arXiv:2607. 05240v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computing-in-Memory (CIM) accelerators execute Matrix-Vector Multiplications (MVMs) in memory, making them a compelling solution for Machine Learning (ML) workloads.
By Joel Klein, Rebecca Pelke, Roberto Laudani, Jan Moritz Joseph, Rainer Leupers
arXiv:2606. 27884v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mixed-precision computation has been introduced in deep neural networks (DNNs) as an effective approach to reduce latency, energy consumption, and memory footprint.
By Leandro Fiorin, Marco Ronzani, Cristina Silvano
arXiv:2608. 15602v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While binary quantization theoretically promises extreme compression and acceleration for Large Language Models (LLMs), existing research often overlooks the necessity of specialized hardware kernels, thus failing to unleash the full acceleration potential due to persistent reliance on expensive floating-point arithmetic or runtime dequantization overheads.
By Qingyao Yang, Runming Yang, He Xiao, Wendong Xu, Junyu Chen, Haobo Liu, Chenchen Ding, Ruihan Hu, Yik-Chung Wu, Ngai Wong
arXiv:2607. 11211v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The popularity of large language models (LLMs) escalates an ongoing demand for effective inference.
By Wenzong Yang, Danyang Zhang, Kun Cao, Tejus Siddagangaiah, Rajeev Patwari, Zhanxing Pu, Siyin Kong, Zijiang Yang, Hao Zhu, Varun Sharma, Yue Gao, Tianping Li, Fan Yang, Jicheng Chen, Yushan Chen, Fennian Zhao, Aaron Ng, Elliott Delaye, Ashish Sirasao, Sudip Nag
arXiv:2607. 21130v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: By leveraging standard RISC-V extensions, namely Zfh (scalar float16) and Zvfh (vector float16), this work proposes an open-source framework to enable complete on-device training on resource-constrained RISC-V single-core.
By Benjamin Hubinet, Pierre-Alain Moellic, Olivier Savry, Olivier Potin, Jean-Baptiste Rigaud
arXiv:2605. 06485v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have transformed artificial intelligence, but their computational requirements remain prohibitive for most users.
By Nii Osae Osae Dade, Tony Morri, Moinul Hossain Rahat, Sayandip Pal, Rickston Pinto
arXiv:2608. 00029v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The performance of deep learning models at scale relies heavily on how effectively high-level mathematical operations are mapped to underlying physical hardware.
By Adwaid Suresh, Aparna A, Harshini V M, Jona Delcy C A, Killi Uma Maheswara Rao, Ram Charan Golla, Surendra Vendra
arXiv:2606. 31938v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying Vision Transformer (ViT) models on edge platforms remains challenging due to their high computational demands and the architectural heterogeneity of modern hybrid ViT models, which incorporate both fully connected and convolutional layers.
By Hubert Dymarkowski, Xingjian Fu, Rappy Saha, Jude Haris, Jos\'e Cano
arXiv:2606. 04063v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying large language models (LLMs) is challenging due to their significant memory and computational requirements.
By Hoang-Loc La, Truong-Thanh Le, Amir Taherkordi, Phuong Hoai Ha
arXiv:2602. 23334v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Neural network accelerators have been widely applied to edge devices for complex tasks like object tracking, image recognition, etc.
By Yuhao Liu, Salim Ullah, Akash Kumar
arXiv:2608. 01536v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly rely on sparsity to reduce inference cost, but most prior work targets a single sparsity source-either weight or activation-and optimizes for batched multi-user inference.
By Ruokai Yin, Priyadarshini Panda
arXiv:2607. 28418v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pruning is a promising approach for improving the efficiency of LLMs.
By Haozhe Hu, Hao Wu, Peiran Yin, Chao Han, Yunpu Ma, Xiaoyu Shen