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The proliferation of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) has led to increased energy consumption, raising concerns about their sustainability. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), which are inspired by biological neural systems and operate using…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Lucas Deckers , Benjamin Vandersmissen , Ing Jyh Tsang , Werner Van Leekwijck , Steven Latré

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

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are seen as an energy-efficient alternative to traditional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), but the performance gap remains a challenge. While this gap is narrowing through ANN-to-SNN conversion, substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Ziqing Wang , Yuetong Fang , Jiahang Cao , Hongwei Ren , Renjing Xu

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

The field of neuromorphic computing promises extremely low-power and low-latency sensing and processing. Challenges in transferring learning algorithms from traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs) to spiking neural networks (SNNs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Jesse Hagenaars , Federico Paredes-Vallés , Guido de Croon

Spiking Neural Network (SNN) is known as the most famous brain-inspired model, but the non-differentiable spiking mechanism makes it hard to train large-scale SNNs. To facilitate the training of large-scale SNNs, many training methods are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Yudong Li , Yunlin Lei , Xu Yang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have garnered considerable attention as a potential alternative to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Recent studies have highlighted SNNs' potential on large-scale datasets. For SNN training, two main…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Shu Yang , Chengting Yu , Lei Liu , Hanzhi Ma , Aili Wang , Erping Li

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a promising alternative to traditional Deep Neural Networks for low-power computing. However, the effectiveness of SNNs is not solely determined by their performance but also by their energy…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Florian Bacho , Dominique Chu

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) present a promising energy efficient alternative to traditional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) due to their multiplication-free operations enabled by binarized intermediate activations. However, this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xiaoting Wang , Yanxiang Zhang

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) represent the most prominent biologically inspired computing model for neuromorphic computing (NC) architectures. However, due to the non-differentiable nature of spiking neuronal functions, the standard error…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Jibin Wu , Yansong Chua , Malu Zhang , Guoqi Li , Haizhou Li , Kay Chen Tan

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), as bio-inspired energy-efficient neural networks, have attracted great attentions from researchers and industry. The most efficient way to train deep SNNs is through ANN-SNN conversion. However, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Jianhao Ding , Zhaofei Yu , Yonghong Tian , Tiejun Huang

Spiking neural networks (SNNs), particularly the single-spike variant in which neurons spike at most once, are considerably more energy efficient than standard artificial neural networks (ANNs). However, single-spike SSNs are difficult to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Luke Taylor , Andrew King , Nicol Harper

In the field of robotics, event-based cameras are emerging as a promising low-power alternative to traditional frame-based cameras for capturing high-speed motion and high dynamic range scenes. This is due to their sparse and asynchronous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Shubham Negi , Deepika Sharma , Adarsh Kumar Kosta , Kaushik Roy

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have garnered widespread interest for their energy efficiency and brain-inspired event-driven properties. While recent methods like Spiking-YOLO have expanded the SNNs to more challenging object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Jinye Qu , Zeyu Gao , Tielin Zhang , Yanfeng Lu , Huajin Tang , Hong Qiao

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained significant attention as a potentially energy-efficient alternative for standard neural networks with their sparse binary activation. However, SNNs suffer from memory and computation overhead due…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Donghyun Lee , Ruokai Yin , Youngeun Kim , Abhishek Moitra , Yuhang Li , Priyadarshini Panda

In order to port the performance of trained artificial neural networks (ANNs) to spiking neural networks (SNNs), which can be implemented in neuromorphic hardware with a drastically reduced energy consumption, an efficient ANN to SNN…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Christoph Stöckl , Wolfgang Maass

Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based techniques have dominated state-of-the-art results in most problems related to computer vision, audio recognition, and natural language processing in the past few years, resulting in strong industrial…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Khaled F. Hussain , Mohamed Yousef Bassyouni , Erol Gelenbe

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a promising alternative to conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), demonstrating comparable performance in both visual and linguistic tasks while offering the advantage of improved…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Changze Lv , Tianlong Li , Wenhao Liu , Yufei Gu , Jianhan Xu , Cenyuan Zhang , Muling Wu , Xiaoqing Zheng , Xuanjing Huang

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) emerged as a promising solution in the field of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), attracting the attention of researchers due to their ability to mimic the human brain and process complex information with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Pavithra Koralalage , Ireoluwa Fakeye , Pedro Machado , Jason Smith , Isibor Kennedy Ihianle , Salisu Wada Yahaya , Andreas Oikonomou , Ahmad Lotfi