Accelerating machine learning at the edge with approximate computing on FPGAs

 

保存先:
書誌詳細
著者: León-Vega, Luis Gerardo, Salazar-Villalobos, Eduardo, Castro-Godínez, Jorge
フォーマット: artículo original
状態:Versión publicada
出版日付:2022
その他の書誌記述:Performing inference of complex machine learning (ML) algorithms at the edge is becoming important to unlink the system functionality from the cloud. However, the ML models increase complexity faster than the available hardware resources. This research aims to accelerate machine learning by offloading the computation to low-end FPGAs and using approximate computing techniques to optimise resource usage, taking advantage of the inaccurate nature of machine learning models. In this paper, we propose a generic matrix multiply-add processing element design, parameterised in datatype, matrix size, and data width. We evaluate the resource consumption and error behaviour while varying the matrix size and the data width given a fixed-point data type. We determine that the error scales with the matrix size, but it can be compensated by increasing the data width, posing a trade-off between data width and matrix size with respect to the error.
国:RepositorioTEC
機関:Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
Repositorio:RepositorioTEC
言語:Inglés
Español
OAI Identifier:oai:repositoriotec.tec.ac.cr:2238/14689
オンライン・アクセス:https://revistas.tec.ac.cr/index.php/tec_marcha/article/view/6491
https://hdl.handle.net/2238/14689
Access Level:acceso abierto
キーワード:Approximate computing
edge computing
machine learning
neural networks
linear algebra
Computación aproximada
computación periférica
aprendizaje por computador
redes neuronales
álgebra lineal