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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are biologically plausible models that have been identified as potentially apt for deploying energy-efficient intelligence at the edge, particularly for sequential learning tasks. However, training of SNNs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Marco Paul E. Apolinario , Kaushik Roy

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a promising alternative to traditional Deep Neural Networks for low-power computing. However, the effectiveness of SNNs is not solely determined by their performance but also by their energy…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Florian Bacho , Dominique Chu

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

Several learning rules for synaptic plasticity, that depend on either spike timing or internal state variables, have been proposed in the past imparting varying computational capabilities to Spiking Neural Networks. Due to design…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Sadique Sheik , Somnath Paul , Charles Augustine , Gert Cauwenberghs

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) operate with asynchronous discrete events (or spikes) which can potentially lead to higher energy-efficiency in neuromorphic hardware implementations. Many works have shown that an SNN for inference can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Nitin Rathi , Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan , Priyadarshini Panda , Kaushik Roy

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are a class of network models capable of processing spatiotemporal information, with event-driven characteristics and energy efficiency advantages. Recently, directly trained SNNs have shown potential to match…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Huaxu He

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…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Shiyuan Li

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), recognized for their biological plausibility and energy efficiency, employ sparse and asynchronous spikes for communication. However, the training of SNNs encounters difficulties coming from…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-09 Sushant Yadav , Santosh Chaudhary , Rajesh Kumar

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) demonstrates excellent performance on tasks that can be solved by trained policy. It plays a dominant role among cutting-edge machine learning approaches using multi-layer Neural networks (NNs). At the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Devdhar Patel , Hananel Hazan , Daniel J. Saunders , Hava Siegelmann , Robert Kozma

Agent-based Transformers have been widely adopted in recent reinforcement learning advances due to their demonstrated ability to solve complex tasks. However, the high computational complexity of Transformers often results in significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Mohammad Irfan Uddin , Nishad Tasnim , Md Omor Faruk , Zejian Zhou

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Jiankun Chen , Xiaolan Qiu , Chibiao Ding , Yirong Wu

This study proposes a hybrid curriculum reinforcement learning (CRL) framework based on a fully spiking neural network (SNN) for 9-degree-of-freedom robotic arms performing target reaching and grasping tasks. To reduce network complexity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Liwen Zhang , Heng Deng , Guanghui Sun

We describe a novel spiking neural network (SNN) for automated, real-time handwritten digit classification and its implementation on a GP-GPU platform. Information processing within the network, from feature extraction to classification is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-13 Shruti R. Kulkarni , John M. Alexiades , Bipin Rajendran

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a hardware efficient architecture for classification tasks. The challenge of spike-based encoding has been the lack of a universal training mechanism performed entirely using spikes. There have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Anmol Biswas , Vivek Saraswat , Udayan Ganguly

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are bio-inspired networks that process information conveyed as temporal spikes rather than numeric values. A spiking neuron of an SNN only produces a spike whenever a significant number of spikes occur within…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Mathias Gehrig , Sumit Bam Shrestha , Daniel Mouritzen , Davide Scaramuzza

Deep spiking neural networks (SNNs) are promising neural networks for their model capacity from deep neural network architecture and energy efficiency from SNNs' operations. To train deep SNNs, recently, spatio-temporal backpropagation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Seongsik Park , Jeonghee Jo , Jongkil Park , Yeonjoo Jeong , Jaewook Kim , Suyoun Lee , Joon Young Kwak , Inho Kim , Jong-Keuk Park , Kyeong Seok Lee , Gye Weon Hwang , Hyun Jae Jang

Recently, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have demonstrated substantial potential in computer vision tasks. In this paper, we present an Efficient Spiking Deraining Network, called ESDNet. Our work is motivated by the observation that rain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Tianyu Song , Guiyue Jin , Pengpeng Li , Kui Jiang , Xiang Chen , Jiyu Jin

Predictive coding can be regarded as a function which reduces the error between an input signal and a top-down prediction. If reducing the error is equivalent to reducing the influence of stimuli from the environment, predictive coding can…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Atsushi Masumori , Lana Sinapayen , Takashi Ikegami

This paper proposes a Fully Spiking Hybrid Neural Network (FSHNN) for energy-efficient and robust object detection in resource-constrained platforms. The network architecture is based on Convolutional SNN using leaky-integrate-fire neuron…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Biswadeep Chakraborty , Xueyuan She , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

Recent advances in Voice Activity Detection (VAD) are driven by artificial and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), however, using a VAD system in battery-operated devices requires further power efficiency. This can be achieved by neuromorphic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-01 Flavio Martinelli , Giorgia Dellaferrera , Pablo Mainar , Milos Cernak