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Kentaro (Ken) Yoshioka

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Yagami Campus Bldg. 23, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan

Students: 23-214, 14-305, 24-318 / PI: 23-216A

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PACiM: A Sparsity-Centric Hybrid Compute-in-Memory Architecture via Probabilistic Approximation

W. Zhang, S. Ando, Y.C. Chen, S. Miyagi, S. Takamaeda-Yamazaki, K. Yoshioka

A sparsity-centric hybrid compute-in-memory architecture using probabilistic approximation (PAC) to convert vector operations into scalar computations, halving memory transfers by eliminating LSB transmission. Achieves 14.63 TOPS/W in 65 nm CMOS with 4× lower approximation error than prior methods, maintaining ResNet-18 ImageNet accuracy.