[VSAONLINE] The summer session starts today at 20:00 GMT
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Evgeny Osipov
May 17, 2021, 4:17:50 AM5/17/21
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Dear all,
Just want to send you a reminder that the summer session of the VSAONLINE webinar seriers starts today (17/5) at 20:00 GMT.
Please connect here: https://ltu-se.zoom.us/j/65564790287
Today’s talk will be given by Geethan Karunaratne from IBM, Zurich, Switzerland:
Robust high-dimensional memory-augmented neural networks . May 17, 2021. 20:00GMT
Abstract: Traditional neural networks require enormous amounts of data to build their complex mappings during a slow training procedure that hinders their abilities for relearning and adapting to new data. Memory-augmented neural networks enhance neural networks with an explicit memory to overcome these issues. Access to this explicit memory, however, occurs via soft read and write operations involving every individual memory entry, resulting in a bottleneck when implemented using the conventional von Neumann computer architecture. To overcome this bottleneck, we propose a robust architecture that employs a computational memory unit as the explicit memory performing analog in-memory computation on high-dimensional (HD) vectors, while closely matching 32-bit software-equivalent accuracy. This is achieved by a content-based attention mechanism that represents unrelated items in the computational memory with uncorrelated HD vectors, whose real-valued components can be readily approximated by binary, or bipolar components. Experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of our approach on few-shot image classification tasks on the Omniglot dataset using more than 256,000 phase-change memory devices. Our approach effectively merges the richness of deep neural network representations with HD computing that paves the way for robust vector-symbolic manipulations applicable in reasoning, fusion, and compression.
See you all soon,
Evgeny
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Professor Evgeny Osipov
Dependable Communication and Computation Systems
Department of Computer Science
Electrical and Space Engineering
Luleå University of Technology
Just want to send you a reminder that the summer session of the VSAONLINE webinar seriers starts today (17/5) at 20:00 GMT.
Please connect here: https://ltu-se.zoom.us/j/65564790287
Today’s talk will be given by Geethan Karunaratne from IBM, Zurich, Switzerland:
Robust high-dimensional memory-augmented neural networks . May 17, 2021. 20:00GMT
Abstract: Traditional neural networks require enormous amounts of data to build their complex mappings during a slow training procedure that hinders their abilities for relearning and adapting to new data. Memory-augmented neural networks enhance neural networks with an explicit memory to overcome these issues. Access to this explicit memory, however, occurs via soft read and write operations involving every individual memory entry, resulting in a bottleneck when implemented using the conventional von Neumann computer architecture. To overcome this bottleneck, we propose a robust architecture that employs a computational memory unit as the explicit memory performing analog in-memory computation on high-dimensional (HD) vectors, while closely matching 32-bit software-equivalent accuracy. This is achieved by a content-based attention mechanism that represents unrelated items in the computational memory with uncorrelated HD vectors, whose real-valued components can be readily approximated by binary, or bipolar components. Experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of our approach on few-shot image classification tasks on the Omniglot dataset using more than 256,000 phase-change memory devices. Our approach effectively merges the richness of deep neural network representations with HD computing that paves the way for robust vector-symbolic manipulations applicable in reasoning, fusion, and compression.
See you all soon,
Evgeny
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Professor Evgeny Osipov
Dependable Communication and Computation Systems
Department of Computer Science
Electrical and Space Engineering
Luleå University of Technology
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