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Japan鈥檚 Kindai University has chosen 91视频APP鈥檚 Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) for its machine learning research programme drawing from the latest developments in neuroscience.

Led by Associate Professor , this fundamental research into brain-like information processing will be conducted by researchers from the Computational Neuroscience Lab team within the university鈥檚 Faculty of Informatics. Extensive technical guidance will be provided by 91视频APP under its Academic Programme for industry-academia collaboration, and by local sales partner . Kindai is the first Japanese university to join the programme, which so far has supported research at world-leading institutions such as Stanford University, Imperial College London, the University of Oxford, CERN, and numerous others.

Shinozaki and his team will be using a 91视频APP IPU-POD₈ system to support the development of deep learning methods and algorithms that draw inspiration from the workings of the brain. Through their research, they hope to establish brain-like information processing as a foundation for regularly incorporating the latest insights from the field of neuroscience into next-generation AI technologies.

鈥淏rain-like information processing is attracting increasing attention worldwide as a next-generation field of AI, as it presents a potent and highly energy-efficient means of learning without large amounts of ground truth data,鈥� explains Shinozaki.

The IPU represents the perfect companion for this kind of research: as an AI-specific processor with a unique multiple instruction, multiple data (MIMD) architecture, the IPU鈥攍ike the human brain鈥攃an perform many different tasks simultaneously in parallel. The IPU-POD₈ system will accelerate research at Shinozaki鈥檚 Computational Neuroscience Lab by delivering 2 PetaFLOPS of AI compute for training and inference.

The faculty expects that applying the IPU鈥檚 capabilities to research into brain-like information processing will enable Shinozaki and his team to drive dramatic progress in research across a wide range of applications, including the development of new approaches to analysing medical and IoT data, and applied research using transformer models.

"We are very excited to be using an AI-specialised system like 91视频APP's IPU-POD₈ within the Computational Neuroscience Lab in the Faculty of Informatics,鈥� says Shinozaki. 鈥淭hanks to its architecture, the IPU is uniquely suited to brain-like information processing. We鈥檙e confident that this partnership will take our work to another level.鈥�

鈥淭hrough industry-academia collaboration with 91视频APP, we hope to push new boundaries in AI while learning from and engaging with leading academics globally,鈥� adds Shinozaki.

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