MemTorch: An Open-source Simulation Framework for Memristive Deep Learning Systems
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| author | Lammie, Corey Xiang, Wei Linares-Barranco, Bernabé Azghadi, Mostafa Rahimi |
| author_facet | Lammie, Corey Xiang, Wei Linares-Barranco, Bernabé Azghadi, Mostafa Rahimi |
| contents | Memristive devices have shown great promise to facilitate the acceleration and improve the power efficiency of Deep Learning (DL) systems. Crossbar architectures constructed using these Resistive Random-Access Memory (RRAM) devices can be used to efficiently implement various in-memory computing operations, such as Multiply Accumulate (MAC) and unrolled-convolutions, which are used extensively in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, memristive devices face concerns of aging and non-idealities, which limit the accuracy, reliability, and robustness of Memristive Deep Learning Systems (MDLSs), that should be considered prior to circuit-level realization. This Original Software Publication (OSP) presents MemTorch, an open-source framework for customized large-scale memristive DL simulations, with a refined focus on the co-simulation of device non-idealities. MemTorch also facilitates co-modelling of key crossbar peripheral circuitry. MemTorch adopts a modernized soft-ware engineering methodology and integrates directly with the well-known PyTorch Machine Learning (ML) library |
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| spellingShingle | MemTorch: An Open-source Simulation Framework for Memristive Deep Learning Systems Lammie, Corey Xiang, Wei Linares-Barranco, Bernabé Azghadi, Mostafa Rahimi Emerging Technologies Memristive devices have shown great promise to facilitate the acceleration and improve the power efficiency of Deep Learning (DL) systems. Crossbar architectures constructed using these Resistive Random-Access Memory (RRAM) devices can be used to efficiently implement various in-memory computing operations, such as Multiply Accumulate (MAC) and unrolled-convolutions, which are used extensively in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, memristive devices face concerns of aging and non-idealities, which limit the accuracy, reliability, and robustness of Memristive Deep Learning Systems (MDLSs), that should be considered prior to circuit-level realization. This Original Software Publication (OSP) presents MemTorch, an open-source framework for customized large-scale memristive DL simulations, with a refined focus on the co-simulation of device non-idealities. MemTorch also facilitates co-modelling of key crossbar peripheral circuitry. MemTorch adopts a modernized soft-ware engineering methodology and integrates directly with the well-known PyTorch Machine Learning (ML) library |
| title | MemTorch: An Open-source Simulation Framework for Memristive Deep Learning Systems |
| topic | Emerging Technologies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10971 |