Thermodynamic Lower Bounds for Integrated Inference-Memory Dynamics

Abstract

The central focus is a separation penalty incurred by architectures that enforce a compute–instance-storage boundary (a von Neumann–style bottleneck): task-relevant information must cross a physical channel (bus/interconnect/NoC), and this mandatory transport induces an unavoidable energetic floor.

Keywords

• thermodynamics of information
• information thermodynamics
• stochastic thermodynamics
• von neumann bottleneck
• communication complexity
• conditional entropy
• i/o complexity
• fano inequality
• in-memory computing
• neuromorphic computing

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