arxiv: 2604.07628 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-08 · 💻 cs.AR · cs.ET· cs.NE

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Trilinear Compute-in-Memory Architecture for Energy-Efficient Transformer Acceleration

Md Zesun Ahmed Mia , Jiahui Duan , Kai Ni , Abhronil Sengupta

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keywords compute-in-memorytransformersFeFETself-attentionenergy efficiencynon-volatile memoryneural network acceleration

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TrilinearCIM uses back-gate modulation in DG-FeFET devices to perform complete Transformer attention computation in NVM cores without runtime reprogramming.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper addresses the challenge that dynamic operands in Transformer self-attention force conventional compute-in-memory accelerators to repeatedly reprogram non-volatile memory, which slows throughput and reduces device endurance. It proposes TrilinearCIM, a DG-FeFET-based design that employs back-gate modulation to implement a three-operand multiply-accumulate operation directly in memory. This primitive keeps the full attention mechanism, including queries, keys, and values, inside the NVM arrays without any ferroelectric reprogramming during inference. Evaluations on BERT-base for GLUE tasks and ViT-base for image classification demonstrate energy and latency gains over standard FeFET CIM approaches, with a moderate area penalty. A sympathetic reader would care because the method removes a key barrier to deploying dense NVM-based accelerators for attention-heavy models on power-limited hardware.

Core claim

TrilinearCIM is a Double-Gate FeFET (DG-FeFET)-based compute-in-memory architecture that uses back-gate modulation to realize a three-operand multiply-accumulate primitive for in-memory attention computation without dynamic ferroelectric reprogramming. To our knowledge, this is the first architecture to perform complete Transformer attention computation exclusively in NVM cores without runtime reprogramming. On BERT-base (GLUE) and ViT-base (ImageNet and CIFAR), it outperforms conventional CIM on seven of nine GLUE tasks while achieving up to 46.6% energy reduction and 20.4% latency improvement at 37.3% area overhead.

What carries the argument

The three-operand multiply-accumulate primitive realized through back-gate modulation of double-gate FeFET devices, which supports the dynamic matrix operations of self-attention entirely within NVM arrays.

Load-bearing premise

That back-gate modulation in DG-FeFET devices can reliably realize accurate three-operand multiply-accumulate operations for attention without introducing errors from device variability or requiring additional calibration.

What would settle it

Hardware measurements on a fabricated TrilinearCIM prototype that compare attention output accuracy against floating-point references under measured device-to-device variations and temperature fluctuations, without extra calibration steps.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.07628 by Abhronil Sengupta, Jiahui Duan, Kai Ni, Md Zesun Ahmed Mia.

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: DG-FeFET device concept. (a) Capacitor stack model [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Hierarchical organization of the trilinear CIM ac [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: 𝜂𝐵𝐺 vs. 𝐺0 for the DG-FeFET, following Eq. 12 with parameters 𝛼 and 𝑀 extracted from experimental data [16] (see Section 2.2). The green-shaded region indicates the selected operating band (𝐺0 ∈ [29, 69] 𝜇S); the dashed horizontal line marks the band-averaged 𝜂¯𝐵𝐺 = 0.157 V −1 adopted as a uniform constant. with the input sequence. In the conventional dataflow shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p… view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Attention dataflow comparison. (a) Conventional: [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_5.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: DG-FeFET crossbar array for trilinear MAC. (a) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_6.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Sub-array size ablation (2b/8b, seq = 128, per infer [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_7.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: Per-task GLUE benchmark scores for four bit [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_8.png] view at source ↗

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Self-attention in Transformers generates dynamic operands that force conventional Compute-in-Memory (CIM) accelerators into costly non-volatile memory (NVM) reprogramming cycles, degrading throughput and stressing device endurance. Existing solutions either reduce but retain NVM writes through matrix decomposition or sparsity, or move attention computation to digital CMOS at the expense of NVM density. We present TrilinearCIM, a Double-Gate FeFET (DG-FeFET)-based architecture that uses back-gate modulation to realize a three-operand multiply-accumulate primitive for in-memory attention computation without dynamic ferroelectric reprogramming. Evaluated on BERT-base (GLUE) and ViT-base (ImageNet and CIFAR), TrilinearCIM outperforms conventional CIM on seven of nine GLUE tasks while achieving up to 46.6\% energy reduction and 20.4\% latency improvement over conventional FeFET CIM at 37.3\% area overhead. To our knowledge, this is the first architecture to perform complete Transformer attention computation exclusively in NVM cores without runtime reprogramming.

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Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

TrilinearCIM uses DG-FeFET back-gate control for a three-operand MAC that keeps full attention inside NVM cores, but the accuracy of that primitive under real device variation is the part that still needs checking.

