Hardware approximate techniques for deep neural network accelerators: A survey

G Armeniakos, G Zervakis, D Soudris… - ACM Computing …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
… (DNNs) are very popular because of their high performance … of hardware approximation
techniques for DNN accelerators. … “Curableapproximation refers to approximation approaches …

Libraries of approximate circuits: Automated design and application in CNN accelerators

V Mrazek, L Sekanina, Z Vasicek - IEEE Journal on Emerging …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… exhibit promising results when deployed in convolutional neural networks. By means of the
… design and use in hardware accelerators of CNNs. The approximations can be introduced to …

Thermal-aware design for approximate DNN accelerators

G Zervakis, I Anagnostopoulos… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… design in which we additionally trade-off approximation with … loads in high performance
systems, DNN accelerators impose … , “CANN: Curable approximations for high-performance deep

Positive/negative approximate multipliers for DNN accelerators

O Spantidi, G Zervakis… - 2021 IEEE/ACM …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… In addition, we propose a filter-oriented approximation method to … [15] employs a curable
approximation in which the MAC's … in design of hardware accelerators of deep neural networks," …

Control variate approximation for DNN accelerators

G Zervakis, O Spantidi… - 2021 58th acm/ieee …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Recent Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have brought … selected out of the neural networks
we consider in Section V. … ., “Cann: Curable approximations for high-performance deep

Exploring fault-energy trade-offs in approximate DNN hardware accelerators

A Siddique, K Basu, KA Hoque - 2021 22nd International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Abstract—Systolic array-based deep neural network (DNN) accelerators have recently …
., “CANN: Curable approximations for high-performance deep neural network accelerators,” …

Weight-oriented approximation for energy-efficient neural network inference accelerators

ZG Tasoulas, G Zervakis… - … on Circuits and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Specifically, we consider an inference accelerator similar to Google TPU [3], as depicted in
Figure 3, that employs a systolic MAC array and we replace the exact multipliers with LVRM. …

Energy-efficient dnn inference on approximate accelerators through formal property exploration

O Spantidi, G Zervakis… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Shafique, “Alwann: Automatic layer-wise approximation of deep neural network accelerators
… , “Cann: Curable approximations for high-performance deep neural network accelerators,” …

Robust and Energy Efficient Deep Learning Systems

MA Hanif - 2024 - repositum.tuwien.at
… for deep neural network accelerators. IEEE … of curable approximations is proposed in this
thesis. The concept enables the design of high-performance accelerators where approximation

Timing Error Tolerant CNN Accelerator With Layer-Wise Approximate Multiplication

B Liu, N Xie, Q Wei, G Yang, C Xie… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… systems, which is crucial in high-performance and low-power systems for … [16] proposed a
curable approximation Multiply-and-… of neural network algorithms and CNN accelerators, we …