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Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) is a brain-inspired computing paradigm based on high-dimensional holistic representations of vectors. It recently gained attention for embedded smart sensing due to its inherent error-resiliency and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-05 Manuel Eggimann , Abbas Rahimi , Luca Benini

Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) is a brain-inspired paradigm valued for its noise robustness, parallelism, energy efficiency, and low computational overhead. Hardware accelerators are being explored to further enhance their performance,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Md Mizanur Rahaman Nayan , Che-Kai Liu , Zishen Wan , Arijit Raychowdhury , Azad J Naeemi

HyperDimensional Computing (HDC) as a machine learning paradigm is highly interesting for applications involving continuous, semi-supervised learning for long-term monitoring. However, its accuracy is not yet on par with other Machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 William Andrew Simon , Una Pale , Tomas Teijeiro , David Atienza

Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) is a promising approach for energy-efficient edge machine learning (ML), where low latency, low power, and tight memory budgets are essential. However, traditional HDC relies on symbolic binding and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Sabrina Hassan Moon , Abu Kaisar Mohammad Masum , Sercan Aygun , Dayane Reis

Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC) is an emerging computational paradigm for representing compositional information as high-dimensional vectors, and has a promising potential in applications ranging from machine learning to neuromorphic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Netanel Raviv

Recently, brain-inspired computing models have shown great potential to outperform today's deep learning solutions in terms of robustness and energy efficiency. Particularly, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) and HyperDimensional Computing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Zhuowen Zou , Haleh Alimohamadi , Farhad Imani , Yeseong Kim , Mohsen Imani

Over the past few years, silicon photonics-based computing has emerged as a promising alternative to CMOS-based computing for Deep Neural Networks (DNN). Unfortunately, the non-linear operations and the high-precision requirements of DNNs…

Health monitoring applications increasingly rely on machine learning techniques to learn end-user physiological and behavioral patterns in everyday settings. Considering the significant role of wearable devices in monitoring human body…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Sina Shahhosseini , Yang Ni , Hamidreza Alikhani , Emad Kasaeyan Naeini , Mohsen Imani , Nikil Dutt , Amir M. Rahmani

Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC) represents data using extremely high-dimensional, low-precision vectors, termed hypervectors (HVs), and performs learning and inference through lightweight, noise-tolerant operations. However, the high…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Dhruv Parikh , Jebacyril Arockiaraj , Viktor Prasanna

One viable solution for continuous reduction in energy-per-operation is to rethink functionality to cope with uncertainty by adopting computational approaches that are inherently robust to uncertainty. It requires a novel look at data…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Abbas Rahimi , Tony F. Wu , Haitong Li , Jan M. Rabaey , H. -S. Philip Wong , Max M. Shulaker , Subhasish Mitra

Traditional machine learning depends on high-precision arithmetic and near-ideal hardware assumptions, which is increasingly challenged by variability in aggressively scaled semiconductor devices. Compute-in-memory (CIM) architectures…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-15 William Youngwoo Chung , Hamza Errahmouni Barkam , Tamoghno Das , Mohsen Imani

Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) has become popular for light-weight and energy-efficient machine learning, suitable for wearable Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices and near-sensor or on-device processing. HDC is computationally less complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Laura Smets , Werner Van Leekwijck , Ing Jyh Tsang , Steven Latre

Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC) developed by Kanerva is a computational model for machine learning inspired by neuroscience. HDC exploits characteristics of biological neural systems such as high-dimensionality, randomness and a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Igor Nunes , Mike Heddes , Tony Givargis , Alexandru Nicolau , Alex Veidenbaum

Neuro-symbolic artificial intelligence (neuro-symbolic AI) excels in logical analysis and reasoning. Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC), a promising brain-inspired computational model, is integral to neuro-symbolic AI. Various HDC models have…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Yifei Zhou , Xuchu Huang , Chenyu Ni , Min Zhou , Zheyu Yan , Xunzhao Yin , Cheng Zhuo

This paper addresses the clustering of data in the hyperdimensional computing (HDC) domain. In prior work, an HDC-based clustering framework, referred to as HDCluster, has been proposed. However, the performance of the existing HDCluster is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Lulu Ge , Keshab K. Parhi

This paper studies the geometry of binary hyperdimensional computing (HDC), a computational scheme in which data are encoded using high-dimensional binary vectors. We establish a result about the similarity structure induced by the HDC…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Saeid Pourmand , Wyatt D. Whiting , Alireza Aghasi , Nicholas F. Marshall

We present a novel algorithm, \hdgc, that marries graph convolution with binding and bundling operations in hyperdimensional computing for transductive graph learning. For prediction accuracy \hdgc outperforms major and popular graph neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Guojing Cong , Tom Potok , Hamed Poursiami , Maryam Parsa

Brain-inspired hyperdimensional (HD) computing models neural activity patterns of the very size of the brain's circuits with points of a hyperdimensional space, that is, with hypervectors. Hypervectors are $D$-dimensional (pseudo)random…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Manuel Schmuck , Luca Benini , Abbas Rahimi

Binary spatter code (BSC)-based hyperdimensional computing (HDC) is a highly error-resilient approximate computational paradigm suited for error-prone, emerging hardware platforms. In BSC HDC, the basic datatype is a hypervector, a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Pu , Yi , Sara Achour

Decomposition is a proven way to shrink deep networks without changing input-output dimensionality or interface semantics. We bring this idea to hyperdimensional computing (HDC), where footprint cuts usually shrink the feature axis and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Sanggeon Yun , Hyunwoo Oh , Ryozo Masukawa , Mohsen Imani