Improving the accuracy and hardware efficiency of neural networks using approximate multipliers

MS Ansari, V Mrazek, BF Cockburn… - … Transactions on Very …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Improving the accuracy of a neural network (NN) usually requires using larger hardware that
consumes more energy. However, the error tolerance of NNs and their applications allow …

Small constant mean-error imprecise adder/multiplier for efficient VLSI implementation of MAC-based applications

MHS Javadi, MH Yalame… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to considerable effectiveness of the imprecise computing paradigm in hardware
implementation of many applications, great attention has been recently paid by many …

A Comprehensive Model for Efficient Design Space Exploration of Imprecise Computational Blocks

MHS Javadi, M Faryabi, HR Mahdiani - ACM Transactions on Embedded …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
After almost a decade of research, development of more efficient imprecise computational
blocks is still a major concern in imprecise computing domain. There are many instances of …

Paxc: A probabilistic-oriented approximate computing methodology for anns

P Huang, C Wang, K Chen, W Liu - 2022 Design, Automation & …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In spite of the rapidly increasing number of approximate designs in circuit logic stack for
Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) learning. A principled and systematic approximate …

Linear-time error calculation for approximate adders

M Rezaalipour, M Dehyadegari - Computers & Electrical Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Design space exploration of Low Power Approximate Adders (LPAAs) has become
significant as it successfully trades acceptable amounts of accuracy for the power, area, and …

Soft Realization: a Bio-inspired Implementation Paradigm

HR Mahdiani, MN Bojnordi, SM Fakhraie - arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.08430, 2018 - arxiv.org
Researchers traditionally solve the computational problems through rigorous and
deterministic algorithms called as Hard Computing. These precise algorithms have widely …