基于FDSOI铁电场效应晶体管的概率树推理 / Probabilistic Tree Inference Enabled by FDSOI Ferroelectric FETs
1️⃣ 一句话总结
这项研究提出了一种新型的硬件芯片,它利用特殊的铁电晶体管同时实现了高效存储和高质量随机数生成,从而能以极低的能耗和极高的速度运行贝叶斯决策树,为自动驾驶等需要可靠性和可解释性的关键应用提供了强大的硬件支持。
Artificial intelligence applications in autonomous driving, medical diagnostics, and financial systems increasingly demand machine learning models that can provide robust uncertainty quantification, interpretability, and noise resilience. Bayesian decision trees (BDTs) are attractive for these tasks because they combine probabilistic reasoning, interpretable decision-making, and robustness to noise. However, existing hardware implementations of BDTs based on CPUs and GPUs are limited by memory bottlenecks and irregular processing patterns, while multi-platform solutions exploiting analog content-addressable memory (ACAM) and Gaussian random number generators (GRNGs) introduce integration complexity and energy overheads. Here we report a monolithic FDSOI-FeFET hardware platform that natively supports both ACAM and GRNG functionalities. The ferroelectric polarization of FeFETs enables compact, energy-efficient multi-bit storage for ACAM, and band-to-band tunneling in the gate-to-drain overlap region and subsequent hole storage in the floating body provides a high-quality entropy source for GRNG. System-level evaluations demonstrate that the proposed architecture provides robust uncertainty estimation, interpretability, and noise tolerance with high energy efficiency. Under both dataset noise and device variations, it achieves over 40% higher classification accuracy on MNIST compared to conventional decision trees. Moreover, it delivers more than two orders of magnitude speedup over CPU and GPU baselines and over four orders of magnitude improvement in energy efficiency, making it a scalable solution for deploying BDTs in resource-constrained and safety-critical environments.
基于FDSOI铁电场效应晶体管的概率树推理 / Probabilistic Tree Inference Enabled by FDSOI Ferroelectric FETs
这项研究提出了一种新型的硬件芯片,它利用特殊的铁电晶体管同时实现了高效存储和高质量随机数生成,从而能以极低的能耗和极高的速度运行贝叶斯决策树,为自动驾驶等需要可靠性和可解释性的关键应用提供了强大的硬件支持。
源自 arXiv: 2604.05115