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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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…
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.
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.
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…
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.
HE-PIM: Demystifying Homomorphic Operations on a Real-world Processing-in-Memory System
Harshita Gupta, Mayank Kabra, Jaewoo Park, Priyam Mehta +8 more
The paper characterizes Homomorphic Encryption (HE) operations on a real-world Processing-In-Memory (PIM) system, demonstrating that while PIM is a viable alternative to CPUs/GPUs, performance is limi…