no code implementations • 12 Feb 2024 • Elena Ferro, Athanasios Vasilopoulos, Corey Lammie, Manuel Le Gallo, Luca Benini, Irem Boybat, Abu Sebastian
Analog In-Memory Computing (AIMC) is an emerging technology for fast and energy-efficient Deep Learning (DL) inference.
1 code implementation • 17 May 2023 • Hadjer Benmeziane, Corey Lammie, Irem Boybat, Malte Rasch, Manuel Le Gallo, Hsinyu Tsai, Ramachandran Muralidhar, Smail Niar, Ouarnoughi Hamza, Vijay Narayanan, Abu Sebastian, Kaoutar El Maghraoui
Digital processors based on typical von Neumann architectures are not conducive to edge AI given the large amounts of required data movement in and out of memory.
no code implementations • 21 Sep 2022 • Dominique J. Kösters, Bryan A. Kortman, Irem Boybat, Elena Ferro, Sagar Dolas, Roberto de Austri, Johan Kwisthout, Hans Hilgenkamp, Theo Rasing, Heike Riel, Abu Sebastian, Sascha Caron, Johan H. Mentink
The massive use of artificial neural networks (ANNs), increasingly popular in many areas of scientific computing, rapidly increases the energy consumption of modern high-performance computing systems.
no code implementations • 4 Jan 2022 • Angelo Garofalo, Gianmarco Ottavi, Francesco Conti, Geethan Karunaratne, Irem Boybat, Luca Benini, Davide Rossi
Furthermore, we explore the requirements for end-to-end inference of a full mobile-grade DNN (MobileNetV2) in terms of IMC array resources, by scaling up our heterogeneous architecture to a multi-array accelerator.
no code implementations • 10 Nov 2021 • Chuteng Zhou, Fernando Garcia Redondo, Julian Büchel, Irem Boybat, Xavier Timoneda Comas, S. R. Nandakumar, Shidhartha Das, Abu Sebastian, Manuel Le Gallo, Paul N. Whatmough
We also describe AON-CiM, a programmable, minimal-area phase-change memory (PCM) analog CiM accelerator, with a novel layer-serial approach to remove the cost of complex interconnects associated with a fully-pipelined design.
no code implementations • 25 Mar 2020 • Vinay Joshi, Geethan Karunaratne, Manuel Le Gallo, Irem Boybat, Christophe Piveteau, Abu Sebastian, Bipin Rajendran, Evangelos Eleftheriou
Strategies to improve the efficiency of MVM computation in hardware have been demonstrated with minimal impact on training accuracy.
no code implementations • 7 Jun 2019 • Vinay Joshi, Manuel Le Gallo, Irem Boybat, Simon Haefeli, Christophe Piveteau, Martino Dazzi, Bipin Rajendran, Abu Sebastian, Evangelos Eleftheriou
In-memory computing is a promising non-von Neumann approach where certain computational tasks are performed within memory units by exploiting the physical attributes of memory devices.
Emerging Technologies
no code implementations • 28 May 2019 • S. R. Nandakumar, Irem Boybat, Manuel Le Gallo, Evangelos Eleftheriou, Abu Sebastian, Bipin Rajendran
Combining the computational potential of supervised SNNs with the parallel compute power of computational memory, the work paves the way for next-generation of efficient brain-inspired systems.
no code implementations • 17 Jun 2017 • Timoleon Moraitis, Abu Sebastian, Irem Boybat, Manuel Le Gallo, Tomas Tuma, Evangelos Eleftheriou
However, some spike-timing-related strengths of SNNs are hindered by the sensitivity of spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) rules to input spike rates, as fine temporal correlations may be obstructed by coarser correlations between firing rates.