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most citedHardware Approximate Techniques for Deep Neural Network Accelerators: A Survey

137 citations · 424 across the 38 of their papers we have counts for

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39 papers

cs.AR2026

Low-Power PLL-Based Clock Stabilization for Flexible IGZO AMS Systems

Paula Carolina Lozano Duarte, Georgios Zervakis, Mehdi Tahoori

Flexible electronics (FE) platforms rely on analog and mixed-signal (AMS) circuits - biosensors, readout front-ends, and analog-to-digital converters - that dominate both functiona…

cs.AR2026

Co-Optimization of Analog Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for Low-Power Function Approximation in Flexible Electronics

Paula Carolina Lozano Duarte, Georgios Zervakis, Mehdi Tahoori +1

Wearable devices and Internet of Things (IoT) sensors require on-sensor processing of biosignals and environmental data, including computationally demanding operations such as nonl…

cs.AR2026

Co-Design of CNN Accelerators for TinyML using Approximate Matrix Decomposition

José Juan Hernández Morales, Georgios Mentzos, Frank Hannig +4

The paradigm shift towards local and on-device inference under stringent resource constraints is represented by the tiny machine learning (TinyML) domain. The primary goal of TinyM…

cs.AR2025

Design and Optimization of Mixed-Kernel Mixed-Signal SVMs for Flexible Electronics

Florentia Afentaki, Maha Shatta, Konstantinos Balaskas +3

Flexible Electronics (FE) have emerged as a promising alternative to silicon-based technologies, offering on-demand low-cost fabrication, conformality, and sustainability. However,…

cs.LG2025

Bespoke Co-processor for Energy-Efficient Health Monitoring on RISC-V-based Flexible Wearables

Theofanis Vergos, Polykarpos Vergos, Mehdi B. Tahoori +1

Flexible electronics offer unique advantages for conformable, lightweight, and disposable healthcare wearables. However, their limited gate count, large feature sizes, and high sta…

eess.SP2025

Arbitrary Precision Printed Ternary Neural Networks with Holistic Evolutionary Approximation

Vojtech Mrazek, Konstantinos Balaskas, Paula Carolina Lozano Duarte +3

Printed electronics offer a promising alternative for applications beyond silicon-based systems, requiring properties like flexibility, stretchability, conformality, and ultra-low…

cs.LG2025

Exploration of Low-Power Flexible Stress Monitoring Classifiers for Conformal Wearables

Florentia Afentaki, Sri Sai Rakesh Nakkilla, Konstantinos Balaskas +6

Conventional stress monitoring relies on episodic, symptom-focused interventions, missing the need for continuous, accessible, and cost-efficient solutions. State-of-the-art approa…

cs.AR2025

Support Vector Machines Classification on Bendable RISC-V

Polykarpos Vergos, Theofanis Vergos, Florentia Afentaki +2

Flexible Electronics (FE) technology offers uniquecharacteristics in electronic manufacturing, providing ultra-low-cost, lightweight, and environmentally-friendly alternatives totr…

cs.AR2025

Carbon-Efficient 3D DNN Acceleration: Optimizing Performance and Sustainability

Aikaterini Maria Panteleaki, Konstantinos Balaskas, Georgios Zervakis +2

As Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) continue to drive advancements in artificial intelligence, the design of hardware accelerators faces growing concerns over embodied carbon footprint…

cs.AR2025★ 1 cited

Computing with Printed and Flexible Electronics

Mehdi B. Tahoori, Emre Ozer, Georgios Zervakis +2

Printed and flexible electronics (PFE) have emerged as the ubiquitous solution for application domains at the extreme edge, where the demands for low manufacturing and operational…

cs.LG2025

Compact Yet Highly Accurate Printed Classifiers Using Sequential Support Vector Machine Circuits

Ilias Sertaridis, Spyridon Besias, Florentia Afentaki +2

Printed Electronics (PE) technology has emerged as a promising alternative to silicon-based computing. It offers attractive properties such as on-demand ultra-low-cost fabrication,…

cs.AR2025

Function Approximation Using Analog Building Blocks in Flexible Electronics

Paula Carolina Lozano Duarte, Aradhana Dube, Georgios Zervakis +2

Function approximation is crucial in Flexible Electronics (FE), where applications demand efficient computational techniques within strict constraints on size, power, and performan…

cs.AR2025

Late Breaking Results: Leveraging Approximate Computing for Carbon-Aware DNN Accelerators

