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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2019

Accelerated Physical Emulation of Bayesian Inference in Spiking Neural Networks.

Akos F Kungl, Sebastian Schmitt, Johann Klähn, Paul Müller, Andreas Baumbach, Dominik Dold, Alexander Kugele, Eric Müller, Christoph Koke, Mitja Kleider and 13 more

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Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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23 authors.

Akos F KunglKirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Sebastian SchmittKirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Johann KlähnKirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Paul MüllerKirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Andreas BaumbachKirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Dominik DoldKirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Alexander KugeleKirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Eric MüllerKirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Christoph KokeKirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Mitja KleiderKirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Christian MauchKirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Oliver BreitwieserKirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Luziwei LengKirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Nico GürtlerKirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Maurice GüttlerKirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Dan HusmannKirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Kai HusmannKirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Andreas HartelKirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Vitali KarasenkoKirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Andreas GrüblKirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Johannes SchemmelKirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Karlheinz MeierKirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Mihai A PetroviciKirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The massively parallel nature of biological information processing plays an important role due to its superiority in comparison to human-engineered computing devices. In particular, it may hold the key to overcoming the von Neumann bottleneck that limits contemporary computer architectures. Physical-model neuromorphic devices seek to replicate not only this inherent parallelism, but also aspects of its microscopic dynamics in analog circuits emulating neurons and synapses. However, these machines require network models that are not only adept at solving particular tasks, but that can also cope with the inherent imperfections of analog substrates. We present a spiking network model that performs Bayesian inference through sampling on the BrainScaleS neuromorphic platform, where we use it for generative and discriminative computations on visual data. By illustrating its functionality on this platform, we implicitly demonstrate its robustness to various substrate-specific distortive effects, as well as its accelerated capability for computation. These results showcase the advantages of brain-inspired physical computation and provide important building blocks for large-scale neuromorphic applications.

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massively parallel computingneural samplingneuromorphic engineeringphysical modelsprobabilistic inferencerecurrent neural networksspiking neurons

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PMID31798400
PMCPMC6868054

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