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As spiking neural networks (SNNs) are deployed increasingly in real-world efficiency critical applications, the security concerns in SNNs attract more attention. Currently, researchers have already demonstrated an SNN can be attacked with…

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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) exhibit exceptional energy efficiency on neuromorphic hardware due to their sparse activation patterns. However, conventional training methods based on surrogate gradients and Backpropagation Through Time…

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Recent advances in machine-learning interatomic potentials have enabled the efficient modeling of complex atomistic systems with an accuracy that is comparable to that of conventional quantum mechanics based methods. At the same time, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-06 April M. Miksch , Tobias Morawietz , Johannes Kästner , Alexander Urban , Nongnuch Artrith

We present a novel deep learning-based algorithm to accelerate - through the use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) - the convergence of Algebraic Multigrid (AMG) methods for the iterative solution of the linear systems of equations…

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Spiking Neural Network (SNN), as a brain-inspired and energy-efficient network, is currently facing the pivotal challenge of exploring a suitable and efficient learning framework. The predominant training methodologies, namely…

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Evolutionary artificial neural networks (EANNs) refer to a special class of artificial neural networks (ANNs) in which evolution is another fundamental form of adaptation in addition to learning. Evolutionary algorithms are used to adapt…

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In recent years, communication engineers put strong emphasis on artificial neural network (ANN)-based algorithms with the aim of increasing the flexibility and autonomy of the system and its components. In this context, unsupervised…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-31 Jonas Ney , Vincent Lauinger , Laurent Schmalen , Norbert Wehn

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have been attached great importance due to the distinctive properties of low power consumption, biological plausibility, and adversarial robustness. The most effective way to train deep SNNs is through…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Tong Bu , Jianhao Ding , Zhaofei Yu , Tiejun Huang

Feed-forward, fully-connected Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) or the so-called Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) are well-known universal approximators. However, their learning performance varies significantly depending on the function or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Serkan Kiranyaz , Turker Ince , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj

In this article, deep learning is applied to estimate the uplink channels for mixed analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, where a portion of antennas are equipped with high-resolution…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Shen Gao , Peihao Dong , Zhiwen Pan , Geoffrey Ye Li

Machine learning methods, in particular deep learning methods such as artificial neural networks (ANNs) with many layers, have become widespread and useful tools in nuclear physics. However, these ANNs are typically treated as ``black…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-05 S. A. Sundberg , R. J. Furnstahl

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) trained using backpropagation are powerful learning architectures that have achieved state-of-the-art performance in various benchmarks. Significant effort has been devoted to developing custom silicon…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Hesham Mostafa , Bruno Pedroni , Sadique Sheik , Gert Cauwenberghs

Spiking Neural Network (SNN), originating from the neural behavior in biology, has been recognized as one of the next-generation neural networks. Conventionally, SNNs can be obtained by converting from pre-trained Artificial Neural Networks…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Yuhang Li , Shikuang Deng , Xin Dong , Shi Gu

The ever-increasing data demand craves advancements in high-speed and energy-efficient computing hardware. Analog optical neural network (ONN) processors have emerged as a promising solution, offering benefits in bandwidth and energy…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-07 Chao Luan , Ronald Davis , Zaijun Chen , Dirk Englund , Ryan Hamerly

Hardware reliability is adversely affected by the downscaling of semiconductor devices and the scale-out of systems necessitated by modern applications. Apart from crashes, this unreliability often manifests as silent data corruptions…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Vassilis Vassiliadis , Konstantinos Parasyris , Christos D. Antonopoulos , Spyros Lalis , Nikolaos Bellas

Sequence labeling systems should perform reliably not only under ideal conditions but also with corrupted inputs - as these systems often process user-generated text or follow an error-prone upstream component. To this end, we formulate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Marcin Namysl , Sven Behnke , Joachim Köhler

To satisfy the growing throughput demand of data-intensive applications, the performance of optical communication systems increased dramatically in recent years. With higher throughput, more advanced equalizers are crucial, to compensate…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jonas Ney , Christoph Füllner , Vincent Lauinger , Laurent Schmalen , Sebastian Randel , Norbert Wehn

Photonic neural network (PNN) is a remarkable analog artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator that computes with photons instead of electrons to feature low latency, high energy efficiency, and high parallelism. However, the existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Ziyang Zheng , Zhengyang Duan , Hang Chen , Rui Yang , Sheng Gao , Haiou Zhang , Hongkai Xiong , Xing Lin

Unlike image classification and annotation, for which deep network models have achieved dominating superior performances compared to traditional computer vision algorithms, deep learning for automatic image segmentation still faces critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Weizhi Li

Adder Neural Networks (ANNs) which only contain additions bring us a new way of developing deep neural networks with low energy consumption. Unfortunately, there is an accuracy drop when replacing all convolution filters by adder filters.…

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