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Chin. Phys. B, 2022, Vol. 31(7): 078702    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/ac4f4e
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Pulse coding off-chip learning algorithm for memristive artificial neural network

Ming-Jian Guo(郭明健), Shu-Kai Duan(段书凯), and Li-Dan Wang(王丽丹)
College of Artificial Intelligence, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
Abstract  Memristive neural network has attracted tremendous attention since the memristor array can perform parallel multiply-accumulate calculation (MAC) operations and memory-computation operations as compared with digital CMOS hardware systems. However, owing to the variability of the memristor, the implementation of high-precision neural network in memristive computation units is still difficult. Existing learning algorithms for memristive artificial neural network (ANN) is unable to achieve the performance comparable to high-precision by using CMOS-based system. Here, we propose an algorithm based on off-chip learning for memristive ANN in low precision. Training the ANN in the high-precision in digital CPUs and then quantifying the weight of the network to low precision, the quantified weights are mapped to the memristor arrays based on VTEAM model through using the pulse coding weight-mapping rule. In this work, we execute the inference of trained 5-layers convolution neural network on the memristor arrays and achieve an accuracy close to the inference in the case of high precision (64-bit). Compared with other algorithms-based off-chip learning, the algorithm proposed in the present study can easily implement the mapping process and less influence of the device variability. Our result provides an effective approach to implementing the ANN on the memristive hardware platform.
Keywords:  off-chip learning      mapping      memristor array      artificial neural network  
Received:  08 December 2021      Revised:  18 January 2022      Accepted manuscript online:  27 January 2022
PACS:  87.18.Sn (Neural networks and synaptic communication)  
  07.05.Rm (Data presentation and visualization: algorithms and implementation)  
  07.05.Tp (Computer modeling and simulation)  
  07.05.Mh (Neural networks, fuzzy logic, artificial intelligence)  
Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 62076208, 62076207, and U20A20227) and the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2018YFB1306600).
Corresponding Authors:  Li-Dan Wang     E-mail:  ldwang@swu.edu.cn

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Ming-Jian Guo(郭明健), Shu-Kai Duan(段书凯), and Li-Dan Wang(王丽丹) Pulse coding off-chip learning algorithm for memristive artificial neural network 2022 Chin. Phys. B 31 078702

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