arXiv:2606. 06515v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformer-based networks have emerged as prominent AI models with state-of-the-art performance, which potentially pave the way toward artificial general intelligence (AGI).
arXiv:2607. 26016v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recently, photonic transformer accelerators (PTAs) have successfully achieved significant speedup and energy efficiency improvements over electronic accelerators for expediting Transformer inference.
arXiv:2606. 11117v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Designing FPGA-based accelerators for modern artificial intelligence workloads requires exploring a large and complex hardware design space that involves architectural parameters, data flow strategies, and memory hierarchies, making the process very time consuming.
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:2607. 10942v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physical AI systems, such as autonomous vehicles and intelligent machines, require transformer-based perception models that satisfy stringent edge latency and energy constraints.
arXiv:2606. 20869v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present a holistic methodology for artificial intelligence algorithm and accelerator co-design, co-search, and co-generation (A3C3), which jointly optimizes neural network architectures and their hardware implementations to address the inefficiencies of traditional top-down AI system design flows.
arXiv:2608. 06791v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Application-specific FPGA accelerators offer substantial performance and energy-efficiency gains across many application domains, but developing them is costly, often requiring months of specialized effort.
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.
arXiv:2608. 13293v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Edge AI deployment demands neural architectures that are simultaneously accurate, computationally efficient, and hardware-deployable - a challenge addressed by hardware-aware Neural Architecture Search (NAS).
Application-specific FPGA accelerators offer substantial performance and energy-efficiency gains across many application domains, but developing them is costly, often requiring months of specialized effort. Even with high-level synthesis (HLS), designers still need extensive hardware expertise to build high-performance accelerators.
arXiv:2605. 16138v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Neural architecture search (NAS) is a powerful approach for automating model design, but existing methods often optimize for accuracy alone or rely on proxy metrics such as bit operations (BOPs) that correlate poorly with hardware cost.
arXiv:2605. 26092v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs) on edge devices is significantly constrained by memory limitations and the critical timing bottlenecks introduced by dense Multiply-Accumulate (MAC) arrays.
arXiv:2603. 13042v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Digital Compute-in-Memory (DCiM) accelerates neural networks by reducing data movement.