Computer Architecture
CPU/GPU design, memory systems, and hardware accelerators
20 papers indexed
FlexViT: A Flexible FPGA-based Accelerator for Edge Vision Transformers
Hubert Dymarkowski, Xingjian Fu, Rappy Saha, Jude Haris +1 more
This paper presents FlexViT, a reconfigurable FPGA accelerator for efficient Vision Transformer (ViT) inference on edge devices, achieving up to 2.74x speedup on accelerator-executed layers.
OpenEye: A Scalable Open-Source Hardware Accelerator for DNNs
OpenEye is a scalable, sparsity-aware FPGA-based hardware accelerator designed to efficiently execute common deep neural network operations, demonstrating favorable performance-resource trade-offs acr…
Sparse by Command: Task-Conditional Compute Skipping for Multi-Task Inference Accelerators
Afzal Ahmad, Gaoyu Mao, Shoubo Hu, Hui-Ling Zhen +3 more
A co-designed hardware-software approach for task-conditional sparsity in multi-task inference models, reducing FLOPs, latency, and energy.
Triple-Hoisted Baby-Step Giant-Step Linear Transformation over CKKS Homomorphic Encryption and Hardware Accelerator
The paper proposes a novel triple-hoisted baby-step giant-step algorithm and a memory-optimized FPGA accelerator to significantly reduce the ciphertext rotations and off-chip memory access latency whe…
A Heterogeneous Neural Network Accelerator for End-to-End Multitask RF Signal Recognition
This paper proposes a heterogeneous neural network accelerator for multi-task RF signal recognition, achieving high accuracy and low latency for automatic modulation recognition, hardware-Trojan cover…
RAMSES: Secure high-performance computing for sensitive data
Peter Heger, Lech Nieroda, Roland Pabel, Christoph Stollwerk +6 more
RAMSES is a new HPC system that integrates hardware-based memory encryption and state-of-the-art file encryption to deliver high performance and robust security.
On-Device Generative AI for GDPR-Compliant Visual Monitoring: Natural Language Alerts from Local Object Detection
The paper proposes a privacy-preserving visual monitoring system that performs object detection and generates natural language alerts entirely on an edge device, ensuring GDPR compliance by never tran…
Feasibility of Time-Domain DNN-Based Speech Enhancement on Embedded FPGA for Hearing Aid
This paper characterizes the gap between current DNN-based speech enhancement systems and hearing aid constraints, and proposes a lightweight architecture to meet these constraints.
Rotary GPU: Exploring Local Execution Paths for Large Mixture-of-Experts Models Under Limited GPU Memory
The paper introduces Rotary GPU, an exploratory execution approach demonstrating that large Mixture-of-Experts models can be run locally on consumer GPUs with limited VRAM, achieving usable decode thr…
HASTE: Hardware-Aware Dynamic Sparse Training for Large Output Spaces
HASTE introduces group-shared fixed fan-in sparsity for multi-label classification, achieving significant wall-clock speedups (up to 25x in backward pass) by enabling efficient GPU execution while mai…
ArchEval: Measuring AI Agents as Computer Architects
Chenyu Wang, Zishen Wan, Jeffrey Ma, Shvetank Prakash +7 more
This paper introduces ArchEval, a benchmark and platform for evaluating LLM agents on computer architecture design and optimization.
Model-Native Computing Architecture: Envisioning Future System Architecture Through the Lens of Computer Architecture
The paper proposes the Intelligent Computing Architecture Model (ICAM), a six-layer framework that unifies disparate concepts in model-native computing by viewing the LLM stack through a dual-plane ar…
HE^2: A Communication-Light Heterogeneous Architecture for Efficient Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Shangyi Shi, Husheng Han, Zhaoxuan Kan, Yinghao Yang +7 more
The paper proposes $HE^2$, a novel communication-light heterogeneous accelerator architecture that significantly improves the efficiency of Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) by optimizing dataflow an…
HE^2: A Communication-Light Heterogeneous Architecture for Efficient Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Shangyi Shi, Husheng Han, Zhaoxuan Kan, Yinghao Yang +7 more
The paper proposes $HE^2$, a novel communication-light heterogeneous accelerator architecture that significantly improves the efficiency of Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) by optimizing dataflow an…
AIGOR: A Modular, Event-Driven Neuromorphic Architecture for Configurable SNN Inference
A modular, event-driven neuromorphic architecture for spiking neural network inference is presented, allowing for flexible configuration of neuron model, precision, and partitioning.
HLSmith: An Expert-Guided Agentic Framework for C/C++-to-HLS Translation
Yuebo Luo, Ahmad Sedigh Baroughi, Philip Stachura, Le Chen +3 more
HLSmith is a framework that uses expert-guided techniques to translate C/C++ programs into optimized FPGA accelerators using HLS.
PoSME: Proof of Sequential Memory Execution via Latency-Bound Pointer Chasing with Causal Hash Binding
The paper introduces PoSME, a cryptographic primitive that enforces strict sequential memory execution by chaining data-dependent writes, providing verifiable delay and authorship attestation.
TileLens: Efficiently Using Large-Granularity Memory Systems with Transparent Two-Dimensional Memory Layout
Jae Hyung Ju, Euijun Chung, Hritvik Taneja, Anish Saxena +3 more
This paper proposes TileLens, a system to mitigate read amplification in Large-Granularity Memory Systems (LGMS) for Large Language Model (LLM) inference by adopting a tile-major layout.
DGNA: Dissecting GPU NUMA Architecture through Microbenchmarking and Data Analysis
This paper introduces DGNA, a methodology to unveil the Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) architecture of GPU memory hierarchy through microbenchmarking and data analysis.
Do We Really Need Quantum Machine Learning?: A Multidimensional Empirical Study
This study empirically benchmarks classical and quantum machine learning models for image recognition, finding that while quantum models offer superior accuracy and resource efficiency at high dimensi…