TorR: Towards Brain-Inspired Task-Oriented Reasoning via Cache-Oriented Algorithm-Architecture Co-design

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Autores principales: Oh, Hyunwoo, Jeong, SungHeon, Jang, Suyeon, Chen, Hanning, Yun, Sanggeon, Das, Tamoghno, Imani, Mohsen
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author Oh, Hyunwoo
Jeong, SungHeon
Jang, Suyeon
Chen, Hanning
Yun, Sanggeon
Das, Tamoghno
Imani, Mohsen
author_facet Oh, Hyunwoo
Jeong, SungHeon
Jang, Suyeon
Chen, Hanning
Yun, Sanggeon
Das, Tamoghno
Imani, Mohsen
contents Task-oriented object detection (TOOD) atop CLIP offers open-vocabulary, prompt-driven semantics, yet dense per-window computation and heavy memory traffic hinder real-time, power-limited edge deployment. We present \emph{TorR}, a brain-inspired \textbf{algorithm--architecture co-design} that \textbf{replaces CLIP-style dense alignment with a hyperdimensional (HDC) associative reasoner} and turns temporal coherence into reuse. On the \emph{algorithm} side, TorR reformulates alignment as HDC similarity and graph composition, introducing \emph{partial-similarity reuse} via (i) query caching with per-class score accumulation, (ii) exact $δ$-updates when only a small set of hypervector bits change, and (iii) similarity/load-gated bypass under high system load. On the \emph{architecture} side, TorR instantiates a lane-scalable, bit-sliced item memory with bank/precision gating and a lightweight controller that schedules bypass/$δ$/full paths to meet RT-30/RT-60 targets as object counts vary. Synthesized in a TSMC 28\,nm process and exercised with a cycle-accurate simulator, TorR sustains real-time throughput with millijoule-scale energy per window ($\approx$50\,mJ at 60\,FPS; $\approx$113\,mJ at 30\,FPS) and low latency jitter, while delivering competitive AP@0.5 across five task prompts (mean 44.27\%) within a bounded margin to strong VLM baselines, but at orders-of-magnitude lower energy. The design exposes deployment-time configurability (effective dimension $D'$, thresholds, precision) to trade accuracy, latency, and energy for edge budgets.
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spellingShingle TorR: Towards Brain-Inspired Task-Oriented Reasoning via Cache-Oriented Algorithm-Architecture Co-design
Oh, Hyunwoo
Jeong, SungHeon
Jang, Suyeon
Chen, Hanning
Yun, Sanggeon
Das, Tamoghno
Imani, Mohsen
Hardware Architecture
Machine Learning
Task-oriented object detection (TOOD) atop CLIP offers open-vocabulary, prompt-driven semantics, yet dense per-window computation and heavy memory traffic hinder real-time, power-limited edge deployment. We present \emph{TorR}, a brain-inspired \textbf{algorithm--architecture co-design} that \textbf{replaces CLIP-style dense alignment with a hyperdimensional (HDC) associative reasoner} and turns temporal coherence into reuse. On the \emph{algorithm} side, TorR reformulates alignment as HDC similarity and graph composition, introducing \emph{partial-similarity reuse} via (i) query caching with per-class score accumulation, (ii) exact $δ$-updates when only a small set of hypervector bits change, and (iii) similarity/load-gated bypass under high system load. On the \emph{architecture} side, TorR instantiates a lane-scalable, bit-sliced item memory with bank/precision gating and a lightweight controller that schedules bypass/$δ$/full paths to meet RT-30/RT-60 targets as object counts vary. Synthesized in a TSMC 28\,nm process and exercised with a cycle-accurate simulator, TorR sustains real-time throughput with millijoule-scale energy per window ($\approx$50\,mJ at 60\,FPS; $\approx$113\,mJ at 30\,FPS) and low latency jitter, while delivering competitive AP@0.5 across five task prompts (mean 44.27\%) within a bounded margin to strong VLM baselines, but at orders-of-magnitude lower energy. The design exposes deployment-time configurability (effective dimension $D'$, thresholds, precision) to trade accuracy, latency, and energy for edge budgets.
title TorR: Towards Brain-Inspired Task-Oriented Reasoning via Cache-Oriented Algorithm-Architecture Co-design
topic Hardware Architecture
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22855