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Phase-Change Memory Models for Deep Learning Training and Inference

Nandakumar, S. R.
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Boybat, Irem  
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Joshi, Vinay
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January 1, 2019
2019 26Th Ieee International Conference On Electronics, Circuits And Systems (Icecs)
26th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS)

Non-volatile analog memory devices such as phase-change memory (PCM) enable designing dedicated connectivity matrices for the hardware implementation of deep neural networks (DNN). In this in-memory computing approach, the analog conductance states of the memory device can be gradually updated to train DNNs on-chip or software trained connection strengths may be programmed one-time to the devices to create efficient inference engines. Reliable and computationally simple models that capture the non-ideal programming and temporal evolution of the devices are needed for evaluating the training and inference performance of the deep learning hardware based on in-memory computing. In this paper, we present statistically accurate models for PCM, based on the characterization of more than 10,000 devices, that capture the state-dependent nature and variability of the conductance update, conductance drift, and read noise. Integrating the computationally simple device models with deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow enables us to realistically evaluate training and inference performance of the PCM array based hardware implementations of DNNs.

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Type
conference paper
DOI
10.1109/ICECS46596.2019.8964852
Web of Science ID

WOS:000534573400191

Author(s)
Nandakumar, S. R.
Boybat, Irem  
Joshi, Vinay
Piveteau, Christophe
Le Gallo, Manuel
Rajendran, Bipin
Sebastian, Abu
Eleftheriou, Evangelos
Date Issued

2019-01-01

Publisher

IEEE

Publisher place

New York

Published in
2019 26Th Ieee International Conference On Electronics, Circuits And Systems (Icecs)
ISBN of the book

978-1-7281-0996-1

Series title/Series vol.

IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems

Start page

727

End page

730

Subjects

Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

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Engineering

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phase-change memory

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statistical model

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deep learning

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training

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inference

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REVIEWED

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EPFL

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
26th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS)

Genoa, ITALY

Nov 27-29, 2019

Available on Infoscience
June 30, 2020
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/169702
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