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Spiking Neural Network (SNN), as a brain-inspired approach, is attracting attention due to its potential to produce ultra-high-energy-efficient hardware. Competitive learning based on Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity (STDP) is a popular…

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Spike-timing dependent plasticity (STDP) which observed in the brain has proven to be important in biological learning. On the other hand, artificial neural networks use a different way to learn, such as Back-Propagation or Contrastive…

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Spiking neural networks (SNNs) with adaptive synapses reflect core properties of biological neural networks. Speech recognition, as an application involving audio coding and dynamic learning, provides a good test problem to study SNN…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Amirhossein Tavanaei , Anthony S Maida

Neuromorphic computing and, in particular, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have become an attractive alternative to deep neural networks for a broad range of signal processing applications, processing static and/or temporal inputs from…

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Humans perform remarkably well in many cognitive tasks including pattern recognition. However, the neuronal mechanisms underlying this process are not well understood. Nevertheless, artificial neural networks, inspired in brain circuits,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-28 Gianluca Susi , Luis Anton Toro , Leonides Canuet , Maria Eugenia Lopez , Fernando Maestu , Claudio R. Mirasso , Ernesto Pereda

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are distinguished from Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) for their complex neuronal dynamics and sparse binary activations (spikes) inspired by the biological neural system. Traditional neuron models use…

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We present a two-layer fully connected neuromorphic system based on a thin-film transistor (TFT)-type NOR flash memory array with multiple postsynaptic (POST) neurons. Unsupervised online learning by spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP)…

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Current advances in technology have highlighted the importance of video analysis in the domain of computer vision. However, video analysis has considerably high computational costs with traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs). Spiking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Mireille El-Assal , Pierre Tirilly , Ioan Marius Bilasco

Memristors, emerging non-volatile memory devices, have shown promising potential in neuromorphic hardware designs, especially in spiking neural network (SNN) hardware implementation. Memristor-based SNNs have been successfully applied in a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Jinqi Huang , Alex Serb , Spyros Stathopoulos , Themis Prodromakis

Artificial neural networks (ANN) have become the mainstream acoustic modeling technique for large vocabulary automatic speech recognition (ASR). A conventional ANN features a multi-layer architecture that requires massive amounts of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Jibin Wu , Emre Yilmaz , Malu Zhang , Haizhou Li , Kay Chen Tan

The adaptive changes in synaptic efficacy that occur between spiking neurons have been demonstrated to play a critical role in learning for biological neural networks. Despite this source of inspiration, many learning focused applications…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Samuel Schmidgall , Julia Ashkanazy , Wallace Lawson , Joe Hays

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) as Machine Learning (ML) models have recently received a lot of attention as a potentially more energy-efficient alternative to conventional Artificial Neural Networks. The non-differentiability and sparsity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Maximilian Gollwitzer , Felix Dietrich

Spiking neural network (SNN) has been attached to great importance due to the properties of high biological plausibility and low energy consumption on neuromorphic hardware. As an efficient method to obtain deep SNN, the conversion method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Yang Li , Xiang He , Yiting Dong , Qingqun Kong , Yi Zeng

Spiking neural networks (SNN) are able to learn spatiotemporal features while using less energy, especially on neuromorphic hardware. The most widely used spiking neuron in deep learning is the Leaky Integrate and Fire (LIF) neuron. LIF…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Sidi Yaya Arnaud Yarga , Sean U. N. Wood

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) hold promise for energy-efficient, biologically inspired computing. We identify substantial informatio loss during spike transmission, linked to temporal dependencies in traditional Leaky Integrate-and-Fire…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Guobin Shen , Jindong Li , Tenglong Li , Dongcheng Zhao , Yi Zeng

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are increasingly favored for deployment on resource-constrained edge devices due to their energy-efficient and event-driven processing capabilities. However, training SNNs remains challenging because of the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Haoxiong Ren , Yangu He , Kwunhang Wong , Rui Bao , Ning Lin , Zhongrui Wang , Dashan Shang

Spiking neural network (SNN), compared with depth neural network (DNN), has faster processing speed, lower energy consumption and more biological interpretability, which is expected to approach Strong AI. Reinforcement learning is similar…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Ling Zhang , Jian Cao , Yuan Zhang , Bohan Zhou , Shuo Feng

In recent years, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have demonstrated great successes in completing various Machine Learning tasks. We introduce a method for learning image features by \textit{locally connected layers} in SNNs using…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Daniel J. Saunders , Devdhar Patel , Hananel Hazan , Hava T. Siegelmann , Robert Kozma

The practical applications based on recurrent spiking neurons are limited due to their non-trivial learning algorithms. The temporal nature of spiking neurons is more favorable for hardware implementation where signals can be represented in…

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At present, the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image classification method based on convolution neural network (CNN) has faced some problems such as poor noise resistance and generalization ability. Spiking neural network (SNN) is one of…

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