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Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are a promising paradigm for energy-efficient computation, yet their theoretical foundations-especially regarding stability and robustness-remain limited compared to artificial neural networks. In this work,…
This paper considers the state transition of the stochastic Morris-Lecar neuronal model driven by symmetric $\alpha$-stable L\'evy noise. The considered system is bistable: a stable fixed point (resting state) and a stable limit cycle…
Pairs of neurons in brain networks often share much of the input they receive from other neurons. Due to essential non-linearities of neuronal dynamics, the consequences for the correlation of the output spike trains are not well understood…
We investigate a stochastic network composed of Integrate-and-Fire spiking neurons, focusing on its mean-field asymptotics. We consider an invariant probability measure of the McKean-Vlasov equation and establish an explicit sufficient…
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Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are the current state-of-the-art models in many speech related tasks. There is a growing interest, though, for more biologically realistic, hardware friendly and energy efficient models, named Spiking Neural…
Long-range dependence (LRD) has been observed in a variety of phenomena in nature, and for several years also in the spiking activity of neurons. Often, this is interpreted as originating from a non-Markovian system. Here we show that a…
In this paper, the hardware implementation of a neuromorphic system is presented. This system is composed of a Leaky Integrate-and-Fire with Latency (LIFL) neuron and a Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity (STDP) synapse. LIFL neuron model…
In order to ease the analysis of error propagation in neuromorphic computing and to get a better understanding of spiking neural networks (SNN), we address the problem of mathematical analysis of SNNs as endomorphisms that map spike trains…
The linearly inseparable XOR problem and the related problem of representing binary logical gates is revisited from the point of view of temporal encoding and its solvability by spiking neural networks with minimal configurations of leaky…