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:2606. 04115v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantizing large language models (LLMs) to low-precision floating-point representations is central to efficient deployment, yet applying a single bit-width uniformly across all layers is sub-optimal in terms of both performance and accuracy.
By Giuseppe Franco, Ian Colbert, Pablo Monteagudo-Lago, Felix Marty, Nicholas Fraser
arXiv:2606. 17781v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid growth of Large Language Models (LLMs) has intensified the need for specialized hardware accelerators that can satisfy stringent inference latency and power constraints.
By Kosmas Alexandridis, Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos
arXiv:2608. 06916v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantized Neural Networks~(QNN) with low-bitwidth data have proven promising in efficient storage and computation on edge devices.
By Zijun Jiang, Yangdi Lyu
arXiv:2605. 24391v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As the demand for deep learning grows, cost reduction through quantization has become essential for both training and inference.
By Dahoon Park, Jahyun Koo, Sangwoo Hwang, Jaeha Kung
arXiv:2607. 23047v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mixed-precision quantization improves the accuracy of post-training quantization by allocating higher bitwidths to sensitive layers, but existing methods solve the allocation for a single fixed memory budget.
By Ashitabh Misra, Madhav Agrawal, Arham Jain, Tarek Abdelzaher
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:2311. 17815v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Given their increasing size and complexity, the need for efficient execution of deep neural networks has become increasingly pressing in the design of heterogeneous High-Performance Computing (HPC) and edge platforms, leading to a wide variety of proposals for specialized deep learning architectures and hardware accelerators.
By Serena Curzel, Fabrizio Ferrandi, Leandro Fiorin, Daniele Ielmini, Cristina Silvano, Francesco Conti, Luca Bompani, Luca Benini, Enrico Calore, Sebastiano Fabio Schifano, Cristian Zambelli, Maurizio Palesi, Giuseppe Ascia, Enrico Russo, Valeria Cardellini, Salvatore Filippone, Francesco Lo Presti, Stefania Perri
arXiv:2606. 06818v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Heterogeneous DNN accelerators improve soft real-time multi-DNN execution by mapping each layer to its preferred accelerator to reduce latency.
By Sing-Yao Wu, Fengshuo Song, Eli Bozorgzadeh
arXiv:2606. 10294v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying neural networks on unconventional hardware demands architectures that co-optimize task accuracy and platform-specific constraints such as energy cost, physical non-idealities, and numerical precision.
By Tyler King, Timothee Leleu
arXiv:2607. 15328v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Complex algorithms such as deep neural networks are increasingly being deployed on embedded, resource constrained platforms.
By Taisa Kushner (Galois Inc), Ryan McCleeary (Galois Inc), Martin Brain (City St George University of London)
arXiv:2608. 00720v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mapping neural networks to FPGAs enables low-latency, energy-efficient inference, particularly for lookup table (LUT)-based models that eliminate multipliers and map directly to reconfigurable fabric.
By Oliver Cassidy, Marta Andronic, George A. Constantinides