Novel arithmetics in deep neural networks signal processing for autonomous driving: Challenges and opportunities

M Cococcioni, F Rossi, E Ruffaldi… - IEEE Signal …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article focuses on the trends, opportunities, and challenges of novel arithmetic for deep
neural network (DNN) signal processing, with particular reference to assisted-and …

FPnew: An open-source multiformat floating-point unit architecture for energy-proportional transprecision computing

S Mach, F Schuiki, F Zaruba… - IEEE Transactions on Very …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The slowdown of Moore's law and the power wall necessitates a shift toward finely tunable
precision (aka transprecision) computing to reduce energy footprint. Hence, we need circuits …

Parameterized posit arithmetic hardware generator

R Chaurasiya, J Gustafson, R Shrestha… - 2018 IEEE 36th …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hardware implementation of Floating Point Units (FPUs) has been a key area of research
due to their massive area and energy footprints. Recently, a proposal was made to replace …

Lagrangian duality for constrained deep learning

F Fioretto, P Van Hentenryck, TWK Mak, C Tran… - Machine Learning and …, 2021 - Springer
This paper explores the potential of Lagrangian duality for learning applications that feature
complex constraints. Such constraints arise in many science and engineering domains …

Precision-and accuracy-reconfigurable processor architectures—An overview

M Brand, F Hannig, O Keszocze… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High performance and, at the same time, energy efficiency are important yet often conflicting
requirements in many fields of emerging applications. Those applications range from multi …

Unified posit/IEEE-754 vector MAC unit for transprecision computing

L Crespo, P Tomás, N Roma… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Transprecision computing targets energy-efficiency with multiple floating-point modules with
different precisions to suit application requirements. Variable-precision architectures aim at …

Energy-quality scalable integrated circuits and systems: Continuing energy scaling in the twilight of Moore's law

M Alioto, V De, A Marongiu - IEEE Journal on Emerging and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper aims to take stock of recent advances in the field of energy-quality (EQ) scalable
circuits and systems, as promising direction to continue the historical exponential energy …

Domain-aware abstractive text summarization for medical documents

P Gigioli, N Sagar, A Rao… - 2018 IEEE international …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Text summarization in the biomedical domain has largely been limited to extractive
approaches. Abstractive approaches, using deep learning, have recently been successful …

Flexfloat: A software library for transprecision computing

G Tagliavini, A Marongiu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years approximate computing has been extensively explored as a paradigm to
design hardware and software solutions that save energy by trading off on the quality of the …

Fast approximations of activation functions in deep neural networks when using posit arithmetic

M Cococcioni, F Rossi, E Ruffaldi, S Saponara - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
With increasing real-time constraints being put on the use of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs)
by real-time scenarios, there is the need to review information representation. A very …