The 10th Workshop on Approximate Computing


June 27th, 2025 – Naples, Italy

The Approximate Computing (AxC) design paradigm emerged as a promising solution to effectively enhance performance of computing systems. It cleverly leverages the intrinsic error resilience of applications to inaccuracy in their inner calculations to achieve a required trade-off between efficiency, performance, power demand, and acceptable error of returned results. Indeed, approximate results are hardly distinguishable from exact results for a vast plethora of applications, including audio, image, and video processing, data mining, information retrieval, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and even safety-critical applications.

The AxC’25 workshop explores the opportunity to exploit the AxC in recent application domains in an effective, dependable, and secure manner. Moreover, new techniques are moving towards considering systems as a whole, spanning from hardware to software components, broadening the potential community of interested researchers.

This year’s event will be in conjunction with The 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2025). To learn more, please visit the DSN website

AxC’25 accepts extended abstract and short papers submissions:

 The areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

Approximation for Deep Learning

Approximation techniques for emerging processor and memory technologies

Approximation-induced error modeling and propagation

Approximation in edge computing applications

Approximation in HPC and embedded systems

Approximation in reconfigurable computing

Architectural support for approximation

Cross-layer approximate computing

Hardware/software co-design of approximate systems

Dependability of approximate circuits and systems

Design automation of approximate architectures

Design of approximate reconfigurable architectures

Error-resilient near-threshold computing

Methods for monitoring and controlling approximation quality

Modeling, specification, and verification of approximate circuits and systems

Safety and reliability applications of approximate computing

Security in the context of approximation

Software-based fault-tolerant techniques for approximate computing

Test and fault tolerance of approximate systems.

 Workshop Program

It will be available soon! Stay tuned!

Important Dates

 Submission Deadline

March 31st, 2025

Notification Acceptance 

April 30th, 2025

Workshop Date (to be confirmed)

June 23-26, 2025

 Committee

General Chairs

Salvatore Barone

Pegaso Digital University, Italy

salvatore.barone@unina.it

Somayeh Sadeghi-Kohan

Paderborn University, Germany

sadeghis@upb.de

Jorge Castro-Godínez

Costa Rica Institute of Technology, Costa Rica

jocastro@itcr.ac.cr

Vice Chair

Annachiara Ruospo
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
annachiara.ruospo@polito.it 

Publicity Chair

Muhammad Awais

Paderborn University, Germany

mawais@mail.upb.de

Website Chair

Luis G. León-Vega

University of Trieste, Costa Rica Institute of Technology, Costa Rica

luis.leon@ieee.org 

Steering Committee

Jie Han
University of Alberta (CA)
 

Sybille Hellebrand
University of Paderborn (DE)
 

Jörg Henkel
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)

Anand Raghunathan
Purdue University (USA)


Kaushik Roy
Purdue University (USA)

Hans-Joachim Wunderlich
University of Stuttgart (DE)

Adit Singh
Auburn University (USA)