[2007.08563] FTRANS: Energy-Efficient Acceleration of Transformers using FPGA

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View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:In natural language processing (NLP), the "Transformer" architecture was proposed as the first transduction model replying entirely on self-attention mechanisms without using sequence-aligned recurrent neural networks (RNNs) or convolution, and it achieved significant improvements for sequence to sequence tasks. The introduced intensive computation and storage of these pre-trained language representations has impeded their popularity into computation and memory-constrained devices. The field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is widely used to accelerate…

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