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Traditional neural networks employ fixed weights during inference, limiting their ability to adapt to changing input conditions, unlike biological neurons that adjust signal strength dynamically based on stimuli. This discrepancy between…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ashhadul Islam , Abdesselam Bouzerdoum , Samir Brahim Belhaouari

Research has shown that deep neural networks contain significant redundancy, and that high classification accuracies can be achieved even when weights and activations are quantised down to binary values. Network binarisation on FPGAs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Erwei Wang , James J. Davis , Peter Y. K. Cheung , George A. Constantinides

Deep learning is a subset of a broader family of machine learning methods based on learning data representations. These models are inspired by human biological nervous systems, even if there are various differences pertaining to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Adriano Baldeschi , Raffaella Margutti , Adam Miller

Deep neural networks (DNNs) and decision trees (DTs) are both state-of-the-art classifiers. DNNs perform well due to their representational learning capabilities, while DTs are computationally efficient as they perform inference along one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Noam Gottlieb , Michael Werman

Despite remarkable capabilities, artificial neural networks exhibit limited flexible, generalizable intelligence. This limitation stems from their fundamental divergence from biological cognition that overlooks both neural regions'…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Boheng Liu , Ziyu Li , Qing Li , Xia Wu

Self-replication is a key aspect of biological life that has been largely overlooked in Artificial Intelligence systems. Here we describe how to build and train self-replicating neural networks. The network replicates itself by learning to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Oscar Chang , Hod Lipson

Biological nervous systems consist of networks of diverse, sophisticated information processors in the form of neurons of different classes. In most artificial neural networks (ANNs), neural computation is abstracted to an activation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Joachim Winther Pedersen , Sebastian Risi

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) can drastically reduce memory size and accesses by applying bit-wise operations instead of standard arithmetic operations. Therefore it could significantly improve the efficiency and lower the energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Haojin Yang , Martin Fritzsche , Christian Bartz , Christoph Meinel

Machine learning is advancing towards a data-science approach, implying a necessity to a line of investigation to divulge the knowledge learnt by deep neuronal networks. Limiting the comparison among networks merely to a predefined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Arash Akbarinia , Karl R. Gegenfurtner

Research has shown that deep neural networks contain significant redundancy, and thus that high classification accuracy can be achieved even when weights and activations are quantized down to binary values. Network binarization on FPGAs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Erwei Wang , James J. Davis , Peter Y. K. Cheung , George A. Constantinides

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become a widely deployed model for numerous machine learning applications. However, their fixed architecture, substantial training cost, and significant model redundancy make it difficult to efficiently…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Xiaoliang Dai , Hongxu Yin , Niraj K. Jha

With the continued innovations of deep neural networks, spiking neural networks (SNNs) that more closely resemble biological brain synapses have attracted attention owing to their low power consumption.However, for continuous data values,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Naoya Muramatsu , Hai-Tao Yu

Emerged as a biology-inspired method, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) mimic the spiking nature of brain neurons and have received lots of research attention. SNNs deal with binary spikes as their activation and therefore derive extreme…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Yufei Guo , Weihang Peng , Yuanpei Chen , Liwen Zhang , Xiaode Liu , Xuhui Huang , Zhe Ma

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…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Antonio Jimeno Yepes , Jianbin Tang , Benjamin Scott Mashford

The human brain has long inspired the pursuit of artificial intelligence (AI). Recently, neuroimaging studies provide compelling evidence of alignment between the computational representation of artificial neural networks (ANNs) and the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-01 Haiyang Sun , Lin Zhao , Zihao Wu , Xiaohui Gao , Yutao Hu , Mengfei Zuo , Wei Zhang , Junwei Han , Tianming Liu , Xintao Hu

This paper introduces a new neural network model that aims to mimic the biological brain more closely by structuring the network as a complete directed graph that processes continuous data for each timestep. Current neural networks have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Frank Li

Multilayer perception (MLP) has permeated various disciplinary domains, ranging from bioinformatics to financial analytics, where their application has become an indispensable facet of contemporary scientific research endeavors. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Yanjie Li , Weijun Li , Lina Yu , Min Wu , Jinyi Liu , Wenqiang Li , Meilan Hao , Shu Wei , Yusong Deng , Liping Zhang , Xiaoli Dong , Hong Qin , Xin Ning , Yugui Zhang , Baoli Lu , Jian Xu , Shuang Li

Processes occurring in brains, a.k.a. biological neural networks, can and have been modeled within artificial neural network architectures. Due to this, we have conducted a review of research on the phenomenon of blindsight in an attempt to…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-04 Joshua Bensemann , Qiming Bao , Gaël Gendron , Tim Hartill , Michael Witbrock

How perception and reasoning arise from neuronal network activity is poorly understood. This is reflected in the fundamental limitations of connectionist artificial intelligence, typified by deep neural networks trained via gradient-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Paul J. Blazek , Milo M. Lin

This paper introduces NeuroBlend, a novel neural network architecture featuring a unique building block known as the Blend module. This module incorporates binary and fixed-point convolutions in its main and skip paths, respectively. There…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Arash Fayyazi , Mahdi Nazemi , Arya Fayyazi , Massoud Pedram