VSAONLINE. SEASON 11. August 25, 20:00GMT Graham Bent
Evgeny Osipov
Dear all,
It is my great pleasure to announce the start of Season 11 on VSAONLINE. I want to welcome you to the first talk of the season by Graham Bent, Neurosynapse, UK!
Date: August 25, 2025
Time: 20:00 GMT
Title: A demonstration of vector symbolic architecture as an effective integrated technology for AI at the network edge.
Abstract: This presentation is based on an investigation undertaken for the UK Defence Technology Research Laboratory (Dstl) into the transformative potential for Vector Symbolic Architecture (VSA), a.k.a. Hyperdimensional Computing for advancing cognitive processing capabilities at the network edge. The presentation describes a technology integration experiment, demonstrating how the VSA paradigm offers robust solutions for generation-after-next AI deployment at the network edge. Specifically, we show how VSA effectively models and integrates the cognitive processes required to perform intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) operations. The experiment integrates functions across the observe, orientate, decide and act (OODA) loop, including the processing of sensed data via both a neuromorphic event-based camera and a standard CMOS frame-rate camera; declarative knowledge-based reasoning in a semantic vector space; action planning using VSA cognitive maps (CM); access to procedural knowledge via large language models (LLMs); and efficient communication between agents via highly-compact binary vector representations. In contrast to previous ‘point solutions’ showing the effectiveness of VSA for individual OODA tasks, this work takes a ‘whole system’ approach, demonstrating the power of VSA as a uniform integration technology.