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The plasticity of the conduction delay between neurons plays a fundamental role in learning. However, the exact underlying mechanisms in the brain for this modulation is still an open problem. Understanding the precise adjustment of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Alireza Nadafian , Mohammad Ganjtabesh

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), with their event-driven and biologically inspired operation, are well-suited for energy-efficient neuromorphic hardware. Neural coding, critical to SNNs, determines how information is represented via spikes.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Kaiwei Che , Wei Fang , Zhengyu Ma , Yifan Huang , Peng Xue , Li Yuan , Timothée Masquelier , Yonghong Tian

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

Repeating spatiotemporal spike patterns exist and carry information. Here we investigated how a single spiking neuron can optimally respond to one given pattern (localist coding), or to either one of several patterns (distributed coding,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Timothée Masquelier , Saeed Reza Kheradpisheh

The vast majority of natural sensory data is temporally redundant. Video frames or audio samples which are sampled at nearby points in time tend to have similar values. Typically, deep learning algorithms take no advantage of this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Peter O'Connor , Efstratios Gavves , Max Welling

Neuromorphic hardware implementations of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) promise energy-efficient, low-latency AI through sparse, event-driven computation. Yet, training SNNs under fine temporal discretization remains a major challenge,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Roel Koopman , Sebastian Otte , Sander Bohté

Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are models for "realistic" neuronal computation, which makes them somehow different in scope from "ordinary" deep-learning models widely used in AI platforms nowadays. SNNs focus on timed latency (and possibly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Zhen Yao , Elisabetta De Maria , Robert De Simone

The highly irregular spiking activity of cortical neurons and behavioral variability suggest that the brain could operate in a fundamentally probabilistic way. Mimicking how the brain implements and learns probabilistic computation could be…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yang Qi , Zhichao Zhu , Yiming Wei , Lu Cao , Zhigang Wang , Jie Zhang , Wenlian Lu , Jianfeng Feng

Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) have gained significant popularity thanks to their ability to learn using the well-known backpropagation algorithm. Conversely, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), despite having broader capabilities than ANNs,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Sergio Davies , Andrew Gait , Andrew Rowley , Alessandro Di Nuovo

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are a viable alternative to conventional artificial neural networks when resource efficiency and computational complexity are of importance. A major advantage of SNNs is their binary information transfer…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Daniel Gerlinghoff , Tao Luo , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Weng-Fai Wong

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer a biologically grounded and energy-efficient alternative to conventional neural architectures; however, they struggle with long-range temporal dependencies due to fixed synaptic and membrane time…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Sarim Chaudhry

One of the key challenges in training Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) is that target outputs typically come in the form of natural signals, such as labels for classification or images for generative models, and need to be encoded into…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Nicolas Skatchkovsky , Osvaldo Simeone , Hyeryung Jang

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have gained attention in recent years due to their ability to handle sparse and event-based data better than regular artificial neural networks (ANNs). Since the structure of SNNs is less suited for typically…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-27 Daniel Windhager , Bernhard A. Moser , Michael Lunglmayr

A common view in the neuroscience community is that memory is encoded in the connection strength between neurons. This perception led artificial neural network models to focus on connection weights as the key variables to modulate learning.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Hananel Hazan , Simon Caby , Christopher Earl , Hava Siegelmann , Michael Levin

A Spiking Neural Network (SNN) can be trained indirectly by first training an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) with the conventional backpropagation algorithm, then converting it into an SNN. The conventional rate-coding method for SNNs uses…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Ming Zhang , Nenggan Zheng , De Ma , Gang Pan , Zonghua Gu

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) are promising brain-inspired models known for low power consumption and superior potential for temporal processing, but identifying suitable learning mechanisms remains a challenge. Despite the presence of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yuzhe Liu , Xin Deng , Qiang Yu

Recurrent spiking neural networks (RSNN) in the human brain learn to perform a wide range of perceptual, cognitive and motor tasks very efficiently in terms of energy consumption and requires very few examples. This motivates the search for…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-03-22 Paolo Muratore , Cristiano Capone , Pier Stanislao Paolucci

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are bio-inspired models of neural computation that have proven highly effective. Still, ANNs lack a natural notion of time, and neural units in ANNs exchange analog values in a frame-based manner, a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Davide Zambrano , Roeland Nusselder , H. Steven Scholte , Sander Bohte

In this work, a spiking neural network (SNN) is proposed for approximating differential sensorimotor maps of robotic systems. The computed model is used as a local Jacobian-like projection that relates changes in sensor space to changes in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Omar Zahra , Silvia Tolu , David Navarro-Alarcon