Hardware approximate techniques for deep neural network accelerators: A survey

G Armeniakos, G Zervakis, D Soudris… - ACM Computing …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are very popular because of their high performance in
various cognitive tasks in Machine Learning (ML). Recent advancements in DNNs have …

Graphene memristive synapses for high precision neuromorphic computing

TF Schranghamer, A Oberoi, S Das - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Memristive crossbar architectures are evolving as powerful in-memory computing engines
for artificial neural networks. However, the limited number of non-volatile conductance states …

Approximate computing survey, Part I: terminology and software & hardware approximation techniques

V Leon, MA Hanif, G Armeniakos, X Jiao… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The rapid growth of demanding applications in domains applying multimedia processing
and machine learning has marked a new era for edge and cloud computing. These …

Approximate computing survey, Part II: Application-specific & architectural approximation techniques and applications

V Leon, MA Hanif, G Armeniakos, X Jiao… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The challenging deployment of compute-intensive applications from domains such Artificial
Intelligence (AI) and Digital Signal Processing (DSP), forces the community of computing …

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 …

Adaptable approximate multiplier design based on input distribution and polarity

Z Li, S Zheng, J Zhang, Y Lu, J Gao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing is an efficient approach to reduce the design complexity for error-
resilient applications. Multipliers are key arithmetic units in many applications, such as deep …

A benchmark suite for designing combinational logic circuits via metaheuristics

LAM de Souza, JEH da Silva, LJ Chaves… - Applied Soft …, 2020 - Elsevier
The evolvable hardware literature reports several methods for the evolution of digital circuits.
However, there is a large variability in the set of problems and the appropriate metrics used …

Energy-efficient dnn inference on approximate accelerators through formal property exploration

O Spantidi, G Zervakis… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are being heavily utilized in modern applications, putting
energy-constraint devices to the test. To bypass high energy consumption issues …

cecApprox: Enabling Automated Combinational Equivalence Checking for Approximate Circuits

CK Jha, M Hassan, R Drechsler - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate circuits have become ubiquitous in error-resilient applications. Given their
widespread use, formal verification of these approximate designs is essential. Recently …

HEAM: High-efficiency approximate multiplier optimization for deep neural networks

S Zheng, Z Li, Y Lu, J Gao, J Zhang… - 2022 IEEE International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose an optimization method for the automatic design of approximate multipliers,
which minimizes the average error according to the operand distributions. Our multiplier …