TRAM: Training Approximate Multiplier Structures for Low-Power AI Accelerators
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| author | Meng, Chang Wang, Hanyu Ye, Yuyang Yu, Mingfei Burleson, Wayne De Micheli, Giovanni |
| author_facet | Meng, Chang Wang, Hanyu Ye, Yuyang Yu, Mingfei Burleson, Wayne De Micheli, Giovanni |
| contents | Reducing power consumption in AI accelerators is increasingly important. Approximate computing can reduce power consumption while keeping the accuracy loss small. Since multipliers are power-hungry components in AI models, this paper focuses on synthesizing low-power approximate multipliers (AxMs). Unlike prior works that design AxMs separately from AI model training, we present TRAM, which jointly optimizes the AxM structure and AI model parameters to lower power with small accuracy loss. Experiments show that compared to state-of-the-art AxMs, TRAM achieves up to 25.05% AxM power reduction on CNNs with CIFAR-10, and reduces power by up to 27.09% on vision transformers with ImageNet. |
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| spellingShingle | TRAM: Training Approximate Multiplier Structures for Low-Power AI Accelerators Meng, Chang Wang, Hanyu Ye, Yuyang Yu, Mingfei Burleson, Wayne De Micheli, Giovanni Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Hardware Architecture Reducing power consumption in AI accelerators is increasingly important. Approximate computing can reduce power consumption while keeping the accuracy loss small. Since multipliers are power-hungry components in AI models, this paper focuses on synthesizing low-power approximate multipliers (AxMs). Unlike prior works that design AxMs separately from AI model training, we present TRAM, which jointly optimizes the AxM structure and AI model parameters to lower power with small accuracy loss. Experiments show that compared to state-of-the-art AxMs, TRAM achieves up to 25.05% AxM power reduction on CNNs with CIFAR-10, and reduces power by up to 27.09% on vision transformers with ImageNet. |
| title | TRAM: Training Approximate Multiplier Structures for Low-Power AI Accelerators |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Hardware Architecture |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08231 |