no code implementations • 1 Feb 2024 • Jiaqi Lin, Sen Lu, Malyaban Bal, Abhronil Sengupta
However, training SNNs is challenging due to the non-differentiable nature of the spiking mechanism.
no code implementations • 25 Dec 2023 • Zhuangyu Han, Abhronil Sengupta
Neuromorphic computing systems, where information is transmitted through action potentials in a bio-plausible fashion, is gaining increasing interest due to its promise of low-power event-driven computing.
no code implementations • 18 Dec 2023 • Md Zesun Ahmed Mia, Malyaban Bal, Abhronil Sengupta
Preliminary attempts at incorporating the critical role of astrocytes - cells that constitute more than 50% of human brain cells - in brain-inspired neuromorphic computing remain in infancy.
1 code implementation • 21 Aug 2023 • Malyaban Bal, Abhronil Sengupta
Moreover, the convergence of average spiking rate of neurons at equilibrium is utilized to develop a novel ANN-SNN knowledge distillation based technique wherein we use a pre-trained BERT model as "teacher" to train our "student" spiking architecture.
no code implementations • 8 Jul 2023 • Sen Lu, Abhronil Sengupta
Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity (STDP) is an unsupervised learning mechanism for Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) that has received significant attention from the neuromorphic hardware community.
1 code implementation • 15 Sep 2022 • Zhuangyu Han, A N M Nafiul Islam, Abhronil Sengupta
While neuromorphic computing architectures based on Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are increasingly gaining interest as a pathway toward bio-plausible machine learning, attention is still focused on computational units like the neuron and synapse.
1 code implementation • 14 Sep 2022 • Malyaban Bal, Abhronil Sengupta
However, by definition, EP requires the input to the model (a convergent RNN) to be static in both the phases of training.
no code implementations • 8 Sep 2020 • Mehul Rastogi, Sen Lu, Nafiul Islam, Abhronil Sengupta
Neuromorphic computing is emerging to be a disruptive computational paradigm that attempts to emulate various facets of the underlying structure and functionalities of the brain in the algorithm and hardware design of next-generation machine learning platforms.
no code implementations • 11 Jun 2020 • Kaveri Mahapatra, Sen Lu, Abhronil Sengupta, Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri
Accurate online classification of disturbance events in a transmission network is an important part of wide-area monitoring.
1 code implementation • 24 Feb 2020 • Sen Lu, Abhronil Sengupta
On-chip edge intelligence has necessitated the exploration of algorithmic techniques to reduce the compute requirements of current machine learning frameworks.
no code implementations • 16 Nov 2019 • Akul Malhotra, Sen Lu, Kezhou Yang, Abhronil Sengupta
Uncertainty plays a key role in real-time machine learning.
no code implementations • 13 Nov 2019 • Kezhou Yang, Akul Malhotra, Sen Lu, Abhronil Sengupta
Probabilistic machine learning enabled by the Bayesian formulation has recently gained significant attention in the domain of automated reasoning and decision-making.
Emerging Technologies
no code implementations • 31 Aug 2018 • Shubham Jain, Abhronil Sengupta, Kaushik Roy, Anand Raghunathan
We present RxNN, a fast and accurate simulation framework to evaluate large-scale DNNs on resistive crossbar systems.
no code implementations • 7 Feb 2018 • Abhronil Sengupta, Yuting Ye, Robert Wang, Chiao Liu, Kaushik Roy
Over the past few years, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have become popular as a possible pathway to enable low-power event-driven neuromorphic hardware.
no code implementations • 26 Aug 2017 • Aayush Ankit, Abhronil Sengupta, Kaushik Roy
Implementation of Neuromorphic Systems using post Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) technology based Memristive Crossbar Array (MCA) has emerged as a promising solution to enable low-power acceleration of neural networks.
no code implementations • 20 Feb 2017 • Aayush Ankit, Abhronil Sengupta, Priyadarshini Panda, Kaushik Roy
In this paper, we propose RESPARC - a reconfigurable and energy efficient architecture built-on Memristive Crossbar Arrays (MCA) for deep Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs).
no code implementations • 29 Sep 2015 • Priyadarshini Panda, Swagath Venkataramani, Abhronil Sengupta, Anand Raghunathan, Kaushik Roy
We propose a 2-stage hierarchical classification framework, with increasing levels of complexity, wherein the first stage is trained to recognize the broad representative semantic features relevant to the object of interest.
no code implementations • 29 Sep 2015 • Priyadarshini Panda, Abhronil Sengupta, Kaushik Roy
Deep learning neural networks have emerged as one of the most powerful classification tools for vision related applications.