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most citedDeep Neural Network Approximation for Custom Hardware: Where We've Been, Where We're Going

77 citations · 104 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.LG2022★ 11 cited

Logic Shrinkage: Learned FPGA Netlist Sparsity for Efficient Neural Network Inference

Erwei Wang, James J. Davis, Georgios-Ilias Stavrou +3

FPGA-specific DNN architectures using the native LUTs as independently trainable inference operators have been shown to achieve favorable area-accuracy and energy-accuracy tradeoff…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Enabling Binary Neural Network Training on the Edge

Erwei Wang, James J. Davis, Daniele Moro +6

The ever-growing computational demands of increasingly complex machine learning models frequently necessitate the use of powerful cloud-based infrastructure for their training. Bin…

math.NA2020★ 2 cited

Digit Stability Inference for Iterative Methods Using Redundant Number Representation

He Li, Ian McInerney, James J. Davis +1

In our recent work on iterative computation in hardware, we showed that arbitrary-precision solvers can perform more favorably than their traditional arithmetic equivalents when th…

cs.LG2019★ 5 cited

LUTNet: Learning FPGA Configurations for Highly Efficient Neural Network Inference

Erwei Wang, James J. Davis, Peter Y. K. Cheung +1

Research has shown that deep neural networks contain significant redundancy, and thus that high classification accuracy can be achieved even when weights and activations are quanti…

cs.AR2019

ARCHITECT: Arbitrary-precision Hardware with Digit Elision for Efficient Iterative Compute

He Li, James J. Davis, John Wickerson +1

Many algorithms feature an iterative loop that converges to the result of interest. The numerical operations in such algorithms are generally implemented using finite-precision ari…

cs.LG2019★ 8 cited

LUTNet: Rethinking Inference in FPGA Soft Logic

Erwei Wang, James J. Davis, Peter Y. K. Cheung +1

Research has shown that deep neural networks contain significant redundancy, and that high classification accuracies can be achieved even when weights and activations are quantised…

cs.CV2019★ 77 cited

Deep Neural Network Approximation for Custom Hardware: Where We've Been, Where We're Going

Erwei Wang, James J. Davis, Ruizhe Zhao +5

Deep neural networks have proven to be particularly effective in visual and audio recognition tasks. Existing models tend to be computationally expensive and memory intensive, howe…