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

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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…

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.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.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.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.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…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

On-sensor Printed Machine Learning Classification via Bespoke ADC and Decision Tree Co-Design

Giorgos Armeniakos, Paula L. Duarte, Priyanjana Pal +3

Printed electronics (PE) technology provides cost-effective hardware with unmet customization, due to their low non-recurring engineering and fabrication costs. PE exhibit features…

cs.LG2023★ 12 cited

Model-to-Circuit Cross-Approximation For Printed Machine Learning Classifiers

Giorgos Armeniakos, Georgios Zervakis, Dimitrios Soudris +2

Printed electronics (PE) promises on-demand fabrication, low non-recurring engineering costs, and sub-cent fabrication costs. It also allows for high customization that would be in…

cs.LG2023★ 18 cited

Co-Design of Approximate Multilayer Perceptron for Ultra-Resource Constrained Printed Circuits

Giorgos Armeniakos, Georgios Zervakis, Dimitrios Soudris +2

Printed Electronics (PE) exhibits on-demand, extremely low-cost hardware due to its additive manufacturing process, enabling machine learning (ML) applications for domains that fea…

cs.LG2022

Energy-efficient DNN Inference on Approximate Accelerators Through Formal Property Exploration

Ourania Spantidi, Georgios Zervakis, Iraklis Anagnostopoulos +1

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are being heavily utilized in modern applications and are putting energy-constraint devices to the test. To bypass high energy consumption issues, appro…

cs.LG2022★ 20 cited

Cross-Layer Approximation For Printed Machine Learning Circuits

Giorgos Armeniakos, Georgios Zervakis, Dimitrios Soudris +2

Printed electronics (PE) feature low non-recurring engineering costs and low per unit-area fabrication costs, enabling thus extremely low-cost and on-demand hardware. Such low-cost…

cs.LG2022★ 53 cited

AdaPT: Fast Emulation of Approximate DNN Accelerators in PyTorch

Dimitrios Danopoulos, Georgios Zervakis, Kostas Siozios +2

Current state-of-the-art employs approximate multipliers to address the highly increased power demands of DNN accelerators. However, evaluating the accuracy of approximate DNNs is…

cs.LG2021★ 32 cited

Control Variate Approximation for DNN Accelerators

Georgios Zervakis, Ourania Spantidi, Iraklis Anagnostopoulos +2

In this work, we introduce a control variate approximation technique for low error approximate Deep Neural Network (DNN) accelerators. The control variate technique is used in Mont…