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: A survey

Q Xu, T Mytkowicz, NS Kim - IEEE Design & Test, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As one of the most promising energy-efficient computing paradigms, approximate computing
has gained a lot of research attention in the past few years. This paper presents a survey of …

Approximate designs for fast Fourier transform (FFT) with application to speech recognition

W Liu, Q Liao, F Qiao, W **a, C Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents different approximate designs for computing the FFT. The tradeoff
between accuracy and performance is achieved by adjusting the word length in each …

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

V Leon, MA Hanif, G Armeniakos, X Jiao… - ACM Computing …, 2023 - 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 …

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 …

Approximate softmax functions for energy-efficient deep neural networks

K Chen, Y Gao, H Waris, W Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing has emerged as a new paradigm that provides power-efficient and
high-performance arithmetic designs by relaxing the stringent requirement of accuracy …

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 …

Circuit-level techniques for logic and memory blocks in approximate computing systemsx

S Amanollahi, M Kamal, A Afzali-Kusha… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents an overview of circuit-level techniques used for approximate computing
(AC), including both computation and data storage units. After providing some background …

Flexfloat: A software library for transprecision computing

G Tagliavini, A Marongiu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years approximate computing has been extensively explored as a paradigm to
design hardware and software solutions that save energy by trading off on the quality of the …