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| 1 | Introduction, role of hardware accelerators in post Dennard and Moore era （硬件加速器在后登纳-摩尔时代作用介绍） | Is Dark silicon useful?
Hennessy Patterson Chapter 7.1-7.2 |
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| 2 | Classical ML algorithms: Regression, SVMs (What is the
building block?) （经典ML算法：回归，SVMs） | TABLA |
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| 3 | Linear algebra fundamentals and accelerating linear algebra
BLAS operations
20th century techniques: Systolic arrays and MIMDs, CGRAs （线性代数基础和BLAS加速运算） | Why Systolic Architectures?
Anatomy of high performance GEMM | Linear Algebra
Accelerators |
| 4 | Evaluating Performance, Energy efficiency, Parallelism, Locality,
Memory hierarchy, Roofline model （评价性能、能效、并行度、局部性、内存层次结构,Roofline 模型） | Dark Memory |
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| 5 | Real-World Architectures: Putting it into practice Accelerating GEMM: Custom, GPU, TPU1 architectures and their GEMM performance （现实世界的架构:将其付诸实践加速GEMM:自定义、GPU、TPU1架构和它们的GEMM性能。） | Google TPU
Codesign Tradeoffs
NVIDIA Tesla V100 |
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| 6 | Neural networks: MLPs and CNNs Inference （神经网络：MLP和CNN推断） | Viviense IEEE proceeding
Brooks’s book (Selected Chapters) | CNN Inference
Accelerators |
| 7 | Accelerating Inference for CNNs:
Blocking and Parallelism in practice DianNao, Eyeriss, TPU1 （加速对CNNs的推理:在实践中阻塞和并行。 DianNao、Eyeriss TPU1） | Systematic Approach to Blocking
Eyeriss
Google TPU (see lecture 5) |
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| 8 | Modeling neural networks with Spatial, Analyzing
performance and energy with Spatial （以空间为基础的神经网络建模，分析性能和空间能量） | Spatial
One related work |
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| 9 | Training: SGD, back propagation, statistical efficiency, batch size （训练：SGD， ）反向传播， | NIPS workshop last year
Graphcore | Training
Accelerators |
| 10 | Resilience of DNNs: Sparsity and Low Precision Networks （DNNs的弹性能力:稀疏性和低精度网络）
| Some theory paper
EIE
Flexpoint of Nervana
Boris Ginsburg: paper, presentation
LSTM Block Compression by Baidu? |
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| 11 | Low precision training （低精度训练）
| HALP
Ternary or binary networks
See Boris Ginsburg's work (lecture 10) |
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| 12 | Training in Distributed and Parallel systems:
Hogwild!, asynchrony and hardware efficiency （分布式并行系统训练） | Deep Gradient compression
Hogwild!
Large Scale Distributed Deep Networks
Obstinate cache? |
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| 13 | FPGAs and CGRAs: Catapult, Brainwave, Plasticine （FPGA） | Catapult
Brainwave
Plasticine |
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| 14 | ML benchmarks: DAWNbench, MLPerf (机器学习基准) | DawnBench
Some other benchmark paper |
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| 15 | Project presentations |
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