Publication Type
Conference Paper
Book Title
ICONS 2021: International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems 2021
Publication Date
Page Numbers
1 to 4
Conference Name
International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems (ICONS) 2021
Conference Location
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America
Conference Sponsor
ACM
Conference Date
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Abstract
The training process for spiking neural networks can be very computationally intensive. Approaches such as evolutionary algorithms may require evaluating thousands or millions of candidate solutions. In this work, we propose using neuromorphic cores implemented on a Xilinx Zynq system on chip to accelerate and improve the energy efficiency of the evaluation step of an evolutionary training approach. We demonstrate this can significantly reduce the required energy to evolve a network with some cases showing greater than 10 times improvement as compared to a CPU-only system.