Clo-HDnn: A 4.66 TFLOPS/W and 3.78 TOPS/W Continual On-Device Learning Accelerator with Energy-efficient Hyperdimensional Computing via Progressive Search

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Main Authors: Song, Chang Eun, Xu, Weihong, Fan, Keming, Jain, Soumil, Hota, Gopabandhu, Yang, Haichao, Liu, Leo, Akarvardar, Kerem, Chang, Meng-Fan, Diaz, Carlos H., Cauwenberghs, Gert, Rosing, Tajana, Kang, Mingu
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author Song, Chang Eun
Xu, Weihong
Fan, Keming
Jain, Soumil
Hota, Gopabandhu
Yang, Haichao
Liu, Leo
Akarvardar, Kerem
Chang, Meng-Fan
Diaz, Carlos H.
Cauwenberghs, Gert
Rosing, Tajana
Kang, Mingu
author_facet Song, Chang Eun
Xu, Weihong
Fan, Keming
Jain, Soumil
Hota, Gopabandhu
Yang, Haichao
Liu, Leo
Akarvardar, Kerem
Chang, Meng-Fan
Diaz, Carlos H.
Cauwenberghs, Gert
Rosing, Tajana
Kang, Mingu
contents Clo-HDnn is an on-device learning (ODL) accelerator designed for emerging continual learning (CL) tasks. Clo-HDnn integrates hyperdimensional computing (HDC) along with low-cost Kronecker HD Encoder and weight clustering feature extraction (WCFE) to optimize accuracy and efficiency. Clo-HDnn adopts gradient-free CL to efficiently update and store the learned knowledge in the form of class hypervectors. Its dual-mode operation enables bypassing costly feature extraction for simpler datasets, while progressive search reduces complexity by up to 61% by encoding and comparing only partial query hypervectors. Achieving 4.66 TFLOPS/W (FE) and 3.78 TOPS/W (classifier), Clo-HDnn delivers 7.77x and 4.85x higher energy efficiency compared to SOTA ODL accelerators.
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spellingShingle Clo-HDnn: A 4.66 TFLOPS/W and 3.78 TOPS/W Continual On-Device Learning Accelerator with Energy-efficient Hyperdimensional Computing via Progressive Search
Song, Chang Eun
Xu, Weihong
Fan, Keming
Jain, Soumil
Hota, Gopabandhu
Yang, Haichao
Liu, Leo
Akarvardar, Kerem
Chang, Meng-Fan
Diaz, Carlos H.
Cauwenberghs, Gert
Rosing, Tajana
Kang, Mingu
Hardware Architecture
Machine Learning
Clo-HDnn is an on-device learning (ODL) accelerator designed for emerging continual learning (CL) tasks. Clo-HDnn integrates hyperdimensional computing (HDC) along with low-cost Kronecker HD Encoder and weight clustering feature extraction (WCFE) to optimize accuracy and efficiency. Clo-HDnn adopts gradient-free CL to efficiently update and store the learned knowledge in the form of class hypervectors. Its dual-mode operation enables bypassing costly feature extraction for simpler datasets, while progressive search reduces complexity by up to 61% by encoding and comparing only partial query hypervectors. Achieving 4.66 TFLOPS/W (FE) and 3.78 TOPS/W (classifier), Clo-HDnn delivers 7.77x and 4.85x higher energy efficiency compared to SOTA ODL accelerators.
title Clo-HDnn: A 4.66 TFLOPS/W and 3.78 TOPS/W Continual On-Device Learning Accelerator with Energy-efficient Hyperdimensional Computing via Progressive Search
topic Hardware Architecture
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17953