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Emerged as a biology-inspired method, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) mimic the spiking nature of brain neurons and have received lots of research attention. SNNs deal with binary spikes as their activation and therefore derive extreme…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Yufei Guo , Weihang Peng , Yuanpei Chen , Liwen Zhang , Xiaode Liu , Xuhui Huang , Zhe Ma

Spin-orbit torque (SOT) can drive sustained spin wave (SW) auto-oscillations in a class of emerging microwave devices known as spin Hall nano-oscillators (SHNOs), which have highly non-linear properties governing robust mutual…

This paper presents physical modeling and benchmarking for two-terminal spin-orbit torque magnetic random-access memory (2T-SOT-MRAM). The results indicate that the common SOT materials that provide only in-plane torque can provide little…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Md Nahid Haque Shazon , Piyush Kumar , Luqiao Liu , Daniel C. Ralph , Azad Naeemi

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

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have demonstrated outstanding performance in numerous tasks, but deployment in resource-constrained environments remains a challenge due to their high computational and memory requirements. Spiking neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Chang Liu , Jiangrong Shen , Xuming Ran , Mingkun Xu , Qi Xu , Yi Xu , Gang Pan

The success of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is largely attributed to utilizing Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) as function approximators. Recent advances in neuroscience have unveiled that the human brain achieves efficient…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Duzhen Zhang , Qingyu Wang , Tielin Zhang , Bo Xu

The excellent performance of modern deep neural networks (DNNs) comes at an often prohibitive training cost, limiting the rapid development of DNN innovations and raising various environmental concerns. To reduce the dominant data movement…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Hongjie Wang , Yang Zhao , Chaojian Li , Yue Wang , Yingyan Lin

In this work, we have proposed a revolutionary neuromorphic computing methodology to implement All-Skyrmion Spiking Neural Network (AS-SNN). Such proposed methodology is based on our finding that skyrmion is a topological stable spin…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Zhezhi He , Deliang Fan

Spin-orbit torque (SOT) is a promising switching mechanism for magnetic random-access memory (MRAM) as a result of the potential for improved switching speed and energy-efficiency. It is of particular interest to develop an SOT-MRAM device…

Spiking neural networks are efficient computation models for low-power environments. Spike-based BP algorithms and ANN-to-SNN (ANN2SNN) conversions are successful techniques for SNN training. Nevertheless, the spike-base BP training is slow…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Jianxiong Tang , Jianhuang Lai , Xiaohua Xie , Lingxiao Yang , Wei-Shi Zheng

Using type-x spin-orbit torque (SOT) switching scheme, in which the easy axis (EA) of the ferromagnetic (FM) layer and the charge current flow direction are collinear, is possible to realize a lower-power-consumption, higher-density, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Yan-Ting Liu , Chao-Chung Huang , Kuan-Hao Chen , Yu-Hao Huang , Chia-Chin Tsai , Ting-Yu Chang , Chi-Feng Pai

Learning and logic are fundamental brain functions that make the individual to adapt to the environment, and such functions are established in human brain by modulating ionic fluxes in synapses. Nanoscale ionic/electronic devices with…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-04-29 Chang Jin Wan , Li Qiang Zhu , Yi Shi , Qing Wan

Neuromorphic hardware facilitates rapid and energy-efficient training and operation of neural network models for artificial intelligence. However, existing analog in-memory computing devices, like memristors, continue to face significant…

Non-volatile Neuromorphic Computing (NC) elements utilizing Spin Orbit Torque (SOT) provide a viable solution to alleviate the memory wall bottleneck in contemporary computing systems. However, the two challenges, low SOT efficiency and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Badsha Sekh , Hasibur Rahaman , Subhakanta Das , Mitali , Ramu Maddu , Kesavan Jawahar , S. N. Piramanayagam

Bio-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are now demonstrating comparable accuracy to intricate convolutional neural networks (CNN), all while delivering remarkable energy and latency efficiency when deployed on neuromorphic hardware. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Gourav Datta , Zeyu Liu , James Diffenderfer , Bhavya Kailkhura , Peter A. Beerel

Skeleton-based action recognition is crucial for multimedia applications but heavily relies on power-hungry Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), limiting their deployment on resource-constrained edge devices. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Naichuan Zheng , Hailun Xia , Zepeng Sun , Weiyi Li , Yujia Wang

Spin-orbit torques (SOTs) from transition metal dichalcogenides systems (TMDs) in conjunction with ferromagnetic materials are recently attractive in spintronics for their versatile features. However, most of the previously studied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-13 Cheng-Wei Peng , Wei-Bang Liao , Tian-Yue Chen , Chi-Feng Pai

A large effort is devoted to the research of new computing paradigms associated to innovative nanotechnologies that should complement and/or propose alternative solutions to the classical Von Neumann/CMOS association. Among various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-09 F. Alibart , S. Pleutin , O. Bichler , C. Gamrat , T. Serrano-Gotarredona , B. Linares-Barranco , D. Vuillaume

Sleep plays an important role in incremental learning and consolidation of memories in biological systems. Motivated by the processes that are known to be involved in sleep generation in biological networks, we developed an algorithm that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Giri P Krishnan , Timothy Tadros , Ramyaa Ramyaa , Maxim Bazhenov

Stateful logic is a promising processing-in-memory (PIM) paradigm to perform logic operations using emerging nonvolatile memory cells. While most stateful logic circuits to date focused on technologies such as resistive RAM, we propose two…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Barak Hoffer , Shahar Kvatinsky