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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a biologically inspired approach to computer vision that can lead to more efficient processing of visual data with reduced energy consumption. However, maintaining homeostasis within these networks is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Sanket Kachole , Hussain Sajwani , Fariborz Baghaei Naeini , Dimitrios Makris , Yahya Zweiri

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a hardware efficient architecture for classification tasks. The challenge of spike-based encoding has been the lack of a universal training mechanism performed entirely using spikes. There have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Anmol Biswas , Vivek Saraswat , Udayan Ganguly

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) as Machine Learning (ML) models have recently received a lot of attention as a potentially more energy-efficient alternative to conventional Artificial Neural Networks. The non-differentiability and sparsity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Maximilian Gollwitzer , Felix Dietrich

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are posited as a computationally efficient and biologically plausible alternative to conventional neural architectures, with their core computational framework primarily using the leaky integrate-and-fire…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Malyaban Bal , Abhronil Sengupta

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer a promising pathway to implement deep neural networks (DNNs) in a more energy-efficient manner since their neurons are sparsely activated and inferences are event-driven. However, there have been very…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Changze Lv , Jianhan Xu , Xiaoqing Zheng

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have emerged as energy-efficient neural networks with temporal information. SNNs have shown a superior efficiency on neuromorphic devices, but the devices are susceptible to noise, which hinders them from…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Seongsik Park , Dongjin Lee , Sungroh Yoon

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

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have attracted the attention of the deep learning community for use in low-latency, low-power neuromorphic hardware, as well as models for understanding neuroscience. In this paper, we introduce Spiking Phasor…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Connor Bybee , E. Paxon Frady , Friedrich T. Sommer

Spiking Neural Networks are a type of neural networks where neurons communicate using only spikes. They are often presented as a low-power alternative to classical neural networks, but few works have proven these claims to be true. In this…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Edgar Lemaire , Loic Cordone , Andrea Castagnetti , Pierre-Emmanuel Novac , Jonathan Courtois , Benoit Miramond

Graph representation learning has become a crucial task in machine learning and data mining due to its potential for modeling complex structures such as social networks, chemical compounds, and biological systems. Spiking neural networks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Huifeng Yin , Mingkun Xu , Jing Pei , Lei Deng

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have incorporated more biologically-plausible structures and learning principles, hence are playing critical roles in bridging the gap between artificial and natural neural networks. The spikes are the sparse…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Xiang Cheng , Tielin Zhang , Shuncheng Jia , Bo Xu

Recent years have seen significant progress in developing spiking neural networks (SNNs) as a potential solution to the energy challenges posed by conventional artificial neural networks (ANNs). However, our theoretical understanding of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Duc Anh Nguyen , Ernesto Araya , Adalbert Fono , Gitta Kutyniok

This paper explores the promising interplay between spiking neural networks (SNNs) and event-based cameras for privacy-preserving human action recognition (HAR). The unique feature of event cameras in capturing only the outlines of motion,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Siyuan Yang , Shilin Lu , Shizheng Wang , Meng Hwa Er , Zengwei Zheng , Alex C. Kot

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have tremendous potential for energy-efficient neuromorphic chips due to their binary and event-driven architecture. SNNs have been primarily used in classification tasks, but limited exploration on image…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Mingxuan Liu , Jie Gan , Rui Wen , Tao Li , Yongli Chen , Hong Chen

Deep neural networks have surpassed human performance in key visual challenges such as object recognition, but require a large amount of energy, computation, and memory. In contrast, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have the potential to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Melani Sanchez-Garcia , Tushar Chauhan , Benoit R. Cottereau , Michael Beyeler

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) become popular due to excellent energy efficiency, yet facing challenges for effective model training. Recent works improve this by introducing knowledge distillation (KD) techniques, with the pre-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Xu Liu , Na Xia , Jinxing Zhou , Jingyuan Xu , Dan Guo

Biological spiking neural networks (SNNs) can temporally encode information in their outputs, e.g. in the rank order in which neurons fire, whereas artificial neural networks (ANNs) conventionally do not. As a result, models of SNNs for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Alan Jeffares , Qinghai Guo , Pontus Stenetorp , Timoleon Moraitis

A vast majority of spiking neural networks (SNNs) are trained based on inductive biases that are not necessarily a good fit for several critical tasks that require low-latency and power efficiency. Inferring brain behavior based on the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Xi Chen , Siwei Mai , Konstantinos Michmizos

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

Spiking Neural Network (SNN), as a brain-inspired and energy-efficient network, is currently facing the pivotal challenge of exploring a suitable and efficient learning framework. The predominant training methodologies, namely…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zecheng Hao , Qichao Ma , Kang Chen , Yi Zhang , Zhaofei Yu , Tiejun Huang