Approximate computing: Concepts, architectures, challenges, applications, and future directions

AM Dalloo, AJ Humaidi, AK Al Mhdawi… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The unprecedented progress in computational technologies led to a substantial proliferation
of artificial intelligence applications, notably in the era of big data and IoT devices. In the …

Libraries of approximate circuits: Automated design and application in CNN accelerators

V Mrazek, L Sekanina, Z Vasicek - IEEE Journal on Emerging …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Libraries of approximate circuits are composed of fully characterized digital circuits that can
be used as building blocks of energy-efficient implementations of hardware accelerators …

Formal methods for exact analysis of approximate circuits

Z Vasicek - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate circuits are digital circuits that are intentionally designed in such a way that the
specification is violated in terms of functionality in order to obtain some improvements in …

Multi-objective application-driven approximate design method

S Barone, M Traiola, M Barbareschi, A Bosio - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate Computing (AxC) paradigm aims at designing computing systems that can
satisfy the rising performance demands and improve the energy efficiency. AxC exploits the …

[HTML][HTML] A Survey on Design Space Exploration Approaches for Approximate Computing Systems

S Saeedi, A Piri, B Deveautour, I O'connor, A Bosio… - Electronics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Approximate Computing (AxC) has emerged as a promising paradigm to enhance
performance and energy efficiency by allowing a controlled trade-off between accuracy and …

A Genetic-algorithm-based Approach to the Design of DCT Hardware Accelerators

M Barbareschi, S Barone, A Bosio, J Han… - ACM Journal on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
As modern applications demand an unprecedented level of computational resources,
traditional computing system design paradigms are no longer adequate to guarantee …

A catalog-based AIG-rewriting approach to the design of approximate components

M Barbareschi, S Barone, N Mazzocca… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As computational demand and energy efficiency of computer systems are becoming
increasingly relevant requirements, traditional design paradigms are bound to become no …

Approximation-and Quantization-Aware Training for Graph Neural Networks

R Novkin, F Klemme, H Amrouch - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are one of the best-performing models for processing graph
data. They are known to have considerable computational complexity, despite the smaller …

A modified inexact arithmetic median filter for removing salt-and-pepper noise from gray-level images

M Monajati, E Kabir - … Transactions on Circuits and Systems II …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have recently proposed approximate median filters (APMFs). They are based on the
sorting network and achieve acceptable image quality under low-cost hardware. In this brief …

Using libraries of approximate circuits in design of hardware accelerators of deep neural networks

V Mrazek, L Sekanina, Z Vasicek - 2020 2nd IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate circuits have been developed to provide good tradeoffs between power
consumption and quality of service in error resilient applications such as hardware …