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The increasing complexity of neural networks and the energy consumption associated with training and inference create a need for alternative neuromorphic approaches, e.g. using optics. Current proposals and implementations rely on physical…

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Deep Neural Networks (DNN) achieve human level performance in many image analytics tasks but DNNs are mostly deployed to GPU platforms that consume a considerable amount of power. New hardware platforms using lower precision arithmetic…

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Real-world contains an overwhelmingly large number of object classes, learning all of which at once is infeasible. Few shot learning is a promising learning paradigm due to its ability to learn out of order distributions quickly with only a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Jathushan Rajasegaran , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

Artificial intelligence (AI) research today is largely driven by ever-larger neural network models trained on graphics processing units (GPUs). This paradigm has yielded remarkable progress, but it also risks entrenching a hardware lottery…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Bipin Rajendran , Osvaldo Simeone , Bashir M. Al-Hashimi

Neuromorphic Computing is a nascent research field in which models and devices are designed to process information by emulating biological neural systems. Thanks to their superior energy efficiency, analog neuromorphic systems are highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Tianlin Liu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are promising brain-inspired models known for low power consumption and superior potential for temporal processing, but identifying suitable learning mechanisms remains a challenge. Despite the presence of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yuzhe Liu , Xin Deng , Qiang Yu

Neuromorphic computing aims to mimic the architecture of the human brain to carry out computational tasks that are challenging and much more energy consuming for standard hardware. Despite progress in several fields of physics and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-01-26 A. Chakravarty , J. H. Mentink , S. Semin , A. V. Kimel , Th. Rasing

Fast model updates for unseen tasks on intelligent edge devices are crucial but also challenging due to the limited computational power. In this paper,we propose MetaLDC, which meta-trains braininspired ultra-efficient low-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Yejia Liu , Shijin Duan , Xiaolin Xu , Shaolei Ren

The ability to attend to salient regions of a visual scene is an innate and necessary preprocessing step for both biological and engineered systems performing high-level visual tasks (e.g. object detection, tracking, and classification).…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Jamal Lottier Molin , Chetan Singh Thakur , Ralph Etienne-Cummings , Ernst Niebur

Neuromorphic systems that learn and predict from streaming inputs hold significant promise in pervasive edge computing and its applications. In this paper, a neuromorphic system that processes spatio-temporal information on the edge is…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Abdullah M. Zyarah , Kevin Gomez , Dhireesha Kudithipudi

On metrics of density and power efficiency, neuromorphic technologies have the potential to surpass mainstream computing technologies in tasks where real-time functionality, adaptability, and autonomy are essential. While algorithmic…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-10-09 M. E. Fouda , F. Kurdahi , A. Eltawil , E. Neftci

Neural Networks (NN), although successfully applied to several Artificial Intelligence tasks, are often unnecessarily over-parametrised. In edge/fog computing, this might make their training prohibitive on resource-constrained devices,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Lorenzo Valerio , Franco Maria Nardini , Andrea Passarella , Raffaele Perego

The deployment of ML models on edge devices is challenged by limited computational resources and energy availability. While split computing enables the decomposition of large neural networks (NNs) and allows partial computation on both edge…

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The human brain utilizes spikes for information transmission and dynamically reorganizes its network structure to boost energy efficiency and cognitive capabilities throughout its lifespan. Drawing inspiration from this spike-based…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Jiangrong Shen , Qi Xu , Gang Pan , Badong Chen

Adaptive "life-long" learning at the edge and during online task performance is an aspirational goal of AI research. Neuromorphic hardware implementing Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are particularly attractive in this regard, as their…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Kenneth Stewart , Emre Neftci

Training deep neural networks at the edge on light computational devices, embedded systems and robotic platforms is nowadays very challenging. Continual learning techniques, where complex models are incrementally trained on small batches of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Lorenzo Pellegrini , Gabriele Graffieti , Vincenzo Lomonaco , Davide Maltoni

Sensory processing at the edge requires ultra-low power stand-alone computing technologies. This is particularly true for modern agriculture and precision irrigation systems which aim to optimize water usage by monitoring key environmental…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Mirco Tincani , Khaled Kerouch , Umberto Garlando , Mattia Barezzi , Alessandro Sanginario , Giacomo Indiveri , Chiara De Luca

Many real-world mission-critical applications require continual online learning from noisy data and real-time decision making with a defined confidence level. Probabilistic models and stochastic neural networks can explicitly handle…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-06-01 Sourav Dutta , Georgios Detorakis , Abhishek Khanna , Benjamin Grisafe , Emre Neftci , Suman Datta

The memory demands of large-scale deep neural networks (DNNs) require synaptic weight values to be stored and updated in off-chip memory like dynamic random-access memory, which reduces energy efficiency and increases training time.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Abhishek Kumar , Peter D. Hodgson , Manus Hayne , Avirup Dasgupta

This study investigates how dynamical systems may be learned and modelled with a neuromorphic network which is itself a dynamical system. The neuromorphic network used in this study is based on a complex electrical circuit comprised of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-10-24 Yinhao Xu , Georg A. Gottwald , Zdenka Kuncic