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Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer an energy-efficient alternative to traditional neural networks due to their event-driven computing paradigm. However, recent advancements in spiking transformers have focused on improving accuracy with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Wenjie Wei , Xiaolong Zhou , Malu Zhang , Ammar Belatreche , Qian Sun , Yimeng Shan , Dehao Zhang , Zijian Zhou , Zeyu Ma , Yang Yang , Haizhou Li

Neuromorphic Computing (NC) and Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) in particular are often viewed as the next generation of Neural Networks (NNs). NC is a novel bio-inspired paradigm for energy efficient neural computation, often relying on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Andreas Ziegler , Karl Vetter , Thomas Gossard , Jonas Tebbe , Sebastian Otte , Andreas Zell

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

$\textbf{Formal version available at}$ https://cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(23)00200-3 Networks of spiking neurons underpin the extraordinary information-processing capabilities of the brain and have become pillar models in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Gehua Ma , Rui Yan , Huajin Tang

Federated machine learning enables model training across multiple clients while maintaining data privacy. Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) specifically deals with instances where the clients have different feature sets of the same samples.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Maryam Abbasihafshejani , Anindya Maiti , Murtuza Jadliwala

Hardware-based spiking neural networks (SNNs) are regarded as promising candidates for the cognitive computing system due to low power consumption and highly parallel operation. In this work, we train the SNN in which the firing time…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Seongbin Oh , Dongseok Kwon , Gyuho Yeom , Won-Mook Kang , Soochang Lee , Sung Yun Woo , Jang Saeng Kim , Min Kyu Park , Jong-Ho Lee

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are inspired by the sparse and event-driven nature of biological neural processing, and offer the potential for ultra-low-power artificial intelligence. However, realizing their efficiency benefits requires…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Ilkin Aliyev , Kama Svoboda , Tosiron Adegbija , Jean-Marc Fellous

As spiking neural networks (SNNs) are deployed increasingly in real-world efficiency critical applications, the security concerns in SNNs attract more attention. Currently, researchers have already demonstrated an SNN can be attacked with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Ling Liang , Kaidi Xu , Xing Hu , Lei Deng , Yuan Xie

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are potential competitors to artificial neural networks (ANNs) due to their high energy-efficiency on neuromorphic hardware. However, SNNs are unfolded over simulation time steps during the training process.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Hong Zhang , Yu Zhang

Recent deep neural networks (DNNs), such as diffusion models [1], have faced high computational demands. Thus, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have attracted lots of attention as energy-efficient neural networks. However, conventional…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Dayena Jeong , Jaewoo Park , Jeonghee Jo , Jongkil Park , Jaewook Kim , Hyun Jae Jang , Suyoun Lee , Seongsik Park

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are distributed trainable systems whose computing elements, or neurons, are characterized by internal analog dynamics and by digital and sparse synaptic communications. The sparsity of the synaptic spiking…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-22 Hyeryung Jang , Osvaldo Simeone , Brian Gardner , André Grüning

Bio-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are now demonstrating comparable accuracy to intricate convolutional neural networks (CNN), all while delivering remarkable energy and latency efficiency when deployed on neuromorphic hardware. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Gourav Datta , Zeyu Liu , James Diffenderfer , Bhavya Kailkhura , Peter A. Beerel

Machine learning with artificial neural networks (ANNs), provides solutions for the growing complexity of modern communication systems. This complexity, however, increases power consumption, making the systems energy-intensive. Spiking…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Eike-Manuel Edelmann

The spiking neural network, known as the third generation neural network, is an important network paradigm. Due to its mode of information propagation that follows biological rationality, the spiking neural network has strong energy…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Zihan Dai , Huanfei Ma

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) have incorporated more biologically-plausible structures and learning principles, hence are playing critical roles in bridging the gap between artificial and natural neural networks. The spikes are the sparse…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Xiang Cheng , Tielin Zhang , Shuncheng Jia , Bo Xu

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

There is an increasing interest in emulating Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) on neuromorphic computing devices due to their low energy consumption. Recent advances have allowed training SNNs to a point where they start to compete with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Nicolas Perez-Nieves , Dan F. M. Goodman

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as an attractive spatio-temporal computing paradigm for complex vision tasks. However, most existing works yield models that require many time steps and do not leverage the inherent temporal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Gourav Datta , Haoqin Deng , Robert Aviles , Peter A. Beerel

Memristor-based Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) with temporal spike encoding enable ultra-low-energy computation, making them ideal for battery-powered intelligent devices. This paper presents a circuit-level memristive spiking neural…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Santlal Prajapati , Susmita Sur-Kolay , Soumyadeep Dutta