In alphabetical order, the nominees are:
Comparison of Arithmetic Number Formats for Inference in Sum-Product Networks on FPGAs
Lukas Sommer (TU Darmstadt), Lukas Weber (TU Darmstadt), Martin Kumm (Fulda University of Applied Sciences), and Andreas Koch (TU Darmstadt)
Grapefruit: An Open-Source, Full-Stack, and Customizable Automata Processing on FPGAs
Reza Rahimi (University of Virginia), Elaheh Sadredini (University of Virginia), Mircea Stan (University of Virginia), and Kevin Skadron (University of Virginia)
High-Throughput Convolutional Neural Network on an FPGA by Customized JPEG Compression
Hiroki Nakahara (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Zhiqiang Que (Imperial College London), and Wayne Luk (Imperial College London)
The winner will be announced on Tuesday, May 5th.!