9 papers
ScaleLUT: A Fully-Parallel Configurable LUT-Based Accelerator for Real-Time Multi-Scale Super-Resolution
Boyu Li, Chenchen Ding, Zhilin Ai +7
Real-time super-resolution (SR) remains challenging for edge devices because deep-learning-based methods require substantial multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations, resources, and po…
FluxBin: Flexible LUT-based Ultra-low-bit LLM Inference by Algorithm-Kernel Synergy
Qingyao Yang, Runming Yang, He Xiao +7
While binary quantization theoretically promises extreme compression and acceleration for Large Language Models (LLMs), existing research often overlooks the necessity of specializ…
Hybrid-LUT: Channel-Aware Hybrid Lookup Table and Filtering for Efficient Image Denoising
Zhilin Ai, Boyu Li, Sidi Yang +5
Lookup table (LUT)-based image denoising methods have attracted increasing attention due to their high efficiency and hardware-friendly properties. However, existing RGB-LUT approa…
CktFormalizer: Autoformalization of Natural Language into Circuit Representations
Jing Xiong, Qi Han, Chenchen Ding +5
Hardware infrastructure is a critical bottleneck for LLM-driven circuit design, limiting what agents can express, compile, and iteratively refine within an agentic loop. To address…
Model Evolution Under Zeroth-Order Optimization: A Neural Tangent Kernel Perspective
Chen Zhang, Yuxin Cheng, Chenchen Ding +5
Zeroth-order (ZO) optimization enables memory-efficient training of neural networks by estimating gradients via forward passes only, eliminating the need for backpropagation. Howev…
Can We Trust LLMs on Memristors? Diving into Reasoning Ability under Non-Ideality
Taiqiang Wu, Yuxin Cheng, Chenchen Ding +5
Memristor-based analog compute-in-memory (CIM) architectures provide a promising substrate for the efficient deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs), owing to superior energy ef…
Perspective-aware 3D Gaussian Inpainting with Multi-view Consistency
Yuxin Cheng, Binxiao Huang, Taiqiang Wu +5
3D Gaussian inpainting, a critical technique for numerous applications in virtual reality and multimedia, has made significant progress with pretrained diffusion models. However, e…
HaLoRA: Hardware-aware Low-Rank Adaptation for Large Language Models Based on Hybrid Compute-in-Memory Architecture
Taiqiang Wu, Chenchen Ding, Wenyong Zhou +7
Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) is a predominant parameter-efficient finetuning method for adapting large language models (LLMs) to downstream tasks. Meanwhile, Compute-in-Memory (CIM)…
Outlier-Aware Training for Low-Bit Quantization of Structural Re-Parameterized Networks
Muqun Niu, Yuan Ren, Boyu Li +1
Lightweight design of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) requires co-design efforts in the model architectures and compression techniques. As a novel design paradigm that separat…