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Uncertainty in biological neural systems appears to be computationally beneficial rather than detrimental. However, in neuromorphic computing systems, device variability often limits performance, including accuracy and efficiency. In this…

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We study a modular neuron alternative to the McCulloch-Pitts neuron that arises naturally in analog devices in which the neuron inputs are represented as coherent oscillatory wave signals. Although the modular neuron can compute $XOR$ at…

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Quantum neural network (QNN) is one of the promising directions where the near-term noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices could find advantageous applications against classical resources. Recurrent neural networks are the most…

Classical neural networks with random initialization famously behave as Gaussian processes in the limit of many neurons, which allows one to completely characterize their training and generalization behavior. No such general understanding…

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Providing the neurobiological basis of information processing in higher animals, spiking neural networks must be able to learn a variety of complicated computations, including the generation of appropriate, possibly delayed reactions to…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-06-30 Dominik Thalmeier , Marvin Uhlmann , Hilbert J. Kappen , Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer

In machine learning, the use of an artificial neural network is the mainstream approach. Such a network consists of layers of neurons. These neurons are of the same type characterized by the two features: (1) an inner product of an input…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Fenglei Fan , Wenxiang Cong , Ge Wang

We continue the work of a series of previous studies of a mathematical model that describes the mean-field limit behavior of a homogeneous network of excitatory point spiking neurons. Contrary to other models, here noise is intrinsic to the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-07-20 Guillem Via

Inspired by neuronal diversity in the biological neural system, a plethora of studies proposed to design novel types of artificial neurons and introduce neuronal diversity into artificial neural networks. Recently proposed quadratic neuron,…

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Artificial neural networks inspired by brain operations can improve the possibilities of solving complex problems more efficiently. Today's computing hardware, on the other hand, is mainly based on von Neumann architecture and CMOS…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Ali Bozbey , Mustafa Altay Karamuftuoglu , Sasan Razmkhah , Murat Ozbayoglu

Recent deep neural networks (DNNs), such as diffusion models [1], have faced high computational demands. Thus, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have attracted lots of attention as energy-efficient neural networks. However, conventional…

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Differential equations are used in a wide variety of disciplines, describing the complex behavior of the physical world. Analytic solutions to these equations are often difficult to solve for, limiting our current ability to solve complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Ethan Mills , Alexey Pozdnyakov

In a series of two papers, we investigate the large deviations and asymptotic behavior of stochastic models of brain neural networks with random interaction coefficients. In this first paper, we take into account the spatial structure of…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-01-05 Tanguy Cabana , Jonathan Touboul

Compared to conventional artificial neurons that produce dense and real-valued responses, biologically-inspired spiking neurons transmit sparse and binary information, which can also lead to energy-efficient implementations. Recent research…

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In this work, we introduce a new class of neural network operators designed to handle problems where memory effects and randomness play a central role. In this work, we introduce a new class of neural network operators designed to handle…

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Neural network-based algorithms have garnered considerable attention in condensed matter physics for their ability to learn complex patterns from very high dimensional data sets towards classifying complex long-range patterns of…

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Activation functions are non-linearities in neural networks that allow them to learn complex mapping between inputs and outputs. Typical choices for activation functions are ReLU, Tanh, Sigmoid etc., where the choice generally depends on…

Recurrent neural networks are powerful tools for understanding and modeling computation and representation by populations of neurons. Continuous-variable or "rate" model networks have been analyzed and applied extensively for these…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-01-29 Brian DePasquale , Mark M. Churchland , L. F. Abbott

The training process of neural networks usually optimize weights and bias parameters of linear transformations, while nonlinear activation functions are pre-specified and fixed. This work develops a systematic approach to constructing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Zhengqi Liu , Shuhao Cao , Yuwen Li , Ludmil Zikatanov

The superior performance of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has led to their application in various aspects of human life. Safety-critical applications are no exception and impose rigorous reliability requirements on DNNs. Quantized Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Mohammad Hasan Ahmadilivani , Mahdi Taheri , Jaan Raik , Masoud Daneshtalab , Maksim Jenihhin

Reservoir Computing is a machine learning approach that uses the rich repertoire of complex system dynamics for function approximation. Current approaches to reservoir computing use a network of coupled integrating neurons that require a…

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