English
Related papers

Related papers: Hardware-aware $in \ situ$ Boltzmann machine learn…

200 papers

Bayesian inference is an effective approach for solving statistical learning problems especially with uncertainty and incompleteness. However, inference efficiencies are physically limited by the bottlenecks of conventional computing…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Xiaotao Jia , Jianlei Yang , Zhaohao Wang , Yiran Chen , Hai , Li , Weisheng Zhao

Probabilistic graphical models are powerful mathematical formalisms for machine learning and reasoning under uncertainty that are widely used for cognitive computing. However they cannot be employed efficiently for large problems (with…

The use of analog resistance states for storing weights in neuromorphic systems is impeded by fabrication imprecision and device stochasticity that limit the precision of synapse weights. This challenge can be resolved by emulating analog…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Peng Zhou , Julie A. Smith , Laura Deremo , Stephen K. Heinrich-Barna , Joseph S. Friedman

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have found widespread applications in tasks such as pattern recognition and image classification. However, hardware implementations of ANNs using conventional binary arithmetic units are computationally…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Ankit Mondal , Ankur Srivastava

We propose a hardware learning rule for unsupervised clustering within a novel spintronic computing architecture. The proposed approach leverages the three-terminal structure of domain-wall magnetic tunnel junction devices to establish a…

The relentless pursuit of miniaturization and performance enhancement in electronic devices has led to a fundamental challenge in the field of circuit design and simulation: how to accurately account for the inherent stochastic nature of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Jack Hutchins , Shamiul Alam , Dana S. Rampini , Bakhrom G. Oripov , Adam N. McCaughan , Ahmedullah Aziz

Brain-inspired computing architectures attempt to mimic the computations performed in the neurons and the synapses in the human brain in order to achieve its efficiency in learning and cognitive tasks. In this work, we demonstrate the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Abhronil Sengupta , Priyadarshini Panda , Parami Wijesinghe , Yusung Kim , Kaushik Roy

Spintronic artificial neurons are intriguing building blocks for energy efficient Neuromorphic Computing (NC). Nevertheless, most contemporary implementations rely on symmetry breaking external in plane magnetic fields (H_X) for neuron…

Spintronic devices are considered as promising candidates in implementing neuromorphic systems or hardware neural networks, which are expected to perform better than other existing computing systems for certain data classification and…

Hardware-based neuromorphic computing remains an elusive goal with the potential to profoundly impact future technologies and deepen our understanding of emergent intelligence. The learning-from-mistakes algorithm is one of the few training…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-06-23 Frank Barrows , Jonathan Lin , Francesco Caravelli , Dante R. Chialvo

Machine learning promises to deliver powerful new approaches to neutron scattering from magnetic materials. Large scale simulations provide the means to realise this with approaches including spin-wave, Landau Lifshitz, and Monte Carlo…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-11-12 Anjana M. Samarakoon , D. Alan Tennant

Silicon-based analog neural networks physically embody the ideal neural network model in an approximate way. We show that by retraining the neural network using a physics-informed hardware-aware model one can fully recover the inference…

Low barrier nanomagnets have attracted a lot of research interest for their use as sources of high quality true random number generation. More recently, low barrier nanomagnets with tunable output have been shown to be a natural hardware…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-09 Punyashloka Debashis , Rafatul Faria , Kerem Y. Camsari , Supriyo Datta , Zhihong Chen

Nanomagnets driven by spin currents provide a natural implementation for a neuron and a synapse: currents allow convenient summation of multiple inputs, while the magnet provides the threshold function. The objective of this paper is to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-27 Vinh Quang Diep , Brian Sutton , Behtash Behin-Aein , Supriyo Datta

Neuromorphic Multiply-And-Accumulate (MAC) circuits utilizing synaptic weight elements based on SRAM or novel Non-Volatile Memories (NVMs) provide a promising approach for highly efficient hardware representations of neural networks. NVM…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Borna Obradovic , Titash Rakshit , Ryan Hatcher , Jorge A. Kittl , Mark S. Rodder

Spintronic devices have recently attracted a lot of attention in the field of unconventional computing due to their non-volatility for short and long term memory, non-linear fast response and relatively small footprint. Here we report how…

Spintronic devices offer a promising avenue for the development of nanoscale, energy-efficient artificial neurons for neuromorphic computing. It has previously been shown that with antiferromagnetic (AFM) oscillators, ultra-fast spiking…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Hannah Bradley , Steven Louis , Andrei Slavin , Vasyl Tyberkevych

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

Binary stochastic neurons (BSNs) are excellent activators for machine learning. An ideal platform for implementing them are low- or zero-energy-barrier nanomagnets (LBMs) possessing in-plane anisotropy (e.g. circular or slightly elliptical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 Rahnuma Rahman , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay

Artificial neural networks can harness stochasticity in multiple ways to enable a vast class of computationally powerful models. Electronic implementation of such stochastic networks is currently limited to addition of algorithmic noise to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Abhinav Parihar , Matthew Jerry , Suman Datta , Arijit Raychowdhury