SparsePixels: Efficient Convolution for Sparse Data on FPGAs

arXiv:2512.06208 · cs.AR, cs.LG, hep-ex · Submitted 2025-12-05 · Read on arXiv

cs.AR, cs.LG, hep-ex

Submitted: 2025-12-05

Updated: 2026-10-19

Terminology

• Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Sparsity — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

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