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 logic synthesis: A survey

I Scarabottolo, G Ansaloni… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing is an emerging paradigm that, by relaxing the requirement for full
accuracy, offers benefits in terms of design area and power consumption. This paradigm is …

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 …

Adapt: Fast emulation of approximate dnn accelerators in pytorch

D Danopoulos, G Zervakis, K Siozios… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current state-of-the-art employs approximate multipliers to address the highly increased
power demands of deep neural network (DNN) accelerators. However, evaluating the …

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 …

Control variate approximation for DNN accelerators

G Zervakis, O Spantidi… - 2021 58th acm/ieee …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we introduce a control variate approximation technique for low error
approximate Deep Neural Network (DNN) accelerators. The control variate technique is …

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 …

ApproxTrain: Fast simulation of approximate multipliers for DNN training and inference

J Gong, H Saadat, H Gamaarachchi… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Edge training of deep neural networks (DNNs) is a desirable goal for continuous learning;
however, it is hindered by the enormous computational power required by training …

Evolutionary neural architecture search supporting approximate multipliers

M Pinos, V Mrazek, L Sekanina - … Conference, EuroGP 2021, Held as Part …, 2021 - Springer
There is a growing interest in automated neural architecture search (NAS) methods. They
are employed to routinely deliver high-quality neural network architectures for various …

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 …