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A high-performance FPGA architecture for restricted boltzmann machines

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A high-performance FPGA architecture for restricted boltzmann machines
Despite the popularity and success of neural networks in research, the number of resulting commercial or industrial applications have been limited. A primary cause of this lack of adoption is due to the fact that neural networks are usually implemented as software running on general-purpose processors. Algorithms to implement a neural network in software are typically O(n2 ) problems – as a result, neural networks are unable to provide the performance and scalability required in non-academic settings. In this paper, we investigate how FPGAs can be used to take advantage of the inherent parallelism in neural networks to provide a better implementation in terms of scalability and performance. We will focus on the Restricted Boltzmann machine, a popular type of neural network, because its architecture is particularly well-suited to hardware designs. The proposed, multi-purpose hardware framework is designed to reduce the O(n2 ) problem into an O(n) implementation while only requiring O...
Daniel L. Ly, Paul Chow
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Updated 19 May 2010
Type Conference
Year 2009
Where FPGA
Authors Daniel L. Ly, Paul Chow
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