Title
Agile Autotuning of a Transprecision Tensor Accelerator Overlay for TVM Compiler Stack
Abstract
Specialized accelerators for tensor-operations, such as blocked-matrix operations and multi-dimensional convolutions, have emerged as powerful architecture choices for high-performance Deep-Learning computing. The rapid development of frameworks, models, and precision options challenges the adaptability of such tensor-accelerators since the adaptation to new requirements incurs significant engineering costs. Programmable tensor accelerators offer a promising alternative by allowing reconfiguration of a virtual architecture that overlays on top of the physical FPGA configurable fabric. We propose an overlay (τ-VTA) and an optimization method guided by agile-inspired auto-tuning techniques. We achieve higher performance of up to 2.5x and faster convergence of up to 8.1x.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/FPL50879.2020.00058
2020 30th International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Autotuning, FPGA, Transprecision Computing, Tensor Accelerator
Conference
978-1-7281-9902-3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dionysios Diamantopoulos1267.11
Ringlein Burkhard200.34
Mitra Purandare3815.49
Gagandeep Singh47811.52
Christoph Hagleitner510820.84