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Biologically-inspired training of spiking recurrent neural networks with neuromorphic hardware

Bohnstingl, Thomas; Surina, Anja; Fabre, Maxime; Demirag, Yigit; Frenkel, Charlotte; Payvand, Melika; Indiveri, Giacomo; Pantazi, Angeliki (2022). Biologically-inspired training of spiking recurrent neural networks with neuromorphic hardware. In: 2022 IEEE 4th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS), Incheon, Korea, Republic of, 13 June 2022 - 15 June 2022, IEEE.

Abstract

Recurrent spiking neural networks (SNNs) are inspired by the working principles of biological nervous systems that offer unique temporal dynamics and event-based processing. Recently, the error backpropagation through time (BPTT) algorithm has been successfully employed to train SNNs offline, with comparable performance to artificial neural networks (ANNs) on complex tasks. However, BPTT has severe limitations for online learning scenarios of SNNs where the network is required to simultaneously process and learn from incoming data. Specifically, as BPTT separates the inference and update phases, it would require to store all neuronal states for calculating the weight updates backwards in time. To address these fundamental issues, alternative credit assignment schemes are required. Within this context, neuromorphic hardware (NMHW) implementations of SNNs can greatly benefit from in-memory computing (IMC) concepts that follow the brain-inspired collocation of memory and processing, further enhancing their energy efficiency. In this work, we utilize a biologically-inspired local and online training algorithm compatible with IMC, which approximates BPTT, e-prop, and present an approach to support both inference and training of a recurrent SNN using NMHW. To do so, we embed the SNN weights on an in-memory computing NMHW with phase-change memory (PCM) devices and integrate it into a hardware-in-the-loop training setup. We develop our approach with respect to limited precision and imperfections of the analog devices using a PCM-based simulation framework and a NMHW consisting of in-memory computing cores fabricated in 14nm CMOS technology with 256×256 PCM crossbar arrays. We demonstrate that our approach is robust even to 4-bit precision and achieves competitive performance to a floating-point 32-bit realization, while simultaneously equipping the SNN with online training capabilities and exploiting the acceleration benefits of NMHW.

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Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:07 Faculty of Science > Institute of Neuroinformatics
Dewey Decimal Classification:570 Life sciences; biology
Scopus Subject Areas:Physical Sciences > Artificial Intelligence
Physical Sciences > Computer Science Applications
Physical Sciences > Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Physical Sciences > Hardware and Architecture
Physical Sciences > Human-Computer Interaction
Physical Sciences > Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Language:English
Event End Date:15 June 2022
Deposited On:17 Feb 2023 13:37
Last Modified:18 Feb 2023 21:00
Publisher:IEEE
OA Status:Green
Free access at:Publisher DOI. An embargo period may apply.
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/aicas54282.2022.9869963

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