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most citedTowards Cognitive AI Systems: a Survey and Prospective on Neuro-Symbolic AI

7 citations · 11 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.AR2026

ArchEval: Measuring AI Agents as Computer Architects

Chenyu Wang, Zishen Wan, Jeffrey Ma +8

Computer architecture has long used benchmarks to make progress measurable. LLM agents create a different measurement problem: success is not merely writing code or tuning paramete…

cs.DC2026

Serving Agentic Workflows with a Physical-Plan Compiler and Adaptive Runtime

Jiayi Qian, Yichong Zhang, Zishen Wan +4

Efficient serving of agentic workflows requires selecting each LLM node's model, verification policy, and backend to balance output quality, latency, and throughput. These assignme…

cs.AR2026

AgentDSE: Reasoning-Augmented Architectural Design Space Exploration

Chenyu Wang, Jiahe Caroline Shi, David Kong +4

Traditional architectural design space exploration (DSE) is highly inefficient, typically requiring tens of thousands of simulator evaluations across various optimization methods.…

cs.AR2026

FLARE: One-Shot PE-Level Fault Localization in Systolic Arrays via Algebraic Test Vectors

Logashree Venkatasubramanian, Zishen Wan, Viveck Cadambe

Systolic arrays are the dominant compute fabric for neural network inference. Prior work has addressed column-level fault detection efficiently with uniform test patterns, but row-…

cs.AI2026

REASON: Accelerating Probabilistic Logical Reasoning for Scalable Neuro-Symbolic Intelligence

Zishen Wan, Che-Kai Liu, Jiayi Qian +3

Neuro-symbolic AI systems integrate neural perception with symbolic reasoning to enable data-efficient, interpretable, and robust intelligence beyond purely neural models. Although…

cs.AR2026

SATA: Sparsity-Aware Scheduling for Selective Token Attention

Zhenkun Fan, Zishen Wan, Che-Kai Liu +5

Transformers have become the foundation of numerous state-of-the-art AI models across diverse domains, thanks to their powerful attention mechanism for modeling long-range dependen…

cs.AR2025

QuArch: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Reasoning in Computer Architecture

Shvetank Prakash, Andrew Cheng, Mark Mazumder +24

The field of computer architecture, which bridges high-level software abstractions and low-level hardware implementations, remains absent from current large language model (LLM) ev…

cs.CL2025

Slm-mux: Orchestrating small language models for reasoning

Chenyu Wang, Zishen Wan, Hao Kang +5

With the rapid development of language models, the number of small language models (SLMs) has grown significantly. Although they do not achieve state-of-the-art accuracy, they are…

cs.AR2025

Cross-Layer Design of Vector-Symbolic Computing: Bridging Cognition and Brain-Inspired Hardware Acceleration

Shuting Du, Mohamed Ibrahim, Zishen Wan +7

Vector Symbolic Architectures (VSAs) have been widely deployed in various cognitive applications due to their simple and efficient operations. The widespread adoption of VSAs has,…

cs.PF2025

SCALE-Sim v3: A modular cycle-accurate systolic accelerator simulator for end-to-end system analysis

Ritik Raj, Sarbartha Banerjee, Nikhil Chandra +4

The rapid advancements in AI, scientific computing, and high-performance computing (HPC) have driven the need for versatile and efficient hardware accelerators. Existing tools like…

cs.AR2025

NSFlow: An End-to-End FPGA Framework with Scalable Dataflow Architecture for Neuro-Symbolic AI

Hanchen Yang, Zishen Wan, Ritik Raj +5

Neuro-Symbolic AI (NSAI) is an emerging paradigm that integrates neural networks with symbolic reasoning to enhance the transparency, reasoning capabilities, and data efficiency of…

cs.ET2025

HyDra: SOT-CAM Based Vector Symbolic Macro for Hyperdimensional Computing

Md Mizanur Rahaman Nayan, Che-Kai Liu, Zishen Wan +2

Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) is a brain-inspired paradigm valued for its noise robustness, parallelism, energy efficiency, and low computational overhead. Hardware accelerators…

cs.RO2025

Generative AI in Embodied Systems: System-Level Analysis of Performance, Efficiency and Scalability

Zishen Wan, Jiayi Qian, Yuhang Du +6

Embodied systems, where generative autonomous agents engage with the physical world through integrated perception, cognition, action, and advanced reasoning powered by large langua…

cs.AR2025

CogSys: Efficient and Scalable Neurosymbolic Cognition System via Algorithm-Hardware Co-Design

Zishen Wan, Hanchen Yang, Ritik Raj +4

Neurosymbolic AI is an emerging compositional paradigm that fuses neural learning with symbolic reasoning to enhance the transparency, interpretability, and trustworthiness of AI.…

cs.AR2024

Towards Efficient Neuro-Symbolic AI: From Workload Characterization to Hardware Architecture

Zishen Wan, Che-Kai Liu, Hanchen Yang +13

The remarkable advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), primarily driven by deep neural networks, are facing challenges surrounding unsustainable computational trajectories, l…

cs.AR2024

H3DFact: Heterogeneous 3D Integrated CIM for Factorization with Holographic Perceptual Representations

Zishen Wan, Che-Kai Liu, Mohamed Ibrahim +4

Disentangling attributes of various sensory signals is central to human-like perception and reasoning and a critical task for higher-order cognitive and neuro-symbolic AI systems.…

cs.AR2024

Algorithm-Hardware Co-Design of Distribution-Aware Logarithmic-Posit Encodings for Efficient DNN Inference

Akshat Ramachandran, Zishen Wan, Geonhwa Jeong +2

Traditional Deep Neural Network (DNN) quantization methods using integer, fixed-point, or floating-point data types struggle to capture diverse DNN parameter distributions at low p…

cs.AI2024★ 7 cited

Towards Cognitive AI Systems: a Survey and Prospective on Neuro-Symbolic AI

Zishen Wan, Che-Kai Liu, Hanchen Yang +7

The remarkable advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), primarily driven by deep neural networks, have significantly impacted various aspects of our lives. However, the curren…

cs.AR2023★ 4 cited

SEE-MCAM: Scalable Multi-bit FeFET Content Addressable Memories for Energy Efficient Associative Search

Shengxi Shou, Che-Kai Liu, Sanggeon Yun +7

In this work, we propose SEE-MCAM, scalable and compact multi-bit CAM (MCAM) designs that utilize the three-terminal ferroelectric FET (FeFET) as the proxy. By exploiting the multi…