10 papers
Breaking the Reward Barrier: Accelerating Tree-of-Thought Reasoning via Speculative Exploration
Shuzhang Zhong, Haochen Huang, Shengxuan Qiu +3
Tree-of-Thought (ToT) reasoning structures Large Language Model (LLM) inference as a tree-based search, demonstrating strong potential for solving complex mathematical and programm…
Aging Aware Adaptive Voltage Scaling for Reliable and Efficient AI Accelerators
Tong Xie, Zuodong Zhang, Chao Yang +3
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have showcased remarkable performance across various tasks and are widely deployed on AI accelerators fabricated in advanced technology nodes for effici…
The Quest for Reliable AI Accelerators: Cross-Layer Evaluation and Design Optimization
Meng Li, Tong Xie, Zuodong Zhang +1
As the CMOS technology pushes to the nanoscale, aging effects and process variations have become increasingly pronounced, posing significant reliability challenges for AI accelerat…
CREATE: Cross-Layer Resilience Characterization and Optimization for Efficient yet Reliable Embodied AI Systems
Tong Xie, Yijiahao Qi, Jinqi Wen +9
Embodied Artificial Intelligence (AI) has recently attracted significant attention as it bridges AI with the physical world. Modern embodied AI systems often combine a Large Langua…
LightMamba: Efficient Mamba Acceleration on FPGA with Quantization and Hardware Co-design
Renjie Wei, Songqiang Xu, Linfeng Zhong +5
State space models (SSMs) like Mamba have recently attracted much attention. Compared to Transformer-based large language models (LLMs), Mamba achieves linear computation complexit…
Breaking the Layer Barrier: Remodeling Private Transformer Inference with Hybrid CKKS and MPC
Tianshi Xu, Wen-jie Lu, Jiangrui Yu +4
This paper presents an efficient framework for private Transformer inference that combines Homomorphic Encryption (HE) and Secure Multi-party Computation (MPC) to protect data priv…