arXiv:2505. 14303v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Using Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) crossbars in Computing-in-Memory (CIM) architectures offers a promising solution to overcome the von Neumann bottleneck.
By Rebecca Pelke, Jos\'e Cubero-Cascante, Nils Bosbach, Niklas Degener, Florian Idrizi, Lennart M. Reimann, Jan Moritz Joseph, Rainer Leupers
HBQ: Hierarchical Scaling Block Quantization with Hardware‑Efficiency‑Aware Design for Accurate LLM Inference proposes a new block‑quantization scheme that uses large blocks and low‑overhead significand scaling to balance hardware efficiency and accuracy. The authors demonstrate that larger blocks improve efficiency by amortizing dequantization and accumulation costs, while their SIG scaling compensates for the resulting accuracy loss. Experiments on a 28 nm ASIC accelerator show that HBQ achieves up to 4.6× higher area/energy efficiency than state‑of‑the‑art weight‑only quantization, with 1.5–3.0× speedup and 1.6–3.3× system energy reduction over existing BQ methods.
By Chun-Ting Chen, Dongmin Han, Hangyeol Mun, Jake Hyun, Arnab Raha, Amit Agarwal, Mark Anders, Mohamed Abdelfattah, Jae-sun Seo
arXiv:2609.36584v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Analog in-memory computing (AIMC) offers an alternative for model training by executing matrix operations directly where weights are stored. However, s...
By Zhaoxian Wu, Tayfun Gokmen, Omobayode Fagbohungbe, T. Patrick Xiao, Tianyi Chen
arXiv:2606. 02781v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance across diverse domains.
By Sohan Salahuddin Mugdho, Md. Shahedul Hasan, Brahmdutta Dixit, Yang Lv, Jian-Ping Wang, Cheng Wang
arXiv:2512.04705v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: The deployment of Early-Exiting Neural Networks (EENNs) on edge accelerators requires optimizing not only the network architecture but also i...
By Alaa Zniber, Arne Symons, Ouassim Karrakchou, Marian Verhelst, Mounir Ghogho
arXiv:2602. 19330v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are increasingly explored for physical design analysis in Electronic Design Automation, particularly for modeling Clock Tree Synthesis behavior such as clock skew and buffering complexity.
By Barsat Khadka, Kawsher Roxy, Md Rubel Ahmed
arXiv:2511. 15503v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: High-performance Host processors can integrate Processing-In-Memory (PIM) devices, which can accelerate memory-intensive kernels of Machine Learning (ML) models, including Large Language Models (LLMs), by leveraging the large memory bandwidth available at PIM cores.
By Peiming Yang, Sankeerth Durvasula, Ivan Fernandez, Mohammad Sadrosadati, Onur Mutlu, Gennady Pekhimenko, Christina Giannoula
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: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
arXiv:2607. 15123v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent FPGAs have improved deep learning (DL) inference efficiency through dedicated tensor blocks and in-BRAM computation.
By Jiajun Hu, Ruthwik Reddy Sunketa, Lei Zhao, Archit Gajjar, Luca Buonanno, Aman Arora
The paper introduces a holistic framework that jointly optimizes architecture, token, and bit-width for Vision Transformers (ViTs). It uses Neural Architecture Search (AutoFormer) to find compact backbones, token merging (ToMe) to reduce information processing, and fp16 mixed‑precision inference to accelerate operations. Experiments on ImageNet‑1K and a real‑world 3D X‑ray semiconductor defect dataset show over 10× improvements in throughput and reductions in parameters, FLOPs, and energy while preserving accuracy.
By Phat Nguyen, Xue Geng, Kaixin Xu, Wang Zhe, Xulei Yang, Ngai-Man Cheung
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