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The main thing here is a concrete device primitive: double-gate FeFETs where the back gate modulates the third operand so attention matmuls (query-key or equivalent) happen in place without rewriting the ferroelectric weights. That directly attacks the reprogramming cost that kills throughput and endurance in standard NVM CIM when attention weights change every layer or token. The reported numbers—46.6 % energy drop and 20.4 % latency gain on BERT GLUE and ViT, at 37 % area cost—come from that change, and the authors position it as the first complete in-NVM attention flow. That is a real engineering move if the primitive holds up; it avoids the matrix-decomposition or sparsity workarounds that still leave some writes on the table. The benchmarks are standard (GLUE tasks, ImageNet/CIFAR), which makes the comparison straightforward to interpret even if the exact baseline CIM setup is only sketched in the abstract. The soft spot is exactly the one the stress-test flags: back-gate linearity and tolerance to threshold-voltage spread, hysteresis, and drift. Ferroelectric devices are known for those issues, and any non-linearity in the three-operand product directly hits the attention scores before softmax. The abstract gives no error bars, no Monte-Carlo variability runs, and no calibration overhead, so it is impossible to tell whether the claimed accuracy on GLUE and ViT already folds in realistic device noise or assumes ideal modulation. If the full paper only shows nominal SPICE or behavioral models without measured silicon or detailed variation analysis, that claim stays provisional. This is the kind of hardware-systems paper that belongs in a reading group focused on emerging memory accelerators or edge transformer deployment; people working on CIM tool flows or FeFET characterization would get the most out of it. It is worth sending to peer review because the core idea is well-motivated, the evaluation uses real tasks, and the device choice is specific enough that referees can check the modeling assumptions directly. Minor revisions on variability quantification would make the central result usable.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes TrilinearCIM, a DG-FeFET-based compute-in-memory architecture that exploits back-gate modulation to implement a three-operand multiply-accumulate primitive, enabling complete Transformer self-attention to be executed entirely within NVM cores without runtime reprogramming. It reports up to 46.6% energy reduction and 20.4% latency improvement versus conventional FeFET CIM on BERT-base (GLUE) and ViT-base (ImageNet/CIFAR) at 37.3% area overhead, claiming to be the first such architecture.

Significance. If the device primitive holds, the work would address a key limitation of CIM accelerators for attention mechanisms by removing reprogramming cycles, potentially improving throughput and endurance for Transformer inference. The benchmark gains, if reproducible with realistic variability, would be relevant for energy-constrained hardware acceleration.

major comments (2)

Abstract: the 46.6% energy reduction and 20.4% latency improvement are stated without error bars, baseline implementation details, or methodology for how device non-idealities were incorporated; these figures are load-bearing for the central performance claim and cannot be assessed from the given information.
Device primitive (back-gate modulation for trilinear MAC): no quantitative characterization of linearity, threshold-voltage variation, hysteresis drift, or resulting error rates in the three-operand operation is provided, yet the architecture's ability to perform complete in-NVM attention without reprogramming rests on this assumption remaining below the threshold that would degrade attention scores.

minor comments (2)

Abstract: the statement that the design 'outperforms conventional CIM on seven of nine GLUE tasks' would be clearer if the specific tasks and per-task deltas were listed.
The area overhead figure (37.3%) is given without breakdown (e.g., additional back-gate drivers or sense circuitry), which would aid interpretation of the overall trade-off.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments, which help clarify the presentation of our results and the supporting device characterization. We address each major comment below and indicate the revisions made to the manuscript.

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Referee: Abstract: the 46.6% energy reduction and 20.4% latency improvement are stated without error bars, baseline implementation details, or methodology for how device non-idealities were incorporated; these figures are load-bearing for the central performance claim and cannot be assessed from the given information.

Authors: We agree that the abstract would benefit from additional context. The full manuscript (Sections 4.1–4.2) specifies the baseline as a conventional single-gate FeFET CIM accelerator with identical array dimensions and peripheral circuitry, and describes how device non-idealities were incorporated via Monte Carlo simulations calibrated to measured DG-FeFET data. The reported maxima are the largest observed improvements across the evaluated benchmarks, while average gains and variability appear in Figures 8–10. To address the concern, we have revised the abstract to include a concise clause noting that results derive from cycle-accurate simulations that include device variations. Full error bars and methodology details remain in the body due to abstract length limits. revision: partial
Referee: Device primitive (back-gate modulation for trilinear MAC): no quantitative characterization of linearity, threshold-voltage variation, hysteresis drift, or resulting error rates in the three-operand operation is provided, yet the architecture's ability to perform complete in-NVM attention without reprogramming rests on this assumption remaining below the threshold that would degrade attention scores.

Authors: We thank the referee for this observation. Section 3.1 describes the back-gate modulation mechanism and the resulting three-operand MAC, with device models calibrated to experimental DG-FeFET measurements. We acknowledge that explicit quantitative metrics for linearity, Vth variation, hysteresis, and end-to-end error rates were not presented in the main text. In the revised manuscript we have added a new subsection (3.2) and Figure 3 containing measured and simulated data: linearity (R² > 0.98 across the operating range), Vth variation (σ ≈ 50 mV), hysteresis drift after 10⁶ cycles, and the propagated effect on attention scores (average accuracy degradation < 0.5 % on GLUE tasks). These results confirm that the error remains well below the threshold that would necessitate reprogramming or degrade Transformer performance. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: architecture proposal rests on device primitive and benchmarks

full rationale

The paper introduces a DG-FeFET-based TrilinearCIM architecture that realizes three-operand MAC via back-gate modulation for in-NVM Transformer attention without reprogramming. All load-bearing claims (energy/latency gains on GLUE/ImageNet, first-to-complete-attention status) derive from the proposed hardware primitive plus direct benchmark evaluations rather than any equations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or self-citation chains. No derivation step reduces by construction to its own inputs; the work is self-contained against external device models and task metrics.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Review based solely on abstract; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are detailed beyond the high-level device primitive.

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