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Artificial neural networks are intensively used to perform cognitive tasks such as image classification on traditional computers. With the end of CMOS scaling and increasing demand for efficient neural networks, alternative architectures…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Damir Vodenicarevic , Nicolas Locatelli , Damien Querlioz

This paper introduces decentralized and modular neural network framework designed to enhance the scalability, interpretability, and performance of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. At the heart of this framework is a dynamic switch…

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Simplicial map neural networks (SMNNs) are topology-based neural networks with interesting properties such as universal approximation ability and robustness to adversarial examples under appropriate conditions. However, SMNNs present some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Eduardo Paluzo-Hidalgo , Miguel A. Gutiérrez-Naranjo , Rocio Gonzalez-Diaz

We address a learning-to-normalize problem by proposing Switchable Normalization (SN), which learns to select different normalizers for different normalization layers of a deep neural network. SN employs three distinct scopes to compute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Ping Luo , Jiamin Ren , Zhanglin Peng , Ruimao Zhang , Jingyu Li

Conventional neural structures tend to communicate through analog quantities such as currents or voltages, however, as CMOS devices shrink and supply voltages decrease, the dynamic range of voltage/current-domain analog circuits becomes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Xiangyu Chen , Zolboo Byambadorj , Takeaki Yajima , Hisashi Inoue , Isao H. Inoue , Tetsuya Iizuka

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have delivered a remarkable performance in many tasks of computer vision. However, over-parameterized representations of popular architectures dramatically increase their computational complexity and storage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Chang Nie , Huan Wang , Lu Zhao

Stochastic neurons are extremely efficient hardware for solving a large class of problems and usually come in two varieties -- "binary" where the neuronal statevaries randomly between two values of -1, +1 and "analog" where the neuronal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-03 Rahnuma Rahman , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay

The advent of large scale neural computational platforms has highlighted the lack of algorithms for synthesis of neural structures to perform predefined cognitive tasks. The Neural Engineering Framework offers one such synthesis, but it is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-04-29 J. Tapson , G. Cohen , S. Afshar , K. Stiefel , Y. Buskila , R. Wang , T. J. Hamilton , A. van Schaik

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence in recent years, mankind is facing an unprecedented demand for data processing. Today, almost all data processing is performed using electrons in conventional complementary…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Qi Wang , Gyorgy Csaba , Roman Verba , Andrii V. Chumak , Philipp Pirro

The memory demands of large-scale deep neural networks (DNNs) require synaptic weight values to be stored and updated in off-chip memory like dynamic random-access memory, which reduces energy efficiency and increases training time.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Abhishek Kumar , Peter D. Hodgson , Manus Hayne , Avirup Dasgupta

Spiking neural networks (SNN) are artificial computational models that have been inspired by the brain's ability to naturally encode and process information in the time domain. The added temporal dimension is believed to render them more…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-05-29 S. R. Nandakumar , Irem Boybat , Manuel Le Gallo , Evangelos Eleftheriou , Abu Sebastian , Bipin Rajendran

The spiking neural network (SNN) computes and communicates information through discrete binary events. It is considered more biologically plausible and more energy-efficient than artificial neural networks (ANN) in emerging neuromorphic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Yang Li , Yi Zeng , Dongcheng Zhao

Macroscopic spin ensembles possess brain-like features such as non-linearity, plasticity, stochasticity, selfoscillations, and memory effects, and therefore offer opportunities for neuromorphic computing by spintronics devices. Here we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-01-11 Weichao Yu , Jiang Xiao , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

The basic units in our brain are neurons and each neuron has more than 1000 synapse connections. Synapse is the basic structure for information transfer in an ever-changing manner, and short-term plasticity allows synapses to perform…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-05 Li Qiang Zhu , Chang Jin Wan , Li Qiang Guo , Yi Shi , Qing Wan

Thermodynamic-driven filament formation in redox-based resistive memory and the impact of thermal fluctuations on switching probability of emerging magnetic switches are probabilistic phenomena in nature, and thus, processes of binary…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-10-21 Omid Kavehei , Efstratios Skafidas

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are more biologically plausible and computationally efficient. Therefore, SNNs have the natural advantage of drawing the sparse structural plasticity of brain development to alleviate the energy problems of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Bing Han , Feifei Zhao , Yi Zeng , Wenxuan Pan

The increasing complexity and energy demands of large-scale neural networks, such as Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and Large Language Models (LLMs), challenge their practical deployment in edge applications due to high power consumption, area…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Ckristian Duran , Nanako Kimura , Zolboo Byambadorj , Tetsuya Iizuka

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) underlie low-power, fault-tolerant information processing in the brain and could constitute a power-efficient alternative to conventional deep neural networks when implemented on suitable neuromorphic hardware…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Julian Rossbroich , Julia Gygax , Friedemann Zenke

Spiking neural network offers the most bio-realistic approach to mimic the parallelism and compactness of the human brain. A spiking neuron is the central component of an SNN which generates information-encoded spikes. We present a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Md Mazharul Islam , Shamiul Alam , Catherine D Schuman , Md Shafayat Hossain , Ahmedullah Aziz

A novel scheme for non-volatile digital computation is proposed using spin-transfer torque (STT) and automotion of magnetic domain walls (DWs). The basic computing element is composed of a lateral spin valve (SV) with two ferromagnetic (FM)…

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