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ReviewNature communications2025

Exploiting neuro-inspired dynamic sparsity for energy-efficient intelligent perception.

Sheng Zhou, Chang Gao, Tobi Delbruck, Marian Verhelst, Shih-Chii Liu

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Review in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 authors.

Sheng ZhouInstitute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0009-5408-5963
Chang GaoDelft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3284-4078
Tobi DelbruckInstitute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5479-1141
Marian VerhelstKU Leuven & imec, Leuven, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3495-9263
Shih-Chii LiuInstitute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. shih@ini.uzh.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7557-045X

Funding

EC | EC Seventh Framework Programm | FP7 Ideas: European Research Council (FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific Programme: "Ideas" Implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration Activities (2007 to 2013)) 101088865Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Swiss National Science Foundation) 208227
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Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made significant strides towards efficient online processing of sensory signals at the edge through the use of deep neural networks with ever-expanding size. However, this trend has brought with it escalating computational costs and energy consumption, which have become major obstacles to the deployment and further upscaling of these models. In this Perspective, we present a neuro-inspired vision to boost the energy efficiency of AI for perception by leveraging brain-like dynamic sparsity. We categorize various forms of dynamic sparsity rooted in data redundancy and discuss potential strategies to enhance and exploit it through algorithm-hardware co-design. Additionally, we explore the technological, architectural, and algorithmic challenges that need to be addressed to fully unlock the potential of dynamic-sparsity-aware neuro-inspired AI for energy-efficient perception.

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