Exploiting errors for efficiency: A survey from circuits to applications

P Stanley-Marbell, A Alaghi, M Carbin… - ACM Computing …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
When a computational task tolerates a relaxation of its specification or when an algorithm
tolerates the effects of noise in its execution, hardware, system software, and programming …

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 …

High-level synthesis design space exploration: Past, present, and future

BC Schafer, Z Wang - … on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a survey of the different modern high-level synthesis (HLS) design
space exploration (DSE) techniques that have been proposed so far to automatically …

Approximate logic synthesis: A survey

I Scarabottolo, G Ansaloni… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing is an emerging paradigm that, by relaxing the requirement for full
accuracy, offers benefits in terms of design area and power consumption. This paradigm is …

Unsupervised learning for combinatorial optimization with principled objective relaxation

HP Wang, N Wu, H Yang, C Hao… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Using machine learning to solve combinatorial optimization (CO) problems is challenging,
especially when the data is unlabeled. This work proposes an unsupervised learning …

Approximate hybrid high radix encoding for energy-efficient inexact multipliers

V Leon, G Zervakis, D Soudris… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing forms a design alternative that exploits the intrinsic error resilience
of various applications and produces energy-efficient circuits with small accuracy loss. In this …

Weight-oriented approximation for energy-efficient neural network inference accelerators

ZG Tasoulas, G Zervakis… - … on Circuits and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current research in the area of Neural Networks (NN) has resulted in performance
advancements for a variety of complex problems. Especially, embedded system applications …

autoax: An automatic design space exploration and circuit building methodology utilizing libraries of approximate components

V Mrazek, MA Hanif, Z Vasicek, L Sekanina… - Proceedings of the 56th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Approximate computing is an emerging paradigm for develo** highly energy-efficient
computing systems such as various accelerators. In the literature, many libraries of …

High-level synthesis of approximate hardware under joint precision and voltage scaling

S Lee, LK John, A Gerstlauer - … & Test in Europe Conference & …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, approximate computing has emerged as a promising approach to trade off
quality of computed outputs for energy savings. In this paper, we present an approximate …

BLASYS: Approximate logic synthesis using Boolean matrix factorization

S Hashemi, H Tann, S Reda - Proceedings of the 55th Annual Design …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Approximate computing is an emerging paradigm where design accuracy can be traded off
for benefits in design metrics such as design area, power consumption or circuit complexity …