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The rapidly growing computational demands of deep neural networks require novel hardware designs. Recently, tunable nanoelectronic devices were developed based on hopping electrons through a network of dopant atoms in silicon. These "Dopant…

In this study, we propose a novel approach, termed boundary integrated neural networks (BINNs), for analyzing in-plane crack problems within the framework of linear elastic fracture mechanics. The proposed approach integrates artificial…

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) possess energy-efficient potential due to event-based computation. However, supervised training of SNNs remains a challenge as spike activities are non-differentiable. Previous SNNs training methods can be…

A multi-cell cluster-free NOMA framework is proposed, where both intra-cell and inter-cell interference are jointly mitigated via flexible cluster-free successive interference cancellation (SIC) and coordinated beamforming design. The joint…

Temporal neural networks (TNNs) are neuromorphic neural networks that utilize bit-serial temporal coding. TNNs are composed of columns, which in turn employ neurons as their building blocks. Each neuron processes volleys of input spikes,…

Unconstrained binary integer programming (UBIP) poses significant computational challenges due to its discrete nature. We introduce a novel reformulation approach using a piecewise cubic function that transforms binary constraints into…

This paper proposes a new topology optimization method that applies a convolutional neural network (CNN), which is one deep learning technique for topology optimization problems. Using this method, we acquire a structure with a little…

Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) have recently attracted significant interest due to their computational efficiency. Concurrently, it has been shown that neural networks may be overly sensitive to "attacks" - tiny adversarial changes in the…

Spiking neural network (SNN) has attracted much attention due to their powerful spatio-temporal information representation ability. Capsule Neural Network (CapsNet) does well in assembling and coupling features at different levels. Here, we…

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) have received significant attention due to their promising efficiency. Currently, most BNN studies directly adopt widely-used CNN architectures, which can be suboptimal for BNNs. This paper proposes a novel…

In this paper, we propose Binarized Change Detection (BiCD), the first binary neural network (BNN) designed specifically for change detection. Conventional network binarization approaches, which directly quantize both weights and…

Temporal Neural Networks (TNNs), inspired from the mammalian neocortex, exhibit energy-efficient online sensory processing capabilities. Recent works have proposed a microarchitecture framework for implementing TNNs and demonstrated…

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a more energy-efficient alternative to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) by mimicking biological neural principles, establishing them as a promising approach to mitigate the increasing energy demands of…

We present a high-speed, energy-efficient Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture utilising the capabilities of a unique class of devices known as analog Focal Plane Sensor Processors (FPSP), in which the sensor and the processor…

We introduce a mixed integer program (MIP) for assigning importance scores to each neuron in deep neural network architectures which is guided by the impact of their simultaneous pruning on the main learning task of the network. By…

Pipeline parallelism is a crucial paradigm for large-scale model training. However, imbalances in memory footprint across stages can lead to significant GPU memory wastage, limiting the model sizes that pipeline parallelism can effectively…

Current state-of-the-art object proposal networks are trained with a closed-world assumption, meaning they learn to only detect objects of the training classes. These models fail to provide high recall in open-world environments where…

Equilibrium Propagation (EP) is an algorithm intrinsically adapted to the training of physical networks, thanks to the local updates of weights given by the internal dynamics of the system. However, the construction of such a hardware…

This paper formalizes the binarization operations over neural networks from a learning perspective. In contrast to classical hand crafted rules (\eg hard thresholding) to binarize full-precision neurons, we propose to learn a mapping from…

Adiabatic Quantum-Flux-Parametron (AQFP) is a superconducting logic with extremely high energy efficiency. By employing the distinct polarity of current to denote logic `0' and `1', AQFP devices serve as excellent carriers for binary neural…