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Data copy is a widely-used memory operation in many programs and operating system services. In conventional computers, data copy is often carried out by two separate read and write transactions that pass data back and forth between the DRAM…

To train deep convolutional neural networks, the input data and the intermediate activations need to be kept in memory to calculate the gradient descent step. Given the limited memory available in the current generation accelerator cards,…

Many convolutional neural network (CNN) accelerators face performance- and energy-efficiency challenges which are crucial for embedded implementations, due to high DRAM access latency and energy. Recently, some DRAM architectures have been…

Feature reuse has been a key technique in light-weight convolutional neural networks (CNNs) architecture design. Current methods usually utilize a concatenation operator to keep large channel numbers cheaply (thus large network capacity) by…

Catastrophic forgetting can be trivially alleviated by keeping all data from previous tasks in memory. Therefore, minimizing the memory footprint while maximizing the amount of relevant information is crucial to the challenge of continual…

Running deep neural networks on microcontroller units (MCUs) is severely constrained by limited memory resources. While TinyML techniques reduce model size and computation, they often fail in practice due to excessive peak Random Access…

In current convolutional neural network (CNN) accelerators, communication (i.e., memory access) dominates the energy consumption. This work provides comprehensive analysis and methodologies to minimize the communication for CNN…

In this work, we propose FUSE, a novel GPU cache system that integrates spin-transfer torque magnetic random-access memory (STT-MRAM) into the on-chip L1D cache. FUSE can minimize the number of outgoing memory accesses over the…

Many popular machine learning models scale poorly when deployed on CPUs. In this paper we explore the reasons why and propose a simple, yet effective approach based on the well-known Divide-and-Conquer Principle to tackle this problem of…

Memory-centric computing aims to enable computation capability in and near all places where data is generated and stored. As such, it can greatly reduce the large negative performance and energy impact of data access and data movement, by…

With the tremendous advances of Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets) on object recognition, we can now obtain reliable enough machine-labeled annotations easily by predictions from off-the-shelf ConvNets. In this work, we present an…

Approximate computing (AC) leverages the inherent error resilience and is used in many big-data applications from various domains such as multimedia, computer vision, signal processing, and machine learning to improve systems performance…

Custom dataflow Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) inference accelerators on FPGA are tailored to a specific CNN topology and store parameters in On-Chip Memory (OCM), resulting in high energy efficiency and low inference latency. However,…

Convolutional neural networks show outstanding results in a variety of computer vision tasks. However, a neural network architecture design usually faces a trade-off between model performance and computational/memory complexity. For some…

Recent advancements in deep learning have led to the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in applications such as computer vision and natural language processing. As neural networks become deeper and larger, AI modeling…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), one of the most representative algorithms of deep learning, are widely used in various artificial intelligence applications. Convolution operations often take most of the computational overhead of CNNs.…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are widely used to face challenging tasks like speech recognition, natural language processing or computer vision. As CNN architectures get larger and more complex, their computational requirements…

Many convolutional neural networks (CNNs) rely on progressive downsampling of their feature maps to increase the network's receptive field and decrease computational cost. However, this comes at the price of losing granularity in the…

As deep neural networks are increasingly used in applications suited for low-power devices, a fundamental dilemma becomes apparent: the trend is to grow models to absorb increasing data that gives rise to memory intensive; however low-power…