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Since proposed, spiking neural networks (SNNs) gain recognition for their high performance, low power consumption and enhanced biological interpretability. However, while bringing these advantages, the binary nature of spikes also leads to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yongjun Xiao , Xianlong Tian , Yongqi Ding , Pei He , Mengmeng Jing , Lin Zuo

The human brain comprises about a hundred billion neurons connected through quadrillion synapses. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) take inspiration from the brain to model complex cognitive and learning tasks. Neuromorphic engineering…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Tanmay Chavan , Sangya Dutta , Nihar R. Mohapatra , Udayan Ganguly

The growing number of Internet-of-Things (IoT) based artificial intelligence (AI) applications deployed at resource-constrained network edge call for ultra-reliable and low-latency data processing pipelines from distributed front-end…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Zhengzhong Guan , Jiaying Li , Kanghua Li , Bojun Cheng , Hong Xing

Spike-based neuromorphic hardware has demonstrated substantial potential in low energy consumption and efficient inference. However, the direct training of deep spiking neural networks is challenging, and conversion-based methods still…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yang Li , Xiang He , Qingqun Kong , Yi Zeng

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a biologically plausible and energy-efficient framework for temporal information processing. However, existing studies overlook a fundamental property widely observed in biological neurons-synaptic…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-19 Zhichao Deng , Zhikun Liu , Junxue Wang , Shengqian Chen , Xiang Wei , Qiang Yu

Neuromorphic computing has recently gained momentum with the emergence of various neuromorphic processors. As the field advances, there is an increasing focus on developing training methods that can effectively leverage the unique…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Sanaz Mahmoodi Takaghaj , Jack Sampson

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are distributed trainable systems whose computing elements, or neurons, are characterized by internal analog dynamics and by digital and sparse synaptic communications. The sparsity of the synaptic spiking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Hyeryung Jang , Osvaldo Simeone , Brian Gardner , André Grüning

Event cameras offer significant advantages over traditional frame-based sensors, including higher temporal resolution, lower latency and dynamic range. However, efficiently converting event streams into formats compatible with standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Gabriele Magrini , Federico Becattini , Luca Cultrera , Lorenzo Berlincioni , Pietro Pala , Alberto Del Bimbo

Neuromorphic computing, inspired by biological neural systems, has emerged as a promising approach for ultra-energy-efficient data processing by leveraging analog neuron structures and spike-based computation. However, its application in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 George N. Katsaros , Konstantinos Nikitopoulos

Unlike traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs), biological neuronal networks solve complex cognitive tasks with sparse neuronal activity, recurrent connections, and local learning rules. These mechanisms serve as design principles in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Matteo Saponati , Chiara De Luca , Giacomo Indiveri , Benjamin Grewe

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have garnered interest due to their energy efficiency and superior effectiveness on neuromorphic chips compared with traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs). One of the mainstream approaches to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Zhipeng Huang , Jianhao Ding , Zhiyu Pan , Haoran Li , Ying Fang , Zhaofei Yu , Jian K. Liu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are bio-inspired networks that process information conveyed as temporal spikes rather than numeric values. A spiking neuron of an SNN only produces a spike whenever a significant number of spikes occur within…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Mathias Gehrig , Sumit Bam Shrestha , Daniel Mouritzen , Davide Scaramuzza

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) hold promise for energy-efficient, biologically inspired computing. We identify substantial informatio loss during spike transmission, linked to temporal dependencies in traditional Leaky Integrate-and-Fire…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Guobin Shen , Jindong Li , Tenglong Li , Dongcheng Zhao , Yi Zeng

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are brain-inspired mathematical models with the ability to process information in the form of spikes. SNNs are expected to provide not only new machine-learning algorithms, but also energy-efficient…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Yusuke Sakemi , Kai Morino , Takashi Morie , Kazuyuki Aihara

Network of neurons in the brain apply - unlike processors in our current generation of computer hardware - an event-based processing strategy, where short pulses (spikes) are emitted sparsely by neurons to signal the occurrence of an event…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Zeno Jonke , Stefan Habenschuss , Wolfgang Maass

Spintronic neurons which emit sharp voltage spikes are required for the realization of hardware neural networks enabling fast data processing with low-power consumption. In many neuroscience and computer science models, neurons are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-05-08 Rie Matsumoto , Steven Lequeux , Hiroshi Imamura , Julie Grollier

Neuromorphic computing, inspired by the brain, promises extreme efficiency for certain classes of learning tasks, such as classification and pattern recognition. The performance and power consumption of neuromorphic computing depends…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Baibhab Chatterjee , Priyadarshini Panda , Shovan Maity , Ayan Biswas , Kaushik Roy , Shreyas Sen

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

Spikes are the currency in central nervous systems for information transmission and processing. They are also believed to play an essential role in low-power consumption of the biological systems, whose efficiency attracts increasing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Qiang Yu , Shenglan Li , Huajin Tang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang , Kay Chen Tan

We have added a simplified neuromorphic model of Spike Time Dependent Plasticity (STDP) to the Synapto-dendritic Kernel Adapting Neuron (SKAN). The resulting neuron model is the first to show synaptic encoding of afferent signal to noise…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-11-12 Saeed Afshar , Libin George , Jonathan Tapson , Andre van Schaik , Philip de Chazal , Tara Julia Hamilton