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Spiking neural networks (SNNs) take inspiration from the brain to enable energy-efficient computations. Since the advent of Transformers, SNNs have struggled to compete with artificial networks on modern sequential tasks, as they inherit…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Matei Ioan Stan , Oliver Rhodes

Spikes are the currency in central nervous systems for information transmission and processing. They are also believed to play an essential role in low-power consumption of the biological systems, whose efficiency attracts increasing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Qiang Yu , Shenglan Li , Huajin Tang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang , Kay Chen Tan

Research on neuromorphic computing is driven by the vision that we can emulate brain-like computing capability, learning capability, and energy-efficiency in novel hardware. Unfortunately, this vision has so far been pursued in a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Wolfgang Maass

Synergies between advanced communications, computing and artificial intelligence are unraveling new directions of coordinated operation and resiliency in microgrids. On one hand, coordination among sources is facilitated by distributed,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Xiaoguang Diao , Yubo Song , Subham Sahoo , Yuan Li

Deep learning has driven significant technological advancements, but its high energy consumption limits its use on battery-operated edge devices. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer promising reductions in inference-time energy…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zhanglu Yan , Zhenyu Bai , Tulika Mitra , Weng-Fai Wong

Spiking Neural Network (SNN) is the third generation of Neural Network (NN) mimicking the natural behavior of the brain. By processing based on binary input/output, SNNs offer lower complexity, higher density and lower power consumption.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Khanh N. Dang , Abderazek Ben Abdallah

Spiking Neural Networks are a type of neural networks where neurons communicate using only spikes. They are often presented as a low-power alternative to classical neural networks, but few works have proven these claims to be true. In this…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Edgar Lemaire , Loic Cordone , Andrea Castagnetti , Pierre-Emmanuel Novac , Jonathan Courtois , Benoit Miramond

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are one of the most promising bio-inspired neural networks models and have drawn increasing attention in recent years. The event-driven communication mechanism of SNNs allows for sparse and theoretically…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Andrea Castagnetti , Alain Pegatoquet , Benoît Miramond

Accurately assessing mental workload is crucial in cognitive neuroscience, human-computer interaction, and real-time monitoring, as cognitive load fluctuations affect performance and decision-making. While Electroencephalography (EEG) based…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Jiahui An , Sara Irina Fabrikant , Giacomo Indiveri , Elisa Donati

Spiking neural networks (SNNs), inspired by the spiking behavior of biological neurons, provide a unique pathway for capturing the intricacies of temporal data. However, applying SNNs to time-series forecasting is challenging due to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Changze Lv , Yansen Wang , Dongqi Han , Xiaoqing Zheng , Xuanjing Huang , Dongsheng Li

With the rising societal demand for more information-processing capacity with lower power consumption, alternative architectures inspired by the parallelism and robustness of the human brain have recently emerged as possible solutions. In…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-02 Emily Toomey , Ken Segall , Karl K. Berggren

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

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) recently gained momentum due to their low-power multiplication-free computing and the closer resemblance of biological processes in the nervous system of humans. However, SNNs require very long spike trains…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Daniel Gerlinghoff , Zhehui Wang , Xiaozhe Gu , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Tao Luo

As spiking neural networks receive more attention, we look toward applications of this computing paradigm in fields other than computer vision and signal processing. One major field, underexplored in the neuromorphic setting, is Natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-01 R. Alexander Knipper , Kaniz Mishty , Mehdi Sadi , Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu

Spiking Neural Networks(SNNs) provide a brain-inspired and event-driven mechanism that is believed to be critical to unlock energy-efficient deep learning. The mixture-of-experts approach mirrors the parallel distributed processing of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Boxun Xu , Junyoung Hwang , Pruek Vanna-iampikul , Yuxuan Yin , Sung Kyu Lim , Peng Li

Neuromorphic engineers aim to develop event-based spiking neural networks (SNNs) in hardware. These SNNs closer resemble dynamics of biological neurons than todays' artificial neural networks and achieve higher efficiency thanks to the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-25 Hajar Asgari , BabakMazloom-Nezhad Maybodi , Raphaela Kreiser , Yulia Sandamirskaya

$\textbf{Formal version available at}$ 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

Data-intensive workloads and applications, such as machine learning (ML), are fundamentally limited by traditional computing systems based on the von-Neumann architecture. As data movement operations and energy consumption become key…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Mehdi Hassanpour , Marc Riera , Antonio González

Bio-inspired neuromorphic hardware is a research direction to approach brain's computational power and energy efficiency. Spiking neural networks (SNN) encode information as sparsely distributed spike trains and employ…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Haowem Fang , Amar Shrestha , De Ma , Qinru Qiu

In recent years, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have received extensive attention in brain-inspired intelligence due to their rich spatially-temporal dynamics, various encoding methods, and event-driven characteristics that naturally fit…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Duzhen Zhang , Shuncheng Jia , Qingyu Wang