Buckley, S.
and McCaughan, A.
(2022),
A general approach to fast online training of modern datasets on real neuromorphic systems without backpropagation, Proceedings of the International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems, Knoxville, TN, US, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=934846
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A general approach to fast online training of modern datasets on real neuromorphic systems without backpropagation
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We present parameter-multiplexed gradient descent (PMGD), a perturbative gradient descent framework designed to easily train emergent neuromorphic hardware platforms. We show its applicability to both analog and digital systems. We demonstrate how to use it to train networks with modern machine learning datasets, including Fashion-MNIST and CIFAR-10. Assuming realistic timescales and hardware parameters, our results indicate that PMGD could train a network on emerging hardware platforms orders of magnitude faster than the wall-clock time of training via backpropagation on a standard GPU/CPU.Proceedings Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems
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July 27-30, 2022
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Knoxville, TN, US
Conference Title
International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems
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machine learning, neural networks, neuromorphic computing, emerging hardware
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