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Ericsson’s Ahsan Javed Awan continues to be enamoured with Intel, although I noticed a slight change in his slide, where “neuromorphic hardware” is no longer followed by “(Loihi 2)”. Interesting, given that “Lava is platform-agnostic, so that applications can be prototyped on conventional CPUs/GPUs and deployed to heterogeneous system architectures spanning both conventional processors as well as a range of neuromorphic chips such as Intel’s Loihi.”
(https://lava-nc.org/)
Could that signify he is also trying out other processors these days?
June 2024
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Dylan Muir from SynSense gave a remote presentation on Speck:
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And I also spotted the SpiNNaker and IBM logos on the opening slide of the online presentation by Jörg Conradt (KTH Stockholm) - no surprise here.
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Hopefully, researchers in Jörg Conradt’s Neuro Computing Systems lab that moved from Munich (TUM) to Stockholm (KTH), will give Akida another chance one of these days (after the not overly glorious assessment of two KTH Master students in their degree project Neuromorphic Medical Image Analysis at the Edge, which was shared here before: https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1779206/FULLTEXT01.pdf), trusting the positive feedback by two more advanced researchers Jörg Conradt knows well, who have (resp soon will have) first-hand-experience with AKD1000:
When he was still at TUM, Jörg Conradt was the PhD supervisor of Cristian Axenie (now head of SPICES lab at TH Nürnberg, whose team came runner-up in the 2023 tinyML Pedestrian Detection Hackathon utilising Akida) and co-authored a number of papers with him, and now at Stockholm, he is the PhD supervisor of Jens Egholm Pedersen, who is one of the co-organisers of the topic area Neuromorphic systems for space applications at the upcoming Telluride Neuromorphic Workshop, that will provide participants with neuromorphic hardware, including Akida. (I’d venture a guess that the name Jens on the slide refers to him).
Let’s savour once again the above quote by Rasmus Lundqvist, who is a Senior Researcher in Autonomous Systems at RISE (Sweden’s state-owned research institute and innovation partner), with a focus on drones and innovative aerial mobility.
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“And mark my words; there is no more suitable AI tech for low-power low-latency than SNNs and neuromorphic chips to run them.”
RISE’s ongoing project Visual Inspection of airspace for air traffic and SEcuRity (a collaboration with SAAB, https://www.saab.com/) sounds like a perfect use case for Akida:
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With a growing number of drones in the lower airspace, it becomes important to be able to, in a cost-efficient way, identify the drones that do not cooperate with U-Space Service Providers (USSP). This is especially important in areas nearby critical infrastructure.www.ri.se
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One of Ericsson’s Stockholm-based neuromorphic researchers, Ahsan Javed Awan, who describes himself on LinkedIn as “Technology Specialist - Emerging Compute Algorithms” is looking for 3 Master students to work on “Brain-Inspired Algorithms for Telecom Networks” relating to RAN (Radio Access Network) workloads:
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As per my June 2024 post above, Ahsan Javed Awan had been very enamoured with Loihi over the past few years, but may possibly be open to evaluate other neuromorphic processors as well.
The job ad posted on LinkedIn doesn’t specify what specific neuromorphic hardware the algorithms would be implemented on:
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With the rapid adoption of machine learning in telecommunication networks, the energy consumption associated with the training of cognitive algorithms and inference engines is of increased concern. Bio-inspired computing architectures such as Neuromorphic systems could process cognitive tasks in an energy-efficient manner, thereby yielding the networks sustainable. A variety of tasks such as deep learning inference, dynamic programming, quadratic unconstrained binary optimization etc... can exploit the neuromorphic hardware by reformulating the problem to the brain-inspired neural network architecture. To harness the potential of neuromorphic hardware in the telco networks, it is imperative to understand how brain-inspired neural networks can solve relevant computational problems in energy efficient manner.
This master thesis aims at developing brain-inspire neural networks (SNN, BCPNN, etc..) for certain telco use cases and demonstrating the potential energy efficiency gains.
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I’m of course aware of the December 2023 paper “Towards 6G Zero-Energy Internet of Things: Standards, Trends and Recent Results” paper, in which six Ericsson researchers had experimented with Akida for a ZE-IoT device…(https://d197for5662m48.cloudfront.n...rint_pdf/dfcbe2c260b5426434db681b0f637243.pdf)
…but this is a different area of research, in which Ericsson has been collaborating with Intel for years:
https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-446092
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