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We study a network model of two conductance-based pacemaker neurons of differing natural frequency, coupled with either mutual excitation or inhibition, and receiving shared random inhibitory synaptic input. The networks may phase-lock…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Ramana Dodla , Charles J. Wilson

Molecule-based devices are envisioned to complement silicon devices by providing new functions or already existing functions at a simpler process level and at a lower cost by virtue of their self-organization capabilities, moreover, they…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-04-07 F. Alibart , S. Pleutin , D. Guerin , C. Gamrat , D. Vuillaume

Neuromorphic architectures achieve low-power operation by using many simple spiking neurons in lieu of traditional hardware. Here, we develop methods for precise linear computations in spiking neural networks and use these methods to map…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-07 David G. Clark , Jesse A. Livezey , Edward F. Chang , Kristofer E. Bouchard

Photonic realizations of neural network computing hardware are a promising approach to enable future scalability of neuromorphic computing. In this review we provide an overview on vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) and how…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Anas Skalli , Joshua Robertson , Dafydd Owen-Newns , Matej Hejda , Xavier Porte , Stephan Reitzenstein , Antonio Hurtado , D. Brunner

Photonic technologies offer great prospects for novel ultrafast, energy-efficient and hardware-friendly neuromorphic (brain-like) computing platforms. Moreover, neuromorphic photonic approaches based upon ubiquitous, technology-mature and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Dafydd Owen-Newns , Joshua Robertson , Matej Hejda , Antonio Hurtado

The spiking activity of neocortical neurons exhibits a striking level of variability, even when these networks are driven by identical stimuli. The approximately Poisson firing of neurons has led to the hypothesis that these neural networks…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-29 Logan A. Becker , Baowang Li , Nicholas J. Priebe , Eyal Seidemann , Thibaud Taillefumier

Sparse neural networks can greatly facilitate the deployment of neural networks on resource-constrained platforms as they offer compact model sizes while retaining inference accuracy. Because of the sparsity in parameter matrices, sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Febin Sunny , Mahdi Nikdast , Sudeep Pasricha

Conventional Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are running into limitations in terms of training time and energy. Following the principles of the human brain, spiking neural networks trained with unsupervised learning offer a faster,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-04 Ken Segall , Leon Nichols , Will Friend , Steven B. Kaplan

Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are third-generation Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) which are close to the biological neural system. In recent years SNN has become popular in the area of robotics and embedded applications, therefore, it has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Shikhar Gupta , Arpan Vyas , Gaurav Trivedi

Photonic neuromorphic computing has emerged as a promising avenue toward building a low-latency and energy-efficient non-von-Neuman computing system. Photonic spiking neural network (PSNN) exploits brain-like spatiotemporal processing to…

Neuromorphic computing is an emerging technology enabling low-latency and energy-efficient signal processing. A key algorithmic tool in neuromorphic computing is spiking neural networks (SNNs). SNNs are biologically inspired neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Sanja Karilanova , Subhrakanti Dey , Ayça Özçelikkale

Here we describe a multi-compartment neuron circuit based on the Adaptive-Exponential I&F (AdEx) model, developed for the second-generation BrainScaleS hardware. Based on an existing modular Leaky Integrate-and-Fire (LIF) architecture…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-28 Syed Ahmed Aamir , Paul Müller , Gerd Kiene , Laura Kriener , Yannik Stradmann , Andreas Grübl , Johannes Schemmel , Karlheinz Meier

Despite numerous proposed designs for superconducting neural networks (SNNs), most have overlooked practical fabrication constraints, leading to implementations limited to only a few neurons or synapses. Current superconducting…

Circuits using superconducting single-photon detectors and Josephson junctions to perform signal reception, synaptic weighting, and integration are investigated. The circuits convert photon-detection events into flux quanta, the number of…

Neuromorphic photonics promises sub-nanosecond latency, ultrawide bandwidth, and high parallelism, but practical scalability is constrained by fabrication tolerances, spectral alignment, and tuning energy. Here, we present a large-scale,…

We introduce a wireless RF network concept for capturing sparse event-driven data from large populations of spatially distributed autonomous microsensors, possibly numbered in the thousands. Each sensor is assumed to be a microchip capable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Jihun Lee , Ah-Hyoung Lee , Vincent Leung , Farah Laiwalla , Miguel Angel Lopez-Gordo , Lawrence Larson , Arto Nurmikko

Neuromorphic photonic computing has emerged as a competitive computing paradigm to overcome the bottlenecks of the von-Neumann architecture. Linear weighting and nonlinear spiking activation are two fundamental functions of a photonic…

$\textbf{Formal version available at}$ https://cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(23)00200-3 Networks of spiking neurons underpin the extraordinary information-processing capabilities of the brain and have become pillar models in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Gehua Ma , Rui Yan , Huajin Tang

The basic units in our brain are neurons and each neuron has more than 1000 synapse connections. Synapse is the basic structure for information transfer in an ever-changing manner, and short-term plasticity allows synapses to perform…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-05 Li Qiang Zhu , Chang Jin Wan , Li Qiang Guo , Yi Shi , Qing Wan

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) promise low-power event-driven computation for temporally rich tasks, but commonly used neuron models often trade off gradient-based trainability, dynamical richness, and high activity sparsity. These…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Alex Fulleda-Garcia , Saray Soldado-Magraner , Josep Maria Margarit-Taulé