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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,…

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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a promising energy-efficient alternative to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) by utilizing sparse and asynchronous processing through discrete spike-based computation. However, the performance of deep…

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In traditional machine learning, models are defined by a set of parameters, which are optimized to perform specific tasks. In neural networks, these parameters correspond to the synaptic weights. However, in reality, it is often infeasible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Ofir Schlisselberg , Ran Darshan

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…

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One of the most important challenges in mathematical neuroscience is to properly illustrate the stochastic nature of neurons. Among different approaches, the noisy leaky integrate-and-fire and the escape rate models are probably the most…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-07 Grégory Dumont , Jacques Henry , Carmen Oana Tarniceriu

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are brain-inspired machine learning algorithms with merits such as biological plausibility and unsupervised learning capability. Previous works have shown that converting Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) into…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Sijia Lu , Feng Xu

This paper investigates the classification capability of small-scale spiking neural networks based on the Leaky Integrate-and-Fire (LIF) neuron model. We analyze the relationship between classification accuracy and three factors: the number…

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There is a wide range of mathematical models that describe populations of large numbers of neurons. In this article, we focus on nonlinear noisy leaky integrate-and-fire (NNLIF) models that describe neuronal activity at the level of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-12 María J. Cáceres , José A. Cañizo , Alejandro Ramos-Lora

Neural network dynamics emerge from the interaction of spiking cells. One way to formulate the problem is through a theoretical framework inspired by ideas coming from statistical physics, the so-called mean-field theory. In this document,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-11 Grégory Dumont , Pierre Gabriel

The efficiency of the human brain in performing classification tasks has attracted considerable research interest in brain-inspired neuromorphic computing. Hardware implementations of a neuromorphic system aims to mimic the computations in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Akhilesh Jaiswal , Sourjya Roy , Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan , Kaushik Roy

In this work, we examine fundamental elements of spiking neural networks (SNNs) as well as how to tune them. Concretely, we focus on two different foundational neuronal units utilized in SNNs -- the leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) and the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-11 William Gebhardt , Alexander G. Ororbia , Nathan McDonald , Clare Thiem , Jack Lombardi

This work reports a transfer function-based approach to characterizing the operation of single neuronal cells in terms of the instantaneous frequency of the input and output signals. We adopt the leaky integrate-and-fire model. The transfer…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-10-23 Felipe L. Gewers , Luciano da F. Costa

In spiking neural networks (SNN), at each node, an incoming sequence of weighted Dirac pulses is converted into an output sequence of weighted Dirac pulses by a leaky-integrate-and-fire (LIF) neuron model based on spike aggregation and…

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In this paper, we propose a shot noise-based leaky integrated and firing neuron model and provide a detailed analysis of the performance of this model compared to the traditional diffusion approximated model. In theoretical neuroscience,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-07-05 Zihao Xu

Theoretical understanding of deep learning remains elusive despite its empirical success. In this study, we propose a novel "synaptic field theory" that describes the training dynamics of synaptic weights and biases in the continuum limit.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-01 Donghee Lee , Hye-Sung Lee , Jaeok Yi

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are largely inspired by biology and neuroscience and leverage ideas and theories to create fast and efficient learning systems. Spiking neuron models are adopted as core processing units in neuromorphic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Davide Liberato Manna , Alex Vicente Sola , Paul Kirkland , Trevor Bihl , Gaetano Di Caterina

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer biologically inspired computation but remain underexplored for continuous regression tasks in scientific machine learning. In this work, we introduce and systematically evaluate Quadratic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ruyin Wan , George Em Karniadakis , Panos Stinis

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Thomas Pellegrini , Romain Zimmer , Timothée Masquelier

When a neuron fires and the resulting action potential travels down its axon toward other neurons' dendrites, the effect on each of those neurons is mediated by the weight of the synapse that separates it from the firing neuron. This…

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