Computing Generalized Matrix Inverse on Spiking Neural Substrate

On Ev-Degree and Ve-Degree Topological Properties of Tickysim Spiking Neural Network

Topological indices are indispensable tools for analyzing networks to understand the underlying topology of these networks. Spiking neural network architecture (SpiNNaker or TSNN) is a million-core calculating engine which aims at simulating the behavior of aggregates of up to a billion neurons in real time. Tickysim is a timing-based simulator of the interchip interconnection network of the SpiNNaker architecture. Tickysim spiking neural network is considered to be highly symmetrical network classes. Classical degree-based topological properties of Tickysim spiking neural network have been recently determined. Ev-degree and ve-degree concepts are two novel degrees recently defined in graph theory. Ev-degree and ve-degree topological indices have been defined as parallel to their corresponding counterparts. In this study, we investigate the ev-degree and ve-degree topological properties of Tickysim spiking neural network. These calculations give the information about the underlying topology of Tickysim spiking neural network.

REMODEL: Rethinking Deep CNN Models to Detect and Count on a NeuroSynaptic System

In this work, we perform analysis of detection and counting of cars using a low-power IBM TrueNorth Neurosynaptic System. For our evaluation we looked at a publicly-available dataset that has overhead imagery of cars with context present in the image. The trained neural network for image analysis was deployed on the NS16e system using IBM's EEDN training framework. Through multiple experiments we identify the architectural bottlenecks present in TrueNorth system that does not let us deploy large neural network structures. Following these experiments we propose changes to CNN model to circumvent these architectural bottlenecks. The results of these evaluations have been compared with caffe-based implementations of standard neural networks that were deployed on a Titan-X GPU. Results showed that TrueNorth can detect cars from the dataset with 97.60% accuracy and can be used to accurately count the number of cars in the image with 69.04% accuracy. The car detection accuracy and car count (-/+ 2 error margin) accuracy are comparable to high-precision neural networks like AlexNet, GoogLeNet, and ResCeption, but show a manifold improvement in power consumption.