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Differentiable Logic Gate Networks (DLGNs) are a very fast and energy-efficient alternative to conventional feed-forward networks. With learnable combinations of logical gates, DLGNs enable fast inference by hardware-friendly execution.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Sven Brändle , Till Aczel , Andreas Plesner , Roger Wattenhofer

Recently, research has increasingly focused on developing efficient neural network architectures. In this work, we explore logic gate networks for machine learning tasks by learning combinations of logic gates. These networks comprise logic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Felix Petersen , Christian Borgelt , Hilde Kuehne , Oliver Deussen

The increasing data rates and complexity of detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) necessitate fast and efficient machine learning models, particularly for rapid selection of what data to store, known as triggering. Building on recent…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-05 Lino Gerlach , Elliott Kauffman , Liv Helen Våge , Isobel Ojalvo

Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP) are powerful tools for representing complex, non-linear relationships, making them essential for diverse machine learning and AI applications. Efficient hardware implementation of MLPs can be achieved through…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Maedeh Ghaderi , Arvin Delavari , Faraz Ghoreishy , Sattar Mirzakuchaki

Full-batch training on Graph Neural Networks (GNN) to learn the structure of large graphs is a critical problem that needs to scale to hundreds of compute nodes to be feasible. It is challenging due to large memory capacity and bandwidth…

This paper introduces Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata (DiffLogic CA), a novel combination of Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) and Differentiable Logic Gates Networks (DLGNs). The fundamental computation units of the model are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Pietro Miotti , Eyvind Niklasson , Ettore Randazzo , Alexander Mordvintsev

Efficient machine learning deployment requires models that account for hardware constraints. Because binary logic gates are the fundamental primitives of digital hardware, models built directly from logic operations offer a promising path…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Katarzyna Fojcik , Renaldas Zioma , Jogundas Armaitis

Modern neural networks demonstrate state-of-the-art performance on numerous existing benchmarks; however, their high computational requirements and energy consumption prompt researchers to seek more efficient solutions for real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Shakir Yousefi , Andreas Plesner , Till Aczel , Roger Wattenhofer

While differentiable logic gates have shown promise in feedforward networks, their application to sequential modeling remains unexplored. This paper presents the first implementation of Recurrent Deep Differentiable Logic Gate Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Simon Bührer , Andreas Plesner , Till Aczel , Roger Wattenhofer

Differentiable logic gate networks (DLGNs) exhibit extraordinary efficiency at inference while sustaining competitive accuracy. But vanishing gradients, discretization errors, and high training cost impede scaling these networks. Even with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Lukas Rüttgers , Till Aczel , Andreas Plesner , Roger Wattenhofer

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) accelerators have proven successful in handling latency- and resource-critical deep neural network (DNN) inference tasks. Among the most computationally intensive operations in a neural network (NN) is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Marta Andronic , George A. Constantinides

On-edge machine learning (ML) often strives to maximize the intelligence of small models while miniaturizing the circuit size and power needed to perform inference. Meeting these needs, differentiable Logic Gate Networks (LGN) have…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Stephen Wormald , Gilon Kravatsky , Damon Woodard , Domenic Forte

We introduce a novel method for partial optimization of the connections in Deep Differentiable Logic Gate Networks (LGNs). Our training method utilizes a probability distribution over a subset of connections per gate input, selecting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Wout Mommen , Lars Keuninckx , Matthias Hartmann , Piet Wambacq

There currently exist two extreme viewpoints for neural network feature learning -- (i) Neural networks simply implement a kernel method (a la NTK) and hence no features are learned (ii) Neural networks can represent (and hence learn)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Mahesh Lorik Yadav , Harish Guruprasad Ramaswamy , Chandrashekar Lakshminarayanan

With the advancement of synthetic biology, several new tools have been conceptualized over the years as alternative treatments for current medical procedures. Most of those applications are applied to various chronic diseases. This work…

Applying deep learning (DL) techniques in the electronic design automation (EDA) field has become a trending topic. Most solutions apply well-developed DL models to solve specific EDA problems. While demonstrating promising results, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Min Li , Sadaf Khan , Zhengyuan Shi , Naixing Wang , Yu Huang , Qiang Xu

Deep neural network (DNN) based approaches hold significant potential for reinforcement learning (RL) and have already shown remarkable gains over state-of-art methods in a number of applications. The effectiveness of DNN methods can be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-01 Henghui Zhu , Feng Nan , Ioannis Paschalidis , Venkatesh Saligrama

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are successful in many computer vision tasks. However, the most accurate DNNs require millions of parameters and operations, making them energy, computation and memory intensive. This impedes the deployment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Abhinav Goel , Caleb Tung , Yung-Hsiang Lu , George K. Thiruvathukal

To improve the throughput and energy efficiency of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on customized hardware, lightweight neural networks constrain the weights of DNNs to be a limited combination (denoted as $k\in\{1,2\}$) of powers of 2. In such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Ruizhou Ding , Zeye Liu , Ting-Wu Chin , Diana Marculescu , R. D. , Blanton

This paper presents a new family of backpropagation-free neural architectures, Gated Linear Networks (GLNs). What distinguishes GLNs from contemporary neural networks is the distributed and local nature of their credit assignment mechanism;…

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