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Neural networks and neuromorphic computing play pivotal roles in deep learning and machine vision. Due to their dissipative nature and inherent limitations, traditional semiconductor-based circuits face challenges in realizing ultra-fast…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-21 Sasan Razmkhah , Mustafa Altay Karamuftuoglu , Ali Bozbey

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) promise orders-of-magnitude efficiency gains by communicating with sparse, event-driven spikes rather than dense numerical activations. However, most training pipelines either rely on surrogate-gradient…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Arman Ferdowsi , Atakan Aral

As deep learning models scale, they become increasingly competitive from domains spanning from computer vision to natural language processing; however, this happens at the expense of efficiency since they require increasingly more memory…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Fabrizio Ottati , Chang Gao , Qinyu Chen , Giovanni Brignone , Mario R. Casu , Jason K. Eshraghian , Luciano Lavagno

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) promise ultra-low-power applications by exploiting temporal and spatial sparsity. The number of binary activations, called spikes, is proportional to the power consumed when executed on neuromorphic hardware.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Gregor Lenz , Garrick Orchard , Sadique Sheik

Neuromorphic computing applies insights from neuroscience to uncover innovations in computing technology. In the brain, billions of interconnected neurons perform rapid computations at extremely low energy levels by leveraging properties…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-28 E. Paxon Frady , Garrick Orchard , David Florey , Nabil Imam , Ruokun Liu , Joyesh Mishra , Jonathan Tse , Andreas Wild , Friedrich T. Sommer , Mike Davies

Intracortical brain-machine interfaces demand low-latency, energy-efficient solutions for neural decoding. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) deployed on neuromorphic hardware have demonstrated remarkable efficiency in neural decoding by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Francesca Rivelli , Martin Popov , Charalampos S. Kouzinopoulos , Guangzhi Tang

Photonic Spiking Neural Networks (PSNN) composed of the co-integrated CMOS and photonic elements can offer low loss, low power, highly-parallel, and high-throughput computing for brain-inspired neuromorphic systems. In addition,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Yun-Jhu Lee , Mehmet Berkay On , Luis El Srouji , Li Zhang , Mahmoud Abdelghany , S. J. Ben Yoo

The escalating energy demands of artificial intelligence pose a critical challenge to conventional computing. Leveraging the efficiency of event-driven, in-memory neuromorphic architectures into the superconducting circuits with ultra-high…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Muen Wang , Shucheng Yang , Yuxiang Lin , Yuntian Gao , Xue Zhang , Xiaoping Gao , Minghui Niu , Huanli Liu , Yikang Wan , Wei Peng , Jie Ren

The fields of machine learning and artificial intelligence drive researchers to explore energy-efficient, brain-inspired new hardware. Reservoir computing encompasses recurrent neural networks for sequential data processing and matches the…

Hardware implementations of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) represent a promising approach to edge-computing for applications that require low-power and low-latency, and which cannot resort to external cloud-based computing services.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Zhe Su , Hyunjung Hwang , Tristan Torchet , Giacomo Indiveri

Digital neuromorphic processors are emerging as a promising computing substrate for low-power, always-on EdgeAI applications. In this tutorial paper, we outline the main architectural design principles behind fully digital neuromorphic…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Amirreza Yousefzadeh

Neuromorphic photonic computing represents a paradigm shift for next-generation machine intelligence, yet critical gaps persist in emulating the brain's event-driven, asynchronous dynamics,a fundamental barrier to unlocking its full…

Photonic neuromorphic computing has emerged as a promising avenue toward building a low-latency and energy-efficient non-von-Neuman computing system. Photonic spiking neural network (PSNN) exploits brain-like spatiotemporal processing to…

We present an approach to constructing a neuromorphic device that responds to language input by producing neuron spikes in proportion to the strength of the appropriate positive or negative emotional response. Specifically, we perform a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-01-19 Peter U. Diehl , Bruno U. Pedroni , Andrew Cassidy , Paul Merolla , Emre Neftci , Guido Zarrella

In this work, an all-in-one neuromorphic controller system with reduced latency and power consumption for a robotic arm is presented. Biological muscle movement consists of stretching and shrinking fibres via spike-commanded signals that…

Mixed-signal analog/digital circuits emulate spiking neurons and synapses with extremely high energy efficiency, an approach known as "neuromorphic engineering". However, analog circuits are sensitive to process-induced variation among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Julian Büchel , Dmitrii Zendrikov , Sergio Solinas , Giacomo Indiveri , Dylan R. Muir

A long-standing proposition is that by emulating the operation of the brain's neocortex, a spiking neural network (SNN) can achieve similar desirable features: flexible learning, speed, and efficiency. Temporal neural networks (TNNs) are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-24 James E. Smith

Although code generation for Convolution Neural Network (CNN) models has been extensively studied, performing efficient data slicing and parallelization for highly-constrai\-ned Multicore Neural Processor Units (NPUs) is still a challenging…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Rafael Sousa , Marcio Pereira , Yongin Kwon , Taeho Kim , Namsoon Jung , Chang Soo Kim , Michael Frank , Guido Araujo

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) implemented on neuromorphic processors (NPs) can enhance the energy efficiency of deployments of artificial intelligence (AI) for specific workloads. As such, NP represents an interesting opportunity for…

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer promising energy efficiency advantages, particularly when processing sparse spike trains. However, their incompatibility with traditional datasets, which consist of batches of input vectors rather than…