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Beyond MACs: Deployment-Constrained Design Space Exploration for Tensorized Neural Networks
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摘要
Tensor-train (TT) compression reduces neural-network parameters, but the latency of a tensorized layer is set by its contraction order and its mapping onto hardware: a contraction path with fewer multiply-accumulate operations (MACs) is not necessarily faster on a systolic array. We present a deployment-constrained, latency-guided design space exploration (DSE) framework for fixed-rank tensorized neural networks (TNNs) under a fixed processing-element (PE) budget. Using MAC-guided path pruning, it evaluates feasible combinations of contraction paths, three PE-array partitions, and input-, output-, and weight-stationary dataflows. By minimizing the sum of inference and training latency estimates, it selects a single physical PE partition shared across layers and both modes, while allowing layer- and mode-specific paths and dataflows. On ResNet-18 and ViT-Ti/4, 25%-50% of the layers select a path other than the minimum-MAC one, the best dataflow varies across layers and models, and on a representative ViT layer the latency-selected candidate reduces simulated latency by 23.5% relative to the minimum-MAC candidate. Deployed on a Xilinx VU9P FPGA accelerator that supports both inference and training, the complete TT+INT8 system achieves 3.28x-4.00x inference and 3.42x-3.85x training speedups over dense implementations with the same PE budget.
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Beyond MACs: Deployment-Constrained Design Space Exploration for Tensorized Neural Networks
Tensor-train (TT) compression reduces neural-network parameters, but the latency of a tensorized layer is set by its contraction order and its mapping onto hardware: a contraction path with fewer multiply-accumulate operations (MACs) is not necessarily faster on a systolic array. We present a deployment-constrained, latency-guided design space exploration (DSE) framework for fixed-rank tensorized neural networks (TNNs) under a fixed processing-element (PE) budget. Using MAC-guided path pruning, it evaluates feasible combinations of contraction paths, three PE-array partitions, and input-, output-, and weight-stationary dataflows. By minimizing the sum of inference and training latency estimates, it selects a single physical PE partition shared across layers and both modes, while allowing layer- and mode-specific paths and dataflows. On ResNet-18 and ViT-Ti/4, 25%-50% of the layers select a path other than the minimum-MAC one, the best dataflow varies across layers and models, and on a representative ViT layer the latency-selected candidate reduces simulated latency by 23.5% relative to the minimum-MAC candidate. Deployed on a Xilinx VU9P FPGA accelerator that supports both inference and training, the complete TT+INT8 system achieves 3.28x-4.00x inference and 3.42x-3.85x training speedups over dense implementations with the same PE budget.
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