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This is Part II of the two-part comprehensive survey devoted to a computing framework most commonly known under the names Hyperdimensional Computing and Vector Symbolic Architectures (HDC/VSA). Both names refer to a family of computational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Denis Kleyko , Dmitri A. Rachkovskij , Evgeny Osipov , Abbas Rahimi

This two-part comprehensive survey is devoted to a computing framework most commonly known under the names Hyperdimensional Computing and Vector Symbolic Architectures (HDC/VSA). Both names refer to a family of computational models that use…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Denis Kleyko , Dmitri A. Rachkovskij , Evgeny Osipov , Abbas Rahimi

Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) is an emerging learning paradigm that computes with high dimensional binary vectors. It is attractive because of its energy efficiency and low latency, especially on emerging hardware -- but HDC suffers from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Tao Yu , Yichi Zhang , Zhiru Zhang , Christopher De Sa

Hyperdimensional computing (HDC), also known as vector symbolic architectures (VSA), is a computing framework used within artificial intelligence and cognitive computing that operates with distributed vector representations of large fixed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Dmitri A. Rachkovskij , Denis Kleyko

This article reviews recent progress in the development of the computing framework vector symbolic architectures (VSA) (also known as hyperdimensional computing). This framework is well suited for implementation in stochastic, emerging…

Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC), also known as Vector-Symbolic Architectures (VSA), is a promising framework for the development of cognitive architectures and artificial intelligence systems, as well as for technical applications and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Dmitri A. Rachkovskij

Vector Symbolic Architectures (VSAs) are a powerful framework for representing compositional reasoning. They lend themselves to neural-network implementations, allowing us to create neural networks that can perform cognitive functions, like…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Jeff Orchard , Russell Jarvis

Vector Symbolic Architectures combine a high-dimensional vector space with a set of carefully designed operators in order to perform symbolic computations with large numerical vectors. Major goals are the exploitation of their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Kenny Schlegel , Peer Neubert , Peter Protzel

Vector space models for symbolic processing that encode symbols by random vectors have been proposed in cognitive science and connectionist communities under the names Vector Symbolic Architecture (VSA), and, synonymously, Hyperdimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-09 E. Paxon Frady , Denis Kleyko , Christopher J. Kymn , Bruno A. Olshausen , Friedrich T. Sommer

Vector Symbolic Architectures (VSAs) have been widely deployed in various cognitive applications due to their simple and efficient operations. The widespread adoption of VSAs has, in turn, spurred the development of numerous hardware…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Shuting Du , Mohamed Ibrahim , Zishen Wan , Luqi Zheng , Boheng Zhao , Zhenkun Fan , Che-Kai Liu , Tushar Krishna , Arijit Raychowdhury , Haitong Li

Hyperdimensional computing (HDC), also referred to as vector symbolic architectures (VSA), represents information with high-dimensional vectors and a compact algebra of primitives. This paper establishes an explicitly unitary embedding from…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tyler L. Poore

Vector Symbolic Architectures (VSAs) are high-dimensional vector representations of objects (eg., words, image parts), relations (eg., sentence structures), and sequences for use with machine learning algorithms. They consist of a vector…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-02 Stephen I. Gallant , T. Wendy Okaywe

Vector Symbolic Architectures (VSAs) provide a well-defined algebraic framework for compositional representations in hyperdimensional spaces. We introduce HyperSpace, an open-source framework that decomposes VSA systems into modular…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shay Snyder , Andrew Capodieci , David Gorsich , Maryam Parsa

Symbolic reasoning and neural networks are often considered incompatible approaches. Connectionist models known as Vector Symbolic Architectures (VSAs) can potentially bridge this gap. However, classical VSAs and neural networks are still…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-16 E. Paxon Frady , Denis Kleyko , Friedrich T. Sommer

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

Following the initial publication of hdlib, a Python library for designing Vector-Symbolic Architectures (VSA), we introduce a major extension that significantly enhances its machine learning capabilities. VSA, also known as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Fabio Cumbo , Kabir Dhillon , Daniel Blankenberg

Vector-symbolic architectures (VSAs) provide methods for computing which are highly flexible and carry unique advantages. Concepts in VSAs are represented by 'symbols,' long vectors of values which utilize properties of high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Wilkie Olin-Ammentorp Maxim Bazhenov

Image and video descriptors are an omnipresent tool in computer vision and its application fields like mobile robotics. Many hand-crafted and in particular learned image descriptors are numerical vectors with a potentially (very) large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Peer Neubert , Stefan Schubert

While Vector Symbolic Architectures (VSAs) are promising for modelling spatial cognition, their application is currently limited to artificially generated images and simple spatial queries. We propose VSA4VQA - a novel 4D implementation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Anna Penzkofer , Lei Shi , Andreas Bulling

Graph classification is a fundamental task in domains ranging from molecular property prediction to materials design. While graph neural networks (GNNs) achieve strong performance by learning expressive representations via message passing,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Hamed Poursiami , Shay Snyder , Guojing Cong , Thomas Potok , Maryam Parsa
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