用FPGA加速物理模型恢复,让边缘设备实时理解系统动态。
Enabling Physical AI at the Edge: Hardware-Accelerated Recovery of System Dynamics
- 用GRU+稀疏丢弃等硬件友好设计替代传统神经微分方程
- 能效比提升114倍,内存占用减少28倍,训练更快
- 适合资源受限的自动驾驶、工业监控等实时系统
边缘端的物理AI要求系统在严格时延、算力和功耗约束下实时理解并预测真实世界动态。模型恢复(MR)从传感器数据中识别控制方程,是关键基础技术。现有方法(如EMILY和PINN+SR)依赖神经微分方程,需迭代求解,难以高效部署于边缘硬件。本文提出MERINDA(可重构动态架构中的模型恢复),一种基于FPGA的加速框架。它用GRU离散化动力学、密集逆微分层、稀疏驱动丢弃和轻量级求解器替代昂贵的神经微分方程组件,计算结构支持流式并行,可在FPGA上完全并行化。在四个非线性动力系统基准测试中,相比GPU实现,MERINDA能耗降低114倍(434J vs. 49,375J),内存占用减少28倍(214MB vs. 6,118MB),训练速度提升1.68倍,同时保持最先进模型恢复精度。结果表明,MERINDA可为边缘端提供准确、可解释的实时监控能力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Physical AI at the edge -- enabling autonomous systems to understand and predict real-world dynamics in real time -- requires hardware-efficient learning and inference. Model recovery (MR), which identifies governing equations from sensor data, is a key primitive for safe and explainable monitoring in mission-critical autonomous systems operating under strict latency, compute, and power constraints. However, state-of-the-art MR methods (e.g., EMILY and PINN+SR) rely on Neural ODE formulations that require iterative solvers and are difficult to accelerate efficiently on edge hardware. We present \textbf{MERINDA} (Model Recovery in Reconfigurable Dynamic Architecture), an FPGA-accelerated MR framework designed to make physical AI practical on resource-constrained devices. MERINDA replaces expensive Neural ODE components with a hardware-friendly formulation that combines (i) GRU-based discretized dynamics, (ii) dense inverse-ODE layers, (iii) sparsity-driven dropout, and (iv) lightweight ODE solvers. The resulting computation is structured for streaming parallelism, enabling critical kernels to be fully parallelized on the FPGA. Across four benchmark nonlinear dynamical systems, MERINDA delivers substantial gains over GPU implementations: \textbf{114$\times$ lower energy} (434~J vs.\ 49{,}375~J), \textbf{28$\times$ smaller memory footprint} (214~MB vs.\ 6{,}118~MB), and \textbf{1.68$\times$ faster training}, while matching state-of-the-art model-recovery accuracy. These results demonstrate that MERINDA can bring accurate, explainable MR to the edge for real-time monitoring of autonomous systems.
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