Publications

Dynamic programming with spiking neural computing

Aimone, James B.; Pinar, Ali P.; Parekh, Ojas D.; Severa, William M.; Phillips, Cynthia A.; Xu, Helen

With the advent of large-scale neuromorphic platforms, we seek to better understand the applications of neuromorphic computing to more general-purpose computing domains. Graph analysis problems have grown increasingly relevant in the wake of readily available massive data. We demonstrate that a broad class of combinatorial and graph problems known as dynamic programs enjoy simple and efficient neuromorphic implementations, by developing a general technique to convert dynamic programs to spiking neuromorphic algorithms. Dynamic programs have been studied for over 50 years and have dozens of applications across many fields.