Session
An Approximate World from Neurons to Genomes
Session Chair
Event TypeResearch Manuscript
Presented In-Person
Approximate Computing for AI/ML
Design
TimeWednesday, December 8th10:30am - 12:00pm PST
Location3014
DescriptionThe session features recent advancements in applying approximate computing techniques to different computing paradigms pertaining to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, including hyperdimensional systems, spiking neural networks, probabilistic programming, and compressed video analytics. The techniques proposed include new encoding schemes, fixed-point quantization approaches, training methodologies, and compiler frameworks. The techniques have demonstrated significant improvement in both energy consumption and performance across various end-applications.
Presentations
| 10:30am - 10:50am PST | Statheros: Compiler for Efficient Low-Precision Probabilistic Programming | |
| 10:50am - 11:10am PST | TCL: an ANN-to-SNN Conversion with Trainable Clipping Layers | |
| 11:10am - 11:30am PST | MOVED TO VIRTUAL: Scaling up HBM Efficiency of Top-K SpMV for Approximate Embedding Similarity on FPGAs | |
| 11:30am - 11:50am PST | Exact Neural Networks from Inexact Multipliers via Fibonacci Weight Encoding |


