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48 results for hardware efficiency

We derive scaling laws for optimizing neural networks in hardware.

problem Optimizing the large parameter space of neural networks in hardware.
method Analytical derivation of scaling laws for Coordinate Descent optimization.
result Convergence is exponential and scales linearly with the number of neurons.

DANCE optimizes neural network and accelerator design for faster, more efficient DNN execution.

problem Challenges in optimizing neural network and accelerator design for efficient DNN execution.
method Differentiable approach to co-exploration of accelerator and network architecture design.
result Significantly shorter time to achieve superior accuracy and hardware cost metrics.

Efficient deep learning computing requires algorithm and hardware co-design to enable specialization: we usually need to change the algorithm to reduce memory footprint and improve energy efficiency. However, the extra degree of freedom from the algorithm makes the design space much larger: it's not only about designin…

2019-04-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper presents efficient algorithms for convolutional neural networks using Winograd minimal filtering.

problem Resource-efficient implementation of convolutional neural networks.
method Winograd minimal filtering trick applied to M-tap filters (M=3,5,7,9,11) for parallel hardware implementation.
result Approximately 30% reduction in multipliers for fully parallel hardware implementation.

Recent breakthroughs in Deep Learning (DL) applications have made DL models a key component in almost every modern computing system. The increased popularity of DL applications deployed on a wide-spectrum of platforms have resulted in a plethora of design challenges related to the constraints introduced by the hardware…

2018-09-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Pipelined Backpropagation trains large models without batches efficiently.

problem Training large models efficiently on hardware with limited batch sizes.
method Fine-grained Pipelined Backpropagation with Spike Compensation and Linear Weight Prediction.
result Fine-grained Pipelined Backpropagation with a batch size of one matches the accuracy of SGD for multiple networks.

DJPQ optimizes neural network pruning and quantization for hardware efficiency.

problem Efficiently compress neural networks for hardware inference.
method Joint gradient-based optimization of pruning and quantization into a differentiable loss function.
result Significant reduction in Bit-Operations (BOPs) with minimal accuracy loss.

New method uses surrogate gradients to train efficient spiking networks on neuromorphic hardware.

problem Training high-performing spiking networks on analog neuromorphic hardware is challenging due to device mismatch and lack of efficient algorithms.
method Introduces a general in-the-loop learning framework based on surrogate gradients.
result Learning self-corrects for device mismatch, resulting in competitive spiking network performance.

Bio-inspired neuromorphic hardware is a research direction to approach brain's computational power and energy efficiency. Spiking neural networks (SNN) encode information as sparsely distributed spike trains and employ spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) mechanism for learning. Existing hardware implementations of…

2018-09-18abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper tackles co-design of neural hardware and software to improve efficiency.

problem Designing efficient deep learning systems that consider both hardware and software optimizations together.
method Developed a constrained Bayesian optimization framework to automatically identify profitable design points in the joint hardware/software design space.
result Improved energy-delay product by 18% (ResNet) and 40% (DQN) over hand-tuned systems.

Hardware-accelerated RBM solves large combinatorial problems and integer factorization.

problem Solving large combinatorial optimization and integer factorization problems.
method Logically synthesized RBM architecture, hardware acceleration, and efficient training methods.
result Hardware-accelerated RBM factorizes 16-bit numbers with 10000x speed and 32x power improvements.

NASCaps automates CapsNet design for better accuracy and hardware efficiency.

problem Designing Capsule Networks is laborious and inefficient.
method Automated Neural Architecture Search (NAS) with Genetic Algorithm optimization.
result Jointly optimizes network accuracy and hardware efficiency.

ALF reduces network parameters and operations by 70% and 61%, respectively, on embedded hardware.

problem Efficient deployment of deep learning models on resource-constrained hardware.
method Autoencoder-based low-rank filter-sharing technique.
result ALF achieves significant compression with minimal accuracy loss.

This paper highlights new opportunities for designing large-scale machine learning systems as a consequence of blurring traditional boundaries that have allowed algorithm designers and application-level practitioners to stay -- for the most part -- oblivious to the details of the underlying hardware-level implementatio…

2014-09-09abs ↗pdf ↗

The emergence of specialized optimization hardware such as CMOS annealers and adiabatic quantum computers carries the promise of solving hard combinatorial optimization problems more efficiently in hardware. Recent work has focused on formulating different combinatorial optimization problems as Ising models, the core m…

2020-03-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Quantum algorithms for CVaR portfolio optimization face trade-offs between hardware coherence and expressibility.

problem Quantum algorithmic resilience for CVaR portfolio optimization
method WS-QAOA vs. HE-VQNN
result WS-QAOA provides exact theoretical mapping but suffers from hardware decoherence, while HE-VQNN preserves hardware coherence but lacks expressibility.

