title: Exploiting application locality to design low-complexity, highly performing, and power-aware embedded classifiers.
abstract: Temporal and spatial locality of the inputs, i.e., the property allowing a classifier to receive the same samples over time--or samples belonging to a neighborhood--with high probability, can be translated into the design of embedded classifiers. The outcome is a computational complexity and power aware design particularly suitable for implementation. A classifier based on the gated-parallel family has been found particularly suitable for exploiting locality properties: Subclassifiers are generally small, independent each other, and controlled by a master-enabling module granting that only a subclassifier is active at a time, the others being switched off. By exploiting locality properties we obtain classifiers with accuracy comparable with the ones designed without integrating locality but gaining a significant reduction in computational complexity and power consumption.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy. alippi@elet.polimi.it
authors.forename: Cesare
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Alippi
authors.forename: Fabio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Scotti
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods*