ShortcutFusion: From Tensorflow to FPGA-based accelerator with reuse-aware memory allocation for shortcut data

Duy Thanh Nguyen, Hyeonseung Je, Tuan Nghia Nguyen +3

Residual block is a very common component in recent state-of-the art CNNs such as EfficientNet or EfficientDet. Shortcut data accounts for nearly 40% of feature-maps access in ResN…