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For a deep learning model, efficient execution of its computation graph is key to achieving high performance. Previous work has focused on improving the performance for individual nodes of the computation graph, while ignoring the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Linpeng Tang , Yida Wang , Theodore L. Willke , Kai Li

The best performing learning algorithms devised for event cameras work by first converting events into dense representations that are then processed using standard CNNs. However, these steps discard both the sparsity and high temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Simon Schaefer , Daniel Gehrig , Davide Scaramuzza

It has long been realized that neuromorphic hardware offers benefits for the domain of robotics such as low energy, low latency, as well as unique methods of learning. In aiming for more complex tasks, especially those incorporating…

In this work, we introduce a Self-Aware Polymorphic Architecture (SAPA) design approach to support emerging context-aware applications and mitigate the programming challenges caused by the ever-increasing complexity and heterogeneity of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Michel A. Kinsy , Mihailo Isakov , Alan Ehret , Donato Kava

We demonstrate the first-ever nontrivial, biologically realistic connectome simulated on neuromorphic computing hardware. Specifically, we implement the whole-brain connectome of the adult Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) from the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Felix Wang , Bradley H. Theilman , Fred Rothganger , William Severa , Craig M. Vineyard , James B. Aimone

We introduce NeuroSA, a neuromorphic architecture specifically designed to ensure asymptotic convergence to the ground state of an Ising problem using a Fowler-Nordheim quantum mechanical tunneling based threshold-annealing process. The…

Using Intel's Loihi neuromorphic research chip and ABR's Nengo Deep Learning toolkit, we analyze the inference speed, dynamic power consumption, and energy cost per inference of a two-layer neural network keyword spotter trained to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Peter Blouw , Xuan Choo , Eric Hunsberger , Chris Eliasmith

Event-based localization research and datasets are a rapidly growing area of interest, with a tenfold increase in the cumulative total number of published papers on this topic over the past 10 years. Whilst the rapid expansion in the field…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Adam D. Hines , Alejandro Fontan , Michael Milford , Tobias Fischer

We study the problem of scheduling a general computational DAG on multiple processors in a 2-level memory hierarchy. This setting is a natural generalization of several prominent models in the literature, and it simultaneously captures…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Pál András Papp , Toni Böhnlein , A. N. Yzelman

Synchronous oscillations in neuronal ensembles have been proposed to provide a neural basis for the information processes in the brain. In this work, we present a neuromorphic computing algorithm based on oscillator synchronization in a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Jaesung Choi , Pilwon Kim

The joint progress of artificial neural networks (ANNs) and domain specific hardware accelerators such as GPUs and TPUs took over many domains of machine learning research. This development is accompanied by a rapid growth of the required…

Increasing complexity and data-generation rates in cyber-physical systems and the industrial Internet of things are calling for a corresponding increase in AI capabilities at the resource-constrained edges of the Internet. Meanwhile, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Mattias Nilsson , Olov Schelén , Anders Lindgren , Ulf Bodin , Cristina Paniagua , Jerker Delsing , Fredrik Sandin

In this paper, we presented a bio-realistic basal ganglia neural network and its integration into Intel's Loihi neuromorphic processor to perform simple Go/No-Go task. To incorporate more bio-realistic and diverse set of neuron dynamics, we…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Recep Buğra Uludağ , Serhat Çağdaş , Yavuz Selim İşler , Neslihan Serap Şengör , Ismail Akturk

Event vision sensors (neuromorphic cameras) output sparse, asynchronous ON/OFF events triggered by log-intensity threshold crossings, enabling microsecond-scale sensing with high dynamic range and low data bandwidth. As a nonlinear system,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Nimrod Kruger , Nicholas Owen Ralph , Gregory Cohen , Paul Hurley

Neuromorphic event cameras possess superior temporal resolution, power efficiency, and dynamic range compared to traditional cameras. However, their asynchronous and sparse data format poses a significant challenge for conventional deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Wei Fang , Priyadarshini Panda

Neuromorphic computing, inspired by biological neural systems, holds immense promise for ultra-low-power and real-time inference applications. However, limited access to flexible, open-source platforms continues to hinder widespread…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Pracheta Harlikar , Abdel-Hameed A. Badawy , Prasanna Date

We present a new adaptive parallel algorithm for the challenging problem of multi-dimensional numerical integration on massively parallel architectures. Adaptive algorithms have demonstrated the best performance, but efficient many-core…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Ioannis Sakiotis , Kamesh Arumugam , Marc Paterno , Desh Ranjan , Balša Terzić , Mohammad Zubair

In this work, we present HiAER-Spike, a modular, reconfigurable, event-driven neuromorphic computing platform designed to execute large spiking neural networks with up to 160 million neurons and 40 billion synapses - roughly twice the…

We propose a new asynchronous parallel block-descent algorithmic framework for the minimization of the sum of a smooth nonconvex function and a nonsmooth convex one, subject to both convex and nonconvex constraints. The proposed framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-02 Loris Cannelli , Francisco Facchinei , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Gesualdo Scutari

Neuromorphic hardware platforms, such as Intel's Loihi chip, support the implementation of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) as an energy-efficient alternative to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). SNNs are networks of neurons with internal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Hyeryung Jang , Osvaldo Simeone