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The inherent dynamics of the neuron membrane potential in Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) allows processing of sequential learning tasks, avoiding the complexity of recurrent neural networks. The highly-sparse spike-based computations in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Amogh Agrawal , Mustafa Ali , Minsuk Koo , Nitin Rathi , Akhilesh Jaiswal , Kaushik Roy

As the demand for efficient, low-power computing in embedded and edge devices grows, traditional computing methods are becoming less effective for handling complex tasks. Stochastic computing (SC) offers a promising alternative by…

Computational workloads are growing exponentially, driving power consumption to unsustainable levels. Efficiently distributing large-scale networks is an NP-Complete problem equivalent to Boolean satisfiability (SAT), making it one of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Everest Bloomer , Irem Didin , Ching-Yi Lin , Sahil Shah

We study the design of storage-efficient algorithms for emulating atomic shared memory over an asynchronous, distributed message-passing system. Our first algorithm is an atomic single-writer multi-reader algorithm based on a novel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Marwen Zorgui , Robert Mateescu , Filip Blagojevic , Cyril Guyot , Zhiying Wang

Compute-in-memory (CIM) accelerators for spiking neural networks (SNNs) are promising solutions to enable $\mu$s-level inference latency and ultra-low energy in edge vision applications. Yet, their current lack of flexibility at both the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Nicolas Chauvaux , Adrian Kneip , Christoph Posch , Kofi Makinwa , Charlotte Frenkel

Conventional low-power static random access memories (SRAMs) reduce read energy by decreasing the bit-line voltage swings uniformly across the bit-line columns. This is because the read energy is proportional to the bit-line swings. On the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Yongjune Kim , Mingu Kang , Lav R. Varshney , Naresh R. Shanbhag

As deep neural network (DNN) models are growing exponentially in size, their deployment on resource-constrained edge platforms is becoming increasingly challenging. In-memory-computing (IMC) with non-volatile memories (NVMs) has emerged as…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Imtiaz Ahmed , Sumeet Kumar Gupta

As an emerging post-CMOS Field Effect Transistor, Magneto-Electric FETs (MEFETs) offer compelling design characteristics for logic and memory applications, such as high-speed switching, low power consumption, and non-volatility. In this…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Deniz Najafi , Mehrdad Morsali , Ranyang Zhou , Arman Roohi , Andrew Marshall , Durga Misra , Shaahin Angizi

The memory capacity in edge devices is often limited due to constraints on cost, size, and power. Consequently, memory competition leads to inevitable page swapping in memory-constrained mixed-criticality edge devices, causing slow storage…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Meng-Chia Lee , Wen Sheng Lim , Yuan-Hao Chang , Tei-Wei Kuo

We present SCORE, a visual relocalization system that achieves unprecedented map compactness by adopting semantically labeled 3D line maps. SCORE requires only 0.01\%-0.1\% of the storage needed by structure-based or learning-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Haodong Jiang , Xiang Zheng , Yanglin Zhang , Qingcheng Zeng , Yiqian Li , Ziyang Hong , Junfeng Wu

Approximate Message Passing (AMP) type algorithms are widely used for signal recovery in high-dimensional noisy linear systems. Recently, a principle called Memory AMP (MAMP) was proposed. Leveraging this principle, the gradient descent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Shunqi Huang , Lei Liu , Brian M. Kurkoski

While memory-augmented neural networks (MANNs) offer an effective solution for few-shot learning (FSL) by integrating deep neural networks with external memory, the capacity requirements and energy overhead of data movement become enormous…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Hao-Wei Chiang , Chi-Tse Huang , Hsiang-Yun Cheng , Po-Hao Tseng , Ming-Hsiu Lee , An-Yeu , Wu

At the end of Silicon roadmap, keeping the leakage power in tolerable limit and bridging the bandwidth gap between processor and memory have become some of the biggest challenges. Several promising Non-Volatile Memories (NVMs) such as,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Mohammad Nasim Imtiaz Khan , Swaroop Ghosh

Raw bit errors are common in NAND flash memory and will increase in the future. These errors reduce flash reliability and limit the lifetime of a flash memory device. We aim to improve flash reliability with a multitude of low-cost…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Yixin Luo

Sharpness-aware minimization (SAM), which searches for flat minima by min-max optimization, has been shown to be useful in improving model generalization. However, since each SAM update requires computing two gradients, its computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Weisen Jiang , Hansi Yang , Yu Zhang , James Kwok

Spin-Transfer Torque RAM (STTRAM) is a promising alternative to SRAM in on-chip caches due to several advantages. These advantages include non-volatility, low leakage, high integration density, and CMOS compatibility. Prior studies have…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Kyle Kuan , Tosiron Adegbija

Sparse deep learning has reduced computation significantly, but its irregular non-zero data distribution complicates the data flow and hinders data reuse, increasing on-chip SRAM access and thus power consumption of the chip. This paper…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Kai-Chieh Hsu , Tian-Sheuan Chang

We have calculated the key characteristics of associative (content-addressable) spatial-temporal memories based on neuromorphic networks with restricted connectivity - "CrossNets". Such networks may be naturally implemented in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Dmitri Gavrilov , Dmitri Strukov , Konstantin K. Likharev

Recent development in memory technologies has introduced Spin-Transfer Torque Magnetic RAM (STT-MRAM) as the most promising replacement for SRAMs in on-chip cache memories. Besides its lower leakage power, higher density, immunity to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Elham Cheshmikhani , Hamed Farbeh , Hossein Asad

This paper presents 6T SRAM cell-based bit-parallel in-memory computing (IMC) architecture to support various computations with reconfigurable bit-precision. In the proposed technique, bit-line computation is performed with a short WL…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Kyeongho Lee , Jinho Jeong , Sungsoo Cheon , Woong Choi , Jongsun Park