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most citedAutomatic heterogeneous quantization of deep neural networks for low-latency inference on the edge for particle detectors

196 citations · 1.1k across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

cs.LG2026

AIE4ML: An End-to-End Framework for Compiling Neural Networks for the Next Generation of AMD AI Engines

Dimitrios Danopoulos, Enrico Lupi, Chang Sun +4

Efficient AI inference on AMD's Versal AI Engine (AIE) is challenging due to tightly coupled VLIW execution, explicit datapaths, and local memory management. Prior work focused on…

hep-ex2025

It's not a FAD: first results in using Flows for unsupervised Anomaly Detection at 40 MHz at the Large Hadron Collider

Francesco Vaselli, Chang Sun, Thea Aarrestad +7

We present the first implementation of a Continuous Normalizing Flow (CNF) model for unsupervised anomaly detection within the realistic, high-rate environment of the Large Hadron…

cs.LG2024★ 6 cited

HGQ: High Granularity Quantization for Real-time Neural Networks on FPGAs

Chang Sun, Zhiqiang Que, Thea K. Årrestad +4

Neural networks with sub-microsecond inference latency are required by many critical applications. Targeting such applications deployed on FPGAs, we present High Granularity Quanti…

hep-ex2024★ 10 cited

Ultrafast jet classification on FPGAs for the HL-LHC

Patrick Odagiu, Zhiqiang Que, Javier Duarte +13

Three machine learning models are used to perform jet origin classification. These models are optimized for deployment on a field-programmable gate array device. In this context, w…

cs.AR2023★ 8 cited

FPGA Resource-aware Structured Pruning for Real-Time Neural Networks

Benjamin Ramhorst, Vladimir Loncar, George A. Constantinides

Neural networks achieve state-of-the-art performance in image classification, speech recognition, scientific analysis and many more application areas. Due to the high computational…

cs.LG2023★ 14 cited

Symbolic Regression on FPGAs for Fast Machine Learning Inference

Ho Fung Tsoi, Adrian Alan Pol, Vladimir Loncar +7

The high-energy physics community is investigating the potential of deploying machine-learning-based solutions on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to enhance physics sensitiv…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

Tailor: Altering Skip Connections for Resource-Efficient Inference

Olivia Weng, Gabriel Marcano, Vladimir Loncar +7

Deep neural networks use skip connections to improve training convergence. However, these skip connections are costly in hardware, requiring extra buffers and increasing on- and of…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Ultra-low latency recurrent neural network inference on FPGAs for physics applications with hls4ml

Elham E Khoda, Dylan Rankin, Rafael Teixeira de Lima +10

Recurrent neural networks have been shown to be effective architectures for many tasks in high energy physics, and thus have been widely adopted. Their use in low-latency environme…

cs.LG2022★ 9 cited

QONNX: Representing Arbitrary-Precision Quantized Neural Networks

Alessandro Pappalardo, Yaman Umuroglu, Michaela Blott +11

We present extensions to the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) intermediate representation format to represent arbitrary-precision quantized neural networks. We first introduce s…

cs.CV2022

Real-time semantic segmentation on FPGAs for autonomous vehicles with hls4ml

Nicolò Ghielmetti, Vladimir Loncar, Maurizio Pierini +8

In this paper, we investigate how field programmable gate arrays can serve as hardware accelerators for real-time semantic segmentation tasks relevant for autonomous driving. Consi…

hep-ex2022

Lightweight Jet Reconstruction and Identification as an Object Detection Task

Adrian Alan Pol, Thea Aarrestad, Ekaterina Govorkova +8

We apply object detection techniques based on deep convolutional blocks to end-to-end jet identification and reconstruction tasks encountered at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC…

physics.ins-det2021★ 77 cited

Autoencoders on FPGAs for real-time, unsupervised new physics detection at 40 MHz at the Large Hadron Collider

