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ArticleNature communications2024

Neuromorphic overparameterisation and few-shot learning in multilayer physical neural networks.

Kilian D Stenning, Jack C Gartside, Luca Manneschi, Christopher T S Cheung, Tony Chen, Alex Vanstone, Jake Love, Holly Holder, Francesco Caravelli, Hidekazu Kurebayashi and 3 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. 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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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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13 authors.

Kilian D StenningBlackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom. k.stenning18@imperial.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0955-3640
Jack C Gartside *Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7044-7399
Luca Manneschi *University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom.
Christopher T S CheungBlackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
Tony ChenBlackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
Alex VanstoneBlackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0554-1781
Jake LoveFaculty of Physics and Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CENIDE), University of Duisburg-Essen, 47057, Duisburg, Germany.
Holly HolderBlackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2102-3880
Francesco CaravelliTheoretical Division (T4), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7964-3030
Hidekazu KurebayashiLondon Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, London, WC1H 0AH, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2021-1556
Karin Everschor-SitteFaculty of Physics and Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CENIDE), University of Duisburg-Essen, 47057, Duisburg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8767-6633
Eleni VasilakiUniversity of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3705-7070
Will R BranfordBlackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4821-4097

Funding

RCUK | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) EP/W524335/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Physical neuromorphic computing, exploiting the complex dynamics of physical systems, has seen rapid advancements in sophistication and performance. Physical reservoir computing, a subset of neuromorphic computing, faces limitations due to its reliance on single systems. This constrains output dimensionality and dynamic range, limiting performance to a narrow range of tasks. Here, we engineer a suite of nanomagnetic array physical reservoirs and interconnect them in parallel and series to create a multilayer neural network architecture. The output of one reservoir is recorded, scaled and virtually fed as input to the next reservoir. This networked approach increases output dimensionality, internal dynamics and computational performance. We demonstrate that a physical neuromorphic system can achieve an overparameterised state, facilitating meta-learning on small training sets and yielding strong performance across a wide range of tasks. Our approach's efficacy is further demonstrated through few-shot learning, where the system rapidly adapts to new tasks.

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PMID39191747
PMCPMC11350220

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