Hardware and software optimizations for accelerating deep neural networks: Survey of current trends, challenges, and the road ahead

M Capra, B Bussolino, A Marchisio, G Masera… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Currently, Machine Learning (ML) is becoming ubiquitous in everyday life. Deep Learning
(DL) is already present in many applications ranging from computer vision for medicine to …

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

ZG Tasoulas, G Zervakis… - … on Circuits and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current research in the area of Neural Networks (NN) has resulted in performance
advancements for a variety of complex problems. Especially, embedded system applications …

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
Libraries of approximate circuits are composed of fully characterized digital circuits that can
be used as building blocks of energy-efficient implementations of hardware accelerators …

Design of approximate booth squarer for error-tolerant computing

KM Reddy, MH Vasantha, YBN Kumar… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To explore the benefits of approximate computing, this article proposes an approximate
partial product generator for squarer (APPGS). Using APPGS, three designs of approximate …

Red-cane: A systematic methodology for resilience analysis and design of capsule networks under approximations

A Marchisio, V Mrazek, MA Hanif… - … Design, Automation & …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in Capsule Networks (CapsNets) have shown their superior learning
capability, compared to the traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, the …

Resistive crossbar-aware neural network design and optimization

MA Hanif, A Manglik, M Shafique - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent research in Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) and Processing-in-Memory (PIM)
technologies has proposed low energy PIM-based system designs for high-performance …

[PDF][PDF] Hardware and Software Optimizations for Accelerating Deep Neural Networks: Survey of Current Trends, Challenges, and the Road Ahead

M SHAFIQUE - arxiv.org
ABSTRACT Currently, Machine Learning (ML) is becoming ubiquitous in everyday life. Deep
Learning (DL) is already present in many applications ranging from computer vision for …

[PDF][PDF] Approximating Deep Convolutional Neural Networks through Bit-level Masking of Network Parameters

GM Sarda - 2020 - webthesis.biblio.polito.it
POLITECNICO DI TORINO Page 1 POLITECNICO DI TORINO Master’s Degree in
Electronic Systems Master’s Degree Thesis Approximating Deep Convolutional Neural …