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Programming recurrent spiking neural networks (RSNNs) to robustly perform multi-timescale computation remains a difficult challenge. To address this, we describe a single-shot weight learning scheme to embed robust multi-timescale dynamics…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Madison Cotteret , Hugh Greatorex , Alpha Renner , Junren Chen , Emre Neftci , Huaqiang Wu , Giacomo Indiveri , Martin Ziegler , Elisabetta Chicca

Neuromorphic computing is emerging to be a disruptive computational paradigm that attempts to emulate various facets of the underlying structure and functionalities of the brain in the algorithm and hardware design of next-generation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Mehul Rastogi , Sen Lu , Nafiul Islam , Abhronil Sengupta

The hardware-software co-optimization of neural network architectures is becoming a major stream of research especially due to the emergence of commercial neuromorphic chips such as the IBM Truenorth and Intel Loihi. Development of specific…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Roshan Gopalakrishnan , Yansong Chua , Ashish Jith Sreejith Kumar

Magnetic skyrmions, as scalable and non-volatile spin textures, can dynamically interact with fields and currents, making them promising for unconventional computing. This paper presents a neuromorphic device based on skyrmion manipulation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Zulfidin Khodzhaev , Jean Anne C. Incorvia

The memory demands of large-scale deep neural networks (DNNs) require synaptic weight values to be stored and updated in off-chip memory like dynamic random-access memory, which reduces energy efficiency and increases training time.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Abhishek Kumar , Peter D. Hodgson , Manus Hayne , Avirup Dasgupta

The automated wafer inspection and quality control is a complex and time-consuming task, which can speed up using neuromorphic memristive architectures, as a separate inspection device or integrating directly into sensors. This paper…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Kazybek Adam , Kamilya Smagulova , Olga Krestinskaya , Alex Pappachen James

Brain-inspired learning mechanisms, e.g. spike timing dependent plasticity (STDP), enable agile and fast on-the-fly adaptation capability in a spiking neural network. When incorporating emerging nanoscale resistive non-volatile memory (NVM)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Xinyu Wu , Vishal Saxena

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) that enable low-power design on edge devices have recently attracted significant research. However, the temporal characteristic of SNNs causes high latency, high bandwidth and high energy consumption for the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Hong-Han Lien , Chung-Wei Hsu , Tian-Sheuan Chang

Memristor based neural networks have great potentials in on-chip neuromorphic computing systems due to the fast computation and low-energy consumption. However, the imprecise properties of existing memristor devices generally result in…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Yaoyuan Wang , Shuang Wu , Ziyang Zhang , Lei Tian , Luping Shi

Neuromorphic devices, with their distinct advantages in energy efficiency and parallel processing, are pivotal in advancing artificial intelligence applications. Among these devices, memristive transistors have attracted significant…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Shengbo Wang , Jingfang Pei , Cong Li , Xuemeng Li , Li Tao , Arokia Nathan , Guohua Hu , Shuo Gao

Applications of Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are promising for embedded systems with hard constraints on computing power. Contrary to conventional neural networks with the floating-point datatype, BNNs use binarized weights and activations…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Mahdi Zahedi , Taha Shahroodi , Stephan Wong , Said Hamdioui

The deployment of AI on edge computing devices faces significant challenges related to energy consumption and functionality. These devices could greatly benefit from brain-inspired learning mechanisms, allowing for real-time adaptation…

Neuromorphic computing systems are embracing memristors to implement high density and low power synaptic storage as crossbar arrays in hardware. These systems are energy efficient in executing Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs). We observe that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Twisha Titirsha , Shihao Song , Anup Das , Jeffrey Krichmar , Nikil Dutt , Nagarajan Kandasamy , Francky Catthoor

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have attracted enormous research interest due to temporal information processing capability, low power consumption, and high biological plausibility. However, the formulation of efficient and high-performance…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Wei Fang , Zhaofei Yu , Yanqi Chen , Timothee Masquelier , Tiejun Huang , Yonghong Tian

Memristors are continuously tunable resistors that emulate synapses. Conceptualized in the 1970s, they traditionally operate by voltage-induced displacements of matter, but the mechanism remains controversial. Purely electronic memristors…

Binary stochastic neurons (BSNs) are excellent hardware accelerators for machine learning. A popular platform for implementing them are low- or zero-energy barrier nanomagnets possessing in-plane magnetic anisotropy (e.g. circular disks or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-16 Rahnuma Rahman , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay

This paper presents a survey of the currently available hardware designs for implementation of the human cortex inspired algorithm, Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM). In this review, we focus on the state of the art advances of memristive…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Olga Krestinskaya , Irina Dolzhikova , Alex Pappachen James

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are a viable alternative to conventional artificial neural networks when resource efficiency and computational complexity are of importance. A major advantage of SNNs is their binary information transfer…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Daniel Gerlinghoff , Tao Luo , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Weng-Fai Wong

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are good candidates to produce ultra-energy-efficient hardware. However, the performance of these models is currently behind traditional methods. Introducing multi-layered SNNs is a promising way to reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Pierre Falez , Pierre Tirilly , Ioan Marius Bilasco , Philippe Devienne , Pierre Boulet

The computational efficiency of the human brain is believed to stem from the parallel information processing capability of neurons with integrated storage in synaptic interconnections programmed by local spike triggered learning rules such…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-03-17 S. R. Nandakumar , Bipin Rajendran