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Spiking Neural Network (SNN) is considered more biologically realistic and power-efficient as it imitates the fundamental mechanism of the human brain. Recently, backpropagation (BP) based SNN learning algorithms that utilize deep learning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Chengting Yu , Yangkai Du , Mufeng Chen , Aili Wang , Gaoang Wang , Erping Li

This paper introduces SpikeFit, a novel training method for Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) that enables efficient inference on neuromorphic hardware, considering all its stringent requirements: the number of neurons and synapses that can…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Ivan Kartashov , Mariia Pushkareva , Iakov Karandashev

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are computational models inspired by the structure and dynamics of biological neuronal networks. Their event-driven nature enables them to achieve high energy efficiency, particularly when deployed on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ashish Gautam , Prasanna Date , Shruti Kulkarni , Robert Patton , Thomas Potok

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) draw inspiration from biological neurons to enable brain-like computation, demonstrating effectiveness in processing temporal information with energy efficiency and biological realism. Most existing SNNs are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Chengjie Ge , Yufeng Peng , Zihao Li , Qiyu Kang , Xueyang Fu , Xuhao Li , Qixin Zhang , Junhao Ren , Zheng-Jun Zha

Knowledge graphs are an expressive and widely used data structure due to their ability to integrate data from different domains in a sensible and machine-readable way. Thus, they can be used to model a variety of systems such as molecules…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Dominik Dold , Josep Soler Garrido , Victor Caceres Chian , Marcel Hildebrandt , Thomas Runkler

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are biologically inspired energy-efficient models that use sparse binary spike-based communication between neurons, making them attractive for resource-constrained edge devices. Federated learning enables such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Sanja Karilanova , Subhrakanti Dey , Ayça Özçelikkale

We present an on-chip trainable neuron circuit. Our proposed circuit suits bio-inspired spike-based time-dependent data computation for training spiking neural networks (SNN). The thresholds of neurons can be increased or decreased…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Beyza Zeynep Ucpinar , Mustafa Altay Karamuftuoglu , Sasan Razmkhah , Massoud Pedram

Over the past decade Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) have emerged as one of the popular architectures to emulate the brain. In SNN, information is temporally encoded and communication between neurons is accomplished by means of spikes. In…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Abhronil Sengupta , Aparajita Banerjee , Kaushik Roy

Artificial Intelligence has looked into biological systems as a source of inspiration. Although there are many aspects of the brain yet to be discovered, neuroscience has found evidence that the connections between neurons continuously grow…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Javier Lopez Randulfe , Leon Bonde Larsen

Spiking neural network is a type of artificial neural network in which neurons communicate between each other with spikes. Spikes are identical Boolean events characterized by the time of their arrival. A spiking neuron has internal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Oleg Y. Sinyavskiy

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) recently gained momentum due to their low-power multiplication-free computing and the closer resemblance of biological processes in the nervous system of humans. However, SNNs require very long spike trains…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Daniel Gerlinghoff , Zhehui Wang , Xiaozhe Gu , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Tao Luo

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are highly energy-efficient due to event-driven, sparse computation, but their training is challenged by spike non-differentiability and trade-offs among performance, efficiency, and biological plausibility.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zihan Huang , Zijie Xu , Yihan Huang , Shanshan Jia , Tong Bu , Yiting Dong , Wenxuan Liu , Jianhao Ding , Zhaofei Yu , Tiejun Huang

Spiking neural networks are biologically plausible counterparts of the artificial neural networks, artificial neural networks are usually trained with stochastic gradient descent and spiking neural networks are trained with spike timing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Ruthvik Vaila , John Chiasson , Vishal Saxena

Elements of neural networks, both biological and artificial, can be described by their selectivity for specific cognitive features. Understanding these features is important for understanding the inner workings of neural networks. For a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Nikita Pospelov , Andrei Chertkov , Maxim Beketov , Ivan Oseledets , Konstantin Anokhin

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have attracted the attention of the deep learning community for use in low-latency, low-power neuromorphic hardware, as well as models for understanding neuroscience. In this paper, we introduce Spiking Phasor…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Connor Bybee , E. Paxon Frady , Friedrich T. Sommer

Neuromorphic computing is a new paradigm for design of both the computing hardware and algorithms inspired by biological neural networks. The event-based nature and the inherent parallelism make neuromorphic computing a promising paradigm…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Sebastian Glatz , Julien N. P. Martel , Raphaela Kreiser , Ning Qiao , Yulia Sandamirskaya

The increasing need for compact and low-power computing solutions for machine learning applications has triggered significant interest in energy-efficient neuromorphic systems. However, most of these architectures rely on spiking neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Manu V Nair , Giacomo Indiveri

In recent years, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have received extensive attention in brain-inspired intelligence due to their rich spatially-temporal dynamics, various encoding methods, and event-driven characteristics that naturally fit…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Duzhen Zhang , Shuncheng Jia , Qingyu Wang

Recent progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has been driven by insights from physics and neuroscience, particularly through the development of artificial neural networks (ANNs) capable of complex cognitive tasks such as vision and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-04 Alejandro Rodriguez-Garcia , Anindya Ghosh , Jie Mei , Srikanth Ramaswamy

This concept paper highlights a recently opened opportunity for large scale analytical algorithms to be trained directly on edge devices. Such approach is a response to the arising need of processing data generated by natural person (a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Anton Akusok , Kaj-Mikael Björk , Leonardo Espinosa Leal , Yoan Miche , Renjie Hu , Amaury Lendasse