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Kunchen Zou
dblp:415/5101
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Systems, architecture and hardware · 2 · 2 since 2021Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper |
Hardware accelerators and domain-specific architectures · 100% | |
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Efficient and distributed learning · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning
model compression |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Blaze: An Efficient Bit-Sparse Attention Architecture With Workload Orchestration Optimization · DAC 2025 |
Hardware accelerators and domain-specific architectures › machine learning accelerator › transformer accelerator
attention accelerator |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Blaze: An Efficient Bit-Sparse Attention Architecture With Workload Orchestration Optimization · DAC 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
workload orchestration · 1.7leading-booth encoding · 1.7approximate computing · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | GauTracer: Extending Ray Tracing Accelerator for Gaussian-Based Scene Representation
Lizhou Wu, Kunchen Zou, Yuzheng Lin, Chixiao Chen, Xiaoyang Zeng, Haozhe Zhu |
ISCA | 2 |
| 2025 | Blaze: An Efficient Bit-Sparse Attention Architecture With Workload Orchestration OptimizationabstractThe attention mechanism is a core neural network primitive widely utilized in state-of-the-art models of Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. However, the high computational complexity and substantial power consumption hinder its deployment and efficient inference. To address these challenges, various methods leveraging sparsity and quantization have been proposed. Compared to these methods, the exploitation of abundant bit-level sparsity in attention-based models presents great potential for the performance enhancement of attention inference. Existing bit-sparsity optimization methods primarily focus on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), which are not ideally suitable for the attention mechanism, and they have not effectively solved the workload imbalance and hardware under-utilization issues caused by the irregular distribution of non-zero bits in tensor data. In this work, we introduce Blaze, an efficient attention architecture that leverages both value and bit-level sparsity in tensor data along with workload orchestration optimization. To mitigate the workload imbalance issues often encountered by sparse bit-serial architecture, we propose an Approximate-Computing-Based (ACB) workload orchestration mechanism. Additionally, to fully exploit the redundancy in the attention mechanism, we propose a Leading-Booth mechanism to further enhance the performance of attention computation. We also design a reconfigurable computing engine to support both mechanisms. Experimental results indicate that, compared to state-of-the-art (SOTA) attention accelerators, our Blaze can achieve $2.37 \times \sim 6.18 \times$ improvement in performance and $9.69 \times \sim 43.96 \times$ enhancement in energy efficiency. Our accelerator can reach up to $1.58 \times$ speedup in attention computing performance compared with the SOTA bit-sparse accelerator. Runzhou Zhang, Faxian Sun, Kunchen Zou, Zhinan Qin, Jianli Chen, Jun Yu 0010, Kun Wang 0005 |
DAC | 4 |