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Mixed-signal hardware accelerators for deep learning achieve orders of magnitude better power efficiency than their digital counterparts. In the ultra-low power consumption regime, limited signal precision inherent to analog computation…

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Analog Compute-In-Memory (CIM) architectures promise significant energy efficiency gains for neural network inference, but suffer from complex hardware-induced noise that poses major challenges for deployment. While noise-aware training…

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We propose a new method to probe the learning mechanism of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) by perturbing the system using Noise Injection Nodes (NINs). These nodes inject uncorrelated noise via additional optimizable weights to existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Noam Levi , Itay Bloch , Marat Freytsis , Tomer Volansky

Near-term quantum computers are noisy, and therefore must run algorithms with a low circuit depth and qubit count. Here we investigate how noise affects a quantum neural network (QNN) for state discrimination, applicable on near-term…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Andrew Patterson , Hongxiang Chen , Leonard Wossnig , Simone Severini , Dan Browne , Ivan Rungger

Even though deep learning has shown unmatched performance on various tasks, neural networks have been shown to be vulnerable to small adversarial perturbations of the input that lead to significant performance degradation. In this work we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Evgenii Zheltonozhskii , Chaim Baskin , Yaniv Nemcovsky , Brian Chmiel , Avi Mendelson , Alex M. Bronstein

Neuromorphic computing leveraging spiking neural network has emerged as a promising solution to tackle the security and reliability challenges with the conventional cyber-physical infrastructure of microgrids. Its event-driven paradigm…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yubo Song , Subham Sahoo , Xiaoguang Diao

The operations used for neural network computation map favorably onto simple analog circuits, which outshine their digital counterparts in terms of compactness and efficiency. Nevertheless, such implementations have been largely supplanted…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Jonathan Binas , Daniel Neil , Giacomo Indiveri , Shih-Chii Liu , Michael Pfeiffer

Noise is an inherent part of neuronal dynamics, and thus of the brain. It can be observed in neuronal activity at different spatiotemporal scales, including in neuronal membrane potentials, local field potentials, electroencephalography,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-01-03 Daqing Guo , Matjaz Perc , Tiejun Liu , Dezhong Yao

A high efficiency hardware integration of neural networks benefits from realizing nonlinearity, network connectivity and learning fully in a physical substrate. Multiple systems have recently implemented some or all of these operations, yet…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Louis Andreoli , Xavier Porte , Stéphane Chrétien , Maxime Jacquot , Laurent Larger , Daniel Brunner

Quantum noise is conventionally viewed as a fundamental obstacle in near-term quantum computing, motivating extensive error correction and mitigation strategies. We present numerical evidence that challenges this consensus. Through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Linghua Zhu , Yulong Dong , Ziyu Zhang , Xiaosong Li

While modern machine learning has transformed numerous application domains, its growing computational demands increasingly constrain scalability and efficiency, particularly on embedded and resource-limited platforms. In practice, neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Bernhard Klein

Dedicated analog neurocomputing circuits are promising for high-throughput, low power consumption applications of machine learning (ML) and for applications where implementing a digital computer is unwieldy (remote locations; small, mobile,…

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We present a systematic investigation of deep learning methods applied to quantum error mitigation of noisy output probability distributions from measured quantum circuits. We compare different architectures, from fully connected neural…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains, but their performance can be severely degraded by noisy or corrupted training data. Conventional noise mitigation methods often rely on explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Deliang Jin , Gang Chen , Shuo Feng , Yufeng Ling , Haoran Zhu

The interest in analog computation has grown tremendously in recent years due to its fast computation speed and excellent energy efficiency, which is very important for edge and IoT devices in the sub-watt power envelope for deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Omobayode Fagbohungbe , Lijun Qian

Neural network ensembles is a simple yet effective approach for enhancing generalization capabilities. The most common method involves independently training multiple neural networks initialized with different weights and then averaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Shunsuke Sakai , Shunsuke Tsuge , Tatsuhito Hasegawa

In recent years, deep neural networks (DNNs) have gained remarkable achievement in computer vision tasks, and the success of DNNs often depends greatly on the richness of data. However, the acquisition process of data and high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Mengting Li , Chuang Zhu

In the race towards quantum computing, the potential benefits of quantum neural networks (QNNs) have become increasingly apparent. However, Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) processors are prone to errors, which poses a significant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Erik B. Terres Escudero , Danel Arias Alamo , Oier Mentxaka Gómez , Pablo García Bringas

In the current quantum computing paradigm, significant focus is placed on the reduction or mitigation of quantum decoherence. When designing new quantum processing units, the general objective is to reduce the amount of noise qubits are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Viacheslav Kuzmin , Wilfrid Somogyi , Ekaterina Pankovets , Alexey Melnikov

It has been demonstrated that deep neural networks are prone to noisy examples particular adversarial samples during inference process. The gap between robust deep learning systems in real world applications and vulnerable neural networks…

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