Publications related to Bio-inspired computing

From event-based surprise to lifelong learning. A journey in the timescales of adaptation

Humans and animals constantly adapt to their environment over the course of their life. This thesis seeks to integrate various timescales of adaptation, ranging from the adaptation of synaptic connections between spiking neurons (milliseconds), rapid behav ...

EPFL2023

A theory of memory consolidation and synaptic pruning in cortical circuits

Georgios Iatropoulos

Over the course of a lifetime, the human brain acquires an astonishing amount of semantic knowledge and autobiographical memories, often with an imprinting strong enough to allow detailed information to be recalled many years after the initial learning exp ...

EPFL2023

Puppeteer and Marionette: Learning Anticipatory Quadrupedal Locomotion Based on Interactions of a Central Pattern Generator and Supraspinal Drive

Auke Ijspeert, Guillaume Denis Antoine Bellegarda, Milad Shafiee Ashtiani

Quadruped animal locomotion emerges from the interactions between the spinal central pattern generator (CPG), sensory feedback, and supraspinal drive signals from the brain. Computational models of CPGs have been widely used for investigating the spinal co ...

IEEE2023

Neuromorphic computing based on halide perovskites

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Feng Gao

Neuromorphic computing requires electronic systems that can perform massively parallel computational tasks with low energy consumption. Such systems have traditionally been based on complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor circuits, but further advances in ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Dense Image-based Predictions for Comics Analysis

Deblina Bhattacharjee

Dense image-based prediction methods have advanced tremendously in recent years. Their remarkable development has been possible due to the ample availability of real-world imagery. While these methods work well on photographs, their abilities do not genera ...

EPFL2023

Controllability and Interpretability in Affective Speech Synthesis

Bastian Schnell

Thanks to Deep Learning Text-To-Speech (TTS) has achieved high audio quality with large databases. But at the same time the complex models lost any ability to control or interpret the generation process. For the big challenge of affective TTS it is infeasi ...

EPFL2022

The spectral bias of polynomial neural networks

Volkan Cevher, Grigorios Chrysos, Leello Tadesse Dadi, Moulik Choraria

Polynomial neural networks (PNNs) have been recently shown to be particularly effective at image generation and face recognition, where high-frequency information is critical. Previous studies have revealed that neural networks demonstrate a spectral bias ...

2022

Micromechanically inspired investigation of cemented granular materials: part I-from X-ray micro tomography to measurable model variables

Gioacchino Viggiani, Edward Carlo Giorgio Andò

Cemented granular materials are abundant in nature and are often artificially produced. Their macroscopic behaviour is driven by small-scale material processes, which are generally classified as: grain breakage, cement damage and fragment rearrangement. Th ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2022

Approximating Relu Networks By Single-Spike Computation

Wulfram Gerstner, Stanislaw Andrzej Wozniak, Ana Stanojevic, Evangelos Eleftheriou, Giovanni Cherubini, Angeliki Pantazi

Developing energy-saving neural network models is a topic of rapidly increasing interest in the artificial intelligence community. Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are biologically inspired models that strive to leverage the energy efficiency stemming from a ...

IEEE2022

Coupled VO2 oscillators circuit as analog first layer filter in convolutional neural networks

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Kirsten Emilie Moselund, Siegfried Karg, Elisabetta Corti

In this work we present an in-memory computing platform based on coupled VO2 oscillators fabricated in a crossbar configuration on silicon. Compared to existing platforms, the crossbar configuration promises significant improvements in terms of area densit ...

2021

Experimental Demonstration of Supervised Learning in Spiking Neural Networks with Phase-Change Memory Synapses

Irem Boybat Kara, Evangelos Eleftheriou, Abu Sebastian

Spiking neural networks (SNN) are computational models inspired by the brain's ability to naturally encode and process information in the time domain. The added temporal dimension is believed to render them more computationally efficient than the conventio ...

Nature Research2020

Roundtable Panel Discussion at DAC 2019: Evolutionary Computing or Heuristic Forever?

Giovanni De Micheli, Massimiliano Di Ventra

As demands for computing have been continuously increasing, various solutions have been proposed. Some approaches deal with improving algorithms and software programs, mainly through the tuning of advanced heuristics and learning methods. Some other tackle ...

2020

Crowding and the Architecture of the Visual System

Adrien Christophe Doerig

Classically, vision is seen as a cascade of local, feedforward computations. This framework has been tremendously successful, inspiring a wide range of ground-breaking findings in neuroscience and computer vision. Recently, feedforward Convolutional Neural ...

EPFL2020

An efficient analytical reduction of detailed nonlinear neuron models

Felix Schürmann, Idan Segev, Pramod Shivaji Kumbhar, Michael Emiel Gevaert, Oren Amsalem, Guy Eyal

Detailed conductance-based nonlinear neuron models consisting of thousands of synapses are key for understanding of the computational properties of single neurons and large neuronal networks, and for interpreting experimental results. Simulations of these ...

Nature Research2020

Mixed-Precision Deep Learning Based on Computational Memory

Irem Boybat Kara, Evangelos Eleftheriou, Abu Sebastian

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have revolutionized the field of artificial intelligence and have achieved unprecedented success in cognitive tasks such as image and speech recognition. Training of large DNNs, however, is computationally intensive and this has ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2020

Unsupervised Learning of Phase-Change-Based Neuromorphic Systems

Stanislaw Andrzej Wozniak

Neuromorphic systems provide brain-inspired methods of computing. In a neuromorphic architecture, inputs are processed by a network of neurons receiving operands through synaptic interconnections, tuned in the process of learning. Neurons act simultaneousl ...

EPFL2017

A Framework for Coupled Simulations of Robots and Spiking Neuronal Networks

Marc-Oliver Gewaltig, Egidio Falotico, Lorenzo Vannucci, Georg Hinkel, Stefan Ulbrich, Nino Cauli, Oliver Denninger, Henning Groenda

Bio-inspired robots still rely on classic robot control although advances in neurophysiology allow adaptation to control as well. However, the connection of a robot to spiking neuronal networks needs adjustments for each purpose and requires frequent adapt ...

Springer Verlag2017

Neuromorphic Computing Using Non-Volatile Memory

Yusuf Leblebici, Irem Boybat Kara, Alessandro Fumarola, Seyoung Kim, Abu Sebastian, Severin Sidler

Dense crossbar arrays of non-volatile memory (NVM) devices represent one possible path for implementing massively-parallel and highly energy-efficient neuromorphic computing systems. We first review recent advances in the application of NVM devices to thre ...

2016

All-memristive neuromorphic computing with level-tuned neurons

Stanislaw Andrzej Wozniak, Evangelos Eleftheriou, Angeliki Pantazi

In the new era of cognitive computing, systems will be able to learn and interact with the environment in ways that will drastically enhance the capabilities of current processors, especially in extracting knowledge from vast amount of data obtained from m ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

Learning spatio-temporal patterns in the presence of input noise using phase-change memristors

Stanislaw Andrzej Wozniak, Evangelos Eleftheriou, Angeliki Pantazi

Neuromorphic systems increasingly attract research interest owing to their ability to provide biologically inspired methods of computing, alternative to the classic von Neumann architecture. In these systems, computing relies on spike-based communication b ...

2016