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The energy consumed by running large deep neural networks (DNNs) on hardware accelerators is dominated by the need for lots of fast memory to store both states and weights. This large required memory is currently only economically viable…

In this paper we present Hyper-Dimensional Reconfigurable Analytics at the Tactical Edge (HyDRATE) using low-SWaP embedded hardware that can perform real-time reconfiguration at the edge leveraging non-MAC (free of floating-point…

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are expected to be a promising alternative to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) due to their strong biological interpretability and high energy efficiency. Specialized SNN hardware offers clear advantages over…

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Battery-powered mobile devices (e.g., smartphones, AR/VR glasses, and various IoT devices) are increasingly being used for AI training due to their growing computational power and easy access to valuable, diverse, and real-time data.…

In recent years, processing in memory (PIM) based mixedsignal designs have been proposed as energy- and area-efficient solutions with ultra high throughput to accelerate DNN computations. However, PIM designs are sensitive to imperfections…

Many edge devices employ Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) to enhance their product intelligence. However, the increasing computation complexity poses challenges for performance, energy efficiency and product development time. In this paper,…

Hardware accelerators such as GPUs are required for real-time, low-latency inference with Deep Neural Networks (DNN). However, due to the inherent limits to the parallelism they can exploit, DNNs often under-utilize the capacity of today's…

Recently there has been significant research on power generation, distribution and transmission efficiency especially in the case of renewable resources. The main objective is reduction of energy losses and this requires improvements on…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved unprecedented success in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), including computer vision, natural language processing and speech recognition. However, their superior performance comes at the…

Today, an increasing number of Adaptive Deep Neural Networks (AdNNs) are being used on resource-constrained embedded devices. We observe that, similar to traditional software, redundant computation exists in AdNNs, resulting in considerable…

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…

Reducing inference time and energy usage while maintaining prediction accuracy has become a significant concern for deep neural networks (DNN) inference on resource-constrained edge devices. To address this problem, we propose a novel…

Weight pruning in deep neural networks (DNNs) can reduce storage and computation cost, but struggles to bring practical speedup to the model inference time. Tensor-cores can significantly boost the throughput of GPUs on dense computation,…

Ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of DNN accelerators is paramount across various scenarios spanning autonomous driving, healthcare, and finance. However, current security approaches typically require extensive hardware resources,…

The most common method for DNN pruning is hard thresholding of network weights, followed by retraining to recover any lost accuracy. Recently developed smart pruning algorithms use the DNN response over the training set for a variety of…

Deep neural network (DNN) based speech enhancement models have attracted extensive attention due to their promising performance. However, it is difficult to deploy a powerful DNN in real-time applications because of its high computational…

In this paper, we exploit the aggressive supply voltage underscaling technique in Block RAMs (BRAMs) of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to improve the energy efficiency of Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs). Additionally, we evaluate and…

Multiplication (e.g., convolution) is arguably a cornerstone of modern deep neural networks (DNNs). However, intensive multiplications cause expensive resource costs that challenge DNNs' deployment on resource-constrained edge devices,…