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Integration and Co-design of Memristive Devices and Algorithms for Artificial Intelligence.

Wei Wang, Wenhao Song, Peng Yao, Yang Li, Joseph Van Nostrand, Qinru Qiu, Daniele Ielmini, J Joshua Yang

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In one paragraph

Review in iScience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed
5.3field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 79 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Wei WangDipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano and IU.NET, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, Milano 20133, Italy.
Wenhao SongElectrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Peng YaoElectrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Yang LiThe Andrew and Erna Viterbi Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel.
Joseph Van NostrandAir Force Research Laboratory, Information Directorate, Rome, NY, USA.
Qinru QiuElectrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Syracuse University, NY, USA.
Daniele IelminiDipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano and IU.NET, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, Milano 20133, Italy.
J Joshua YangElectrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
University of Southern California · USPolitecnico di Milano · ITSyracuse University · USTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology · ILUnited States Air Force Research Laboratory · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Memristive devices share remarkable similarities to biological synapses, dendrites, and neurons at both the physical mechanism level and unit functionality level, making the memristive approach to neuromorphic computing a promising technology for future artificial intelligence. However, these similarities do not directly transfer to the success of efficient computation without device and algorithm co-designs and optimizations. Contemporary deep learning algorithms demand the memristive artificial synapses to ideally possess analog weighting and linear weight-update behavior, requiring substantial device-level and circuit-level optimization. Such co-design and optimization have been the main focus of memristive neuromorphic engineering, which often abandons the "non-ideal" behaviors of memristive devices, although many of them resemble what have been observed in biological components. Novel brain-inspired algorithms are being proposed to utilize such behaviors as unique features to further enhance the efficiency and intelligence of neuromorphic computing, which calls for collaborations among electrical engineers, computing scientists, and neuroscientists.

Indexed as

Computer ArchitectureHardware Co-designMaterials Science

Identifiers

PMID33305176
PMCPMC7718163
OpenAlexW3102325434

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Registered trials

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