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Title: Uncertainty Modeling of Emerging Device based Computing-in-Memory Neural Accelerators with Application to Neural Architecture Search
Award ID(s):
1919167
NSF-PAR ID:
10272395
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
Page Range / eLocation ID:
859 to 864
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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