Aikaterini Maria Panteleaki, Konstantinos Balaskas, Georgios Zervakis +2

The rapid growth of Machine Learning (ML) has increased demand for DNN hardware accelerators, but their embodied carbon footprint poses significant environmental challenges. This p…

cs.LG2025

Late Breaking Results: Energy-Efficient Printed Machine Learning Classifiers with Sequential SVMs

Spyridon Besias, Ilias Sertaridis, Florentia Afentaki +2

Printed Electronics (PE) provide a mechanically flexible and cost-effective solution for machine learning (ML) circuits, compared to silicon-based technologies. However, due to lar…

cs.AR2024

Leveraging Highly Approximated Multipliers in DNN Inference

Georgios Zervakis, Fabio Frustaci, Ourania Spantidi +3

In this work, we present a control variate approximation technique that enables the exploitation of highly approximate multipliers in Deep Neural Network (DNN) accelerators. Our ap…

cs.AR2024

Sequential Printed MLP Circuits for Super TinyML Multi-Sensory Applications

Gurol Saglam, Florentia Afentaki, Georgios Zervakis +1

Super-TinyML aims to optimize machine learning models for deployment on ultra-low-power application domains such as wearable technologies and implants. Such domains also require co…

cs.AR2024★ 2 cited

Reducing ADC Front-end Costs During Training of On-sensor Printed Multilayer Perceptrons

Florentia Afentaki, Paula Carolina Lozano Duarte, Georgios Zervakis +1

Printed electronics technology offers a cost-effectiveand fully-customizable solution to computational needs beyondthe capabilities of traditional silicon technologies, offering ad…

cs.AR2024★ 8 cited

Design and In-training Optimization of Binary Search ADC for Flexible Classifiers

Paula Carolina Lozano Duarte, Florentia Afentaki, Georgios Zervakis +1

Flexible Electronics (FE) offer distinct advantages, including mechanical flexibility and low process temperatures, enabling extremely low-cost production. To address the demands o…

cs.AR2024★ 5 cited

Synthesis of Resource-Efficient Superconducting Circuits with Clock-Free Alternating Logic

Jennifer Volk, Panagiotis Papanikolaou, Georgios Zervakis +1

Gate-level clocking, typical in traditional approaches to Single Flux Quantum (SFQ) technology, makes the effective synthesis of superconducting circuits a significant engineering…

cs.AR2024★ 3 cited

Evolutionary Approximation of Ternary Neurons for On-sensor Printed Neural Networks

Vojtech Mrazek, Argyris Kokkinis, Panagiotis Papanikolaou +5

Printed electronics offer ultra-low manufacturing costs and the potential for on-demand fabrication of flexible hardware. However, significant intrinsic constraints stemming from t…

cs.AR2024★ 7 cited

Variability-Aware Approximate Circuit Synthesis via Genetic Optimization

Konstantinos Balaskas, Florian Klemme, Georgios Zervakis +3

One of the major barriers that CMOS devices face at nanometer scale is increasing parameter variation due to manufacturing imperfections. Process variations severely inhibit the re…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

TransAxx: Efficient Transformers with Approximate Computing

Dimitrios Danopoulos, Georgios Zervakis, Dimitrios Soudris +1

Vision Transformer (ViT) models which were recently introduced by the transformer architecture have shown to be very competitive and often become a popular alternative to Convoluti…

cs.AR2024★ 5 cited

Embedding Hardware Approximations in Discrete Genetic-based Training for Printed MLPs

Florentia Afentaki, Michael Hefenbrock, Georgios Zervakis +1

Printed Electronics (PE) stands out as a promisingtechnology for widespread computing due to its distinct attributes, such as low costs and flexible manufacturing. Unlike tradition…

cs.LG2023★ 34 cited

Hardware-Aware DNN Compression via Diverse Pruning and Mixed-Precision Quantization

Konstantinos Balaskas, Andreas Karatzas, Christos Sad +4

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have shown significant advantages in a wide variety of domains. However, DNNs are becoming computationally intensive and energy hungry at an exponential…