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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have recently become more popular as a biologically plausible substitute for traditional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). SNNs are cost-efficient and deployment-friendly because they process input in both…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Yuhang Li , Tamar Geller , Youngeun Kim , Priyadarshini Panda

Hardware-based spiking neural networks (SNNs) are regarded as promising candidates for the cognitive computing system due to low power consumption and highly parallel operation. In this work, we train the SNN in which the firing time…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Seongbin Oh , Dongseok Kwon , Gyuho Yeom , Won-Mook Kang , Soochang Lee , Sung Yun Woo , Jang Saeng Kim , Min Kyu Park , Jong-Ho Lee

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are well suited for resource-constrained applications as they do not need expensive multipliers. In a typical rate-encoded SNN, a series of binary spikes within a globally fixed time window is used to fire the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Zhanglu Yan , Jun Zhou , Weng-Fai Wong

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) can do inference with low power consumption due to their spike sparsity. ANN-SNN conversion is an efficient way to achieve deep SNNs by converting well-trained Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). However, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Xiang He , Yang Li , Dongcheng Zhao , Qingqun Kong , Yi Zeng

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are bio-inspired neural networks with asynchronous discrete and sparse characteristics, which have increasingly manifested their superiority in low energy consumption. Recent research is devoted to utilizing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Lang Feng , Qianhui Liu , Huajin Tang , De Ma , Gang Pan

End user AI is trained on large server farms with data collected from the users. With ever increasing demand for IOT devices, there is a need for deep learning approaches that can be implemented (at the edge) in an energy efficient manner.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Ruthvik Vaila , John Chiasson , Vishal Saxena

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have gained considerable interest due to their energy-efficient characteristics, yet lack of a scalable training algorithm has restricted their applicability in practical machine learning problems. The deep…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Seongsik Park , Seijoon Kim , Byunggook Na , Sungroh Yoon

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

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are capable of encoding and processing temporal information in a biologically plausible way. However, most existing SNN-based methods for image tasks do not fully exploit this feature. Moreover, they often…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Xuerui Qiu , Zheng Luan , Zhaorui Wang , Rui-Jie Zhu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have garnered attention over recent years due to their increased energy efficiency and advantages in terms of operational complexity compared to traditional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Two important…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Daniel Windhager , Lothar Ratschbacher , Bernhard A. Moser , Michael Lunglmayr

A new supervised learning algorithm, SNN/LP, is proposed for Spiking Neural Networks. This novel algorithm uses limited precision for both synaptic weights and synaptic delays; 3 bits in each case. Also a genetic algorithm is used for the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-02 Evangelos Stromatias , John Marsland

Spiking neural networks (SNNs), recognized as an energy-efficient alternative to traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs), have advanced rapidly through the scaling of models and datasets. However, such scaling incurs considerable…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Chenxiang Ma , Xinyi Chen , Yujie Wu , Kay Chen Tan , Jibin Wu

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are becoming a promising alternative to conventional artificial neural networks (ANNs) due to their rich neural dynamics and the implementation of energy-efficient neuromorphic chips. However, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Jiahao Su , Kang You , Zekai Xu , Weizhi Xu , Zhezhi He

Inspired by more detailed modeling of biological neurons, Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have been investigated both as more biologically plausible and potentially more powerful models of neural computation, and also with the aim of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Bojian Yin , Federico Corradi , Sander M. Bohte

Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity (STDP) provides a biologically grounded learning rule for spiking neural networks (SNNs), but its reliance on precise spike timing and pairwise updates limits fast learning of weights. We introduce a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Gouri Lakshmi S , Athira Chandrasekharan , Harshit Kumar , Muhammed Sahad E , Bikas C Das , Saptarshi Bej

The brain is known to be a highly complex, asynchronous dynamical system that is highly tailored to encode temporal information. However, recent deep learning approaches to not take advantage of this temporal coding. Spiking Neural Networks…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Matthew Evanusa , Cornelia Fermuller , Yiannis Aloimonos

Brain-inspired spiking neural networks (SNNs) are recognized as a promising avenue for achieving efficient, low-energy neuromorphic computing. Direct training of SNNs typically relies on surrogate gradient (SG) learning to estimate…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jiaqiang Jiang , Wenfeng Xu , Jing Fan , Rui Yan

A Spiking Neural Network (SNN) is trained with Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity (STDP), which is a neuro-inspired unsupervised learning method for various machine learning applications. This paper studies the generalizability properties of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Biswadeep Chakraborty , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

Third-generation neural networks, or Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), aim at harnessing the energy efficiency of spike-domain processing by building on computing elements that operate on, and exchange, spikes. In this paper, the problem of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-23 Alireza Bagheri , Osvaldo Simeone , Bipin Rajendran

Synaptic delays play a crucial role in biological neuronal networks, where their modulation has been observed in mammalian learning processes. In the realm of neuromorphic computing, although spiking neural networks (SNNs) aim to emulate…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Marissa Dominijanni , Alexander Ororbia , Kenneth W. Regan