Improves energy efficiency of neuromorphic hardware by optimizing memory organization and encoding schemes.

problem Energy inefficiency in neuromorphic hardware, especially in digital accelerators.
method Synthesized controller and memory for different encoding schemes, introduced functional encoding for structured connectivity.
result Functional encoding offers a 58% reduction in energy for weight updates in convolutional layers.

Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) have been proposed to address the problem of model uncertainty in training and inference. By introducing weights associated with conditioned probability distributions, BNNs are capable of resolving the overfitting issue commonly seen in conventional neural networks and allow for small-da…

2018-02-02abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper proposes a hardware-oriented dropout algorithm, which is efficient for field programmable gate array (FPGA) implementation. In deep neural networks (DNNs), overfitting occurs when networks are overtrained and adapt too well to training data. Consequently, they fail in predicting unseen data used as test data…

2019-11-14abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper explores efficient neural networks by identifying sparse structures.

problem Reducing computational complexity in neural networks without sacrificing accuracy.
method Identifying and utilizing sparse structures in neural network weights and activations.
result Large and sparse models are more beneficial for practical problems.

Paper proposes efficient BNN inference flow to reduce computation and memory costs.

problem High computation complexity in Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) limits deployment in power-constrained systems.
method Feature decomposition and memorization strategy to reduce computations and a memory-friendly computing framework to reduce memory overhead.
result Reduces computation by about half and energy consumption by 73% with 14% area overhead.

SmartDeal reduces energy and storage costs for deep neural networks.

problem Heavy parameterization of deep neural networks leads to inefficient use of DRAM.
method SmartDeal decomposes weights into a small basis matrix and a structurally sparse coefficient matrix, quantized to power-of-2.
result Up to 2.44x energy efficiency improvement in inference and 10.56x reduction in training energy.

Improves VQAs by balancing classical and quantum training resources.

problem Challenges in trainability and resource costs of VQAs on quantum hardware.
method Adopting HELIA Ansatz and combining classical and quantum methods for gradient estimation and training.
result Achieves higher accuracy and success rates in VQE and improved test accuracy in quantum phase classification.

SynergicLearning combines NN and HD models for high accuracy and efficiency.

problem Combining neural networks and hyperdimensional learning for improved accuracy and efficiency.
method Hybrid model combining NN feature extraction and HD classification, parameterized hardware implementation.
result Improves accuracy by at least 10% compared to HD learning models and 1.60x power efficiency.

Novel NAS method balances performance and hardware metrics efficiently.

problem Challenging multi-objective optimization in neural architecture search.
method Parameterizes joint architectural distribution via hypernetwork conditioned on hardware features and preferences.
result Zero-shot transferability to new devices with representative and diverse architectures.

Deep learning has revolutionised many fields, but it is still challenging to transfer its success to small mobile robots with minimal hardware. Specifically, some work has been done to this effect in the RoboCup humanoid football domain, but results that are performant and efficient and still generally applicable outsi…

2018-07-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Pipeline parallelism (PP) when training neural networks enables larger models to be partitioned spatially, leading to both lower network communication and overall higher hardware utilization. Unfortunately, to preserve the statistical efficiency of sequential training, existing PP techniques sacrifice hardware efficien…

2019-10-09abs ↗pdf ↗

GOBO compresses 99.9% of BERT model parameters to 3 bits, improving inference efficiency.

problem Efficient execution of attention-based NLP models, especially in terms of latency and energy consumption.
method GOBO quantizes 32-bit floating-point parameters to 3 bits without fine-tuning, using hardware compression and co-designed architectures.
result GOBO maintains model accuracy while significantly reducing inference latency and energy consumption.

HotNAS reduces AI search time from hundreds of GPU hours to less than 3 GPU hours.

problem High time required for AI solution generation from scratch.
method HotNAS starts from a 'hot' state using pre-trained models and integrates compression during co-search.
result Reduces search time from 200 GPU hours to less than 3 GPU hours.