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Specialized compute blocks have been developed for efficient DNN execution. However, due to the vast amount of data and parameter movements, the interconnects and on-chip memories form another bottleneck, impairing power and performance.…

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) use a fully-connected layer to extract features from the nodes of a graph and aggregate these features using message passing between nodes, combining two distinct computational patterns: dense, regular…

Embedded Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (eFPGAs) allow for the design of hardware accelerators of edge Machine Learning (ML) applications at a lower power budget compared with traditional FPGA platforms. However, the limited eFPGA logic and…

Enabling high energy efficiency is crucial for embedded implementations of deep learning. Several studies have shown that the DRAM-based off-chip memory accesses are one of the most energy-consuming operations in deep neural network (DNN)…

The rise of mobile AI accelerators allows latency-sensitive applications to execute lightweight Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on the client side. However, critical applications require powerful models that edge devices cannot host and must…

This paper introduces a novel optimization framework for deep neural network (DNN) hardware accelerators, enabling the rapid development of customized and automated design flows. More specifically, our approach aims to automate the…

In this technical report, we introduce FastFusionNet, an efficient variant of FusionNet [12]. FusionNet is a high performing reading comprehension architecture, which was designed primarily for maximum retrieval accuracy with less regard…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated their effectiveness in numerous vision tasks. However, their high processing requirements necessitate efficient hardware acceleration to meet the application's performance targets. In…

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) excel in learning hierarchical representations from raw data, such as images, audio, and text. To compute these DNN models with high performance and energy efficiency, these models are usually deployed onto…

Neural network accelerators with low latency and low energy consumption are desirable for edge computing. To create such accelerators, we propose a design flow for accelerating the extremely low bit-width neural network (ELB-NN) in embedded…

Deep Neural Network (DNN) based inference at the edge is challenging as these compute and data-intensive algorithms need to be implemented at low cost and low power while meeting the latency constraints of the target applications. Sparsity,…

Recent hardware acceleration advances have enabled powerful specialized accelerators for finite element computations, spiking neural network inference, and sparse tensor operations. However, existing approaches face fundamental limitations:…

For real-time semantic segmentation, how to increase the speed while maintaining high resolution is a problem that has been discussed and solved. Backbone design and fusion design have always been two essential parts of real-time semantic…

Deep neural network (DNN) inference relies increasingly on specialized hardware for high computational efficiency. This work introduces a field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based dynamically configurable accelerator featuring systolic…

Attention-based neural networks have become pervasive in many AI tasks. Despite their excellent algorithmic performance, the use of the attention mechanism and feed-forward network (FFN) demands excessive computational and memory resources,…

Deep neural networks are an extremely successful and widely used technique for various pattern recognition and machine learning tasks. Due to power and resource constraints, these computationally intensive networks are difficult to…

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are vital for sequential data processing. Long Short-Term Memory Autoencoders (LSTM-AEs) are particularly effective for unsupervised anomaly detection in time-series data. However, inherent sequential…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are used by different applications that are executed on a range of computer architectures, from IoT devices to supercomputers. The footprint of these networks is huge as well as their computational and…

Matrix-accelerated stencil computation is a hot research topic, yet its application to three-dimensional (3D) high-order stencils and HPC remains underexplored. With the emergence of matrix units on multicore CPUs, we analyze matrix-based…

The exponential growth in data has intensified the demand for computational power to train large-scale deep learning models. However, the rapid growth in model size and complexity raises concerns about equal and fair access to computational…