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Biologically-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), processing information using discrete-time events known as spikes rather than continuous values, have garnered significant attention due to their hardware-friendly and energy-efficient…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Bin Lei , Sheng Lin , Pei-Hung Lin , Chunhua Liao , Caiwen Ding

In the domain of dynamic graph representation learning (DGRL), the efficient and comprehensive capture of temporal evolution within real-world networks is crucial. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), known as their temporal dynamics and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Dong Chen , Shuai Zheng , Muhao Xu , Zhenfeng Zhu , Yao Zhao

Spiking neural networks (SNN) are able to learn spatiotemporal features while using less energy, especially on neuromorphic hardware. The most widely used spiking neuron in deep learning is the Leaky Integrate and Fire (LIF) neuron. LIF…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Sidi Yaya Arnaud Yarga , Sean U. N. Wood

We introduce an algorithm to do backpropagation on a spiking network. Our network is "spiking" in the sense that our neurons accumulate their activation into a potential over time, and only send out a signal (a "spike") when this potential…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Peter O'Connor , Max Welling

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have closer dynamics to the brain than current deep neural networks. Their low power consumption and sample efficiency make these networks interesting. Recently, several deep convolutional spiking neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Shahriar Rezghi Shirsavar , Mohammad-Reza A. Dehaqani

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer energy-efficient and biologically plausible alternatives to traditional artificial neural networks, but their performance depends critically on the tuning of neuron model parameters. In this work, we…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Szymon Mazurek , Jakub Caputa , Maciej Wielgosz

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) emulate the integrated-fire-leak mechanism found in biological neurons, offering a compelling combination of biological realism and energy efficiency. In recent years, they have gained considerable research…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Lihao Wang , Zhaofei Yu

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

Spike train classification has recently become an important topic in the machine learning community, where each spike train is a binary event sequence with \emph{temporal-sparsity of signals of interest} and \emph{temporal-noise}…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Hang Yin , Yao Su , Liping Liu , Thomas Hartvigsen , Xin Dai , Xiangnan Kong

Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are characterised by their unique temporal dynamics, but the properties and advantages of such computations are still not well understood. In order to provide answers, in this work we demonstrate how Spiking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Alex Vicente-Sola , Davide L. Manna , Paul Kirkland , Gaetano Di Caterina , Trevor Bihl

Elucidating the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying neural pattern formation remains an outstanding challenge in Computational Neuroscience. In this paper, we address the issue of understanding the emergence of neural patterns by…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-04 Gregory Dumont , Carmen Oana Tarniceriu

It is true that the "best" neural network is not necessarily the one with the most "brain-like" behavior. Understanding biological intelligence, however, is a fundamental goal for several distinct disciplines. Translating our understanding…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-07-09 Guangzhi Tang , Konstantinos P. Michmizos

The efficiency of modern machine intelligence depends on high accuracy with minimal computational cost. In spiking neural networks (SNNs), synaptic delays are crucial for encoding temporal structure, yet existing models treat them as fully…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Lennart P. L. Landsmeer , Amirreza Movahedin , Mario Negrello , Said Hamdioui , Christos Strydis

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) draw inspiration from biological neurons to enable brain-like computation, demonstrating effectiveness in processing temporal information with energy efficiency and biological realism. Most existing SNNs are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Chengjie Ge , Yufeng Peng , Zihao Li , Qiyu Kang , Xueyang Fu , Xuhao Li , Qixin Zhang , Junhao Ren , Zheng-Jun Zha

Lateral connection is a fundamental feature of biological neural circuits, facilitating local information processing and adaptive learning. In this work, we integrate lateral connections with a substructure selection network to develop a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Linghao Feng , Dongcheng Zhao , Sicheng Shen , Yi Zeng

Compared with artificial neural networks (ANNs), spiking neural networks (SNNs) are promising to explore the brain-like behaviors since the spikes could encode more spatio-temporal information. Although pre-training from ANN or direct…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Yujie Wu , Lei Deng , Guoqi Li , Jun Zhu , Luping Shi

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), the third generation neural networks, are known for their low energy consumption and high robustness. SNNs are developing rapidly and can compete with Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in many fields. To…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Lingxin Jin , Meiyu Lin , Wei Jiang , Jinyu Zhan

Learning based on networks of real neurons, and by extension biologically inspired models of neural networks, has yet to find general learning rules leading to widespread applications. In this paper, we argue for the existence of a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Lana Sinapayen , Atsushi Masumori , Takashi Ikegami

Recent years have emerged a surge of interest in SNNs owing to their remarkable potential to handle time-dependent and event-driven data. The performance of SNNs hinges not only on selecting an apposite architecture and fine-tuning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Shao-Qun Zhang , Jia-Yi Chen , Jin-Hui Wu , Gao Zhang , Huan Xiong , Bin Gu , Zhi-Hua Zhou

We present a fully memristive spiking neural network (MSNN) consisting of physically-realizable memristive neurons and memristive synapses to implement an unsupervised Spiking Time Dependent Plasticity (STDP) learning rule. The system is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Peng Zhou , Dong-Uk Choi , Jason K. Eshraghian , Sung-Mo Kang