arXiv:2608. 02700v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Analog compute-in-memory (CIM) enables energy-efficient neural network inference, but device variation and read noise can severely degrade low-bit quantized models.
By Yizhe Chen, Wenshuai Yao, Saiya Wang, Yuannuo Feng, Wenbo Qi, Kechao Tang, Ngai Wong, Wenyong Zhou, Wang Kang
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
arXiv:2609.13947v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: In-sensor computing reduces the cost of transmitting high-resolution image data by performing early-stage processing near the sensor. However, the lo...
By Chengwei Zhou, Abu Masum, Xuming Chen, Mehran Moghadam, Sreetama Sarkar, Arnab Sanyal, Md Abdullah-Al Kaiser, M. Hassan Najafi, Sercan Aygun, Gourav Datta
arXiv:2606. 08161v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As capacitance extraction accuracy of rule-based pattern matching becomes difficult to sustain at advanced nodes, a growing trend emerges to develop deep-learning-based 2D capacitance models.
By Jiechen Huang, Hector R. Rodriguez, Dingcheng Yang, Zuochang Ye, Yibo Lin, Wenjian Yu
arXiv:2608. 12239v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Use this plain-text version for the arXiv abstract field: Learned image compression (LIC) models achieve strong rate-distortion performance but are hindered by high computational complexity and encoding-decoding mismatches across heterogeneous hardware platforms.
By Yuefeng Zhang
arXiv:2606. 04238v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Aggressive weight quantization to 2-bit precision offers substantial throughput and memory gains for large language model (LLM) inference, but typically incurs severe accuracy degradation.
By Devleena Das, Rajeev Patwari, Elliott Delaye, Ashish Sirasao
FAME is an FPGA-based platform that evaluates approximate multipliers directly in hardware, eliminating slow CPU/GPU LUT emulation and reducing evaluation time for DNN inference. It also introduces a pattern-guided retraining method that uses multiplier-specific patterns to recover accuracy losses. Experiments on ResNet‑18 and MobileNetV2 over ImageNet show up to 3.47× faster multiplier evaluation and a 65.5% accuracy improvement over prior retraining approaches.
By Rappy Saha, Nima Amirafshar, Jude Haris, Nima Taherinejad, Jos\'e Cano
ShatterQuant is a hardware-software co-designed framework that enables mixed-precision quantization within individual tensors by assigning different bit-widths to blocks of a weight projection. It couples precision granularity with processing element configuration, allowing each precision to determine an effective block height. The framework includes a hardware-aware post-training method based on block-level standard deviation and weight sensitivity, a ShatterQuant Transformer Accelerator supporting 1/2/4/8-bit weight precision, precision-dependent PE configuration, block rescaling, and integrated softmax and piecewise-linear nonlinearities, and an evaluation showing 1.5 TOPS, 760 GOPS/$mm^2$ area efficiency, and 2.8 TOPS/W energy efficiency on a TSMC 16nm PDK implementation.
By Mikolaj Walczak, Edward Humes, Chao Fang, Marian Verhelst, Tinoosh Mohsenin
arXiv:2507.05134v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We present a deep learning approach to extract physical parameters (e.g., mobility, Schottky contact barrier height, defect profiles) of two-dimens...
By Robert K. A. Bennett, Jan-Lucas Uslu, Harmon F. Gault, Asir Intisar Khan, Lauren Hoang, Tara Pe\~na, Kathryn Neilson, Young Suh Song, Zhepeng Zhang, Andrew J. Mannix, Eric Pop
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
Use this plain-text version for the arXiv abstract field: Learned image compression (LIC) models achieve strong rate-distortion performance but are hindered by high computational complexity and encoding-decoding mismatches across heterogeneous hardware platforms. Uniform fixed-precision quantization alleviates these issues but suffers severe quality degradation at low bit widths because it ignores differences in the quantization sensitivities of individual layers.
arXiv:2602. 07518v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) shift neural computation from linear layers to learnable nonlinear edge functions, but implementing these nonlinearities efficiently in hardware remains an open challenge.
By Manuel Escudero, Mohamadreza Zolfagharinejad, Sjoerd van den Belt, Nikolaos Alachiotis, Wilfred G. van der Wiel