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In this work, we propose ReStoCNet, a residual stochastic multilayer convolutional Spiking Neural Network (SNN) composed of binary kernels, to reduce the synaptic memory footprint and enhance the computational efficiency of SNNs for complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan , Kaushik Roy

Spiking neural networks (SNNs), regarded as the third generation of artificial neural networks, are expected to bridge the gap between artificial intelligence and computational neuroscience. However, most mainstream SNN research directly…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Yongsheng Huang , Peibo Duan , Yujie Wu , Kai Sun , Zhipeng Liu , Changsheng Zhang , Bin Zhang , Mingkun Xu

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have received significant attention for their biological plausibility. SNNs theoretically have at least the same computational power as traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs). They possess potential of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Yangfan Hu , Huajin Tang , Gang Pan

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) is currently the method of choice both for generative, as well as for discriminative learning in computer vision and machine learning. The success of DCNNs can be attributed to the careful…

We propose a new learning algorithm to train spiking neural networks (SNN) using conventional artificial neural networks (ANN) as proxy. We couple two SNN and ANN networks, respectively, made of integrate-and-fire (IF) and ReLU neurons with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Saeed Reza Kheradpisheh , Maryam Mirsadeghi , Timothée Masquelier

Currently, most spiking neural networks (SNNs) still mimic the chain-like hierarchical architecture in traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs). This method significantly differs from random connections between neurons found in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yongsheng Huang , Peibo Duan , Zhipeng Liu , Kai Sun , Changsheng Zhang , Bin Zhang , Mingkun Xu

Deep Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) present optimization difficulties for gradient-based approaches due to discrete binary activation and complex spatial-temporal dynamics. Considering the huge success of ResNet in deep learning, it would…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Wei Fang , Zhaofei Yu , Yanqi Chen , Tiejun Huang , Timothée Masquelier , Yonghong Tian

It has been proven that transfer learning provides an easy way to achieve state-of-the-art accuracies on several vision tasks by training a simple classifier on top of features obtained from pre-trained neural networks. The goal of this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Milad Mohammadi , Subhasis Das

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have recently emerged as the low-power alternative to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) because of their sparse, asynchronous, and binary event-driven processing. Due to their energy efficiency, SNNs have a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Youngeun Kim , Joshua Chough , Priyadarshini Panda

Integrated photonic neural networks (PNNs) have demonstrated significant potential to complement the digital electronic counterparts [1-3]. Nevertheless, robust and repeatable performance of scalable integrated PNNs is directly tied to the…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-18 Farshid Ashtiani , Mohamad Hossein Idjadi , Kwangwoong Kim

This paper proposes a new mean-field framework for over-parameterized deep neural networks (DNNs), which can be used to analyze neural network training. In this framework, a DNN is represented by probability measures and functions over its…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-06 Cong Fang , Jason D. Lee , Pengkun Yang , Tong Zhang

A novel deep neural network (DNN) architecture is proposed wherein the filtering and linear transform are realized solely with product quantization (PQ). This results in a natural implementation via content addressable memory (CAM), which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Jie Ran , Rui Lin , Jason Chun Lok Li , Jiajun Zhou , Ngai Wong

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have found applications in diverse signal processing (SP) problems. Most efforts either directly adopt the DNN as a black-box approach to perform certain SP tasks without taking into account of any known…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-27 Zhe Zhang , Xiang Chen , Zhi Tian

With the Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) as a powerful function approximator, Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has been excellently demonstrated on robotic control tasks. Compared to DNNs with vanilla artificial neurons, the biologically…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Duzhen Zhang , Tielin Zhang , Shuncheng Jia , Xiang Cheng , Bo Xu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) provide high image classification accuracy, but experience significant performance degradation when perturbation from various sources are present in the input. The lack of resilience to input perturbations makes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Xueyuan She , Yun Long , Daehyun Kim , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have delivered a remarkable performance in many tasks of computer vision. However, over-parameterized representations of popular architectures dramatically increase their computational complexity and storage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Chang Nie , Huan Wang , Lu Zhao

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

Recent studies reveal that a deep neural network can learn transferable features which generalize well to novel tasks for domain adaptation. However, as deep features eventually transition from general to specific along the network, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Mingsheng Long , Yue Cao , Jianmin Wang , Michael I. Jordan

Spiking Neural Network (SNN) is a promising energy-efficient AI model when implemented on neuromorphic hardware. However, it is a challenge to efficiently train SNNs due to their non-differentiability. Most existing methods either suffer…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Qingyan Meng , Mingqing Xiao , Shen Yan , Yisen Wang , Zhouchen Lin , Zhi-Quan Luo

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