AxTrain: Hardware-oriented neural network training for approximate inference

X He, L Ke, W Lu, G Yan, X Zhang - … on low power electronics and design, 2018 - dl.acm.org
The intrinsic error tolerance of neural network (NN) makes approximate computing a
promising technique to improve the energy efficiency of NN inference. Conventional …

A network-based compute reuse architecture for IoT applications

B Nour, S Cherkaoui - arxiv preprint arxiv:2104.03818, 2021 - arxiv.org
The tremendous advancements in the Internet of Things (IoT) increasingly involve
computationally intensive services. These services often require more computation …

Probability gate model based methods for approximate arithmetic circuits reliability estimation

J Jiang, T Wang, Z Wang - CCF Transactions on High Performance …, 2021 - Springer
With the rapid development of approximate computing technology, the reliability evaluation
of approximate circuits has attracted significant interest. So far, few methods can be applied …

Failure probability analysis and critical node determination for approximate circuits

Z Wang, J Jiang, T Wang - Integration, 2019 - Elsevier
Approximate circuits (ACs) relax the constraint of 100% functional correctness, and can be
utilized in many emerging applications, which increases the importance of their reliability …

Measuring compute-reuse opportunities for video processing acceleration

A Willis, H Tabkhi, M Mendieta, C Neff - 2019 SoutheastCon, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Increases in bandwidth for mobile and land-line networks enables devices to communicate
video at higher image and audio resolution. Processing these video streams is of interest for …

Low-power parallel data processing using computation reuse

B Dabiri, SHSA Rezaei, M Modarressi - Proceedings of the 7th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
A wide range of real-world applications, including DSP, deep learning, multimedia, and
scientific algorithms generally include fixed-point and floating-point arithmetic operations …

RiskCap: Minimizing effort of error regulation for approximate computing

S Jiang, J Li, X He, G Yan, X Zhang… - 2018 IEEE 27th Asian …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quality management, which is responsible for controlling approximation quality to meet user
requirement, plays a key role in the applicability of approximate computing. An effective and …