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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

Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) represent a biologically inspired computation model capable of emulating neural computation in human brain and brain-like structures. The main promise is very low energy consumption. Unfortunately, classic Von…

Recent advances in neural networks (NNs) exhibit unprecedented success at transforming large, unstructured data streams into compact higher-level semantic information for tasks such as handwriting recognition, image classification, and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Vincent T. Lee , Armin Alaghi , John P. Hayes , Visvesh Sathe , Luis Ceze

The deployment of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in many real world applications is largely hindered by their high computational cost. In this paper, we propose a novel learning scheme for CNNs to simultaneously 1) reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Zhuang Liu , Jianguo Li , Zhiqiang Shen , Gao Huang , Shoumeng Yan , Changshui Zhang

Deep neural networks (DNN) have demonstrated effectiveness for various applications such as image processing, video segmentation, and speech recognition. Running state-of-the-art DNNs on current systems mostly relies on either…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Mohsen Imani , Mohammad Samragh , Yeseong Kim , Saransh Gupta , Farinaz Koushanfar , Tajana Rosing

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformers, which are composed of multiple processing layers and blocks to learn the representations of data with multiple abstract levels, are the most successful machine learning models in recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Biyi Fang , Jean Utke , Diego Klabjan

Binary Convolutional Neural Networks (BCNNs) can significantly improve the efficiency of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) for their deployment on resource-constrained platforms, such as mobile and embedded systems. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Zhu Baozhou , Peter Hofstee , Jinho Lee , Zaid Al-Ars

While deep neural networks (DNNs) are an increasingly popular way to query large corpora of data, their significant runtime remains an active area of research. As a result, researchers have proposed systems and optimizations to reduce these…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Daniel Kang , Ankit Mathur , Teja Veeramacheneni , Peter Bailis , Matei Zaharia

In this work, we investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of employing deep learning algorithms for automatic recognition of the modulation type of received wireless communication signals from subsampled data. Recent work considered a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-18 Sharan Ramjee , Shengtai Ju , Diyu Yang , Xiaoyu Liu , Aly El Gamal , Yonina C. Eldar

Despite foreseeing tremendous speedups over conventional deep neural networks, the performance advantage of binarized neural networks (BNNs) has merely been showcased on general-purpose processors such as CPUs and GPUs. In fact, due to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Ang Li , Simon Su

The increasing computational demand of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) necessitates energy-efficient acceleration strategies. Compute-in-Memory (CIM) architectures based on Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) offer a promising…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 José Cubero-Cascante , Rebecca Pelke , Noah Flohr , Arunkumar Vaidyanathan , Rainer Leupers , Jan Moritz Joseph

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are promising biologically plausible models of computation which utilize a spiking binary activation function similar to that of biological neurons. SNNs are well positioned to process spatiotemporal data, and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Boxun Xu , Richard Boone , Peng Li

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful and flexible framework for representation learning on irregular data. As they generalize the operations of classical CNNs on grids to arbitrary topologies, GNNs also bring much of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Mehdi Bahri , Gaétan Bahl , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are promising in a bio-plausible coding for spatio-temporal information and event-driven signal processing, which is very suited for energy-efficient implementation in neuromorphic hardware. However, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Hanle Zheng , Yujie Wu , Lei Deng , Yifan Hu , Guoqi Li

We present a general framework for training spiking neural networks (SNNs) to perform binary classification on multivariate time series, with a focus on step-wise prediction and high precision at low false alarm rates. The approach uses the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-24 James Ghawaly , Andrew Nicholson , Catherine Schuman , Dalton Diez , Aaron Young , Brett Witherspoon

Neural networks are an increasingly attractive algorithm for natural language processing and pattern recognition. Deep networks with >50M parameters are made possible by modern GPU clusters operating at <50 pJ per op and more recently,…

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved tremendous success in graph representation learning. Unfortunately, current GNNs usually rely on loading the entire attributed graph into network for processing. This implicit assumption may not be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Junfu Wang , Yunhong Wang , Zhen Yang , Liang Yang , Yuanfang Guo

Proper segmentation of organs-at-risk is important for radiation therapy, surgical planning, and diagnostic decision-making in medical image analysis. While deep learning-based segmentation architectures have made significant progress, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Riad Hassan , M. Rubaiyat Hossain Mondal , Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed , Fahad Mostafa , Md Mostafijur Rahman

The remarkable performance of overparameterized deep neural networks (DNNs) must arise from an interplay between network architecture, training algorithms, and structure in the data. To disentangle these three components, we apply a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Chris Mingard , Henry Rees , Guillermo Valle-Pérez , Ard A. Louis

The wide adoption of deep neural networks has been accompanied by ever-increasing energy and performance demands due to the expensive nature of training them. Numerous special-purpose architectures have been proposed to accelerate training:…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Aayush Ankit , Izzat El Hajj , Sai Rahul Chalamalasetti , Sapan Agarwal , Matthew Marinella , Martin Foltin , John Paul Strachan , Dejan Milojicic , Wen-mei Hwu , Kaushik Roy