Publications

Here are the pointers to ZigZag-project publications.

The general idea of ZigZag

  • L. Mei, P. Houshmand, V. Jain, S. Giraldo and M. Verhelst, “ZigZag: Enlarging Joint Architecture-Mapping Design Space Exploration for DNN Accelerators,” in IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 70, no. 8, pp. 1160-1174, 1 Aug. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TC.2021.3059962. [paper]

Detailed latency model explanation

  • L. Mei, H. Liu, T. Wu, H. E. Sumbul, M. Verhelst and E. Beigne, “A Uniform Latency Model for DNN Accelerators with Diverse Architectures and Dataflows,” 2022 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), Antwerp, Belgium, 2022, pp. 220-225, doi: 10.23919/DATE54114.2022.9774728. [paper], [slides], [video]

The new temporal mapping search engine

  • A. Symons, L. Mei and M. Verhelst, “LOMA: Fast Auto-Scheduling on DNN Accelerators through Loop-Order-based Memory Allocation,” 2021 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS), Washington DC, DC, USA, 2021, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/AICAS51828.2021.9458493. [paper], [slides], [video]

Different design space exploration case studies

  • P. Houshmand, S. Cosemans, L. Mei, I. Papistas, D. Bhattacharjee, P. Debacker, A. Mallik, D. Verkest, M. Verhelst, “Opportunities and Limitations of Emerging Analog in-Memory Compute DNN Architectures,” 2020 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2020, pp. 29.1.1-29.1.4, doi: 10.1109/IEDM13553.2020.9372006. [paper], [slides], [video]

  • V. Jain, L. Mei and M. Verhelst, “Analyzing the Energy-Latency-Area-Accuracy Trade-off Across Contemporary Neural Networks,” 2021 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS), Washington DC, DC, USA, 2021, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/AICAS51828.2021.9458553. [paper], [slides], [video]

  • S. Colleman, T. Verelst, L. Mei, T. Tuytelaars and M. Verhelst, “Processor Architecture Optimization for Spatially Dynamic Neural Networks,” 2021 IFIP/IEEE 29th International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC), Singapore, Singapore, 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/VLSI-SoC53125.2021.9607013. [paper], [slides], [video]

  • S. Colleman, P. Zhu, W. Sun and M. Verhelst, “Optimizing Accelerator Configurability for Mobile Transformer Networks,” 2022 IEEE 4th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS), Incheon, Korea, Republic of, 2022, pp. 142-145, doi: 10.1109/AICAS54282.2022.9869945. [paper], [slides], [video]

Extension to support cross-layer depth-first scheduling

  • L. Mei, K. Goetschalckx, A. Symons and M. Verhelst, “ DeFiNES: Enabling Fast Exploration of the Depth-first Scheduling Space for DNN Accelerators through Analytical Modeling,” 2023 IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2023 [paper], [slides], [github]

Extension to support multi-core layer-fused scheduling

  • A. Symons, L. Mei, S. Colleman, P. Houshmand, S. Karl and M. Verhelst, “Towards Heterogeneous Multi-core Accelerators Exploiting Fine-grained Scheduling of Layer-Fused Deep Neural Networks”, <i>arXiv e-prints</i>, 2022. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2212.10612. [paper], [github]

  • S. Karl, A. Symons, N. Fasfous and M. Verhelst, “Genetic Algorithm-based Framework for Layer-Fused Scheduling of Multiple DNNs on Multi-core Systems,” 2023 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), Antwerp, Belgium, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.23919/DATE56975.2023.10137070. [paper], [slides], [video]