The search functionality is under construction.

IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information

A Low-Cost Neural ODE with Depthwise Separable Convolution for Edge Domain Adaptation on FPGAs

Hiroki KAWAKAMI, Hirohisa WATANABE, Keisuke SUGIURA, Hiroki MATSUTANI

  • Full Text Views

    2

  • Cite this

Summary :

High-performance deep neural network (DNN)-based systems are in high demand in edge environments. Due to its high computational complexity, it is challenging to deploy DNNs on edge devices with strict limitations on computational resources. In this paper, we derive a compact while highly-accurate DNN model, termed dsODENet, by combining recently-proposed parameter reduction techniques: Neural ODE (Ordinary Differential Equation) and DSC (Depthwise Separable Convolution). Neural ODE exploits a similarity between ResNet and ODE, and shares most of weight parameters among multiple layers, which greatly reduces the memory consumption. We apply dsODENet to a domain adaptation as a practical use case with image classification datasets. We also propose a resource-efficient FPGA-based design for dsODENet, where all the parameters and feature maps except for pre- and post-processing layers can be mapped onto on-chip memories. It is implemented on Xilinx ZCU104 board and evaluated in terms of domain adaptation accuracy, inference speed, FPGA resource utilization, and speedup rate compared to a software counterpart. The results demonstrate that dsODENet achieves comparable or slightly better domain adaptation accuracy compared to our baseline Neural ODE implementation, while the total parameter size without pre- and post-processing layers is reduced by 54.2% to 79.8%. Our FPGA implementation accelerates the inference speed by 23.8 times.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E106-D No.7 pp.1186-1197
Publication Date
2023/07/01
Publicized
2023/04/05
Online ISSN
1745-1361
DOI
10.1587/transinf.2022EDP7149
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Computer System

Authors

Hiroki KAWAKAMI
  Keio University
Hirohisa WATANABE
  Keio University
Keisuke SUGIURA
  Keio University
Hiroki MATSUTANI
  Keio University

Keyword