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Nanoscale resistive memories are expected to fuel dense integration of electronic synapses for large-scale neuromorphic system. To realize such a brain-inspired computing chip, a compact CMOS spiking neuron that performs in-situ learning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Xinyu Wu , Vishal Saxena , Kehan Zhu , Sakkarapani Balagopal

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) can utilize spatio-temporal information and have a nature of energy efficiency which is a good alternative to deep neural networks(DNNs). The event-driven information processing makes SNNs can reduce the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Changqing Xu , Yi Liu , Yintang Yang

A novel high-fan-in differential superconductor neuron structure designed for ultra-high-performance Spiking Neural Network (SNN) accelerators is presented. Utilizing a high-fan-in neuron structure allows us to design SNN accelerators with…

Biologically-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), processing information using discrete-time events known as spikes rather than continuous values, have garnered significant attention due to their hardware-friendly and energy-efficient…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Bin Lei , Sheng Lin , Pei-Hung Lin , Chunhua Liao , Caiwen Ding

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are being explored in an attempt to mimic brain's capability to learn and recognize at low power. Crossbar architecture with highly scalable Resistive RAM or RRAM array serving as synaptic weights and neuronal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Aditya Shukla , Udayan Ganguly

Deep spiking neural networks (SNNs) have emerged as a potential alternative to traditional deep learning frameworks, due to their promise to provide increased compute efficiency on event-driven neuromorphic hardware. However, to perform…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Souvik Kundu , Gourav Datta , Massoud Pedram , Peter A. Beerel

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

Due to the massive parallel computing capability and outstanding image and signal processing performance, cellular neural network (CNN) is one promising type of non-Boolean computing system that can outperform the traditional digital logic…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Chenyun Pan , Azad Naeemi

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer promising energy efficiency advantages, particularly when processing sparse spike trains. However, their incompatibility with traditional datasets, which consist of batches of input vectors rather than…

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) promise low-power event-driven computation for temporally rich tasks, but commonly used neuron models often trade off gradient-based trainability, dynamical richness, and high activity sparsity. These…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Alex Fulleda-Garcia , Saray Soldado-Magraner , Josep Maria Margarit-Taulé

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained increasing attention as energy-efficient neural networks owing to their binary and asynchronous computation. However, their non-linear activation, that is Leaky-Integrate-and-Fire (LIF) neuron,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Youngeun Kim , Yuhang Li , Abhishek Moitra , Ruokai Yin , Priyadarshini Panda

Learning of deep neural networks (DNN) using Resistive Processing Unit (RPU) architecture is energy-efficient as it utilizes dedicated neuromorphic hardware and stochastic computation of weight updates for in-memory computing. Charge Trap…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-16 S. Shrivastava , A. Biswas , S. Chakrabarty , G. Dash , V. Saraswat , U. Ganguly

Spiking neural networks (SNNs), that operate via binary spikes distributed over time, have emerged as a promising energy efficient ML paradigm for resource-constrained devices. However, the current state-of-the-art (SOTA) SNNs require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Gourav Datta , Peter A. Beerel

Temporal neural networks (TNNs) are neuromorphic neural networks that utilize bit-serial temporal coding. TNNs are composed of columns, which in turn employ neurons as their building blocks. Each neuron processes volleys of input spikes,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Devon Lister , Prabhu Vellaisamy , John Paul Shen , Di Wu

Understanding cognitive flexibility and task-switching mechanisms in neural systems requires biologically plausible computational models. This tutorial presents a step-by-step approach to constructing a spiking neural network (SNN) that…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-07 Ashwin Viswanathan Kannan , Madhumitha Ganesan

Communication by rare, binary spikes is a key factor for the energy efficiency of biological brains. However, it is harder to train biologically-inspired spiking neural networks (SNNs) than artificial neural networks (ANNs). This is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Ana Stanojevic , Stanisław Woźniak , Guillaume Bellec , Giovanni Cherubini , Angeliki Pantazi , Wulfram Gerstner

Spiking neural networks (SNNs), which are inspired by the human brain, have recently gained popularity due to their relatively simple and low-power hardware for transmitting binary spikes and highly sparse activation maps. However, because…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Hong-Han Lien , Tian-Sheuan Chang

Neuromorphic systems that densely integrate CMOS spiking neurons and nano-scale memristor synapses open a new avenue of brain-inspired computing. Existing silicon neurons have molded neural biophysical dynamics but are incompatible with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-10 Xinyu Wu , Vishal Saxena , Kehan Zhu

The computational complexity of deep learning algorithms has given rise to significant speed and memory challenges for the execution hardware. In energy-limited portable devices, highly efficient processing platforms are indispensable for…

Neural processing systems typically represent data using leaky integrate and fire (LIF) neuron models that generate spikes or pulse trains at a rate proportional to their input amplitudes. This mechanism requires high firing rates when…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Manu V Nair , Giacomo Indiveri