A survey of techniques for approximate computing

S Mittal - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2016 - dl.acm.org
Approximate computing trades off computation quality with effort expended, and as rising
performance demands confront plateauing resource budgets, approximate computing has …

Approximate computing survey, Part I: terminology and software & hardware approximation techniques

V Leon, MA Hanif, G Armeniakos, X Jiao… - ACM Computing …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The rapid growth of demanding applications in domains applying multimedia processing
and machine learning has marked a new era for edge and cloud computing. These …

Approximate computing survey, Part II: Application-specific & architectural approximation techniques and applications

V Leon, MA Hanif, G Armeniakos, X Jiao… - ACM Computing …, 2025 - dl.acm.org
The challenging deployment of compute-intensive applications from domains such as
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Signal Processing (DSP), forces the community of …

Survey on approximate computing and its intrinsic fault tolerance

G Rodrigues, F Lima Kastensmidt, A Bosio - Electronics, 2020 - mdpi.com
This work is a survey on approximate computing and its impact on fault tolerance, especially
for safety-critical applications. It presents a multitude of approximation methodologies, which …

Approximate communication: Techniques for reducing communication bottlenecks in large-scale parallel systems

F Betzel, K Khatamifard, H Suresh, DJ Lilja… - ACM Computing …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Approximate computing has gained research attention recently as a way to increase energy
efficiency and/or performance by exploiting some applications' intrinsic error resiliency …

A reconfiguration algorithm for power-aware parallel applications

D De Sensi, M Torquati, M Danelutto - ACM Transactions on Architecture …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
In current computing systems, many applications require guarantees on their maximum
power consumption to not exceed the available power budget. On the other hand, for some …

Phase-aware optimization in approximate computing

S Mitra, MK Gupta, S Misailovic… - 2017 IEEE/ACM …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper shows that many applications exhibit execution-phase-specific sensitivity
towards approximation of the internal subcomputations. Therefore, approximation in certain …

HPAC: evaluating approximate computing techniques on HPC OpenMP applications

K Parasyris, G Georgakoudis, H Menon… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
As we approach the limits of Moore's law, researchers are exploring new paradigms for
future high-performance computing (HPC) systems. Approximate computing has gained …

Test and reliability in approximate computing

L Anghel, M Benabdenbi, A Bosio, M Traiola… - Journal of Electronic …, 2018 - Springer
This paper presents an overview of test and reliability approaches for approximate
computing architectures. We focus on how specific methods for test and reliability can be …

Approximate computing through the lens of uncertainty quantification

K Parasyris, J Diffenderfer, H Menon… - … Conference for High …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As computer system technology approaches the end of Moore's law, new computing
paradigms that improve performance become a necessity. One such paradigm is …