General Reuse-Centric CNN Accelerator
Nihat Mert Cicek, Ning Lin, Özcan Öztürk, Xipeng Shen · IEEE Transactions on Computers · 2021
This article introduces the firstgeneral reuse-centric acceleratorfor CNN inferences. Unlike prior work that exploits similarities only across consecutive video frames,general reuse-centric acceleratoris able to discover similarities among arbitrary patches within an image or across independent images, and translate them into computation time and energy savings. Experiments show that the accelerator complements both prior software-based CNN and various CNN hardware accelerators, producing up to 14.96X speedups for similarity discovery, up to 2.70X speedups for overall inference.