Search Results for author: Chris Eliasmith

Found 19 papers, 8 papers with code

Debugging using Orthogonal Gradient Descent

no code implementations17 Jun 2022 Narsimha Chilkuri, Chris Eliasmith

In this report we consider the following problem: Given a trained model that is partially faulty, can we correct its behaviour without having to train the model from scratch?

Continual Learning

Language Modeling using LMUs: 10x Better Data Efficiency or Improved Scaling Compared to Transformers

no code implementations5 Oct 2021 Narsimha Chilkuri, Eric Hunsberger, Aaron Voelker, Gurshaant Malik, Chris Eliasmith

Over three orders of magnitude, we show that our new architecture attains the same accuracy as transformers with 10x fewer tokens.

Language Modelling

A Spiking Neural Network for Image Segmentation

no code implementations16 Jun 2021 Kinjal Patel, Eric Hunsberger, Sean Batir, Chris Eliasmith

We explore the advantages of regularizing firing rates of Loihi neurons for converting ANN to SNN with minimum accuracy loss and optimized energy consumption.

Benchmarking Image Segmentation +1

Parallelizing Legendre Memory Unit Training

2 code implementations22 Feb 2021 Narsimha Chilkuri, Chris Eliasmith

For instance, our LMU sets a new state-of-the-art result on psMNIST, and uses half the parameters while outperforming DistilBERT and LSTM models on IMDB sentiment analysis.

Machine Translation Sentiment Analysis +2

Feedforward Legendre Memory Unit

no code implementations1 Jan 2021 Narsimha Reddy Chilkuri, Chris Eliasmith

Our models, despite their simplicity, achieve new state-of-the-art results for RNNs on psMNIST and QQP, and exhibit superior performance on the remaining three datasets while using up to 1000x fewer parameters.

Image Classification Natural Language Inference +5

Low-Power Low-Latency Keyword Spotting and Adaptive Control with a SpiNNaker 2 Prototype and Comparison with Loihi

no code implementations18 Sep 2020 Yexin Yan, Terrence C. Stewart, Xuan Choo, Bernhard Vogginger, Johannes Partzsch, Sebastian Hoeppner, Florian Kelber, Chris Eliasmith, Steve Furber, Christian Mayr

We implemented two neural network based benchmark tasks on a prototype chip of the second-generation SpiNNaker (SpiNNaker 2) neuromorphic system: keyword spotting and adaptive robotic control.

Keyword Spotting

Hardware Aware Training for Efficient Keyword Spotting on General Purpose and Specialized Hardware

no code implementations9 Sep 2020 Peter Blouw, Gurshaant Malik, Benjamin Morcos, Aaron R. Voelker, Chris Eliasmith

Keyword spotting (KWS) provides a critical user interface for many mobile and edge applications, including phones, wearables, and cars.

Keyword Spotting

Nengo and low-power AI hardware for robust, embedded neurorobotics

1 code implementation20 Jul 2020 Travis DeWolf, Pawel Jaworski, Chris Eliasmith

In this paper we demonstrate how the Nengo neural modeling and simulation libraries enable users to quickly develop robotic perception and action neural networks for simulation on neuromorphic hardware using familiar tools, such as Keras and Python.

A Spike in Performance: Training Hybrid-Spiking Neural Networks with Quantized Activation Functions

no code implementations10 Feb 2020 Aaron R. Voelker, Daniel Rasmussen, Chris Eliasmith

The machine learning community has become increasingly interested in the energy efficiency of neural networks.

Benchmarking Keyword Spotting Efficiency on Neuromorphic Hardware

1 code implementation4 Dec 2018 Peter Blouw, Xuan Choo, Eric Hunsberger, Chris Eliasmith

Using Intel's Loihi neuromorphic research chip and ABR's Nengo Deep Learning toolkit, we analyze the inference speed, dynamic power consumption, and energy cost per inference of a two-layer neural network keyword spotter trained to recognize a single phrase.

Benchmarking Keyword Spotting

Point Neurons with Conductance-Based Synapses in the Neural Engineering Framework

no code implementations20 Oct 2017 Andreas Stöckel, Aaron R. Voelker, Chris Eliasmith

This, in particular, significantly affects the influence of inhibitory signals on the neuronal dynamics.

Translation

Methods for applying the Neural Engineering Framework to neuromorphic hardware

no code implementations27 Aug 2017 Aaron R. Voelker, Chris Eliasmith

We review our current software tools and theoretical methods for applying the Neural Engineering Framework to state-of-the-art neuromorphic hardware.

Training Spiking Deep Networks for Neuromorphic Hardware

1 code implementation16 Nov 2016 Eric Hunsberger, Chris Eliasmith

We describe a method to train spiking deep networks that can be run using leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) neurons, achieving state-of-the-art results for spiking LIF networks on five datasets, including the large ImageNet ILSVRC-2012 benchmark.

BioSpaun: A large-scale behaving brain model with complex neurons

no code implementations16 Feb 2016 Chris Eliasmith, Jan Gosmann, Xuan Choo

We describe a large-scale functional brain model that includes detailed, conductance-based, compartmental models of individual neurons.

Blocking

Spiking Deep Networks with LIF Neurons

2 code implementations29 Oct 2015 Eric Hunsberger, Chris Eliasmith

We train spiking deep networks using leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) neurons, and achieve state-of-the-art results for spiking networks on the CIFAR-10 and MNIST datasets.

General Classification Image Classification

Hyperopt-Sklearn: Automatic Hyperparameter Configuration for Scikit-Learn

2 code implementations SCIPY 2014 2014 Brent Komer, James Bergstra, Chris Eliasmith

Hyperopt-sklearn is a new software project that provides automatic algorithm configuration of the Scikit-learn machine learning library.

Benchmarking Hyperparameter Optimization

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