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In this article, we propose a novel Winner-Take-All (WTA) architecture employing neurons with nonlinear dendrites and an online unsupervised structural plasticity rule for training it. Further, to aid hardware implementations, our network…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-07 Subhrajit Roy , Arindam Basu

Brain-inspired spiking neural networks (SNNs) have recently drawn more and more attention due to their event-driven and energy-efficient characteristics. The integration of storage and computation paradigm on neuromorphic hardwares makes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Yufei Guo , Liwen Zhang , Yuanpei Chen , Xinyi Tong , Xiaode Liu , YingLei Wang , Xuhui Huang , Zhe Ma

Spiking artificial neurons emulate the voltage spikes of biological neurons, and constitute the building blocks of a new class of energy efficient, neuromorphic computing systems. Antiferromagnetic materials can, in theory, be used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-19 Hannah Bradley , Steven Louis , Cody Trevillian , Lily Quach , Elena Bankowski , Andrei Slavin , Vasyl Tyberkevych

Neuromorphic computing has emerged as a promising avenue towards building the next generation of intelligent computing systems. It has been proposed that memristive devices, which exhibit history-dependent conductivity modulation, could…

We propose and analyse an efficient scheme for simulating higher-order topological phases of matter in two dimensional (2D) spin-phononic crystal networks. We show that, through a specially designed periodic driving, one can selectively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Xiao-Xiao Li , Peng-Bo Li

The practical applications based on recurrent spiking neurons are limited due to their non-trivial learning algorithms. The temporal nature of spiking neurons is more favorable for hardware implementation where signals can be represented in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2008-07-16 Arfan Ghani , Martin McGinnity , Liam Maguire , Jim Harkin

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

Learning and logic are fundamental brain functions that make the individual to adapt to the environment, and such functions are established in human brain by modulating ionic fluxes in synapses. Nanoscale ionic/electronic devices with…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-04-29 Chang Jin Wan , Li Qiang Zhu , Yi Shi , Qing Wan

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are gaining widespread momentum in the field of neuromorphic computing. These network systems integrated with neurons and synapses provide computational efficiency by mimicking the human brain. It is desired…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Omkar Phadke , Jayatika Sakhuja , Vivek Saraswat , Udayan Ganguly

Biological neurons and their in-silico emulations for neuromorphic artificial intelligence (AI) use extraordinarily energy-efficient mechanisms, such as spike-based communication and local synaptic plasticity. It remains unclear whether…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Timoleon Moraitis , Abu Sebastian , Evangelos Eleftheriou

In neuromorphic computing, artificial synapses provide a multi-weight conductance state that is set based on inputs from neurons, analogous to the brain. Additional properties of the synapse beyond multiple weights can be needed, and can…

Spintronics provides an efficient platform for realizing non-volatile memory and logic devices. In these systems, data is stored in the magnetization of magnetic materials, and magnetization is switched in the writing process. In…

The ever-increasing amount of data from ubiquitous smart devices fosters data-centric and cognitive algorithms. Traditional digital computer systems have separate logic and memory units, resulting in a huge delay and energy cost for…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Qiming Shao , Zhongrui Wang , Yan Zhou , Shunsuke Fukami , Damien Querlioz , Leon O. Chua

Neuromorphic systems that densely integrate CMOS spiking neurons and nano-scale memristor synapses open a new avenue of brain-inspired computing. Existing silicon neurons have molded neural biophysical dynamics but are incompatible with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-10 Xinyu Wu , Vishal Saxena , Kehan Zhu

Spiking neural networks aim to emulate the brain's properties to achieve similar parallelism and high-processing power. A caveat of these neural networks is the high computational cost to emulate, while current proposals for analogue…

In this work, we introduce an optoelectronic spiking artificial neuron capable of operating at ultrafast rates ($\approx$ 100 ps/optical spike) and with low energy consumption ($<$ pJ/spike). The proposed system combines an excitable…

Understanding how biological neural networks are shaped via local plasticity mechanisms can lead to energy-efficient and self-adaptive information processing systems, which promises to mitigate some of the current roadblocks in edge…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Willian Soares Girão , Nicoletta Risi , Elisabetta Chicca

Neuromorphic computing is a new paradigm for design of both the computing hardware and algorithms inspired by biological neural networks. The event-based nature and the inherent parallelism make neuromorphic computing a promising paradigm…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Sebastian Glatz , Julien N. P. Martel , Raphaela Kreiser , Ning Qiao , Yulia Sandamirskaya

The brain has a great capacity for computation and efficient resolution of complex problems, far surpassing modern computers. Neuromorphic engineering seeks to mimic the basic principles of the brain to develop systems capable of achieving…

It has been shown that the spin Hall effect from heavy transition metals can generate sufficient spin-orbit torque and further produce current-induced magnetization switching in the adjacent ferromagnetic layer. However, if the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-16 Yan-Ting Liu , Tian-Yue Chen , Tzu-Hsiang Lo , Tsung-Yu Tsai , Shan-Yi Yang , Yao-Jen Chang , Jeng-Hua Wei , Chi-Feng Pai