This paper presents an energy-efficient hardware acceleration of the convolutional layers in the U-Net architecture for image segmentation, implemented on FPGA. While digit-serial arithmetic, particularly most-significant-digit-first (MSDF) techniques, offers a compact hardware footprint, it suffers from initial latency before producing the first output digit.
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.
arXiv:2607. 02097v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large kernel depthwise convolutions achieve strong performance but suffer from significant degradation as kernel size grows due to irregular memory access from gather-based computation; while Large Kernel Acceleration (LKA) helps on small feature maps, it becomes counterproductive on large feature maps, even slower than non-accelerated implementations.
arXiv:2607. 03652v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformer blocks are prevalent in large language model (LLM) but present deployment challenges due to their challenging computational and memory demands.
arXiv:2512. 06208v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Inference of standard convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on FPGAs often incurs high latency and a long initiation interval due to the deep nested loops required to densely convolve every input pixel regardless of its feature value.
arXiv:2603. 26551v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision backbone networks play a central role in modern computer vision.
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.
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.
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.
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.
arXiv:2509. 10334v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently achieved strong results in semantic segmentation, yet their deployment on resource-constrained devices remains limited due to their high memory footprint and computational cost.
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated encouraging results in image classification tasks. However, the prohibitive computational cost of CNNs hinders the deployment of CNNs onto resource-constrained embedded devices.
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.