Abstract
A low-energy hardware implementation of deep belief network (DBN) architecture is developed using near-zero energy barrier probabilistic spin logic devices (p-bits), which are modeled to realize an intrinsic sigmoidal activation function. A CMOS/spin based weighted array structure is designed to implement a restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM). Device-level simulations based on precise physics relations are used to validate the sigmoidal relation between the output probability of a p-bit and its input currents. Characteristics of the resistive networks and p-bits are modeled in SPICE to perform a circuit-level simulation investigating the performance, area, and power consumption tradeoffs of the weighted array. In the application-level simulation, a DBN is implemented in MATLAB for digit recognition using the extracted device and circuit behavioral models. The MNIST data set is used to assess the accuracy of the DBN using 5,000 training images for five distinct network topologies. The results indicate that a baseline error rate of 36.8% for a 784×10 DBN trained by 100 samples can be reduced to only 3.7% using a 784×800×800×10 DBN trained by 5,000 input samples. Finally, Power dissipation and accuracy tradeoffs for probabilistic computing mechanisms using resistive devices are identified.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | GLSVLSI 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
Pages | 15-20 |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450357241 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 30 2018 |
Event | 28th Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, GLSVLSI 2018 - Chicago, United States Duration: May 23 2018 → May 25 2018 |
Publication series
Name | Proceedings of the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, GLSVLSI |
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Other
Other | 28th Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, GLSVLSI 2018 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Chicago |
Period | 5/23/18 → 5/25/18 |
Bibliographical note
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