ALWANN: Automatic layer-wise approximation of deep neural network accelerators without retraining

V Mrazek, Z Vasícek, L Sekanina… - 2019 IEEE/ACM …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The state-of-the-art approaches employ approximate computing to reduce the energy
consumption of DNN hardware. Approximate DNNs then require extensive retraining …

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 …

Design automation of approximate circuits with runtime reconfigurable accuracy

G Zervakis, H Amrouch, J Henkel - IEEE access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Leveraging the inherent error tolerance of a vast number of application domains that are
rapidly growing, approximate computing arises as a design alternative to improve the …

Design exploration of energy-efficient accuracy-configurable dadda multipliers with improved lifetime based on voltage overscaling

H Afzali-Kusha, M Vaeztourshizi… - … Transactions on Very …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates an energy-efficient accuracy-configurable Dadda (X-Dadda)
multiplier. The structure employs the voltage overscaling and approximate width setting as …

A survey of testing techniques for approximate integrated circuits

M Traiola, A Virazel, P Girard… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing (AxC) is increasingly emerging as a new design paradigm to
produce more efficient computation systems by judiciously reducing the computation quality …

An efficient BCNN deployment method using quality-aware approximate computing

B Liu, Z Wang, X Wang, R Zhang, A Xue… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the artificial intelligence and Internet of Things (AIoT) develop rapidly, the deployment of
artificial neural networks in edge computing is becoming significant with great challenge …

Cross-layer approximate hardware synthesis for runtime configurable accuracy

T Alan, A Gerstlauer, J Henkel - IEEE Transactions on Very …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing trades off computation accuracy against energy efficiency. The
extent of approximation tolerance, however, significantly varies with a change in input …

Design of a low-power and small-area approximate multiplier using first the approximate and then the accurate compression method

T Yang, T Ukezono, T Sato - Proceedings of the 2019 on great lakes …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Recently emerging applications, such as convolution neural networks (CNNs), which
process thousands of convolutional computations, require a large amount of power …

Evolutionary algorithms in approximate computing: A survey

L Sekanina - arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.07000, 2021 - arxiv.org
In recent years, many design automation methods have been developed to routinely create
approximate implementations of circuits and programs that show excellent trade-offs …

MIPAC: Dynamic input-aware accuracy control for dynamic auto-tuning of iterative approximate computing

T Kemp, Y Yao, Y Kim - Proceedings of the 26th Asia and South Pacific …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
For many applications that exhibit strong error resilience, such as machine learning and
signal processing, energy efficiency and performance can be dramatically improved by …