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20192024
most citedConfuciuX: Autonomous Hardware Resource Assignment for DNN Accelerators using Reinforcement Learning

10 citations · 25 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Progressive Gradient Flow for Robust N:M Sparsity Training in Transformers

Abhimanyu Rajeshkumar Bambhaniya, Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Suvinay Subramanian +4

N:M Structured sparsity has garnered significant interest as a result of relatively modest overhead and improved efficiency. Additionally, this form of sparsity holds considerable…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

JaxPruner: A concise library for sparsity research

Joo Hyung Lee, Wonpyo Park, Nicole Mitchell +22

This paper introduces JaxPruner, an open-source JAX-based pruning and sparse training library for machine learning research. JaxPruner aims to accelerate research on sparse neural…

cs.LG2022

Demystifying Map Space Exploration for NPUs

Sheng-Chun Kao, Angshuman Parashar, Po-An Tsai +1

Map Space Exploration is the problem of finding optimized mappings of a Deep Neural Network (DNN) model on an accelerator. It is known to be extremely computationally expensive, an…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Training Recipe for N:M Structured Sparsity with Decaying Pruning Mask

Sheng-Chun Kao, Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Suvinay Subramanian +3

Sparsity has become one of the promising methods to compress and accelerate Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Among different categories of sparsity, structured sparsity has gained more…

cs.AR2022

A Formalism of DNN Accelerator Flexibility

Sheng-Chun Kao, Hyoukjun Kwon, Michael Pellauer +2

The high efficiency of domain-specific hardware accelerators for machine learning (ML) has come from specialization, with the trade-off of less configurability/ flexibility. There…

cs.NE2022

DiGamma: Domain-aware Genetic Algorithm for HW-Mapping Co-optimization for DNN Accelerators

Sheng-Chun Kao, Michael Pellauer, Angshuman Parashar +1

The design of DNN accelerators includes two key parts: HW resource configuration and mapping strategy. Intensive research has been conducted to optimize each of them independently.…

cs.LG2022★ 5 cited

DNNFuser: Generative Pre-Trained Transformer as a Generalized Mapper for Layer Fusion in DNN Accelerators

Sheng-Chun Kao, Xiaoyu Huang, Tushar Krishna

Dataflow/mapping decides the compute and energy efficiency of DNN accelerators. Many mappers have been proposed to tackle the intra-layer map-space. However, mappers for inter-laye…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

FLAT: An Optimized Dataflow for Mitigating Attention Bottlenecks

Sheng-Chun Kao, Suvinay Subramanian, Gaurav Agrawal +2

Attention mechanisms, primarily designed to capture pairwise correlations between words, have become the backbone of machine learning, expanding beyond natural language processing…

cs.AR2021

MAGMA: An Optimization Framework for Mapping Multiple DNNs on Multiple Accelerator Cores

Sheng-Chun Kao, Tushar Krishna

As Deep Learning continues to drive a variety of applications in edge and cloud data centers, there is a growing trend towards building large accelerators with several sub-accelera…

cs.DC2021

Extending Sparse Tensor Accelerators to Support Multiple Compression Formats

Eric Qin, Geonhwa Jeong, William Won +7

Sparsity, which occurs in both scientific applications and Deep Learning (DL) models, has been a key target of optimization within recent ASIC accelerators due to the potential mem…

cs.AR2020★ 10 cited

ConfuciuX: Autonomous Hardware Resource Assignment for DNN Accelerators using Reinforcement Learning

Sheng-Chun Kao, Geonhwa Jeong, Tushar Krishna

DNN accelerators provide efficiency by leveraging reuse of activations/weights/outputs during the DNN computations to reduce data movement from DRAM to the chip. The reuse is captu…

cs.LG2020★ 2 cited

Generative Design of Hardware-aware DNNs

Sheng-Chun Kao, Arun Ramamurthy, Tushar Krishna

To efficiently run DNNs on the edge/cloud, many new DNN inference accelerators are being designed and deployed frequently. To enhance the resource efficiency of DNNs, model quantiz…

cs.LG2020

Conditional Neural Architecture Search

Sheng-Chun Kao, Arun Ramamurthy, Reed Williams +1

Designing resource-efficient Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is critical to deploy deep learning solutions over edge platforms due to diverse performance, power, and memory budgets. Un…

cs.NI2019

Reinforcement Learning based Interconnection Routing for Adaptive Traffic Optimization

Sheng-Chun Kao, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Pin-Yu Chen +2

Applying Machine Learning (ML) techniques to design and optimize computer architectures is a promising research direction. Optimizing the runtime performance of a Network-on-Chip (…