Towards Budget-Driven Hardware Optimization for Deep Convolutional Neural Networks using Stochastic Computing

no code implementations • 10 May 2018 • Zhe Li, Ji Li, Ao Ren, Caiwen Ding, Jeffrey Draper, Qinru Qiu, Bo Yuan, Yanzhi Wang

Recently, Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) has achieved tremendous success in many machine learning applications.

Hardware-Driven Nonlinear Activation for Stochastic Computing Based Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

no code implementations • 12 Mar 2017 • Ji Li, Zihao Yuan, Zhe Li, Caiwen Ding, Ao Ren, Qinru Qiu, Jeffrey Draper, Yanzhi Wang

Recently, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) have made unprecedented progress, achieving the accuracy close to, or even better than human-level perception in various tasks.