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

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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…