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Stochastic spiking neural networks based on nanoelectronic spin devices can be a possible pathway to achieving "brainlike" compact and energy-effcient cognitive intelligence. The computational model attempt to exploit the intrinsic device…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Chamika M. Liyanagedera , Abhronil Sengupta , Akhilesh Jaiswal , Kaushik Roy

Information in neural networks is represented as weighted connections, or synapses, between neurons. This poses a problem as the primary computational bottleneck for neural networks is the vector-matrix multiply when inputs are multiplied…

Humans perform remarkably well in many cognitive tasks including pattern recognition. However, the neuronal mechanisms underlying this process are not well understood. Nevertheless, artificial neural networks, inspired in brain circuits,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-28 Gianluca Susi , Luis Anton Toro , Leonides Canuet , Maria Eugenia Lopez , Fernando Maestu , Claudio R. Mirasso , Ernesto Pereda

Memristor-based hardware offers new possibilities for energy-efficient machine learning (ML) by providing analog in-memory matrix multiplication. Current hardware prototypes cannot fit large neural networks, and related literature covers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Nick Rossenbach , Benedikt Hilmes , Leon Brackmann , Moritz Gunz , Ralf Schlüter

Synaptic Sampling Machine (SSM) is a type of neural network model that considers biological unreliability of the synapses. We propose the circuit design of the SSM neural network which is realized through the memristive-CMOS crossbar…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Irina Dolzhikova , Khaled Salama , Vipin Kizheppatt , Alex Pappachen James

Bio-inspired neuromorphic hardware is a research direction to approach brain's computational power and energy efficiency. Spiking neural networks (SNN) encode information as sparsely distributed spike trains and employ…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Haowem Fang , Amar Shrestha , De Ma , Qinru Qiu

Catastrophic forgetting/interference is a critical problem for lifelong learning machines, which impedes the agents from maintaining their previously learned knowledge while learning new tasks. Neural networks, in particular, suffer plenty…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Soheil Kolouri , Nicholas Ketz , Xinyun Zou , Jeffrey Krichmar , Praveen Pilly

This paper presents a spike-based model which employs neurons with functionally distinct dendritic compartments for classifying high dimensional binary patterns. The synaptic inputs arriving on each dendritic subunit are nonlinearly…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-11-26 Shaista Hussain , Shih-Chii Liu , Arindam Basu

Biological agents navigate complex environments by combining long-term memory of successful actions with short-term suppression of recently visited locations-a capability that remains difficult to replicate in artificial systems, especially…

Memory is a key component of biological neural systems that enables the retention of information over a huge range of temporal scales, ranging from hundreds of milliseconds up to years. While Hebbian plasticity is believed to play a pivotal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Thomas Limbacher , Ozan Özdenizci , Robert Legenstein

Neuromorphic computing using spike-based learning has broad prospects in reducing computing power. Memristive neurons composed with two locally active memristors have been used to mimic the dynamical behaviors of biological neurons. In this…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Yeheng Bo , Peng Zhang , Ziqing Luo , Shuai Li , Juan Song , Xinjun Liu

Reconfigurable memristors featuring neural and synaptic functions hold great potential for neuromorphic circuits by simplifying system architecture, cutting power consumption, and boosting computational efficiency. Their additive…

As data-intensive applications increasingly strain conventional computing systems, processing-in-memory (PIM) has emerged as a promising paradigm to alleviate the memory wall by minimizing data transfer between memory and processing units.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Thomas Neuner , Henriette Padberg , Lior Kornblum , Eilam Yalon , Pedram Khalili Amiri , Shahar Kvatinsky

Neuromorphic architectures offer great promise for achieving computation capacities beyond conventional Von Neumann machines. The essential elements for achieving this vision are highly scalable synaptic mimics that do not undermine…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-07-09 Radu Berdan , Eleni Vasilaki , Ali Khiat , Giacomo Indiveri , Alexandru Serb , Themistoklis Prodromakis

Hardware spiking neural networks hold the promise of realizing artificial intelligence with high energy efficiency. In this context, solid-state and scalable memristors can be used to mimic biological neuron characteristics. However, these…

While surrogate backpropagation proves useful for training deep spiking neural networks (SNNs), incorporating biologically inspired local signals on a large scale remains challenging. This difficulty stems primarily from the high memory…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yuchen Tian , Samuel Tensingh , Jason Eshraghian , Nhan Duy Truong , Omid Kavehei

Cryogenic neuromorphic systems, inspired by the brains unparalleled efficiency, present a promising paradigm for next generation computing architectures.This work introduces a fully integrated neuromorphic framework that combines…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Md Mazharul Islam , Julia Steed , Karan Patel , Catherine Schuman , Ahmedullah Aziz

Neural synchrony in the brain at rest is usually variable and intermittent, thus intervals of predominantly synchronized activity are interrupted by intervals of desynchronized activity. Prior studies suggested that this temporal structure…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-04-26 Joel Zirkle , Leonid L Rubchinsky

Recent biological experimental findings have shown that synaptic plasticity depends on the relative timing of pre- and post-synaptic spikes and this is called spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP). Many authors have claimed that a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Narihisa Matsumoto , Masato Okada

Memristive reservoirs draw inspiration from a novel class of neuromorphic hardware known as nanowire networks. These systems display emergent brain-like dynamics, with optimal performance demonstrated at dynamical phase transitions. In…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-06-23 Ruomin Zhu , Jason K. Eshraghian , Zdenka Kuncic