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Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) has emerged as a new light-weight learning algorithm with smaller computation and energy requirements compared to conventional techniques. In HDC, data points are represented by high-dimensional vectors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Toygun Basaklar , Yigit Tuncel , Shruti Yadav Narayana , Suat Gumussoy , Umit Y. Ogras

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

We investigate the task of retrieving information from compositional distributed representations formed by Hyperdimensional Computing/Vector Symbolic Architectures and present novel techniques which achieve new information rate bounds.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Denis Kleyko , Connor Bybee , Ping-Chen Huang , Christopher J. Kymn , Bruno A. Olshausen , E. Paxon Frady , Friedrich T. Sommer

Despite their capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs) remain opaque with limited understanding of their internal representations. Current interpretability methods either focus on input-oriented feature extraction, such as supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Marco Bronzini , Carlo Nicolini , Bruno Lepri , Jacopo Staiano , Andrea Passerini

Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC) is a brain-inspired computing paradigm that represents and manipulates information using high-dimensional vectors, called hypervectors (HV). Traditional HDC methods, while robust to noise and inherently…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Dhruv Parikh , Viktor Prasanna

Transformer-based language models display impressive reasoning-like behavior, yet remain brittle on tasks that require stable symbolic manipulation. This paper develops a unified perspective on these phenomena by interpreting self-attention…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Sahil Rajesh Dhayalkar

Vector Symbolic Architectures (VSAs) give a way to represent a complex object as a single fixed-length vector, so that similar objects have similar vector representations. These vector representations then become easy to use for machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Stephen I. Gallant

Hyperdimensional (HD) computing is built upon its unique data type referred to as hypervectors. The dimension of these hypervectors is typically in the range of tens of thousands. Proposed to solve cognitive tasks, HD computing aims at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Lulu Ge , Keshab K. Parhi

Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC) is a brain-inspired and light-weight machine learning method. It has received significant attention in the literature as a candidate to be applied in the wearable internet of things, near-sensor artificial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Laura Smets , Werner Van Leekwijck , Ing Jyh Tsang , Steven Latré

A key challenge in artificial intelligence and neuroscience is understanding how neural systems learn representations that capture the underlying dynamics of the world. Most world models represent the transition function with unstructured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 William Youngwoo Chung , Calvin Yeung , Hansen Jin Lillemark , Zhuowen Zou , Xiangjian Liu , Mohsen Imani

Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC) has obtained abundant attention as an emerging non von Neumann computing paradigm. Inspired by the way human brain functions, HDC leverages high dimensional patterns to perform learning tasks. Compared to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Dongning Ma , Xun Jiao

Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC) is a bio-inspired computing framework that has gained increasing attention, especially as a more efficient approach to machine learning (ML). This work introduces the \name{} compiler, the first open-source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Pere Vergés , Mike Heddes , Igor Nunes , Tony Givargis , Alexandru Nicolau

Advances in bioinformatics are primarily due to new algorithms for processing diverse biological data sources. While sophisticated alignment algorithms have been pivotal in analyzing biological sequences, deep learning has substantially…

Vector Symbolic Architectures belong to a family of related cognitive modeling approaches that encode symbols and structures in high-dimensional vectors. Similar to human subjects, whose capacity to process and store information or concepts…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Florian Mirus , Terrence C. Stewart , Jorg Conradt

We present HyperSeg, a hyperdimensional computing (HDC) approach to unsupervised dialogue topic segmentation. HDC is a class of vector symbolic architectures that leverages the probabilistic orthogonality of randomly drawn vectors at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Seongmin Park , Jinkyu Seo , Jihwa Lee

The entorhinal-hippocampal formation is the mammalian brain's navigation system, encoding both physical and abstract spaces via grid cells. This system is well-studied in neuroscience, and its efficiency and versatility make it attractive…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Sven Krausse , Emre Neftci , Friedrich T. Sommer , Alpha Renner

The ability to encode and manipulate data structures with distributed neural representations could qualitatively enhance the capabilities of traditional neural networks by supporting rule-based symbolic reasoning, a central property of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-09 E. Paxon Frady , Spencer Kent , Bruno A. Olshausen , Friedrich T. Sommer

Relationships in scientific data, such as the numerical and spatial distribution relations of features in univariate data, the scalar-value combinations' relations in multivariate data, and the association of volumes in time-varying and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Xiangyang He , Yubo Tao , Shuoliu Yang , Haoran Dai , Hai Lin

For the first time, this paper systematically identifies three categories of throughput oriented workloads in data centers: services, data processing applications, and interactive real-time applications, whose targets are to increase the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jianfeng Zhan , Lixin Zhang , Ninghui Sun , Lei Wang , Zhen Jia , Chunjie Luo

Holographic Reduced Representations (HRR) are a method for performing symbolic AI on top of real-valued vectors by associating each vector with an abstract concept, and providing mathematical operations to manipulate vectors as if they were…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Ashwinkumar Ganesan , Hang Gao , Sunil Gandhi , Edward Raff , Tim Oates , James Holt , Mark McLean