POLARON: Precision-aware On-device Learning and Adaptive Runtime-cONfigurable AI acceleration

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Autores principales: Lokhande, Mukul, Vishvakarma, Santosh Kumar
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author Lokhande, Mukul
Vishvakarma, Santosh Kumar
author_facet Lokhande, Mukul
Vishvakarma, Santosh Kumar
contents The increasing complexity of AI models requires flexible hardware capable of supporting diverse precision formats, particularly for energy-constrained edge platforms. This work presents PARV-CE, a SIMD-enabled, multi-precision MAC engine that performs efficient multiply-accumulate operations using a unified data-path for 4/8/16-bit fixed-point, floating point, and posit formats. The architecture incorporates a layer adaptive precision strategy to align computational accuracy with workload sensitivity, optimizing both performance and energy usage. PARV-CE integrates quantization-aware execution with a reconfigurable SIMD pipeline, enabling high-throughput processing with minimal overhead through hardware-software co-design. The results demonstrate up to 2x improvement in PDP and 3x reduction in resource usage compared to SoTA designs, while retaining accuracy within 1.8% FP32 baseline. The architecture supports both on-device training and inference across a range of workloads, including DNNs, RNNs, RL, and Transformer models. The empirical analysis establish PARVCE incorporated POLARON as a scalable and energy-efficient solution for precision-adaptive AI acceleration at edge.
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spellingShingle POLARON: Precision-aware On-device Learning and Adaptive Runtime-cONfigurable AI acceleration
Lokhande, Mukul
Vishvakarma, Santosh Kumar
Hardware Architecture
Artificial Intelligence
Computational Complexity
Image and Video Processing
The increasing complexity of AI models requires flexible hardware capable of supporting diverse precision formats, particularly for energy-constrained edge platforms. This work presents PARV-CE, a SIMD-enabled, multi-precision MAC engine that performs efficient multiply-accumulate operations using a unified data-path for 4/8/16-bit fixed-point, floating point, and posit formats. The architecture incorporates a layer adaptive precision strategy to align computational accuracy with workload sensitivity, optimizing both performance and energy usage. PARV-CE integrates quantization-aware execution with a reconfigurable SIMD pipeline, enabling high-throughput processing with minimal overhead through hardware-software co-design. The results demonstrate up to 2x improvement in PDP and 3x reduction in resource usage compared to SoTA designs, while retaining accuracy within 1.8% FP32 baseline. The architecture supports both on-device training and inference across a range of workloads, including DNNs, RNNs, RL, and Transformer models. The empirical analysis establish PARVCE incorporated POLARON as a scalable and energy-efficient solution for precision-adaptive AI acceleration at edge.
title POLARON: Precision-aware On-device Learning and Adaptive Runtime-cONfigurable AI acceleration
topic Hardware Architecture
Artificial Intelligence
Computational Complexity
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08785