Hybridizing Equilibrium Propagation with Ising Machines for Efficient Energy-Based Learning
arXiv:2606. 09112v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence has led to substantial advances in deep neural networks.
arXiv:2606. 09117v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Ising machines serve as advanced physical solvers for the Ising model,enabling applications in combinatorial optimization and neural network training,their scalability for large-scale neural networks remains constrained by hardware connectivity limitations and suboptimal training methodologies.
arXiv:2606. 09112v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence has led to substantial advances in deep neural networks.
arXiv:2606. 03917v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As Moore's law reaches its limits, Ising machines offer a promising alternative computing approach for difficult optimization problems.
arXiv:2607. 00170v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Thermodynamic computing devices based on the Ising model show great promise for low-power AI inference and edge computing, but scalable methods for training large models for such hardware remain limited.
Thermodynamic computing devices based on the Ising model show great promise for low-power AI inference and edge computing, but scalable methods for training large models for such hardware remain limited. Prior theory shows that the time-averaged behavior of high-temperature Gibbs-sampled Ising systems can implement feed-forward neural inference.
arXiv:2606. 03584v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Equilibrium Propagation (EP) is a physics-based training framework that has primarily been employed in energy-based models, including continuous Hopfield networks, nonlinear resistive networks and coupled phase oscillators.
arXiv:2606. 27294v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Analog hardware platforms such as coupled oscillators and Analog Ising Machines naturally solve differential equations at a fraction of the energy cost of digital computation, making them attractive for low-power generative modeling, yet a fundamental mismatch exists: modern generative models assume flexible, software-defined dynamics, whereas analog hardware imposes fixed, physics-determined differential equations with limited approximation capacity.
arXiv:2606. 27841v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The widespread adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has led to increasing concerns about energy consumption, yet there is a lack of standardized methodologies to accurately estimate AI inference energy consumption, particularly across various tasks and architectures.
arXiv:2606. 10294v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying neural networks on unconventional hardware demands architectures that co-optimize task accuracy and platform-specific constraints such as energy cost, physical non-idealities, and numerical precision.
arXiv:2505. 13196v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce Velocity-Regularized Adam (VRAdam), a physics-inspired optimizer for training deep neural networks that draws on ideas from quartic terms for kinetic energy with its stabilizing effects on various system dynamics.
arXiv:2606. 29518v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the widespread adoption of AI in various IoT scenarios such as smart sensing and processing, AI chips have become a common component at the edge.
arXiv:2607. 18101v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-device model adaptation is essential to enable lifelong personalization on resource-constrained hardware, but compute, power, and memory limitations of such devices make end-to-end backpropagation impractical for modern deep neural networks.
arXiv:2602. 07518v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) shift neural computation from linear layers to learnable nonlinear edge functions, but implementing these nonlinearities efficiently in hardware remains an open challenge.