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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

While neuromorphic computing architectures based on Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are increasingly gaining interest as a pathway toward bio-plausible machine learning, attention is still focused on computational units like the neuron and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Zhuangyu Han , A N M Nafiul Islam , Abhronil Sengupta

Machine learning is yielding unprecedented interest in research and industry, due to recent success in many applied contexts such as image classification and object recognition. However, the deployment of these systems requires huge…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Nassim Abderrahmane , Edgar Lemaire , Benoît Miramond

This paper introduces a novel approach in neuromorphic computing, integrating heterogeneous hardware nodes into a unified, massively parallel architecture. Our system transcends traditional single-node constraints, harnessing the neural…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Murat Isik , Jonathan Naoukin , I. Can Dikmen

A self-organizing map (SOM) is a type of competitive artificial neural network, which projects the high-dimensional input space of the training samples into a low-dimensional space with the topology relations preserved. This makes SOMs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Wenbin Zhang , Jianwu Wang , Daeho Jin , Lazaros Oreopoulos , Zhibo Zhang

Despite the promise of superior efficiency and scalability, real-world deployment of emerging nanoelectronic platforms for brain-inspired computing have been limited thus far, primarily because of inter-device variations and intrinsic…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-03-25 A N M Nafiul Islam , Kezhou Yang , Amit K. Shukla , Pravin Khanal , Bowei Zhou , Wei-Gang Wang , Abhronil Sengupta

In this work, we introduce a Self-Aware Polymorphic Architecture (SAPA) design approach to support emerging context-aware applications and mitigate the programming challenges caused by the ever-increasing complexity and heterogeneity of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Michel A. Kinsy , Mihailo Isakov , Alan Ehret , Donato Kava

Several analog and digital brain-inspired electronic systems have been recently proposed as dedicated solutions for fast simulations of spiking neural networks. While these architectures are useful for exploring the computational properties…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Elisabetta Chicca , Fabio Stefanini , Chiara Bartolozzi , Giacomo Indiveri

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

Neuromorphic computing based on spiking neural networks has the potential to significantly improve on-line learning capabilities and energy efficiency of artificial intelligence, specially for edge computing. Recent progress in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-11-04 Yann Beilliard , Fabien Alibart

The last decade has seen the rise of neuromorphic architectures based on artificial spiking neural networks, such as the SpiNNaker, TrueNorth, and Loihi systems. The massive parallelism and co-locating of computation and memory in these…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Johan Kwisthout , Nils Donselaar

Neuromorphic computing systems such as DYNAPs and Loihi have recently been introduced to the computing community to improve performance and energy efficiency of machine learning programs, especially those that are implemented using Spiking…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Twisha Titirsha , Shihao Song , Adarsha Balaji , Anup Das

Neuromorphic hardware architectures represent a growing family of potential post-Moore's Law Era platforms. Largely due to event-driving processing inspired by the human brain, these computer platforms can offer significant energy benefits…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-30 James B Aimone , William Severa , Craig M Vineyard

An approach that combines Self-Organizing maps, hierarchical clustering and network components is presented, aimed at comparing protein conformational ensembles obtained from multiple Molecular Dynamic simulations. As a first result the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Domenico Fraccalvieri , Laura Bonati , Fabio Stella

Machine learning applications that are implemented with spike-based computation model, e.g., Spiking Neural Network (SNN), have a great potential to lower the energy consumption when they are executed on a neuromorphic hardware. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Shihao Song , Adarsha Balaji , Anup Das , Nagarajan Kandasamy , James Shackleford

The Self-Organizing Map (SOM) is a brain-inspired neural model that is very promising for unsupervised learning, especially in embedded applications. However, it is unable to learn efficient prototypes when dealing with complex datasets. We…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Lyes Khacef , Laurent Rodriguez , Benoit Miramond

Neuromorphic computing mimics brain-inspired mechanisms through spiking neurons and energy-efficient processing, offering a pathway to efficient in-memory computing (IMC). However, these advancements raise critical security and privacy…

Neuromorphic engineering is a rapidly developing field that aims to take inspiration from the biological organization of neural systems to develop novel technology for computing, sensing, and actuating. The unique properties of such systems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-26 Luka Ribar , Rodolphe Sepulchre

A neuromorphic chip that combines CMOS analog spiking neurons and memristive synapses offers a promising solution to brain-inspired computing, as it can provide massive neural network parallelism and density. Previous hybrid analog…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Xinyu Wu , Vishal Saxena , Kehan Zhu

The growing need for intelligent, adaptive, and energy-efficient autonomous systems across fields such as robotics, mobile agents (e.g., UAVs), and self-driving vehicles is driving interest in neuromorphic computing. By drawing inspiration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Alberto Marchisio , Muhammad Shafique