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.
By Leandro Fiorin, Marco Ronzani, Cristina Silvano
arXiv:2607. 19431v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bit-serial accelerators exploit bit-level sparsity to reduce DNN inference cost, but existing designs exploit sparsity on only one operand, bounding the speedup.
By Varun Manjunath, Ruokai Yin, Donghyun Lee, Arkapravo Ghosh, Priyadarshini Panda
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.
By Serena Curzel, Fabrizio Ferrandi, Leandro Fiorin, Daniele Ielmini, Cristina Silvano, Francesco Conti, Luca Bompani, Luca Benini, Enrico Calore, Sebastiano Fabio Schifano, Cristian Zambelli, Maurizio Palesi, Giuseppe Ascia, Enrico Russo, Valeria Cardellini, Salvatore Filippone, Francesco Lo Presti, Stefania Perri
arXiv:2606. 29518v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the widespread adoption of AI in various IoT scenarios such as smart sensing and processing, AI chips have become a common component at the edge.
By Yihan Wang, Huiru Yan, Luxin Zhang, Long Cheng, Weiwei Chen, Ying Wang, Lei Zhang, Cheng Liu, Huawei Li
arXiv:2607. 24787v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models expand foundation model capacity through conditional expert activation, but their full expert pools remain difficult to deploy under limited accelerator memory.
By Jinwei Kong, Runqi Meng, Fanyi Wang, Wentao Qiu, Haotian Hu, Yongjian Zhou, Zhenhua Ge
arXiv:2608. 10506v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate pre-deployment estimation of CNN inference cost--energy, latency, and peak memory--is increasingly critical as models are deployed on resource-constrained GPU platforms.
By Linh Nguyen, Zhixin Pan