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Physical computing has the potential to enable widespread embodied intelligence by leveraging the intrinsic dynamics of complex systems for efficient sensing, processing, and interaction. While individual devices provide basic data…

One of the big challenges of current electronics is the design and implementation of hardware neural networks that perform fast and energy-efficient machine learning. Spintronics is a promising catalyst for this field with the capabilities…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-17 Jan Kaiser , William A. Borders , Kerem Y. Camsari , Shunsuke Fukami , Hideo Ohno , Supriyo Datta

Inspired by the brain, we present a physical alternative to traditional digital neural networks -- a microfluidic network in which nodes are connected by conical, electrolyte-filled channels acting as memristive iontronic synapses. Their…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-07 Monica Conte , René van Roij , Marjolein Dijkstra

Many recent generative models make use of neural networks to transform the probability distribution of a simple low-dimensional noise process into the complex distribution of the data. This raises the question of whether biological networks…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Hesham Mostafa , Gert Cauwenberghs

Spintronic nano-neurons offer a promising route towards energy-efficient, high-performance hardware neural networks thanks to their inherent low-input nonlinear dynamics. However, training such networks remains a major bottleneck as it…

A high efficiency hardware integration of neural networks benefits from realizing nonlinearity, network connectivity and learning fully in a physical substrate. Multiple systems have recently implemented some or all of these operations, yet…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Louis Andreoli , Xavier Porte , Stéphane Chrétien , Maxime Jacquot , Laurent Larger , Daniel Brunner

Brain-inspired computing architectures attempt to mimic the computations performed in the neurons and the synapses in the human brain in order to achieve its efficiency in learning and cognitive tasks. In this work, we demonstrate the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Abhronil Sengupta , Priyadarshini Panda , Parami Wijesinghe , Yusung Kim , Kaushik Roy

Noise is usually regarded as adversarial to extract the effective dynamics from time series, such that the conventional data-driven approaches usually aim at learning the dynamics by mitigating the noisy effect. However, noise can have a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-09-12 Zequn Lin , Zhaofan Lu , Zengru Di , Ying Tang

Despite the promise of superior efficiency and scalability, real-world deployment of emerging nanoelectronic platforms for brain-inspired computing have been limited thus far, primarily because of inter-device variations and intrinsic…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-03-25 A N M Nafiul Islam , Kezhou Yang , Amit K. Shukla , Pravin Khanal , Bowei Zhou , Wei-Gang Wang , Abhronil Sengupta

Uncertainty in biological neural systems appears to be computationally beneficial rather than detrimental. However, in neuromorphic computing systems, device variability often limits performance, including accuracy and efficiency. In this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Huannan Zheng , Jingli Liu , Kezhou Yang

Physical neural networks using physical materials and devices to mimic synapses and neurons offer an energy-efficient way to implement artificial neural networks. Yet, training physical neural networks are difficult and heavily relies on…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-07 Chang Niu , Huanyu Zhang , Chuanlong Xu , Wenjie Hu , Yunzhuo Wu , Yu Wu , Yadi Wang , Tong Wu , Yi Zhu , Yinyan Zhu , Wenbin Wang , Yizheng Wu , Lifeng Yin , Jiang Xiao , Weichao Yu , Hangwen Guo , Jian Shen

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

Learning with physical systems is an emerging paradigm that seeks to harness the intrinsic nonlinear dynamics of physical substrates for learning. The impetus for a paradigm shift in how hardware is used for computational intelligence stems…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-28 Francesco Caravelli , Gianluca Milano , Adam Z. Stieg , Carlo Ricciardi , Simon Anthony Brown , Zdenka Kuncic

This paper proposes a novel spiking artificial neuron design based on a combined spin valve/magnetic tunnel junction (SV/MTJ). Traditional hardware used in artificial intelligence and machine learning faces significant challenges related to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Steven Louis , Hannah Bradley , Cody Trevillian , Andrei Slavin , Vasyl Tyberkevych

Deep Spiking Neural Networks are becoming increasingly powerful tools for cognitive computing platforms. However, most of the existing literature on such computing models are developed with limited insights on the underlying hardware…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Abhronil Sengupta , Maryam Parsa , Bing Han , Kaushik Roy

The pursuit of energy-efficient and adaptive artificial intelligence (AI) has positioned neuromorphic computing as a promising alternative to conventional computing. However, achieving learning on these platforms requires techniques that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jesús García Fernández , Nasir Ahmad , Marcel van Gerven

This paper highlights new opportunities for designing large-scale machine learning systems as a consequence of blurring traditional boundaries that have allowed algorithm designers and application-level practitioners to stay -- for the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-09-10 Suyog Gupta , Vikas Sindhwani , Kailash Gopalakrishnan

Can noise be beneficial to machine-learning prediction of chaotic systems? Utilizing reservoir computers as a paradigm, we find that injecting noise to the training data can induce a stochastic resonance with significant benefits to both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Zheng-Meng Zhai , Ling-Wei Kong , Ying-Cheng Lai

Stochastic spiking neural networks based on nanoelectronic spin devices can be a possible pathway to achieving "brainlike" compact and energy-effcient cognitive intelligence. The computational model attempt to exploit the intrinsic device…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Chamika M. Liyanagedera , Abhronil Sengupta , Akhilesh Jaiswal , Kaushik Roy

The rapidly increasing computational demands for artificial intelligence (AI) have spurred the exploration of computing principles beyond conventional digital computers. Physical neural networks (PNNs) offer efficient neuromorphic…

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