficient machine learning algorithms to tackle massive data challenges such as storage bottleneck, algorithmic scalability, and interpretability. In this paper, we develop a novel efficient…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) achieve remarkable accuracy in vision tasks, yet their computational complexity challenges low-power edge deployment. In this work, we present COMET, a framework of CNN models that employ efficient…

Semantic segmentation of structural defects in civil infrastructure remains challenging due to variable defect appearances, harsh imaging conditions, and significant class imbalance. Current deep learning methods, despite their…

Large Language Models (LLMs), despite their remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks, necessitate substantial GPU memory and consume significant computational resources. Beyond the memory taken up by model weights, the memory…

The emergence of Phase-Change Memory (PCM) provides opportunities for directly connecting persistent memory to main memory bus. While PCM achieves high read throughput and low standby power, the critical concerns are its poor write…

Radar sensors offer power-efficient solutions for always-on smart devices, but processing the data streams on resource-constrained embedded platforms remains challenging. This paper presents novel techniques that leverage the temporal…

A CORDIC-based configuration for the design of Activation Functions (AF) was previously suggested to accelerate ASIC hardware design for resource-constrained systems by providing functional reconfigurability. Since its introduction, this…

Despite the remarkable success of the end-to-end paradigm in deep learning, it often suffers from slow convergence and heavy reliance on large-scale datasets, which fundamentally limits its efficiency and applicability in data-scarce…

Deep convolution Neural Network (DCNN) has been widely used in computer vision tasks. However, for edge devices even inference has too large computational complexity and data access amount. The inference latency of state-of-the-art models…

Deep neural networks have been remarkable successful in various AI tasks but often cast high computation and energy cost for energy-constrained applications such as mobile sensing. We address this problem by proposing a novel framework that…

The rapid development of programmable network devices and the widespread use of machine learning (ML) in networking have facilitated efficient research into intelligent data plane (IDP). Offloading ML to programmable data plane (PDP)…

This work evaluates State-of-the-Art convolution algorithms for CPU-based CNN inference. Although most prior studies focus on GPUs or NPUs, CPU implementations remain comparatively under-optimized. Our first contribution is to provide fair…

Tucker decomposition is one of the SOTA CNN model compression techniques. However, unlike the FLOPs reduction, we observe very limited inference time reduction with Tucker-compressed models using existing GPU software such as cuDNN. To this…

The last few years have seen gigantic leaps in algorithms and systems to support efficient deep learning inference. Pruning and quantization algorithms can now consistently compress neural networks by an order of magnitude. For a compressed…

The emerging trend of deploying complex algorithms, such as Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), increasingly poses strict memory and energy efficiency requirements on Internet-of-Things (IoT) end-nodes. Mixed-precision quantization has been…

While modern machine learning has transformed numerous application domains, its growing computational demands increasingly constrain scalability and efficiency, particularly on embedded and resource-limited platforms. In practice, neural…

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning improves performance on complex tasks but introduces significant inference latency due to verbosity. We propose Multiround Adaptive Chain-of-Thought Compression (MACC), a framework that leverages the token…

Autonomous driving has received a lot of attention in the automotive industry and is often seen as the future of transportation. Passenger vehicles equipped with a wide array of sensors (e.g., cameras, front-facing radars, LiDARs, and IMUs)…