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Towards hardware acceleration of neuroevolution for multimedia processing applications on mobile devices
This paper addresses the problem of accelerating large artificial neural networks (ANN), whose topology and weights can evolve via the use of a genetic algorithm. The proposed digital hardware architecture is capable of processing any evolved network topology, whilst at the same time providing a good trade off between throughput, area and power consumption. The latter is vital for a longer battery life on mobile devices. The architecture uses multiple parallel arithmetic units in each processing element (PE). Memory partitioning and data caching are used to minimise the effects of PE pipeline stalling. A first order minimax polynomial approximation scheme, tuned via a genetic algorithm, is used for the activation function generator. Efficient arithmetic circuitry, which leverages modified Booth recoding, column compressors and carry save adders, is adopted throughout the design
Heterogeneous Mean Field for neural networks with short term plasticity
We report about the main dynamical features of a model of leaky-integrate-and
fire excitatory neurons with short term plasticity defined on random massive
networks. We investigate the dynamics by a Heterogeneous Mean-Field formulation
of the model, that is able to reproduce dynamical phases characterized by the
presence of quasi-synchronous events. This formulation allows one to solve also
the inverse problem of reconstructing the in-degree distribution for different
network topologies from the knowledge of the global activity field. We study
the robustness of this inversion procedure, by providing numerical evidence
that the in-degree distribution can be recovered also in the presence of noise
and disorder in the external currents. Finally, we discuss the validity of the
heterogeneous mean-field approach for sparse networks, with a sufficiently
large average in-degree
Spectral Analysis of Protein-Protein Interactions in Drosophila melanogaster
Within a case study on the protein-protein interaction network (PIN) of
Drosophila melanogaster we investigate the relation between the network's
spectral properties and its structural features such as the prevalence of
specific subgraphs or duplicate nodes as a result of its evolutionary history.
The discrete part of the spectral density shows fingerprints of the PIN's
topological features including a preference for loop structures. Duplicate
nodes are another prominent feature of PINs and we discuss their representation
in the PIN's spectrum as well as their biological implications.Comment: 9 pages RevTeX including 8 figure
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