PointODE: Lightweight Point Cloud Learning with Neural Ordinary Differential Equations on Edge
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| author | Sugiura, Keisuke Yasuda, Mizuki Matsutani, Hiroki |
| author_facet | Sugiura, Keisuke Yasuda, Mizuki Matsutani, Hiroki |
| contents | Embedded edge devices are often used as a computing platform to run real-world point cloud applications, but recent deep learning-based methods may not fit on such devices due to limited resources. In this paper, we aim to fill this gap by introducing PointODE, a parameter-efficient ResNet-like architecture for point cloud feature extraction based on a stack of MLP blocks with residual connections. We leverage Neural ODE (Ordinary Differential Equation), a continuous-depth version of ResNet originally developed for modeling the dynamics of continuous-time systems, to compress PointODE by reusing the same parameters across MLP blocks. The point-wise normalization is proposed for PointODE to handle the non-uniform distribution of feature points. We introduce PointODE-Elite as a lightweight version with 0.58M trainable parameters and design its dedicated accelerator for embedded FPGAs. The accelerator consists of a four-stage pipeline to parallelize the feature extraction for multiple points and stores the entire parameters on-chip to eliminate most of the off-chip data transfers. Compared to the ARM Cortex-A53 CPU, the accelerator implemented on a Xilinx ZCU104 board speeds up the feature extraction by 4.9x, leading to 3.7x faster inference and 3.5x better energy-efficiency. Despite the simple architecture, PointODE-Elite shows competitive accuracy to the state-of-the-art models on both synthetic and real-world classification datasets, greatly improving the trade-off between accuracy and inference cost. |
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| spellingShingle | PointODE: Lightweight Point Cloud Learning with Neural Ordinary Differential Equations on Edge Sugiura, Keisuke Yasuda, Mizuki Matsutani, Hiroki Machine Learning Hardware Architecture Embedded edge devices are often used as a computing platform to run real-world point cloud applications, but recent deep learning-based methods may not fit on such devices due to limited resources. In this paper, we aim to fill this gap by introducing PointODE, a parameter-efficient ResNet-like architecture for point cloud feature extraction based on a stack of MLP blocks with residual connections. We leverage Neural ODE (Ordinary Differential Equation), a continuous-depth version of ResNet originally developed for modeling the dynamics of continuous-time systems, to compress PointODE by reusing the same parameters across MLP blocks. The point-wise normalization is proposed for PointODE to handle the non-uniform distribution of feature points. We introduce PointODE-Elite as a lightweight version with 0.58M trainable parameters and design its dedicated accelerator for embedded FPGAs. The accelerator consists of a four-stage pipeline to parallelize the feature extraction for multiple points and stores the entire parameters on-chip to eliminate most of the off-chip data transfers. Compared to the ARM Cortex-A53 CPU, the accelerator implemented on a Xilinx ZCU104 board speeds up the feature extraction by 4.9x, leading to 3.7x faster inference and 3.5x better energy-efficiency. Despite the simple architecture, PointODE-Elite shows competitive accuracy to the state-of-the-art models on both synthetic and real-world classification datasets, greatly improving the trade-off between accuracy and inference cost. |
| title | PointODE: Lightweight Point Cloud Learning with Neural Ordinary Differential Equations on Edge |
| topic | Machine Learning Hardware Architecture |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00438 |