Hardware approximate techniques for deep neural network accelerators: A survey

G Armeniakos, G Zervakis, D Soudris… - ACM Computing …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are very popular because of their high performance in
various cognitive tasks in Machine Learning (ML). Recent advancements in DNNs have …

Approximation opportunities in edge computing hardware: A systematic literature review

HJ Damsgaard, A Ometov, J Nurmi - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
With the increasing popularity of the Internet of Things and massive Machine Type
Communication technologies, the number of connected devices is rising. However, although …

Investigating hardware and software aspects in the energy consumption of machine learning: A green AI‐centric analysis

AM Yokoyama, M Ferro, FB de Paula… - Concurrency and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Much has been discussed about artificial intelligence's negative environmental impacts due
to its power‐hungry Machine Learning algorithms and CO 2 CO _2 emissions linked to this …

Energy-efficient approximate edge inference systems

SK Ghosh, A Raha, V Raghunathan - ACM Transactions on Embedded …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The rapid proliferation of the Internet of Things and the dramatic resurgence of artificial
intelligence based application workloads have led to immense interest in performing …

Approximate computing: Concepts, architectures, challenges, applications, and future directions

AM Dalloo, AJ Humaidi, AK Al Mhdawi… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The unprecedented progress in computational technologies led to a substantial proliferation
of artificial intelligence applications, notably in the era of big data and IoT devices. In the …

Approxtrain: Fast simulation of approximate multipliers for dnn training and inference

J Gong, H Saadat, H Gamaarachchi… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Edge training of deep neural networks (DNNs) is a desirable goal for continuous learning;
however, it is hindered by the enormous computational power required by training …

A quality-aware voltage overscaling framework to improve the energy efficiency and lifetime of TPUs based on statistical error modeling

A Senobari, J Vafaei, O Akbari, C Hochberger… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are a type of artificial intelligence models that are inspired by
the structure and function of the human brain, designed to process and learn from large …

AppGNN: Approximation-aware functional reverse engineering using graph neural networks

T Bücher, L Alrahis, G Paim, S Bampi… - Proceedings of the 41st …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The globalization of the Integrated Circuit (IC) market is attracting an ever-growing number
of partners, while remarkably lengthening the supply chain. Thereby, security concerns …

W-AMA: Weight-aware Approximate Multiplication Architecture for neural processing

B Liu, R Zhang, Q Shen, Z Li, N **e, Y Wang… - Computers and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents the Weight-aware Approximate Multiplication Architecture (W-AMA) for
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Considering the Gaussian-like weight distribution, it deploys …

A Survey of Approximate Computing: From Arithmetic Units Design to High-Level Applications

HH Que, Y **, T Wang, MK Liu, XH Yang… - Journal of Computer …, 2023 - Springer
Realizing a high-performance and energy-efficient circuit system is one of the critical tasks
for circuit designers. Conventional researchers always concentrated on the tradeoffs …