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Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) offer significant promise for generating photorealistic images and videos. However, existing mainstream neural rendering models often fall short in meeting the demands for immediacy and power efficiency in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Fangxin Liu , Haomin Li , Bowen Zhu , Zongwu Wang , Zhuoran Song , Habing Guan , Li Jiang

ATM-Net is a novel neural network architecture tailored for energy-harvested IoT devices, integrating adaptive termination points with multi-precision computing. It dynamically adjusts computational precision (32/8/4-bit) and network depth…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Neeraj Solanki , Sepehr Tabrizchi , Samin Sohrabi , Jason Schmidt , Arman Roohi

Recently Resistive-RAM (RRAM) crossbar has been used in the design of the accelerator of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to solve the memory wall issue. However, the intensive multiply-accumulate computations (MACs) executed at the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-10 Xizi Chen , Jingyang Zhu , Jingbo Jiang , Chi-Ying Tsui

The rapid advancement of machine learning (ML) technologies has driven the development of specialized hardware accelerators designed to facilitate more efficient model training. This paper introduces the CARAML benchmark suite, which is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Chelsea Maria John , Stepan Nassyr , Carolin Penke , Andreas Herten

In this paper, we propose StruM, a novel structured mixed-precision-based deep learning inference method, co-designed with its associated hardware accelerator (DPU), to address the escalating computational and memory demands of deep…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Michael Wu , Arnab Raha , Deepak A. Mathaikutty , Martin Langhammer , Engin Tunali , Daksha Sharma

Recent advances in Transformers have come with a huge requirement on computing resources, highlighting the importance of developing efficient training techniques to make Transformer training faster, at lower cost, and to higher accuracy by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Bohan Zhuang , Jing Liu , Zizheng Pan , Haoyu He , Yuetian Weng , Chunhua Shen

This paper presents a novel architecture utilizing a 10T SRAM cell for XNOR-based in-memory computing, aimed at mitigating the extensive routing challenges typically encountered in conventional in-memory computing systems. By integrating a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Narendra Singh Dhakad , Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma

With the increasing application of machine learning (ML) algorithms in embedded systems, there is a rising necessity to design low-cost computer arithmetic for these resource-constrained systems. As a result, emerging models of computation,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Siva Satyendra Sahoo , Salim Ullah , Akash Kumar

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been successfully applied in various fields. A major challenge of deploying DNNs, especially on edge devices, is power consumption, due to the large number of multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) operations. To…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Richard Petri , Grace Li Zhang , Yiran Chen , Ulf Schlichtmann , Bing Li

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

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are one of the most successful machine learning techniques for image, voice and video processing. CNNs require large amounts of processing capacity and memory bandwidth. Hardware accelerators have been…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-03 James Garland , David Gregg

Transformers have emerged as a powerful tool for natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision. Through the attention mechanism, these models have exhibited remarkable performance gains when compared to conventional approaches like…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Salma Afifi , Ishan Thakkar , Sudeep Pasricha

Sparse deep learning has reduced computation significantly, but its irregular non-zero data distribution complicates the data flow and hinders data reuse, increasing on-chip SRAM access and thus power consumption of the chip. This paper…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Kai-Chieh Hsu , Tian-Sheuan Chang

Transformer-based speech enhancement models yield impressive results. However, their heterogeneous and complex structure restricts model compression potential, resulting in greater complexity and reduced hardware efficiency. Additionally,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Ci-Hao Wu , Tian-Sheuan Chang

A switched-capacitor matrix multiplier is presented for approximate computing and machine learning applications. The multiply-and-accumulate operations perform discrete-time charge-domain signal processing using passive switches and 300 aF…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Edward H. Lee , S. Simon Wong

Most investigations into near-memory hardware accelerators for deep neural networks have primarily focused on inference, while the potential of accelerating training has received relatively little attention so far. Based on an in-depth…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Fabian Schuiki , Michael Schaffner , Frank K. Gürkaynak , Luca Benini

The design of systems implementing low precision neural networks with emerging memories such as resistive random access memory (RRAM) is a major lead for reducing the energy consumption of artificial intelligence (AI). Multiple works have…

This work presents TREA, a low-precision time-multiplexed and resource-efficient edge-AI accelerator for object detection and classification, targeting stringent area-power-latency constraints of edge vision platforms. The proposed…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Vijay Pratap Sharma , Mukul Lokhande , Ratko Pilipovic , Omkar Kokane , Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma

This paper investigates the energy savings that near-subthreshold processors can obtain in edge AI applications and proposes strategies to improve them while maintaining the accuracy of the application. The selected processors deploy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Zichao Shen , Neil Howard , Jose Nunez-Yanez

The rise of data-intensive AI workloads has exacerbated the ``memory wall'' bottleneck. Digital Compute-in-Memory (DCiM) using SRAM offers a scalable solution, but its vast design space makes manual design impractical, creating a need for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Yiqi Zhou , JunHao Ma , Xingyang Li , Yule Sheng , Yue Yuan , Yikai Wang , Bochang Wang , Yiheng Wu , Shan Shen , Wei Xing , Daying Sun , Li Li , Zhiqiang Xiao