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 …

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

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

A flexible and efficient FPGA accelerator for various large-scale and lightweight CNNs

X Wu, Y Ma, M Wang, Z Wang - IEEE Transactions on Circuits …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To enable efficient deployment of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on embedded
platforms for different computer vision applications, several convolution variants have been …

Approximate recursive multipliers using low power building blocks

E Zacharelos, I Nunziata, G Saggese… - … on Emerging Topics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing, frequently used in error tolerant applications, aims to achieve
higher circuit performances by allowing the possibility of inaccurate results, rather than …

Somalib: Library of exact and approximate activation functions for hardware-efficient neural network accelerators

HC Prashanth, M Rao - 2022 IEEE 40th International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing along with quantized low-precision computing has gained
significant interest in today's neural network (NN) implementation. This paper proposes a …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive approximate computing in edge AI and IoT applications: A review

HJ Damsgaard, A Grenier, D Katare, Z Taufique… - Journal of Systems …, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent advancements in hardware and software systems have been driven by the
deployment of emerging smart health and mobility applications. These developments have …

Evolutionary approximation and neural architecture search

M Pinos, V Mrazek, L Sekanina - Genetic Programming and Evolvable …, 2022 - Springer
Automated neural architecture search (NAS) methods are now employed to routinely deliver
high-quality neural network architectures for various challenging data sets and reduce the …

AppAxO: Designing Application-specific Approximate Operators for FPGA-based Embedded Systems

S Ullah, SS Sahoo, N Ahmed, D Chaudhury… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Approximate arithmetic operators, such as adders and multipliers, are increasingly used to
satisfy the energy and performance requirements of resource-constrained embedded …

W-AMA: Weight-aware Approximate Multiplication Architecture for neural processing

B Liu, R Zhang, Q Shen, Z Li, N Xie, Y Wang… - Computers and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents the Weight-aware Approximate Multiplication Architecture (W-AMA) for
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Considering the Gaussian-like weight distribution, it deploys …

Positive/negative approximate multipliers for DNN accelerators

O Spantidi, G Zervakis… - 2021 IEEE/ACM …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) manage to deliver superhuman accuracy levels on
many AI tasks. DNN accelerators are becoming integral components of modern systems-on …