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The phenomena of Spectral Bias, where the higher frequency components of a function being learnt in a feedforward Artificial Neural Network (ANN) are seen to converge more slowly than the lower frequencies, is observed ubiquitously across…

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Meta-learning is a tool that allows us to build sample-efficient learning systems. Here we show that, once meta-trained, LSTM Meta-Learners aren't just faster learners than their sample-inefficient deep learning (DL) and reinforcement…

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The rapid scaling of deep neural networks comes at the cost of unsustainable power consumption. While optical neural networks offer an alternative, their capabilities remain constrained by the lack of efficient optical nonlinearities. To…

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We propose a nonlinear acoustic echo cancellation system, which aims to model the echo path from the far-end signal to the near-end microphone in two parts. Inspired by the physical behavior of modern hands-free devices, we first introduce…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Amir Ivry , Israel Cohen , Baruch Berdugo

Metamaterials open up a new way to manipulate electromagnetic waves and realize various functional devices. Metamaterials with high-quality (Q) resonance responses are widely employed in sensing, detection, and other applications.…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-22 Shan Yin , Haotian Zhong , Wei Huang , Wentao Zhang , Jiaguang Han

Coupled learning is a contrastive scheme for tuning the properties of individual elements within a network in order to achieve desired functionality of the system. It takes advantage of physics both to learn using local rules and to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-09 Lauren E. Altman , Menachem Stern , Andrea J. Liu , Douglas J. Durian

Learning is traditionally studied in biological or computational systems. The power of learning frameworks in solving hard inverse-problems provides an appealing case for the development of `physical learning' in which physical systems…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-03-29 Menachem Stern , Arvind Murugan

This study harnesses the embodied intelligence of mechanical metamaterials to sense and process environmental vibrations with minimal digital computation. Using physical reservoir computing (PRC), we turn the metamaterial and its nonlinear…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Shan He , Steven Kiyabu , Philip R. Buskohl , Patrick Musgrave

Providing fast and accurate solutions to partial differential equations is a problem of continuous interest to the fields of applied mathematics and physics. With the recent advances in machine learning, the adoption learning techniques in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-16 S. Mohammad H. Hashemi , Demetri Psaltis

Physical networks, such as biological neural networks, can learn desired functions without a central processor, using local learning rules in space and time to learn in a fully distributed manner. Learning approaches such as equilibrium…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-05-17 Menachem Stern , Sam Dillavou , Marc Z. Miskin , Douglas J. Durian , Andrea J. Liu

Hyperparameters and learning algorithms for neuromorphic hardware are usually chosen by hand. In contrast, the hyperparameters and learning algorithms of networks of neurons in the brain, which they aim to emulate, have been optimized…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Thomas Bohnstingl , Franz Scherr , Christian Pehle , Karlheinz Meier , Wolfgang Maass

Digital computers have been getting exponentially faster for decades, but huge challenges exist today. Transistor scaling, described by Moore's law, has been slowing down over the last few years, ending the era of fully predictable…

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Wave-based analog signal processing holds the promise of extremely fast, on-the-fly, power-efficient data processing, occurring as a wave propagates through an artificially engineered medium. Yet, due to the fundamentally weak…

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The design of metamaterials which support unique optical responses is the basis for most thin-film nanophotonics applications. In practice this inverse design problem can be difficult to solve systematically due to the large design…

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Recent years have witnessed the outstanding success of deep learning in various fields such as vision and natural language processing. This success is largely indebted to the massive size of deep learning models that is expected to increase…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Ali Momeni , Babak Rahmani , Matthieu Mallejac , Philipp Del Hougne , Romain Fleury

Designing metamaterials that carry out advanced computations poses a significant challenge. A powerful design strategy splits the problem into two steps: First, encoding the desired functionality in a discrete or tight-binding model, and…

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Due to the unprecedented success of deep learning, it has become an integral component in several multimedia computing applications in todays world. Unfortunately, deep learning systems are not perfect and can fail, sometimes abruptly,…

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The functionality of electronic circuits can be seriously impaired by the occurrence of dynamic hardware faults. Particularly, for digital ultra low-power systems, a reduced safety margin can increase the probability of dynamic failures.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Daniel Gregorek , Nils Hülsmeier , Steffen Paul

The operations used for neural network computation map favorably onto simple analog circuits, which outshine their digital counterparts in terms of compactness and efficiency. Nevertheless, such implementations have been largely supplanted…

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