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Hardware Software Optimizations for Fast Model Recovery on Reconfigurable Architectures

Hardware Architecture 2025-12-09 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

Model Recovery (MR) is a core primitive for physical AI and real-time digital twins, but GPUs often execute MR inefficiently due to iterative dependencies, kernel-launch overheads, underutilized memory bandwidth, and high data-movement latency. We present MERINDA, an FPGA-accelerated MR framework that restructures computation as a streaming dataflow pipeline. MERINDA exploits on-chip locality through BRAM tiling, fixed-point kernels, and the concurrent use of LUT fabric and carry-chain adders to expose fine-grained spatial parallelism while minimizing off-chip traffic. This hardware-aware formulation removes synchronization bottlenecks and sustains high throughput across the iterative updates in MR. On representative MR workloads, MERINDA delivers up to 6.3x fewer cycles than an FPGA-based LTC baseline, enabling real-time performance for time-critical physical systems.

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@article{arxiv.2512.06113,
  title  = {Hardware Software Optimizations for Fast Model Recovery on Reconfigurable Architectures},
  author = {Bin Xu and Ayan Banerjee and Sandeep Gupta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.06113},
  year   = {2025}
}
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