Dedicated Accelerators for Robotic Applications

• Eudoxus: Characterizing and Accelerating Localization in Autonomous Machines
  Yiming Gan , Bo Yu, Boyuan Tian, Leimeng Xu, Wei Hu, Shaoshan Liu, Qiang Liu, Yanjun Zhang, Jie Tang and Yuhao Zhu.
  27th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-27)
  

• Archytas: A Framework for Synthesizing and Dynamically Optimizing Accelerators for Robotic Navigation
  Weizhuang Liu, Bo Yu, Yiming Gan, Qiang Liu, Jie Tang, Shaoshan Liu, Yuhao Zhu.
  54th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO’2021)
  

• Crescent: Taming Memory Irregularities for Accelerating Deep Point Cloud Analytics
  Yu Feng, Gunnar Hammonds, Yiming Gan, Yuhao Zhu.
  49th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA’2022)
  

• BLITZCRANK: Factor Graph Accelerator for Motion Planning
  Yuhui Hao¹, Yiming Gan¹, Bo Yu, Qiang Liu, Shaoshan Liu, Yuhao Zhu.
  60th Design Automation Conference (DAC)
  

• An Energy Efficient and Runtime Reconfigurable Accelerator for Robotic Localization
  Qiang liu, Yuhui Hao, Weizhuang Liu, Bo Yu, Yiming Gan, Jie Tang, Shao-Shan Liu, Yuhao Zhu.
  IEEE Transcations on Computers
  

• ORIANNA: An Accelerator Generation Framework for Optimization-based Robotic Applications
  Yuhui Hao¹, Yiming Gan¹, Bo Yu, Qiang Liu, Yinhe Han, Zishen Wan, Shaoshan Liu.
  29th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS)
  

  
  

Machine Learning and Continuous Vision

• SVSoC:Speculative Vision Systems-on-a-Chip
  Yiming Gan , Yuxian Qiu, Jingwen Leng, and Yuhao Zhu.
  In Computer Architecture Letters (CAL),2019
  

• TinyLSTMs: Efficient Neural Speech Enhancement for Hearing Aids
  Igor Fedorov, Marko Stamenovic, Carl Jensen, Li-Chia Yang, Ari Mandell, Yiming Gan , Matthew Mattina, Paul N. Whatmough.
  INTERSPEECH 2020.

• Low-Latency Proactive Continuous Vision
  Yiming Gan, Yuxian Qiu, Lele Chen, Jingwen Leng, and Yuhao Zhu.
  29th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT’20) Best Paper Nomination
  

  
  

Reliability and Fault Tolerance

• Ptolemy: Architecture Support for Robust Deep Learning
  Yiming Gan* , Yuxian Qiu*, Jingwen Leng, Minyi Guo, and Yuhao Zhu.
  53rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO’2020)
  

• BRAUM: Analyzing and Protecting Autonomous Machine Software Stack
  Yiming Gan, Paul Whatmough, Jingwen Leng, Bo Yu, Shaoshan Liu, Yuhao Zhu.
  33rd IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE-22)
  

• Thales: Formulating and Estimating Architectural Vulnerability Factor for DNN Accelerators
  Abhishek Tyagi, Yiming Gan, Shaoshan Liu, Bo Yu, Paul Whatmough, Yuhao Zhu.
  29th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-29)
  

• VPP: The Vulnerability-Proportional Protection Paradigm Towards Reliable Autonomous Machines
  Zishen Wan¹, Yiming Gan¹, Bo Yu, Arijit Raychowdhury, Yuhao Zhu
  ISCA 2023 workshop, 5th Domain Specific System Architecture (DOSSA-5)
  

• The Vulnerability-Adaptive Protection Paradigm Toward Reliable Autonomous Machines
  Zishen Wan¹, Yiming Gan¹, Bo Yu, Shaoshan Liu, Arijit Raychowdhury, Yuhao Zhu
  Communications of the ACM (CACM), 2024
  
  

Thesis

• Improving Fault Tolerance of Computing Systems for Autonomous Machines