arxivcs.AR2026-07-21
A Flexible Sparsity-Aware FPGA Accelerator with Column-Wise Compression for Efficient CNN Inference
Amirhossein Zarei, Shervin Vakili
Efficient acceleration of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on resource-constrained platforms remains challenging due to the irregularity of sparsity patterns and the associated hardware overhead. While unstructured sparsity offers high model accuracy, it introduces significan…