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Networks of interconnected neurons communicating through spiking signals offer the bedrock of neural computations. Our brains spiking neural networks have the computational capacity to achieve complex pattern recognition and cognitive…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Naresh Ravichandran , Anders Lansner , Pawel Herman

While spike timing has been shown to carry detailed stimulus information at the sensory periphery, its possible role in network computation is less clear. Most models of computation by neural networks are based on population firing rates.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-07-17 Michael A. Schwemmer , Adrienne L. Fairhall , Sophie Denéve , Eric T. Shea-Brown

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

Understanding cognitive flexibility and task-switching mechanisms in neural systems requires biologically plausible computational models. This tutorial presents a step-by-step approach to constructing a spiking neural network (SNN) that…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-07 Ashwin Viswanathan Kannan , Madhumitha Ganesan

Inspired by biology, spiking neural networks (SNNs) process information via discrete spikes over time, offering an energy-efficient alternative to the classical computing paradigm and classical artificial neural networks (ANNs). In this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Shayan Hundrieser , Philipp Tuchel , Insung Kong , Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

This paper develops an innovative method that enables neural networks to generate and utilize knowledge graphs, which describe their concept-level knowledge and optimize network parameters through alignment with human-provided knowledge.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Tangrui Li , Jun Zhou

Recent years have seen a surge in research on dynamic graph representation learning, which aims to model temporal graphs that are dynamic and evolving constantly over time. However, current work typically models graph dynamics with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Jintang Li , Zhouxin Yu , Zulun Zhu , Liang Chen , Qi Yu , Zibin Zheng , Sheng Tian , Ruofan Wu , Changhua Meng

Brains learn to represent information from a large set of stimuli, typically by weak supervision. Unsupervised learning is therefore a natural approach for exploring the design of biological neural networks and their computations.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-17 Roy Urbach , Elad Schneidman

Spike-timing-dependent plasticity(STDP) is a biological process of synaptic modification caused by the difference of firing order and timing between neurons. One of the neurodynamical roles of STDP is to form a macroscopic geometrical…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-10 Hong-Gyu Yoon , Pilwon Kim

The timing of individual neuronal spikes is essential for biological brains to make fast responses to sensory stimuli. However, conventional artificial neural networks lack the intrinsic temporal coding ability present in biological…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Iulia M. Comsa , Krzysztof Potempa , Luca Versari , Thomas Fischbacher , Andrea Gesmundo , Jyrki Alakuijala

Relational representation learning has lately received an increase in interest due to its flexibility in modeling a variety of systems like interacting particles, materials and industrial projects for, e.g., the design of spacecraft. A…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Dominik Dold

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) represent the latest generation of neural computation, offering a brain-inspired alternative to conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Unlike ANNs, which depend on continuous-valued signals, SNNs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Sales G. Aribe

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are brain-inspired, event-driven machine learning algorithms that have been widely recognized in producing ultra-high-energy-efficient hardware. Among existing SNNs, unsupervised SNNs based on synaptic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Mingyuan Meng , Xingyu Yang , Lei Bi , Jinman Kim , Shanlin Xiao , Zhiyi Yu

Human cognition emerges from coordinated spiking dynamics in distributed neural circuits, where information is encoded via both firing rates and precise spike timing determined by brain rhythms. Inspired by this notion, we propose a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-05 Tingting Dan , Guorong Wu

Recurrent neural networks are powerful tools for understanding and modeling computation and representation by populations of neurons. Continuous-variable or "rate" model networks have been analyzed and applied extensively for these…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-01-29 Brian DePasquale , Mark M. Churchland , L. F. Abbott

Deep learning's success comes with growing energy demands, raising concerns about the long-term sustainability of the field. Spiking neural networks, inspired by biological neurons, offer a promising alternative with potential computational…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Adalbert Fono , Manjot Singh , Ernesto Araya , Philipp C. Petersen , Holger Boche , Gitta Kutyniok

Recurrent spiking neural networks (RSNN) in the human brain learn to perform a wide range of perceptual, cognitive and motor tasks very efficiently in terms of energy consumption and requires very few examples. This motivates the search for…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-03-22 Paolo Muratore , Cristiano Capone , Pier Stanislao Paolucci

In this article, we review a class of neuro-mimetic computational models that we place under the label of spiking predictive coding. Specifically, we review the general framework of predictive processing in the context of neurons that emit…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-10 Antony W. N'dri , William Gebhardt , Céline Teulière , Fleur Zeldenrust , Rajesh P. N. Rao , Jochen Triesch , Alexander Ororbia

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are gaining popularity in the computational simulation and artificial intelligence fields owing to their biological plausibility and computational efficiency. This paper explores the historical development of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Tianyu Zheng , Liyuan Han , Tielin Zhang

Providing the neurobiological basis of information processing in higher animals, spiking neural networks must be able to learn a variety of complicated computations, including the generation of appropriate, possibly delayed reactions to…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-06-30 Dominik Thalmeier , Marvin Uhlmann , Hilbert J. Kappen , Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer