Qingyue Song

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0009-7705-9354ORCID · reported

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Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 since 2021Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1 · 1 since 2021

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Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper
Hardware accelerators and domain-specific architectures · 100%

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TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Hardware accelerators and domain-specific architectures
algorithm-hardware co-design
0.912025
Phi: Leveraging Pattern-based Hierarchical Sparsity for High-Efficiency Spiking Neural Networks · ISCA 2025
Hardware accelerators and domain-specific architectures › machine learning accelerator › neural network accelerator
spiking neural network accelerator
0.912025
Phi: Leveraging Pattern-based Hierarchical Sparsity for High-Efficiency Spiking Neural Networks · ISCA 2025
Hardware accelerators and domain-specific architectures
sparsity exploitation
0.312025
Phi: Leveraging Pattern-based Hierarchical Sparsity for High-Efficiency Spiking Neural Networks · ISCA 2025

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k-means-based pattern selection · 0.9
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Phi: Leveraging Pattern-based Hierarchical Sparsity for High-Efficiency Spiking Neural Networks
abstract
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are gaining attention for their energy efficiency and biological plausibility, utilizing 0-1 activation sparsity through spike-driven computation.While existing SNN accelerators exploit this sparsity to skip zero computations, they often overlook the unique distribution patterns inherent in binary activations.In this work, we observe that particular patterns exist in spike activations, which we can utilize to reduce the substantial computation of SNN models.Based on these findings, we propose a novel pattern-based hierarchical sparsity framework, termed Phi, to optimize computation.Phi introduces a two-level sparsity hierarchy: Level 1 exhibits vector-wise sparsity by representing activations with pre-defined patterns, allowing for offline pre-computation with weights and significantly reducing most runtime computation.Level 2 features element-wise sparsity by complementing the Level 1 matrix, using a highly sparse matrix to further reduce computation while maintaining accuracy.We present an algorithm-hardware co-design approach.Algorithmically, we employ a k-means-based pattern selection method to identify representative patterns and introduce a pattern-aware fine-tuning technique to enhance Level 2 sparsity.Architecturally, we design Phi, a dedicated hardware architecture that efficiently processes the two levels of Phi sparsity on the fly.Extensive experiments demonstrate that Phi achieves a 3.45× speedup and a 4.93× improvement in energy efficiency compared to stateof-the-art SNN accelerators, showcasing the effectiveness of our framework in optimizing SNN computation.
Chiyue Wei, Bowen Duan 0003, Cong Guo 0003, Jingyang Zhang, Qingyue Song, Hai Li 0001, Yiran Chen 0001
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