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20152024
most citedEnabling Spike-based Backpropagation for Training Deep Neural Network Architectures

440 citations · 680 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.CV2024

x-RAGE: eXtended Reality -- Action & Gesture Events Dataset

Vivek Parmar, Dwijay Bane, Syed Shakib Sarwar +3

With the emergence of the Metaverse and focus on wearable devices in the recent years gesture based human-computer interaction has gained significance. To enable gesture recognitio…

cs.AI2024

PETAH: Parameter Efficient Task Adaptation for Hybrid Transformers in a resource-limited Context

Maximilian Augustin, Syed Shakib Sarwar, Mostafa Elhoushi +3

Following their success in natural language processing (NLP), there has been a shift towards transformer models in computer vision. While transformers perform well and offer promis…

cs.AR2023

Siracusa: A 16 nm Heterogenous RISC-V SoC for Extended Reality with At-MRAM Neural Engine

Arpan Suravi Prasad, Moritz Scherer, Francesco Conti +9

Extended reality (XR) applications are Machine Learning (ML)-intensive, featuring deep neural networks (DNNs) with millions of weights, tightly latency-bound (10-20 ms end-to-end),…

cs.CV2022

DRESS: Dynamic REal-time Sparse Subnets

Zhongnan Qu, Syed Shakib Sarwar, Xin Dong +3

The limited and dynamically varied resources on edge devices motivate us to deploy an optimized deep neural network that can adapt its sub-networks to fit in different resource con…

cs.AR2022★ 3 cited

Memory-Oriented Design-Space Exploration of Edge-AI Hardware for XR Applications

Vivek Parmar, Syed Shakib Sarwar, Ziyun Li +3

Low-Power Edge-AI capabilities are essential for on-device extended reality (XR) applications to support the vision of Metaverse. In this work, we investigate two representative XR…

cs.AR2022

Distributed On-Sensor Compute System for AR/VR Devices: A Semi-Analytical Simulation Framework for Power Estimation

Jorge Gomez, Saavan Patel, Syed Shakib Sarwar +8

Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) glasses are widely foreseen as the next generation computing platform. AR/VR glasses are a complex "system of systems" which must satisfy…

cs.LG2022★ 16 cited

Power-of-Two Quantization for Low Bitwidth and Hardware Compliant Neural Networks

Dominika Przewlocka-Rus, Syed Shakib Sarwar, H. Ekin Sumbul +2

Deploying Deep Neural Networks in low-power embedded devices for real time-constrained applications requires optimization of memory and computational complexity of the networks, us…

cs.NE2019

A Comprehensive Analysis on Adversarial Robustness of Spiking Neural Networks

Saima Sharmin, Priyadarshini Panda, Syed Shakib Sarwar +3

In this era of machine learning models, their functionality is being threatened by adversarial attacks. In the face of this struggle for making artificial neural networks robust, f…

cs.NE2019★ 440 cited

Enabling Spike-based Backpropagation for Training Deep Neural Network Architectures

Chankyu Lee, Syed Shakib Sarwar, Priyadarshini Panda +2

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have recently emerged as a prominent neural computing paradigm. However, the typical shallow SNN architectures have limited capacity for expressing c…

cs.CV2017★ 130 cited

Incremental Learning in Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Using Partial Network Sharing

Syed Shakib Sarwar, Aayush Ankit, Kaushik Roy

Deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) based supervised learning is a widely practiced approach for large-scale image classification. However, retraining these large networks to…

cs.NE2017★ 79 cited

Gabor Filter Assisted Energy Efficient Fast Learning Convolutional Neural Networks

Syed Shakib Sarwar, Priyadarshini Panda, Kaushik Roy

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are being increasingly used in computer vision for a wide range of classification and recognition problems. However, training these large networ…

cs.NE2016★ 3 cited

Multiplier-less Artificial Neurons Exploiting Error Resiliency for Energy-Efficient Neural Computing

Syed Shakib Sarwar, Swagath Venkataramani, Anand Raghunathan +1

Large-scale artificial neural networks have shown significant promise in addressing a wide range of classification and recognition applications. However, their large computational…

cs.NE2016★ 1 cited

Significance Driven Hybrid 8T-6T SRAM for Energy-Efficient Synaptic Storage in Artificial Neural Networks

Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan, Parami Wijesinghe, Syed Shakib Sarwar +2

Multilayered artificial neural networks (ANN) have found widespread utility in classification and recognition applications. The scale and complexity of such networks together with…

cs.ET2015★ 8 cited

Spin-Torque Sensors for Energy Efficient High Speed Long Interconnects

Zubair Al Azim, Abhronil Sengupta, Syed Shakib Sarwar +1

In this paper, we propose a Spin-Torque (ST) based sensing scheme that can enable energy efficient multi-bit long distance interconnect architectures. Current-mode interconnects ha…