MIT Researchers Aim to Bring Neural Networks to Smartphones -- Campus Technology

A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is working to bring neural networks to handheld devices. Neural networks comprise thousands or millions of simple and densely interconnected nodes that are organized by layers. Each interconnection has a weight and those weights are continually readjusted as the network is changed. All that computation requires a lot of memory and power, so neural networks are better suited to run on servers than smartphones. But last year a team led by Vivienne Sze, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, developed an energy-efficient chip designed for neural networks that might allow them to run on smartphones.