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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are widely regarded as a biologically-inspired and energy-efficient alternative to classical artificial neural networks. Yet, their theoretical foundations remain only partially understood. In this work, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Umberto Biccari

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

We propose a novel backpropagation algorithm for training spiking neural networks (SNNs) that encodes information in the relative multiple spike timing of individual neurons without single-spike restrictions. The proposed algorithm inherits…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Kakei Yamamoto , Yusuke Sakemi , Kazuyuki Aihara

The recent discovered spatial-temporal information processing capability of bio-inspired Spiking neural networks (SNN) has enabled some interesting models and applications. However designing large-scale and high-performance model is yet a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Haowen Fang , Amar Shrestha , Ziyi Zhao , Qinru Qiu

As spiking neural networks (SNNs) are deployed increasingly in real-world efficiency critical applications, the security concerns in SNNs attract more attention. Currently, researchers have already demonstrated an SNN can be attacked with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Ling Liang , Kaidi Xu , Xing Hu , Lei Deng , Yuan Xie

Spiking neural networks play an important role in brain-like neuromorphic computations and in studying working mechanisms of neural circuits. One drawback of training a large scale spiking neural network is that updating all weights is…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-15 Zhanghan Lin , Haiping Huang

The design and analysis of spiking neural network algorithms will be accelerated by the advent of new theoretical approaches. In an attempt at such approach, we provide a principled derivation of a spiking algorithm for unsupervised…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Cengiz Pehlevan

Recently, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), enjoying extreme energy efficiency, have drawn much research attention on 2D visual recognition and shown gradually increasing application potential. However, it still remains underexplored whether…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Dayong Ren , Zhe Ma , Yuanpei Chen , Weihang Peng , Xiaode Liu , Yuhan Zhang , Yufei Guo

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are gaining increasing attention as potential computationally efficient alternatives to traditional artificial neural networks(ANNs). However, the unique information propagation mechanisms and the complexity…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Shuaijie Shen , Rui Zhang , Chao Wang , Renzhuo Huang , Aiersi Tuerhong , Qinghai Guo , Zhichao Lu , Jianguo Zhang , Luziwei Leng

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) possess energy-efficient potential due to event-based computation. However, supervised training of SNNs remains a challenge as spike activities are non-differentiable. Previous SNNs training methods can be…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Yunzhe Hao , Xuhui Huang , Meng Dong , Bo Xu

Recurrent networks of spiking neurons (RSNNs) underlie the astounding computing and learning capabilities of the brain. But computing and learning capabilities of RSNN models have remained poor, at least in comparison with artificial neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Guillaume Bellec , Darjan Salaj , Anand Subramoney , Robert Legenstein , Wolfgang Maass

Spiking neural networks are a promising approach towards next-generation models of the brain in computational neuroscience. Moreover, compared to classic artificial neural networks, they could serve as an energy-efficient deployment of AI…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Justus F. Hübotter , Pablo Lanillos , Jakub M. Tomczak

Recently, both industry and academia have proposed several different neuromorphic systems to execute machine learning applications that are designed using Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs). With the growing complexity on design and technology…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Phu Khanh Huynh , M. Lakshmi Varshika , Ankita Paul , Murat Isik , Adarsha Balaji , Anup Das

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across various tasks, including image and speech recognition. However, maximizing the effectiveness of DNNs requires meticulous optimization of numerous hyperparameters…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Gorka Abad , Oguzhan Ersoy , Stjepan Picek , Aitor Urbieta

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) are known as a typical kind of brain-inspired models with their unique features of rich neuronal dynamics, diverse coding schemes and low power consumption properties. How to obtain a high-accuracy model has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Yihan Lin , Yifan Hu , Shijie Ma , Guoqi Li , Dongjie Yu

Spiking neural networks are a type of artificial neural networks in which communication between neurons is only made of events, also called spikes. This property allows neural networks to make asynchronous and sparse computations and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Florent De Geeter , Damien Ernst , Guillaume Drion

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 (SNNs) are considered to have enormous potential in the future development of Artificial Intelligence due to their brain-inspired and energy-efficient properties. Compared to vanilla Spatial-Temporal Back-propagation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zecheng Hao , Yifan Huang , Zijie Xu , Wenxuan Liu , Yuanhong Tang , Zhaofei Yu , Tiejun Huang

Over the past few years, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have become popular as a possible pathway to enable low-power event-driven neuromorphic hardware. However, their application in machine learning have largely been limited to very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Abhronil Sengupta , Yuting Ye , Robert Wang , Chiao Liu , Kaushik Roy