Ekaterina Govorkova, Ema Puljak, Thea Aarrestad +11

In this paper, we show how to adapt and deploy anomaly detection algorithms based on deep autoencoders, for the unsupervised detection of new physics signatures in the extremely ch…

cs.LG2021★ 24 cited

Accelerating Recurrent Neural Networks for Gravitational Wave Experiments

Zhiqiang Que, Erwei Wang, Umar Marikar +10

This paper presents novel reconfigurable architectures for reducing the latency of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) that are used for detecting gravitational waves. Gravitational i…

physics.ins-det2021★ 56 cited

A reconfigurable neural network ASIC for detector front-end data compression at the HL-LHC

Giuseppe Di Guglielmo, Farah Fahim, Christian Herwig +15

Despite advances in the programmable logic capabilities of modern trigger systems, a significant bottleneck remains in the amount of data to be transported from the detector to off…

hep-ex2021★ 4 cited

Jet Single Shot Detection

Adrian Alan Pol, Thea Aarrestad, Katya Govorkova +8

We apply object detection techniques based on Convolutional Neural Networks to jet reconstruction and identification at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. In particular, we focus on C…

cs.LG2021★ 8 cited

hls4ml: An Open-Source Codesign Workflow to Empower Scientific Low-Power Machine Learning Devices

Farah Fahim, Benjamin Hawks, Christian Herwig +27

Accessible machine learning algorithms, software, and diagnostic tools for energy-efficient devices and systems are extremely valuable across a broad range of application domains.…

cs.LG2021★ 131 cited

Fast convolutional neural networks on FPGAs with hls4ml

Thea Aarrestad, Vladimir Loncar, Nicolò Ghielmetti +17

We introduce an automated tool for deploying ultra low-latency, low-power deep neural networks with convolutional layers on FPGAs. By extending the hls4ml library, we demonstrate a…

physics.ins-det2020★ 32 cited

Accelerated Charged Particle Tracking with Graph Neural Networks on FPGAs

Aneesh Heintz, Vesal Razavimaleki, Javier Duarte +18

We develop and study FPGA implementations of algorithms for charged particle tracking based on graph neural networks. The two complementary FPGA designs are based on OpenCL, a fram…

physics.comp-ph2020

HL-LHC Computing Review: Common Tools and Community Software

HEP Software Foundation, :, Thea Aarrestad +107

Common and community software packages, such as ROOT, Geant4 and event generators have been a key part of the LHC's success so far and continued development and optimisation will b…

physics.ins-det2020★ 50 cited

Distance-Weighted Graph Neural Networks on FPGAs for Real-Time Particle Reconstruction in High Energy Physics

Yutaro Iiyama, Gianluca Cerminara, Abhijay Gupta +19

Graph neural networks have been shown to achieve excellent performance for several crucial tasks in particle physics, such as charged particle tracking, jet tagging, and clustering…

physics.ins-det2020★ 196 cited

Automatic heterogeneous quantization of deep neural networks for low-latency inference on the edge for particle detectors

Claudionor N. Coelho, Aki Kuusela, Shan Li +7

Although the quest for more accurate solutions is pushing deep learning research towards larger and more complex algorithms, edge devices demand efficient inference and therefore r…

cs.LG2020★ 114 cited

Compressing deep neural networks on FPGAs to binary and ternary precision with HLS4ML

Giuseppe Di Guglielmo, Javier Duarte, Philip Harris +13

We present the implementation of binary and ternary neural networks in the hls4ml library, designed to automatically convert deep neural network models to digital circuits with FPG…

physics.comp-ph2020★ 78 cited

Fast inference of Boosted Decision Trees in FPGAs for particle physics

Sioni Summers, Giuseppe Di Guglielmo, Javier Duarte +10

We describe the implementation of Boosted Decision Trees in the hls4ml library, which allows the translation of a trained model into FPGA firmware through an automated conversion p…

cond-mat.quant-gas2019★ 41 cited

C and Fortran OpenMP programs for rotating Bose-Einstein condensates

Ramavarmaraja Kishor Kumar, Vladimir Loncar, Paulsamy Muruganandam +2

We present OpenMP versions of C and Fortran programs for solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equation for a rotating trapped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in two (2D) and three (3D) spat…