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Memristor-Based Synaptic Sampling Machines (arxiv.org)
1 point by lainon on Aug 3, 2018 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: A circuit design lets a brain-like network whose synapses randomly vary run directly on hardware, using tiny state-remembering switches and a small randomizing cell at each connection. It turns a software approach that already worked well into something small devices can run in real time.

Abstract · Memristor-based Synaptic Sampling Machines

Synaptic Sampling Machine (SSM) is a type of neural network model that considers biological unreliability of the synapses. We propose the circuit design of the SSM neural network which is realized through the memristive-CMOS crossbar structure with the synaptic sampling cell (SSC) being used as a basic stochastic unit. The increase in the edge computing devices in the Internet of things era, drives the need for hardware acceleration for data processing and computing. The computational considerations of the processing speed and possibility for the real-time realization pushes the synaptic sampling algorithm that demonstrated promising results on software for hardware implementation.

Irina Dolzhikova, Khaled Salama, Vipin Kizheppatt, Alex Pappachen James
arXiv:1808.00679 · cs.ET, cs.AI · submitted Aug 2, 2018
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