中国物理B ›› 2024, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (6): 68401-068401.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/ad39d6

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One memristor-one electrolyte-gated transistor-based high energy-efficient dropout neuronal units

Yalin Li(李亚霖)1,†, Kailu Shi(时凯璐)1,†, Yixin Zhu(朱一新)1, Xiao Fang(方晓)1, Hangyuan Cui(崔航源)1, Qing Wan(万青)2,‡, and Changjin Wan(万昌锦)1,§   

  1. 1 School of Electronic Science & Engineering, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China;
    2 Yongjiang Laboratory (Y-LAB), Ningbo 315202, China
  • 收稿日期:2024-03-08 修回日期:2024-03-19 接受日期:2024-04-03 出版日期:2024-06-18 发布日期:2024-06-18
  • 通讯作者: Qing Wan, Changjin Wan E-mail:wanqing@nju.edu.cn;cjwan@nju.edu.cn
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant Nos. 2021YFA1202600 and 2023YFE0208600) and in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 62174082, 92364106, 61921005, 92364204, and 62074075).

One memristor-one electrolyte-gated transistor-based high energy-efficient dropout neuronal units

Yalin Li(李亚霖)1,†, Kailu Shi(时凯璐)1,†, Yixin Zhu(朱一新)1, Xiao Fang(方晓)1, Hangyuan Cui(崔航源)1, Qing Wan(万青)2,‡, and Changjin Wan(万昌锦)1,§   

  1. 1 School of Electronic Science & Engineering, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China;
    2 Yongjiang Laboratory (Y-LAB), Ningbo 315202, China
  • Received:2024-03-08 Revised:2024-03-19 Accepted:2024-04-03 Online:2024-06-18 Published:2024-06-18
  • Contact: Qing Wan, Changjin Wan E-mail:wanqing@nju.edu.cn;cjwan@nju.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant Nos. 2021YFA1202600 and 2023YFE0208600) and in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 62174082, 92364106, 61921005, 92364204, and 62074075).

摘要: Artificial neural networks (ANN) have been extensively researched due to their significant energy-saving benefits. Hardware implementations of ANN with dropout function would be able to avoid the overfitting problem. This letter reports a dropout neuronal unit (1R1T-DNU) based on one memristor-one electrolyte-gated transistor with an ultralow energy consumption of 25pJ/spike. A dropout neural network is constructed based on such a device and has been verified by MNIST dataset, demonstrating high recognition accuracies ($> 90$%) within a large range of dropout probabilities up to 40%. The running time can be reduced by increasing dropout probability without a significant loss in accuracy. Our results indicate the great potential of introducing such 1R1T-DNUs in full-hardware neural networks to enhance energy efficiency and to solve the overfitting problem.

关键词: dropout neuronal unit, synaptic transistors, memristor, artificial neural network

Abstract: Artificial neural networks (ANN) have been extensively researched due to their significant energy-saving benefits. Hardware implementations of ANN with dropout function would be able to avoid the overfitting problem. This letter reports a dropout neuronal unit (1R1T-DNU) based on one memristor-one electrolyte-gated transistor with an ultralow energy consumption of 25pJ/spike. A dropout neural network is constructed based on such a device and has been verified by MNIST dataset, demonstrating high recognition accuracies ($> 90$%) within a large range of dropout probabilities up to 40%. The running time can be reduced by increasing dropout probability without a significant loss in accuracy. Our results indicate the great potential of introducing such 1R1T-DNUs in full-hardware neural networks to enhance energy efficiency and to solve the overfitting problem.

Key words: dropout neuronal unit, synaptic transistors, memristor, artificial neural network

中图分类号:  (Neural networks)

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73.40.Mr (Semiconductor-electrolyte contacts) 77.55.-g (Dielectric thin films) 81.05.Gc (Amorphous semiconductors)