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3 claims from 3 papers

1. 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.”

2. 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.”

3. Engineering › Advanced Memory and Neural Computing

   Accurate and efficient time-domain classification with adaptive spiking recurrent neural networks

   Yin, Corradi and Bohté · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021

   The paper trains recurrent spiking networks with adaptive neurons using a novel surrogate gradient, reporting leading SNN results on time-domain tasks and theoretically large efficiency gains over RNNs.

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   1. Supported · 71%Recurrent spiking networks with adaptive neurons and a new surrogate gradient reach top SNN results on speech and gesture tasks, beating standard RNNs.“Here, we demonstrate how a novel surrogate gradient combined with recurrent networks of tunable and adaptive spiking neurons yields state-of-the-art for SNNs on challenging benchmarks in the time-domain, like speech and gesture recognition. This also exceeds the performance of standard classical re…”