Stay Flexible: A High-Performance FPGA NPU Overlay for Graph Neural Networks
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a class of deep learning (DL) models widely-used for learning latent representations of graph-structured data for a variety of node/graph-level prediction tasks. Real-time applications of GNNs are evolving in various domains such as 3D object detection from LiDAR point clouds in autonomous vehicles [1] and classifying collected data in particle physics colliders [2]. Typically, these use cases have stringent latency constraints but can still benefit from batch processing of multiple graphs from different input sources. Existing accelerators either rely on preprocessing input graphs [3], [4] or are extremely specialized streaming pipelines which are unable to support dynamically changing workloads for these applications [5]. In this work, we take a different approach by enhancing the neural processing unit (NPU) [6] to accelerate a wide variety of GNN models without sacrificing its flexibility, performance or ability to run any of its originally supported DL workloads (e.g. MLPs, RNNs, GRUs, LSTMs).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.017 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".