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Reinforcement learning (RL) has recently regained popularity, with major achievements such as beating the European game of Go champion. Here, for the first time, we show that RL can be used efficiently to train a spiking neural network…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-07-11 Milad Mozafari , Saeed Reza Kheradpisheh , Timothée Masquelier , Abbas Nowzari-Dalini , Mohammad Ganjtabesh

Current advances in technology have highlighted the importance of video analysis in the domain of computer vision. However, video analysis has considerably high computational costs with traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs). Spiking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Mireille El-Assal , Pierre Tirilly , Ioan Marius Bilasco

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are biologically-inspired models that are capable of processing information in streams of action potentials. However, simulating and training SNNs is computationally expensive due to the need to solve large…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-29 Rainer Engelken

One stream of reinforcement learning research is exploring biologically plausible models and algorithms to simulate biological intelligence and fit neuromorphic hardware. Among them, reward-modulated spike-timing-dependent plasticity…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Zhile Yang , Shangqi Guo , Ying Fang , Jian K. Liu

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) represent the most prominent biologically inspired computing model for neuromorphic computing (NC) architectures. However, due to the non-differentiable nature of spiking neuronal functions, the standard error…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Jibin Wu , Yansong Chua , Malu Zhang , Guoqi Li , Haizhou Li , Kay Chen Tan

The Spiking Neural Network (SNN) is a biologically inspired neural network infrastructure that has recently garnered significant attention. It utilizes binary spike activations to transmit information, thereby replacing multiplications with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Yufei Guo , Yuanpei Chen , Zecheng Hao , Weihang Peng , Zhou Jie , Yuhan Zhang , Xiaode Liu , Zhe Ma

Children possess the ability to learn multiple cognitive tasks sequentially, which is a major challenge toward the long-term goal of artificial general intelligence. Existing continual learning frameworks are usually applicable to Deep…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Bing Han , Feifei Zhao , Yi Zeng , Wenxuan Pan , Guobin Shen

Nowadays deep learning is dominating the field of machine learning with state-of-the-art performance in various application areas. Recently, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have been attracting a great deal of attention, notably owning to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Seongsik Park , Sang-gil Lee , Hyunha Nam , Sungroh Yoon

Spiking neural networks (SNN) are usually more energy-efficient as compared to Artificial neural networks (ANN), and the way they work has a great similarity with our brain. Back-propagation (BP) has shown its strong power in training ANN…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Yukun Yang

Building spiking neural networks (SNNs) based on biological synaptic plasticities holds a promising potential for accomplishing fast and energy-efficient computing, which is beneficial to mobile robotic applications. However, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Zhenshan Bing , Claus Meschede , Guang Chen , Alois Knoll , Kai Huang

The ambition of brain-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) is to become a low-power alternative to traditional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). This work addresses two major challenges in realizing this vision: the performance gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Man Yao , Xuerui Qiu , Tianxiang Hu , Jiakui Hu , Yuhong Chou , Keyu Tian , Jianxing Liao , Luziwei Leng , Bo Xu , Guoqi Li

As a foundational architecture of artificial intelligence models, Transformer has been recently adapted to spiking neural networks with promising performance across various tasks. However, existing spiking Transformer(ST)-based models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Hongze Sun , Wuque Cai , Duo Chen , Quan Tang , Shifeng Mao , Jiayi He , Zhenxing Wang , Yan Cui , Dezhong Yao , Daqing Guo

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) that operate in an event-driven manner and employ binary spike representation have recently emerged as promising candidates for energy-efficient computing. However, a cost bottleneck arises in obtaining…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Yunpeng Yao , Man Wu , Zheng Chen , Renyuan Zhang

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

As neural networks get widespread adoption in resource-constrained embedded devices, there is a growing need for low-power neural systems. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs)are emerging to be an energy-efficient alternative to the traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Yeshwanth Venkatesha , Youngeun Kim , Leandros Tassiulas , Priyadarshini Panda

Spike-timing dependent plasticity (STDP) which observed in the brain has proven to be important in biological learning. On the other hand, artificial neural networks use a different way to learn, such as Back-Propagation or Contrastive…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Shiyuan Li

Configuring deep Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) is an exciting research avenue for low power spike event based computation. However, the spike generation function is non-differentiable and therefore not directly compatible with the standard…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Sumit Bam Shrestha , Garrick Orchard

Inspired by the brain's information processing using binary spikes, spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer significant reductions in energy consumption and are more adept at incorporating multi-scale biological characteristics. In SNNs,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Yinqian Sun , Feifei Zhao , Zhuoya Zhao , Yi Zeng

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) provide an energy-efficient alternative to a variety of artificial neural network (ANN) based AI applications. As the progress in neuromorphic computing with SNNs expands their use in applications, the problem…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Ozan Özdenizci , Robert Legenstein

The spiking neural network (SNN), as a promising brain-inspired computational model with binary spike information transmission mechanism, rich spatially-temporal dynamics, and event-driven characteristics, has received extensive attention.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Yufei Guo , Xuhui Huang , Zhe Ma