no code implementations • 15 Oct 2020 • Omar Mohamed Awad, Mostafa Mahmoud, Isak Edo, Ali Hadi Zadeh, Ciaran Bannon, Anand Jayarajan, Gennady Pekhimenko, Andreas Moshovos
We demonstrate that FPRaker can be used to compose an accelerator for training and that it can improve performance and energy efficiency compared to using conventional floating-point units under ISO-compute area constraints.
no code implementations • 8 Feb 2020 • Miloš Nikolić, Ghouthi Boukli Hacene, Ciaran Bannon, Alberto Delmas Lascorz, Matthieu Courbariaux, Yoshua Bengio, Vincent Gripon, Andreas Moshovos
Neural networks have demonstrably achieved state-of-the art accuracy using low-bitlength integer quantization, yielding both execution time and energy benefits on existing hardware designs that support short bitlengths.