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Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have emerged as a promising direction in both computational neuroscience and artificial intelligence, offering advantages such as strong biological plausibility and low energy consumption on neuromorphic…

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Pruning for Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) has emerged as a fundamental methodology for deploying deep SNNs on resource-constrained edge devices. Though the existing pruning methods can provide extremely high weight sparsity for deep SNNs,…

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Channel pruning is a promising technique to compress the parameters of deep convolutional neural networks(DCNN) and to speed up the inference. This paper aims to address the long-standing inefficiency of channel pruning. Most channel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Zhouyang Xie , Yan Fu , Shengzhao Tian , Junlin Zhou , Duanbing Chen

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) promise higher energy efficiency over conventional Quantized Artificial Neural Networks (QNNs) due to their event-driven, spike-based computation. However, prevailing energy evaluations often oversimplify,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zhanglu Yan , Zhenyu Bai , Weng-Fai Wong

Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are a class of bio-inspired neural networks that promise to bring low-power and low-latency inference to edge devices through asynchronous and sparse processing. However, being temporal models, SNNs depend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Asude Aydin , Mathias Gehrig , Daniel Gehrig , Davide Scaramuzza

Low-latency deep spiking neural networks (SNNs) have become a promising alternative to conventional artificial neural networks (ANNs) because of their potential for increased energy efficiency on event-driven neuromorphic hardware. Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Souvik Kundu , Massoud Pedram , Peter A. Beerel

Real time application of deep learning algorithms is often hindered by high computational complexity and frequent memory accesses. Network pruning is a promising technique to solve this problem. However, pruning usually results in irregular…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Sajid Anwar , Kyuyeon Hwang , Wonyong Sung

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained significant attention due to their biological plausibility and energy efficiency, making them promising alternatives to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). However, the performance gap between SNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Tianqing Zhang , Kairong Yu , Xian Zhong , Hongwei Wang , Qi Xu , Qiang Zhang

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

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have received widespread attention as an ultra-low power computing paradigm. Recent studies have shown that SNNs suffer from severe overfitting, which limits their generalization performance. In this paper, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Lin Zuo , Yongqi Ding , Wenwei Luo , Mengmeng Jing , Kunshan Yang

Neuromorphic computing and, in particular, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have become an attractive alternative to deep neural networks for a broad range of signal processing applications, processing static and/or temporal inputs from…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Souvik Kundu , Rui-Jie Zhu , Akhilesh Jaiswal , Peter A. Beerel

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a promising avenue for energy-efficient computing compared with Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), closely mirroring biological neural processes. However, this potential comes with inherent challenges in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Xiaofeng Wu , Velibor Bojkovic , Bin Gu , Kun Suo , Kai Zou

In Machine Learning, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are a very powerful tool, broadly used in many applications. Often, the selected (deep) architectures include many layers, and therefore a large amount of parameters, which makes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Matteo Cacciola , Antonio Frangioni , Xinlin Li , Andrea Lodi

Multi-head self-attention (MSA) is a key component of Vision Transformers (ViTs), which have achieved great success in various vision tasks. However, their high computational cost and memory footprint hinder their deployment on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Kyunghwan Shim , Jaewoong Yun , Shinkook Choi

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) provide an efficient computational mechanism for temporal signal processing, especially when coupled with low-power SNN inference ASICs. SNNs have been historically difficult to configure, lacking a general…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Hannah Bos , Dylan Muir

Recently, brain-inspired spiking neuron networks (SNNs) have attracted widespread research interest because of their event-driven and energy-efficient characteristics. Still, it is difficult to efficiently train deep SNNs due to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Shikuang Deng , Yuhang Li , Shanghang Zhang , Shi Gu

Structured pruning is an effective compression technique to reduce the computation of neural networks, which is usually achieved by adding perturbations to reduce network parameters at the cost of slightly increasing training loss. A more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Yinchuan Li , Xiaofeng Liu , Yunfeng Shao , Qing Wang , Yanhui Geng

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer inherent advantages for low-power inference through sparse, event-driven computation. However, the theoretical energy benefits of SNNs are often decoupled from real hardware performance due to the opaque…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Ilkin Aliyev , Jesus Lopez , Tosiron Adegbija

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are increasingly recognized for their biological plausibility and energy efficiency, positioning them as strong alternatives to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in neuromorphic computing applications. SNNs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Kairong Yu , Tianqing Zhang , Qi Xu , Gang Pan , Hongwei Wang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are gaining interest due to their event-driven processing which potentially consumes low power/energy computations in hardware platforms, while offering unsupervised learning capability due to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra , Muhammad Shafique