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Focus: A Streaming Concentration Architecture for Efficient Vision-Language Models
Chiyue Wei, Cong Guo, Junyao Zhang +8
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong performance on tasks such as video captioning and visual question answering. However, their growing scale and video-level inp…
FractalCloud: A Fractal-Inspired Architecture for Efficient Large-Scale Point Cloud Processing
Yuzhe Fu, Changchun Zhou, Hancheng Ye +6
Three-dimensional (3D) point clouds are increasingly used in applications such as autonomous driving, robotics, and virtual reality (VR). Point-based neural networks (PNNs) have de…
Platinum: Path-Adaptable LUT-Based Accelerator Tailored for Low-Bit Weight Matrix Multiplication
Haoxuan Shan, Cong Guo, Chiyue Wei +4
The rapid scaling of large language models demands more efficient hardware. Quantization offers a promising trade-off between efficiency and performance. With ultra-low-bit quantiz…
CAMformer: Associative Memory is All You Need
Tergel Molom-Ochir, Benjamin F. Morris, Mark Horton +8
Transformers face scalability challenges due to the quadratic cost of attention, which involves dense similarity computations between queries and keys. We propose CAMformer, a nove…
Phi: Leveraging Pattern-based Hierarchical Sparsity for High-Efficiency Spiking Neural Networks
Chiyue Wei, Bowen Duan, Cong Guo +4
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are gaining attention for their energy efficiency and biological plausibility, utilizing 0-1 activation sparsity through spike-driven computation. Wh…
AutoRAC: Automated Processing-in-Memory Accelerator Design for Recommender Systems
Feng Cheng, Tunhou Zhang, Junyao Zhang +6
The performance bottleneck of deep-learning-based recommender systems resides in their backbone Deep Neural Networks. By integrating Processing-In-Memory~(PIM) architectures, resea…