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We introduce an improved CNOT synthesis algorithm that considers nearest-neighbour interactions and CNOT gate error rates in noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) hardware. Compared to IBM's Qiskit compiler, it improves the fidelity of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-31 Dohun Kim , Minyoung Kim , Sarah Meng Li , Michele Mosca

The softmax gating function is arguably the most popular choice in mixture of experts modeling. Despite its widespread use in practice, the softmax gating may lead to unnecessary competition among experts, potentially causing the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-05 Huy Nguyen , Nhat Ho , Alessandro Rinaldo

Heterogeneous systems with analog CMOS circuits integrated with nanoscale memristive devices enable efficient deployment of neural networks on neuromorphic hardware. CMOS Neuron with low footprint can emulate slow temporal dynamics by…

Superparamagnetic tunnel junctions (SMTJs) are promising sources of randomness for compact and energy efficient implementations of probabilistic computing techniques. Augmenting an SMTJ with electronic circuits, to convert the random…

In this paper, we develop an in-memory analog computing (IMAC) architecture realizing both synaptic behavior and activation functions within non-volatile memory arrays. Spin-orbit torque magnetoresistive random-access memory (SOT-MRAM)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Mohammed Elbtity , Abhishek Singh , Brendan Reidy , Xiaochen Guo , Ramtin Zand

Transformer model has gained prominence as a popular deep neural network architecture for neural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV) applications. However, the extensive use of nonlinear operations, like softmax, poses a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Shuai Dong , Junyi Yang , Xiaoqi Peng , Hongyang Shang , Ye Ke , Xiaofeng Yang , Hongjie Liu , Arindam Basu

Approximate computing is emerging as an alternative to accurate computing due to its potential for realizing digital circuits and systems with low power dissipation, less critical path delay, and less area occupancy for an acceptable…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-19 P Balasubramanian

Approximate computing is an emerging paradigm where design accuracy can be traded for improvements in design metrics such as design area and power consumption. In this work, we overview our open-source tool, BLASYS, for synthesis of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jingxiao Ma , Soheil Hashemi , Sherief Reda

We extend the resummation of dimensionally-regulated amplitudes to next-to-next-to-leading poles. This requires the calculation of two-loop anomalous dimension matrices for color mixing through soft gluon exchange. Remarkably, we find that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-04-06 S. Mert Aybat , Lance J. Dixon , George Sterman

While soft robot manipulators offer compelling advantages over rigid counterparts, including inherent compliance, safe human-robot interaction, and the ability to conform to complex geometries, accurate forward modeling from low-dimensional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Ziyong Ma , Uksang Yoo , Jonathan Francis , Weiming Zhi , Jeffrey Ichnowski , Jean Oh

This paper proposes a novel approach for the generation of memory-efficient table-based function approximation circuits for FPGAs. Given a function f(x) to be approximated in a given interval [x0,x0+a] and a maximum approximation error Ea,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Chetana Pradhan , Martin Letras , Jürgen Teich

This paper presents an implementation of multilayer feed forward neural networks (NN) to optimize CMOS analog circuits. For modeling and design recently neural network computational modules have got acceptance as an unorthodox and useful…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-12-13 Mriganka Chakraborty

The resummation of soft gluon exchange for QCD hard scattering requires a matrix of anomalous dimensions. We compute this matrix directly for arbitrary 2 to n massless processes for the first time at two loops. Using color generator…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-04-06 S. Mert Aybat , Lance J. Dixon , George Sterman

In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of a high precision real time NAND simulator called Copycat that runs on a commodity multi-core desktop environment. This NAND simulator facilitates the development of embedded flash…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-22 Juyong Shin , Jongbo Bae , Ansu Na , Sang Lyul Min

For neuromorphic engineering to emulate the human brain, improving memory density with low power consumption is an indispensable but challenging goal. In this regard, emerging RRAMs have attracted considerable interest for their unique…

Invertible logic can operate in one of two modes: 1) a forward mode, in which inputs are presented and a single, correct output is produced, and 2) a reverse mode, in which the output is fixed and the inputs take on values consistent with…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Sean C. Smithson , Naoya Onizawa , Brett H. Meyer , Warren J. Gross , Takahiro Hanyu

State-of-the-art in-memory computation has recently emerged as the most promising solution to overcome design challenges related to data movement inside current computing systems. One of the approaches to performing in-memory computation is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Saeed Seyedfaraji , Baset Mesgari , Semeen Rehman

This paper introduces a novel simulation tool for analyzing and training neural network models tailored for compute-in-memory hardware. The tool leverages physics-based device models to enable the design of neural network models and their…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Carl Brando , Minseong Park , Sayma Nowshin Chowdhury , Matthew Chen , Kyusang Lee , Sahil Shah

The transformer architecture has driven many successes in a variety of tasks within the field of deep learning, in particular the recent advances in natural language processing (NLP) culminating with large language models (LLM). Adding to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Abdullah Nazhat Abdullah , Tarkan Aydin

In this work, a new method for designing an analog circuit for deep sub-micron CMOS fabrication processes is proposed. The proposed method leverages the regression algorithms with the transistor circuit model to size a transistor in 0.18 um…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Alireza Bagheri Rajeoni