The paper titled 'MAx-DNN' explores the use of fine-grained error resilience and hardware approximation techniques for energy-efficient Deep Neural Network (DNN) computing.
It focuses on utilizing approximate multipliers distributed at different levels within the network to achieve higher energy efficiency with acceptable accuracy levels.
Experiments conducted on the ResNet-8 model using the CIFAR-10 dataset showed up to 54% energy gains at the cost of up to 4% accuracy loss compared to the baseline model, and 2x energy gains with improved accuracy compared to current DNN approximations.