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The impressive performance of artificial neural networks has come at the cost of high energy usage and CO$_2$ emissions. Unconventional computing architectures, with magnetic systems as a candidate, have potential as alternative…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Matthew O. A. Ellis , Alex Welbourne , Stephan J. Kyle , Paul W. Fry , Dan A. Allwood , Thomas J. Hayward , Eleni Vasilaki

Binarized Neural Networks, a recently discovered class of neural networks with minimal memory requirements and no reliance on multiplication, are a fantastic opportunity for the realization of compact and energy efficient inference…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Tifenn Hirtzlin , Bogdan Penkovsky , Marc Bocquet , Jacques-Olivier Klein , Jean-Michel Portal , Damien Querlioz

In this work, we propose stochastic Binary Spiking Neural Network (sBSNN) composed of stochastic spiking neurons and binary synapses (stochastic only during training) that computes probabilistically with one-bit precision for…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Minsuk Koo , Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan , Yong Shim , Kaushik Roy

Probabilistic computing with binary stochastic neurons (BSN) implemented with low- or zero-energy barrier nanoscale ferromagnets (LBMs) possessing in-plane magnetic anisotropy has emerged as an efficient paradigm for solving computationally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Rahnuma Rahman , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay

Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) can overcome the problem of overconfidence that plagues traditional frequentist deep neural networks, and are hence considered to be a key enabler for reliable AI systems. However, conventional hardware…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Prabodh Katti , Nicolas Skatchkovsky , Osvaldo Simeone , Bipin Rajendran , Bashir M. Al-Hashimi

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are currently being used as function approximators in many state-of-the-art Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have been shown to drastically reduce the energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Bleema Rosenfeld , Osvaldo Simeone , Bipin Rajendran

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are distributed trainable systems whose computing elements, or neurons, are characterized by internal analog dynamics and by digital and sparse synaptic communications. The sparsity of the synaptic spiking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Hyeryung Jang , Osvaldo Simeone , Brian Gardner , André Grüning

Energy-efficient methods are addressed for leveraging low energy barrier nanomagnetic devices within neuromorphic architectures. Using a Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM) probabilistic device (p-bit) as the basis of neuronal…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Hossein Pourmeidani , Punyashloka Debashis , Zhihong Chen , Ronald F. DeMara , Ramtin Zand

One of the most exciting applications of Spin Torque Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (ST-MRAM) is the in-memory implementation of deep neural networks, which could allow improving the energy efficiency of Artificial Intelligence by…

The ability to learn continuously in artificial neural networks (ANNs) is often limited by catastrophic forgetting, a phenomenon in which new knowledge becomes dominant. By taking mechanisms of memory encoding in neuroscience (aka. engrams)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Isabelle Aguilar , Luis Fernando Herbozo Contreras , Omid Kavehei

Many modern applications of the artificial neural networks ensue large number of layers making traditional digital implementations increasingly complex. Optical neural networks offer parallel processing at high bandwidth, but have the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Egor Manuylovich , Diego Argüello Ron , Morteza Kamalian-Kopae , Sergei Turitsyn

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have found widespread applications in tasks such as pattern recognition and image classification. However, hardware implementations of ANNs using conventional binary arithmetic units are computationally…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Ankit Mondal , Ankur Srivastava

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer an energy efficient alternative to conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) but typically still require a large number of parameters. This work introduces Linearized Bregman Iterations (LBI) as an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Daniel Windhager , Bernhard A. Moser , Michael Lunglmayr

Biological neurons communicate with a sparing exchange of pulses - spikes. It is an open question how real spiking neurons produce the kind of powerful neural computation that is possible with deep artificial neural networks, using only so…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Davide Zambrano , Sander M. Bohte

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) emerged as a promising solution in the field of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), attracting the attention of researchers due to their ability to mimic the human brain and process complex information with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Pavithra Koralalage , Ireoluwa Fakeye , Pedro Machado , Jason Smith , Isibor Kennedy Ihianle , Salisu Wada Yahaya , Andreas Oikonomou , Ahmad Lotfi

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are bio-inspired models of neural computation that have proven highly effective. Still, ANNs lack a natural notion of time, and neural units in ANNs exchange analog values in a frame-based manner, a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Davide Zambrano , Roeland Nusselder , H. Steven Scholte , Sander Bohte

Recent years have witnessed growing interest in the use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) for vision, classification, and inference problems. An artificial neuron sums N weighted inputs and passes the result through a non-linear transfer…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Deliang Fan , Yong Shim , Anand Raghunathan , Kaushik Roy

Recent advances in neural networks (NNs) exhibit unprecedented success at transforming large, unstructured data streams into compact higher-level semantic information for tasks such as handwriting recognition, image classification, and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Vincent T. Lee , Armin Alaghi , John P. Hayes , Visvesh Sathe , Luis Ceze

Spiking neural network offers the most bio-realistic approach to mimic the parallelism and compactness of the human brain. A spiking neuron is the central component of an SNN which generates information-encoded spikes. We present a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Md Mazharul Islam , Shamiul Alam , Catherine D Schuman , Md Shafayat Hossain , Ahmedullah Aziz

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are distributed trainable systems whose computing elements, or neurons, are characterized by internal analog dynamics and by digital and sparse synaptic communications. The sparsity of the synaptic spiking…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-22 Hyeryung Jang , Osvaldo Simeone , Brian Gardner , André Grüning