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Spiking neural networks are neuromorphic systems that emulate certain aspects of biological neurons, offering potential advantages in energy efficiency and speed by for example leveraging sparsity. While CMOS-based electronic SNN hardware…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Ria Talukder , Anas Skalli , Xavier Porte , Simon Thorpe , Daniel Brunner

Long training time hinders the potential of the deep, large-scale Spiking Neural Network (SNN) with the on-chip learning capability to be realized on the embedded systems hardware. Our work proposes a novel connection pruning approach that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Thao N. N. Nguyen , Bharadwaj Veeravalli , Xuanyao Fong

Spiking neural networks (SNNs), as one of the brain-inspired models, has spatio-temporal information processing capability, low power feature, and high biological plausibility. The effective spatio-temporal feature makes it suitable for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Changqing Xu , Yi Liu , Yintang Yang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) with a large number of weights and varied weight distribution can be difficult to implement in emerging in-memory computing hardware due to the limitations on crossbar size (implementing dot product), the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Nitin Rathi , Priyadarshini Panda , Kaushik Roy

The memory demands of large-scale deep neural networks (DNNs) require synaptic weight values to be stored and updated in off-chip memory like dynamic random-access memory, which reduces energy efficiency and increases training time.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Abhishek Kumar , Peter D. Hodgson , Manus Hayne , Avirup Dasgupta

Spiking neural networks (SNN) provide a new computational paradigm capable of highly parallelized, real-time processing. Photonic devices are ideal for the design of high-bandwidth, parallel architectures matching the SNN computational…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Luis El Srouji , Yun-Jhu Lee , Mehmet Berkay On , Li Zhang , S. J. Ben Yoo

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

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have recently gained significant interest in on-chip learning in embedded devices and emerged as an energy-efficient alternative to conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). However, to extend SNNs to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Manh V. Nguyen , Liang Zhao , Bobin Deng , William Severa , Honghui Xu , Shaoen Wu

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are energy-efficient neural networks because of their spiking nature. However, as the spike firing rate of SNNs increases, the energy consumption does as well, and thus, the advantage of SNNs diminishes. Here,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Kazuma Suetake , Takuya Ushimaru , Ryuji Saiin , Yoshihide Sawada

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a popular spatio-temporal computing paradigm for complex vision tasks. Recently proposed SNN training algorithms have significantly reduced the number of time steps (down to 1) for improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Gourav Datta , Zeyu Liu , Anni Li , Peter A. Beerel

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have shown a potential for having low energy with unsupervised learning capabilities due to their biologically-inspired computation. However, they may suffer from accuracy degradation if their processing is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Muhammad Shafique

Inspired by the brain's spike-based computation, spiking neural networks (SNNs) inherently possess temporal activation sparsity. However, when it comes to the sparse training of SNNs in the structural connection domain, existing methods…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yuan Hua , Jilin Zhang , Yingtao Zhang , Wenqi Gu , Leyi You , Baobo Xiong , Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci , Hong Chen

Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) has become a growing field in on-device processing for Internet of Things (IoT) applications, capitalizing on AI algorithms that are optimized for their low complexity and energy efficiency. These algorithms…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Asmer Hamid Ali , Mozhgan Navardi , Tinoosh Mohsenin

Photonic Spiking Neural Networks (PSNN) composed of the co-integrated CMOS and photonic elements can offer low loss, low power, highly-parallel, and high-throughput computing for brain-inspired neuromorphic systems. In addition,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Yun-Jhu Lee , Mehmet Berkay On , Luis El Srouji , Li Zhang , Mahmoud Abdelghany , S. J. Ben Yoo

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are shown to be more biologically plausible and energy efficient over their predecessors. However, there is a lack of an efficient and generalized training method for deep SNNs, especially for deployment on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Qu Yang , Jibin Wu , Malu Zhang , Yansong Chua , Xinchao Wang , Haizhou Li

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have emerged as a promising candidate for energy-efficient LLM inference. However, current energy evaluations for SNNs primarily focus on counting accumulate operations, and fail to account for real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Zhanglu Yan , Kaiwen Tang , Zixuan Zhu , Zhenyu Bai , Qianhui Liu , Weng-Fai Wong

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have been recently integrated into Transformer architectures due to their potential to reduce computational demands and to improve power efficiency. Yet, the implementation of the attention mechanism using…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Zihang Song , Prabodh Katti , Osvaldo Simeone , Bipin Rajendran

The tremendous energy consumption of deep neural networks (DNNs) has become a serious problem in deep learning. Spiking neural networks (SNNs), which mimic the operations in the human brain, have been studied as prominent energy-efficient…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Seongsik Park , Sungroh Yoon

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained significant research attention in the last decade due to their potential to drive resource-constrained edge devices. Though existing SNN accelerators offer high efficiency in processing sparse…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Ruokai Yin , Youngeun Kim , Di Wu , Priyadarshini Panda

Networks of superconducting optoelectronic neurons are investigated for their near-term technological potential and long-term physical limitations. Networks with short average path length, high clustering coefficient, and power-law degree…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Jeffrey M. Shainline , Jeff Chiles , Sonia M. Buckley , Adam N. McCaughan , Richard P. Mirin , Sae Woo Nam