MemSE: Fast MSE Prediction for Noisy Memristor-Based DNN Accelerators

Autor:	Kern, Jonathan, Henwood, Sébastien, Mordido, Gonçalo, Dupraz, Elsa, Aïssa-El-Bey, Abdeldjalil, Savaria, Yvon, Leduc-Primeau, François
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	Computer Science - Machine Learning Computer Science - Emerging Technologies Computer Science - Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	Memristors enable the computation of matrix-vector multiplications (MVM) in memory and, therefore, show great potential in highly increasing the energy efficiency of deep neural network (DNN) inference accelerators. However, computations in memristors suffer from hardware non-idealities and are subject to different sources of noise that may negatively impact system performance. In this work, we theoretically analyze the mean squared error of DNNs that use memristor crossbars to compute MVM. We take into account both the quantization noise, due to the necessity of reducing the DNN model size, and the programming noise, stemming from the variability during the programming of the memristance value. Simulations on pre-trained DNN models showcase the accuracy of the analytical prediction. Furthermore the proposed method is almost two order of magnitude faster than Monte-Carlo simulation, thus making it possible to optimize the implementation parameters to achieve minimal error for a given power constraint. Comment: To be presented at AICAS 2022
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01707 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv