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

7 citations · 17 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

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

A 28nm 1.80Mb/mm2 Digital/Analog Hybrid SRAM-CIM Macro Using 2D-Weighted Capacitor Array for Complex Number Mac Operations

Shota Konno, Che-Kai Liu, Sigang Ryu +2

A 28nm dense 6T-SRAM Digital(D)/Analog(A) Hybrid compute-in-memory (CIM) macro supporting complex num-ber MAC operation is presented. By introducing a 2D-weighted Capacitor Array,…

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.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.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.ET2025

TAP-CAM: A Tunable Approximate Matching Engine based on Ferroelectric Content Addressable Memory

Chenyu Ni, Sijie Chen, Che-Kai Liu +8

Pattern search is crucial in numerous analytic applications for retrieving data entries akin to the query. Content Addressable Memories (CAMs), an in-memory computing fabric, direc…

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.ET2024★ 2 cited

FeReX: A Reconfigurable Design of Multi-bit Ferroelectric Compute-in-Memory for Nearest Neighbor Search

Zhicheng Xu, Che-Kai Liu, Chao Li +7

Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence have given rise to transformative models, profoundly impacting our lives. These models demand massive volumes of data to operate effec…

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.ET2023

Towards Efficient Hyperdimensional Computing Using Photonics

Farbin Fayza, Cansu Demirkiran, Hanning Chen +8

Over the past few years, silicon photonics-based computing has emerged as a promising alternative to CMOS-based computing for Deep Neural Networks (DNN). Unfortunately, the non-lin…

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…

cs.AR2022★ 4 cited

COSIME: FeFET based Associative Memory for In-Memory Cosine Similarity Search

Che-Kai Liu, Haobang Chen, Mohsen Imani +8

In a number of machine learning models, an input query is searched across the trained class vectors to find the closest feature class vector in cosine similarity metric. However, p…