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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) event-driven nature enables efficient encoding of spatial and temporal features, making them suitable for dynamic time-dependent data processing. Despite their biological relevance, SNNs have seen limited…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Zofia Rudnicka , Januszcz Szczepanski , Agnieszka Pregowska

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are brain-inspired machine learning algorithms with merits such as biological plausibility and unsupervised learning capability. Previous works have shown that converting Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) into…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Sijia Lu , Feng Xu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), as an emerging biologically inspired computational model, demonstrate significant energy efficiency advantages due to their event-driven information processing mechanism. Compared to traditional Artificial…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Changqing Xu , Buxuan Song , Yi Liu , Xinfang Liao , Wenbin Zheng , Yintang Yang

Neuromorphic computing and spiking neural networks (SNNs) are gaining traction across various artificial intelligence (AI) tasks thanks to their potential for efficient energy usage and faster computation speed. This comparative advantage…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Theofilos Spyrou , Said Hamdioui , Haralampos-G. Stratigopoulos

Previous studies have shown that spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) can be used in spiking neural networks (SNN) to extract visual features of low or intermediate complexity in an unsupervised manner. These studies, however, used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Saeed Reza Kheradpisheh , Mohammad Ganjtabesh , Simon J Thorpe , Timothée Masquelier

Biological spiking neurons with intrinsic dynamics underlie the powerful representation and learning capabilities of the brain for processing multimodal information in complex environments. Despite recent tremendous progress in spiking…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Mingkun Xu , Yujie Wu , Lei Deng , Faqiang Liu , Guoqi Li , Jing Pei

In this work, we examine fundamental elements of spiking neural networks (SNNs) as well as how to tune them. Concretely, we focus on two different foundational neuronal units utilized in SNNs -- the leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) and the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-11 William Gebhardt , Alexander G. Ororbia , Nathan McDonald , Clare Thiem , Jack Lombardi

This study proposes a novel learning paradigm for spiking neural networks (SNNs) that replaces the perceptron-inspired abstraction with biologically grounded neuron models, jointly optimizing synaptic weights and intrinsic neuronal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zofia Rudnicka , Janusz Szczepanski , Agnieszka Pregowska

The biologically inspired spiking neurons used in neuromorphic computing are nonlinear filters with dynamic state variables -- very different from the stateless neuron models used in deep learning. The next version of Intel's neuromorphic…

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a promising, biologically inspired approach for processing spatiotemporal data, particularly for time series forecasting. However, conventional neuron models like the Leaky Integrate-and-Fire (LIF)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Shibo Feng , Wanjin Feng , Xingyu Gao , Peilin Zhao , Zhiqi Shen

Concurrent estimation and control of robotic systems remains an ongoing challenge, where controllers rely on data extracted from states/parameters riddled with uncertainties and noises. Framework suitability hinges on task complexity and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Reza Ahmadvand , Sarah Safura Sharif , Yaser Mike Banad

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) that enables energy efficient implementation on emerging neuromorphic hardware are gaining more attention. Yet now, SNNs have not shown competitive performance compared with artificial neural networks (ANNs),…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Yujie Wu , Lei Deng , Guoqi Li , Jun Zhu , Luping Shi

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are promising for energy-efficient, real-time edge computing, yet their performance is often constrained by the limited adaptability of conventional leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) neurons. Existing LIF models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zhuobin Yang , Yeyao Bao , Liangfu Lv , Jian Zhang , Xiaohong Li , Yunliang Zang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are valued for their ability to process spatio-temporal information efficiently, offering biological plausibility, low energy consumption, and compatibility with neuromorphic hardware. However, the commonly…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Tianqing Zhang , Kairong Yu , Jian Zhang , Hongwei Wang

Application of deep convolutional spiking neural networks (SNNs) to artificial intelligence (AI) tasks has recently gained a lot of interest since SNNs are hardware-friendly and energy-efficient. Unlike the non-spiking counterparts, most of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Milad Mozafari , Mohammad Ganjtabesh , Abbas Nowzari-Dalini , Timothée Masquelier

Emergence of deep neural networks (DNNs) has raised enormous attention towards artificial neural networks (ANNs) once again. They have become the state-of-the-art models and have won different machine learning challenges. Although these…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Shahriar Rezghi Shirsavar , Abdol-Hossein Vahabie , Mohammad-Reza A. Dehaqani

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a popular spatio-temporal computing paradigm for complex vision tasks. Recently proposed SNN training algorithms have significantly reduced the number of time steps (down to 1) for improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Gourav Datta , Zeyu Liu , Anni Li , Peter A. Beerel

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) promise energy-efficient computation by mimicking biological neural dynamics, yet existing plasticity rules focus on isolated spike pairs and fail to leverage the synchronous activity patterns that drive…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yuchen Tian , Assel Kembay , Samuel Tensingh , Nhan Duy Truong , Jason K. Eshraghian , Omid Kavehei