Adaptive and energy-efficient architectures for machine learning: Challenges, opportunities, and research roadmap

M Shafique, R Hafiz, MU Javed, S Abbas… - 2017 IEEE Computer …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gigantic rates of data production in the era of Big Data, Internet of Thing (IoT)/Internet of
Everything (IoE), and Cyber Physical Systems (CSP) pose incessantly escalating demands …

Designing adaptive neural networks for energy-constrained image classification

D Stamoulis, TWR Chin, AK Prakash… - 2018 IEEE/ACM …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As convolutional neural networks (CNNs) enable state-of-the-art computer vision
applications, their high energy consumption has emerged as a key impediment to their …

EMEURO: A framework for generating multi-purpose accelerators via deep learning

L McAfee, K Olukotun - 2015 IEEE/ACM International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing is a very promising design paradigm for crossing the CPU power
wall, primarily driven by the potential to sacrifice output quality for significant gains in …

Hardware acceleration for machine learning

R Zhao, W Luk, X Niu, H Shi… - 2017 IEEE computer …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an approach to enhance the performance of machine learning
applications based on hardware acceleration. This approach is based on parameterised …

Memory requirements for convolutional neural network hardware accelerators

K Siu, DM Stuart, M Mahmoud… - 2018 IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid pace and successful application of machine learning research and development
has seen widespread deployment of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Alongside …

Leveraging the error resilience of machine-learning applications for designing highly energy efficient accelerators

Z Du, K Palem, A Lingamneni, O Temam… - 2014 19th Asia and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, inexact computing has been increasingly regarded as one of the most
promising approaches for reducing energy consumption in many applications that can …

Memory-centric accelerator design for convolutional neural networks

M Peemen, AAA Setio, B Mesman… - 2013 IEEE 31st …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the near future, cameras will be used everywhere as flexible sensors for numerous
applications. For mobility and privacy reasons, the required image processing should be …

Runtime configurable deep neural networks for energy-accuracy trade-off

H Tann, S Hashemi, RI Bahar, S Reda - … of the eleventh ieee/acm/ifip …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
We present a novel dynamic configuration technique for deep neural networks that permits
step-wise energy-accuracy tradeoffs during runtime. Our configuration technique adjusts the …

BenchNN: On the broad potential application scope of hardware neural network accelerators

T Chen, Y Chen, M Duranton, Q Guo… - 2012 IEEE …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent technology trends have indicated that, although device sizes will continue to scale
as they have in the past, supply voltage scaling has ended. As a result, future chips can no …

BRAINIAC: Bringing reliable accuracy into neurally-implemented approximate computing

B Grigorian, N Farahpour… - 2015 IEEE 21st …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Applications with large amounts of data, real-time constraints, ultra-low power requirements,
and heavy computational complexity present significant challenges for modern computing …