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9 claims from 8 papers

1. Engineering › Advanced Memory and Neural Computing

   A million spiking-neuron integrated circuit with a scalable communication network and interface

   Merolla, Arthur, Alvarez-Icaza et al. · Science · 2014

   The authors built a brain-inspired chip with 4096 neurosynaptic cores, 1 million spiking neurons and 256 million synapses, designed to scale by tiling and to run real-time neural networks.

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   1. UncheckedRunning 400-by-240-pixel video at 30 frames per second, the brain-inspired chip draws 63 milliwatts of power.“With 400-pixel-by-240-pixel video input at 30 frames per second, the chip consumes 63 milliwatts.”

2. Engineering › Advanced Memory and Neural Computing

   Loihi: A Neuromorphic Manycore Processor with On-Chip Learning

   Davies, Srinivasa, Lin et al. · IEEE Micro · 2018

   The paper presents Loihi, a 60-mm2 14-nm spiking neural network chip with features such as programmable learning rules, and reports it solving LASSO far more efficiently than a CPU.

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   1. UncheckedLoihi, a neuromorphic chip, solved LASSO problems with over 1,000 times better energy-delay-product than conventional CPU solvers at matched process, voltage and area.“Running a spiking convolutional form of the Locally Competitive Algorithm, Loihi can solve LASSO optimization problems with over three orders of magnitude superior energy-delay-product compared to conventional solvers running on a CPU iso-process/voltage/area.”

3. Engineering › Advanced Memory and Neural Computing

   The Remarkable Robustness of Surrogate Gradient Learning for Instilling Complex Function in Spiking Neural Networks

   Zenke and Vogels · Neural Computation · 2021

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   1. Supported · 71%“We show that surrogate gradient learning is robust to different shapes of underlying surrogate derivatives, but the choice of the derivative's scale can substantially affect learning performance.”

4. Engineering › Optimization and Packing Problems

   Automatic heuristic generation with genetic programming

   Burke, Hyde, Kendall and Woodward · Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) · 2007

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   1. Unchecked“The contribution of this paper is to show that a Genetic Programming system can automate the process of heuristic generation and produce heuristics that are human-competitive over a range of sets of problems, or which excel on a particular sub-set.”
   2. Unchecked“We also show that the choice of training instances is vital in the area of automatic heuristic generation, due to the trade-off between the performance and generality of the heuristics generated and their applicability to new problems.”

5. Engineering › Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques

   Information-Theoretic and Algorithmic Thresholds for Group Testing

   Coja-Oghlan, Gebhard, Hahn-Klimroth and Loick · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 2020

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   1. Unchecked“We pinpoint the sharp threshold for the number of tests required in this randomised design so that it is information-theoretically possible to infer the infection status of every individual.”

6. Engineering › Spatial Cognition and Navigation

   Human navigation strategies and their errors result from dynamic interactions of spatial uncertainties

   Kessler, Frankenstein and Rothkopf · Nature Communications · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“This model gives rise to diverse human navigational strategies previously believed to be distinct behaviors and predicts quantitatively both the errors and the variability of navigation across numerous experiments.”

7. Engineering › Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques

   Exploring the roles of large language models in reshaping transportation systems: A survey, framework, and roadmap

   Nie, Sun and Ma · Artificial Intelligence for Transportation · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“Extensive knowledge and high-level capabilities derived from pretraining evolve the default role of LLMs as text generators to become versatile, knowledge-driven task solvers for intelligent transportation systems.”

8. Engineering › Spatial Cognition and Navigation

   Improved Navigation Performance Through Memory Triggering Maps: A Neurocartographic Approach

   Dickmann, Keil, Korte et al. · KN - Journal of Cartography and Geographic Information · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“It seems likely that the activity of grid cells can be stabilized simply by map symbols that are perceived when reading a map.”