A review of binarized neural networks

T Simons, DJ Lee - Electronics, 2019 - mdpi.com
In this work, we review Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs). BNNs are deep neural networks
that use binary values for activations and weights, instead of full precision values. With …

An energy-efficient reconfigurable processor for binary-and ternary-weight neural networks with flexible data bit width

S Yin, P Ouyang, J Yang, T Lu, X Li… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to less memory requirement, low computation overhead and negligible accuracy
degradation, deep neural networks with binary/ternary weights (BTNNs) have been widely …

High-throughput convolutional neural network on an FPGA by customized JPEG compression

H Nakahara, Z Que, W Luk - 2020 IEEE 28th Annual …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The growing interest in using FPGAs to accelerate convolutional neural network (CNN)
workloads is driving the deployment of FPGAs on cloud services such as Amazon AWS and …

Low power tiny binary neural network with improved accuracy in human recognition systems

A De Vita, D Pau, L Di Benedetto… - 2020 23rd Euromicro …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Human Activity Recognition requires very high accuracy to be effectively employed into
practical applications, ranging from elderly care to microsurgical devices. The highest …

A partially binarized hybrid neural network system for low-power and resource constrained human activity recognition

A De Vita, A Russo, D Pau… - … on Circuits and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A custom Human Activity Recognition system is presented based on the resource-
constrained Hardware (HW) implementation of a new partially binarized Hybrid Neural …

unzipFPGA: Enhancing FPGA-based CNN engines with on-the-fly weights generation

SI Venieris, J Fernandez-Marques… - 2021 IEEE 29th Annual …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Single computation engines have become a popular design choice for FPGA-based
convolutional neural networks (CNNs) enabling the deployment of diverse models without …

Mitigating Memory Wall Effects in CNN Engines with On-the-Fly Weights Generation

SI Venieris, J Fernandez-Marques… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The unprecedented accuracy of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) across a broad
range of AI tasks has led to their widespread deployment in mobile and embedded settings …

Efficient design of low bitwidth convolutional neural networks on FPGA with optimized dot product units

M Véstias, RP Duarte, JT de Sousa… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Designing hardware accelerators to run the inference of convolutional neural networks
(CNN) is under intensive research. Several different architectures have been proposed …

Redbit: An end-to-end flexible framework for evaluating the accuracy of quantized cnns

A Santos, JD Ferreira, O Mutlu, G Falcao - arxiv preprint arxiv:2301.06193, 2023 - arxiv.org
In recent years, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become the standard class of
deep neural network for image processing, classification and segmentation tasks. However …

Accurate and energy efficient ad-hoc neural network for wafer map classification

A Pinzari, T Baumela, L Andrade, M Martin… - Journal of Intelligent …, 2024 - Springer
Yield is key to profitability in semiconductor manufacturing and controlling the fabrication
process is therefore a key duty for engineers in silicon foundries. Analyzing the distribution …