Fen Xue

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0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
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Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 since 2021

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Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
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Memory systems · 80% Emerging computing paradigms · 20%

Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Memory systems
in-memory computing
0.812024
On-Device Continual Learning With STT-Assisted-SOT MRAM-Based In-Memory Computing · IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 2024
Memory systems › non-volatile memory
magnetic random access memory
0.812024
On-Device Continual Learning With STT-Assisted-SOT MRAM-Based In-Memory Computing · IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 2024
Emerging computing paradigms
neuromorphic computing
0.812024
On-Device Continual Learning With STT-Assisted-SOT MRAM-Based In-Memory Computing · IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 2024
Memory systems
non-volatile memory
0.812024
On-Device Continual Learning With STT-Assisted-SOT MRAM-Based In-Memory Computing · IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 2024
Memory systems
processing-in-memory
0.812024
On-Device Continual Learning With STT-Assisted-SOT MRAM-Based In-Memory Computing · IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 2024

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bit-serial in-memory convolution · 0.8INT8 quantization · 0.8
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2024 On-Device Continual Learning With STT-Assisted-SOT MRAM-Based In-Memory Computing
abstract
Due to the separate memory and computation units in traditional Von-Neumann architecture, massive data transfer dominates the overall computing system’s power and latency, known as the ‘Memory-Wall’ issue. Especially with ever-increasing deep learning-based AI model size and computing complexity, it becomes the bottleneck for state-of-the-art AI computing systems. To address this challenge, In-Memory Computing (IMC) based Neural Network accelerators have been widely investigated to support AI computing within memory. However, most of those works focus only on inference. The on-device training and continual learning have not been well explored yet. In this work, for the first time, we introduce on-device continual learning with STT-assisted-SOT (SAS) Magnetic Random Access Memory (MRAM) based IMC system. On the hardware side, we have fabricated a SAS-MRAM device prototype with 4 Magnetic Tunnel Junctions (MTJ, each at 100nm × 50nm) sharing a common heavy metal layer, achieving significantly improved memory writing and area efficiency compared to traditional SOT-MRAM. Next, we designed fully digital IMC circuits with our SAS-MRAM to support both neural network inference and on-device learning. To enable efficient on-device continual learning for new task data, we present an 8-bit integer (INT8) based continual learning algorithm that utilizes our SAS-MRAM IMC-supported bit-serial digital in-memory convolution operations to train a small parallel reprogramming Network (Rep-Net) while freezing the major backbone model. Extensive studies have been presented based on our fabricated SAS-MRAM device prototype, cross-layer device-circuit benchmarking and simulation, as well as the on-device continual learning system evaluation.
Fan Zhang 0069, Amitesh Sridharan, William Hwang, Fen Xue, Wilman Tsai, Shan X. Wang, Deliang Fan
IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst.4