3 papers
cs.AR2024
BinSparX: Sparsified Binary Neural Networks for Reduced Hardware Non-Idealities in Xbar Arrays
Akul Malhotra, Sumeet Kumar Gupta
Compute-in-memory (CiM)-based binary neural network (CiM-BNN) accelerators marry the benefits of CiM and ultra-low precision quantization, making them highly suitable for edge comp…
cs.AR2024
SiTe CiM: Signed Ternary Computing-in-Memory for Ultra-Low Precision Deep Neural Networks
Niharika Thakuria, Akul Malhotra, Sandeep K. Thirumala +3
Ternary Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have shown a large potential for highly energy-constrained systems by virtue of their low power operation (due to ultra-low precision) with only…
cs.LG2024
Memory Faults in Activation-sparse Quantized Deep Neural Networks: Analysis and Mitigation using Sharpness-aware Training
Akul Malhotra, Sumeet Kumar Gupta
Improving the hardware efficiency of deep neural network (DNN) accelerators with techniques such as quantization and sparsity enhancement have shown an immense promise. However, th…