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Deep neural network with rectified linear units (ReLU) is getting more and more popular recently. However, the derivatives of the function represented by a ReLU network are not continuous, which limit the usage of ReLU network to situations…

Non-linear operations such as GELU, Layer normalization, and Softmax are essential yet costly building blocks of Transformer models. Several prior works simplified these operations with look-up tables or integer computations, but such…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success in various fields. However, the large number of floating-point operations (FLOPs) in DNNs poses challenges for their deployment in resource-constrained applications, e.g.,…

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…

Operating deep neural networks (DNNs) on devices with limited resources requires the reduction of their memory as well as computational footprint. Popular reduction methods are network quantization or pruning, which either reduce the word…

The growing energy and performance costs of deep learning have driven the community to reduce the size of neural networks by selectively pruning components. Similarly to their biological counterparts, sparse networks generalize just as…

This work is focused on the pruning of some convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and improving theirs efficiency on graphic processing units (GPU) by using a direct sparse algorithm. The Nvidia deep neural network (cuDnn) library is the…

We introduce an automated tool for deploying ultra low-latency, low-power deep neural networks with convolutional layers on FPGAs. By extending the hls4ml library, we demonstrate an inference latency of $5\,\mu$s using convolutional…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are state-of-the-art solutions for many machine learning applications, and have been widely used on mobile devices. Running DNNs on resource-constrained mobile devices often requires the help from edge servers…

Flexibility and customization are key strengths of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) when compared to other computing devices. For instance, FPGAs can efficiently implement arbitrary-precision arithmetic operations, and can perform…

Deep neural networks (DNN) are powerful models for many pattern recognition tasks, yet their high computational complexity and memory requirement limit them to applications on high-performance computing platforms. In this paper, we propose…

The recent surge of interest in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has led to increasingly complex networks that tax computational and memory resources. Many DNNs presently use 16-bit or 32-bit floating point operations. Significant performance…

Fault detection in rotating machinery is a complex task, particularly in small and heterogeneous dataset scenarios. Variability in sensor placement, machinery configurations, and structural differences further increase the complexity of the…

Among hardware accelerators for deep-learning inference, data flow implementations offer low latency and high throughput capabilities. In these architectures, each neuron is mapped to a dedicated hardware unit, making them well-suited for…

This paper presents an instruction-based coordination architecture for Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based systems with multiple high-performance Processing Units (PUs) for accelerating Deep Neural Network (DNN) inference. This…

The rise of deep learning has led to various successful attempts to apply deep neural networks (DNNs) for important networking tasks such as intrusion detection. Yet, running DNNs in the network control plane, as typically done in existing…

The softmax function is a widely used activation function in the output layers of neural networks, responsible for converting raw scores into class probabilities while introducing essential non-linearity. Implementing Softmax efficiently…

FPGAs offer a flexible platform for accelerating deep neural network (DNN) inference, particularly for non-uniform workloads featuring fine-grained unstructured sparsity and mixed arithmetic precision. To leverage these redundancies, an…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become a widely deployed model for numerous machine learning applications. However, their fixed architecture, substantial training cost, and significant model redundancy make it difficult to efficiently…

With the increasing size of Deep Neural Network (DNN) models, the high memory space requirements and computational complexity have become an obstacle for efficient DNN implementations. To ease this problem, using reduced-precision…