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ArticleNature communications2026

Cerebellum-inspired memtransistors enable emergent differentiation for hardware-efficient novelty detection.

Min-A Kang, Spencer T Brown, Nethmi Jayasinghe, Meghana R Holla, Thang T Pham, Thomas T Zeng, Ruiqin Wu, Zachary J Trdinich, Xudong Zhuang, Vinayak P Dravid and 4 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2026. 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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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Min-A Kang *Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1661-3771
Spencer T Brown *Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
Nethmi Jayasinghe *Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0001-6316-5959
Meghana R HollaDepartment of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
Thang T PhamDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5940-6206
Thomas T ZengDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0002-6374-1175
Ruiqin WuDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
Zachary J TrdinichDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
Xudong ZhuangDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0008-8643-8412
Vinayak P DravidDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6007-3063
Indira M RamanDepartment of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA. i-raman@northwestern.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5245-8177
Amit R TrivediDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. amitrt@uic.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5436-7922
Vinod K SangwanDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA. vinod.sangwan@northwestern.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5623-5285
Mark C HersamDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA. m-hersam@northwestern.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4120-1426

Funding

National Science Foundation (NSF) DMR-2308691National Science Foundation (NSF) ECCS-2025633National Science Foundation (NSF) EFMA-2317974U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) DE-AC02-06CH11357
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are currently executed using silicon-based hardware, resulting in excessively high energy demand for data centers. Edge computing AI for healthcare, robotics, and autonomous vehicles presents even stricter power and latency constraints, which are unmet by incumbent computing architectures. With vastly superior energy efficiency, biological neuronal networks provide hints towards alternative computational approaches including memory-logic colocation, asynchronous parallelism, and spike-triggered computation. Here, we draw inspiration from the cerebellum to demonstrate asymmetric-contact-gated MoS

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Artificial IntelligenceCerebellumTransistors, ElectronicAlgorithmsAnimalsHumans

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PMID42431950
PMCPMC13483114

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