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.
By Victor Agostinelli, Nicolas Bohm Agostini, Antonino Tumeo
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: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. 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:2407. 02362v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern deep neural networks heavily rely on a large number of multiply-accumulate operations, which constitute the predominant computational cost.
By Xuqi Zhu, Huaizhi Zhang, JunKyu Lee, Jiacheng Zhu, Chandrajit Pal, Sangeet Saha, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier, Xiaojun Zhai
arXiv:2512. 12850v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Low-latency, resource-efficient neural network inference on FPGAs is essential for applications demanding real-time capability and low power.
By Duc Hoang, Aarush Gupta, Philip Harris
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:2506. 20686v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in biomolecular modeling have been catalyzed by models such as AlphaFold3 (AF3), which introduce science-informed changes to the transformer architecture.
By Hoa La, Ahan Gupta, Alex Morehead, Jianlin Cheng, Minjia Zhang
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:2608. 13426v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformer-based language models achieve strong performance but incur substantial inference cost due to repeated high-dimensional matrix multiplications.
By Zixuan Lan, Yanhong Li, Jiawei Zhou
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.
By Wan Song, Wei Zhou, Rui Wang, Jun Yu, Toru Kurihara, Jiajia Xu, Shu Zhan
arXiv:2606. 07713v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The attention mechanism is the dominant computational bottleneck in modern transformer-based AI.
By Lenore Mullin, Gaetan Hains