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 …

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 …

Deep learning for edge computing: Current trends, cross-layer optimizations, and open research challenges

A Marchisio, MA Hanif, F Khalid… - 2019 IEEE Computer …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the Machine Learning era, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have taken the spotlight, due to
their unmatchable performance in several applications, such as image processing, computer …

Towards energy-efficient and secure edge AI: A cross-layer framework ICCAD special session paper

M Shafique, A Marchisio, RVW Putra… - 2021 IEEE/ACM …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The security and privacy concerns along with the amount of data that is required to be
processed on regular basis has pushed processing to the edge of the computing systems …

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 …

Automated HW/SW co-design for edge AI: State, challenges and steps ahead

O Bringmann, W Ecker, I Feldner… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Gigantic rates of data production in the era of Big Data, Internet of Thing (IoT), and Smart
Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) pose incessantly escalating demands for massive data …

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 …

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 …

X-nvdla: Runtime accuracy configurable nvdla based on applying voltage overscaling to computing and memory units

H Afzali-Kusha, M Pedram - … on Circuits and Systems I: Regular …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates a runtime accuracy reconfigurable implementation of an energy
efficient deep learning accelerator. It is based on voltage overscaling (VOS) technique which …