用铁电FET实现概率决策树,提升精度与能效。
Probabilistic Tree Inference Enabled by FDSOI Ferroelectric FETs
- 基于铁电FET的单片平台原生支持内容寻址存储与随机数生成。
- 在MNIST数据噪声下比传统决策树准确率高40%以上。
- 相比CPU/GPU快上百倍、能效提升超100倍,适合安全关键场景。
自动驾驶、医疗诊断和金融系统等人工智能应用日益需要具备鲁棒不确定性量化、可解释性及抗噪能力的机器学习模型。贝叶斯决策树(BDTs)因其结合了概率推理、可解释决策和抗噪特性而备受关注。然而,现有基于CPU和GPU的BDT硬件实现受限于内存瓶颈和不规则计算模式;而利用模拟内容寻址存储(ACAM)和高斯随机数生成器(GRNG)的多平台方案则引入了集成复杂度和能量开销。本文报道了一种原生支持ACAM与GRNG功能的单片式FDSOI-FeFET硬件平台。铁电FET的极化特性实现了紧凑高效的多比特存储用于ACAM,栅极-漏极重叠区的隧穿效应及随后的浮体空穴存储提供了高质量熵源以生成GRNG。系统级评估表明,该架构在面对数据噪声和器件波动时,能实现稳健的不确定性估计、可解释性和抗噪能力。在MNIST数据集上,其分类准确率较传统决策树提升超过40%;相较CPU/GPU基线,速度提升超两个数量级,能效提升超过四个数量级,是资源受限与安全关键环境中部署BDT的可扩展解决方案。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
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.
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