Thermal-aware design for approximate DNN accelerators

G Zervakis, I Anagnostopoulos… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent breakthroughs in Neural Networks (NNs) have made DNN accelerators ubiquitous
and led to an ever-increasing quest on adopting them from Cloud to edge computing …

ALWANN: Automatic layer-wise approximation of deep neural network accelerators without retraining

V Mrazek, Z Vasícek, L Sekanina… - 2019 IEEE/ACM …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The state-of-the-art approaches employ approximate computing to reduce the energy
consumption of DNN hardware. Approximate DNNs then require extensive retraining …

Control variate approximation for DNN accelerators

G Zervakis, O Spantidi… - 2021 58th acm/ieee …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we introduce a control variate approximation technique for low error
approximate Deep Neural Network (DNN) accelerators. The control variate technique is …

Hardware approximate techniques for deep neural network accelerators: A survey

G Armeniakos, G Zervakis, D Soudris… - ACM Computing …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are very popular because of their high performance in
various cognitive tasks in Machine Learning (ML). Recent advancements in DNNs have …

LAMBDA: An open framework for deep neural network accelerators simulation

E Russo, M Palesi, S Monteleone… - … and other Affiliated …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many tasks in the realm of recognition, mining, and synthesis are increasingly being
implemented by using machine learning approaches. In particular, deep neural networks …

A uniform modeling methodology for benchmarking dnn accelerators

I Palit, Q Lou, R Perricone, M Niemier… - 2019 IEEE/ACM …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved tremendous success in many application
domains. Inspired by its success, specialized accelerators have been and continue to be …

CANN: Curable approximations for high-performance deep neural network accelerators

MA Hanif, F Khalid, M Shafique - Proceedings of the 56th Annual Design …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Approximate Computing (AC) has emerged as a means for improving the performance, area
and power-/energy-efficiency of a digital design at the cost of output quality degradation …

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

O Spantidi, G Zervakis… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are being heavily utilized in modern applications, putting
energy-constraint devices to the test. To bypass high energy consumption issues …

Adapt: Fast emulation of approximate dnn accelerators in pytorch

D Danopoulos, G Zervakis, K Siozios… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current state-of-the-art employs approximate multipliers to address the highly increased
power demands of deep neural network (DNN) accelerators. However, evaluating the …

Positive/negative approximate multipliers for DNN accelerators

O Spantidi, G Zervakis… - 2021 IEEE/ACM …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) manage to deliver superhuman accuracy levels on
many AI tasks. DNN accelerators are becoming integral components of modern systems-on …