Rumba: An online quality management system for approximate computing

DS Khudia, B Zamirai, M Samadi… - Proceedings of the 42nd …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Approximate computing can be employed for an emerging class of applications from various
domains such as multimedia, machine learning and computer vision. The approximated …

A survey of techniques for approximate computing

S Mittal - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2016 - dl.acm.org
Approximate computing trades off computation quality with effort expended, and as rising
performance demands confront plateauing resource budgets, approximate computing has …

Paraprox: Pattern-based approximation for data parallel applications

M Samadi, DA Jamshidi, J Lee, S Mahlke - Proceedings of the 19th …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Approximate computing is an approach where reduced accuracy of results is traded off for
increased speed, throughput, or both. Loss of accuracy is not permissible in all computing …

Monitoring and debugging the quality of results in approximate programs

M Ringenburg, A Sampson, I Ackerman… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Energy efficiency is a key concern in the design of modern computer systems. One
promising approach to energy-efficient computation, approximate computing, trades off …

A taxonomy of general purpose approximate computing techniques

T Moreau, J San Miguel, M Wyse… - IEEE Embedded …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing is the idea that systems can gain performance and energy efficiency
if they expend less effort on producing a “perfect” answer. Approximate computing …

AxBench: A multiplatform benchmark suite for approximate computing

A Yazdanbakhsh, D Mahajan… - IEEE Design & …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing is claimed to be a powerful knob for alleviating the peak power and
energy-efficiency issues. However, providing a consistent benchmark suit with diverse …

[PDF][PDF] Accept: A programmer-guided compiler framework for practical approximate computing

A Sampson, A Baixo, B Ransford… - … Technical Report UW …, 2015 - eecs.umich.edu
Approximate computing trades off accuracy for better performance and energy efficiency. It
offers promising optimization opportunities for a wide variety of modern applications, from …

Sage: Self-tuning approximation for graphics engines

M Samadi, J Lee, DA Jamshidi, A Hormati… - Proceedings of the 46th …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Approximate computing, where computation accuracy is traded off for better performance or
higher data throughput, is one solution that can help data processing keep pace with the …

Quality configurable reduce-and-rank for energy efficient approximate computing

A Raha, S Venkataramani… - … , Automation & Test …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing is an emerging design paradigm that exploits the intrinsic ability of
applications to produce acceptable outputs even when their computations are executed …

Approximate computing and the quest for computing efficiency

S Venkataramani, ST Chakradhar, K Roy… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Diminishing benefits from technology scaling have pushed designers to look for new
sources of computing efficiency. Multicores and heterogeneous accelerator-based …