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Gated recurrent networks such as those composed of Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) nodes have recently been used to improve state of the art in many sequential processing tasks such as speech recognition and machine translation. However, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Aditya Rawal , Risto Miikkulainen

Deep Learning has the hierarchical network architecture to represent the complicated features of input patterns. Such architecture is well known to represent higher learning capability compared with some conventional models if the best set…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Takumi Ichimura , Shin Kamada

This study explores the design and control of the behaviour of agents and robots using simple circuits of spiking neurons and Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity (STDP) as a mechanism of associative and unsupervised learning. Based on a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Cristian Jimenez-Romero , David Sousa-Rodrigues , Jeffrey H. Johnson

Understanding how long-term stimulation reshapes neural circuits requires uncovering the rules of brain plasticity. While short-term synaptic modifications have been extensively characterized, the principles that drive circuit-level…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-03 Zhichao Liang , Jingzhe Lin , Xinyi Li , Guanyi Zhao , Quanying Liu

Several learning rules for synaptic plasticity, that depend on either spike timing or internal state variables, have been proposed in the past imparting varying computational capabilities to Spiking Neural Networks. Due to design…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Sadique Sheik , Somnath Paul , Charles Augustine , Gert Cauwenberghs

Artificial Spiking Neural Networks (ASNNs) promise greater information processing efficiency because of discrete event-based (i.e., spike) computation. Several Machine Learning (ML) applications use biologically inspired plasticity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Mahima Milinda Alwis Weerasinghe , David Parry , Grace Wang , Jacqueline Whalley

The combination of spiking neural networks and event-based vision sensors holds the potential of highly efficient and high-bandwidth optical flow estimation. This paper presents the first hierarchical spiking architecture in which motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Federico Paredes-Vallés , Kirk Y. W. Scheper , Guido C. H. E. de Croon

Spiking neural networks (SNNs), regarded as the third generation of artificial neural networks, are expected to bridge the gap between artificial intelligence and computational neuroscience. However, most mainstream SNN research directly…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Yongsheng Huang , Peibo Duan , Yujie Wu , Kai Sun , Zhipeng Liu , Changsheng Zhang , Bin Zhang , Mingkun Xu

Synaptic delays play a crucial role in biological neuronal networks, where their modulation has been observed in mammalian learning processes. In the realm of neuromorphic computing, although spiking neural networks (SNNs) aim to emulate…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Marissa Dominijanni , Alexander Ororbia , Kenneth W. Regan

Neural plasticity is an important functionality of human brain, in which number of neurons and synapses can shrink or expand in response to stimuli throughout the span of life. We model this dynamic learning process as an $L_0$-norm…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Yang Li , Shihao Ji

Biological brains have the capability to adaptively coordinate relevant neuronal populations based on the task context to learn continuously changing tasks in real-world environments. However, existing spiking neural network-based continual…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Bing Han , Feifei Zhao , Yang Li , Qingqun Kong , Xianqi Li , Yi Zeng

We propose a novel approach to lifelong learning, introducing a compact encapsulated support structure which endows a network with the capability to expand its capacity as needed to learn new tasks while preventing the loss of learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Georges Kanaan , Kai Wen Zheng , Lucas Fenaux

In recent years, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have demonstrated great successes in completing various Machine Learning tasks. We introduce a method for learning image features by \textit{locally connected layers} in SNNs using…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Daniel J. Saunders , Devdhar Patel , Hananel Hazan , Hava T. Siegelmann , Robert Kozma

Spiking neural networks (SNN) are delivering energy-efficient, massively parallel, and low-latency solutions to AI problems, facilitated by the emerging neuromorphic chips. To harness these computational benefits, SNN need to be trained by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Guangzhi Tang , Neelesh Kumar , Ioannis Polykretis , Konstantinos P. Michmizos

Inspired by the human brain's ability to adapt to new tasks without erasing prior knowledge, we develop spiking neural networks (SNNs) with dynamic structures for Class Incremental Learning (CIL). Our comparative experiments reveal that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Wenyao Ni , Jiangrong Shen , Qi Xu , Huajin Tang

This study proposes a novel biologically plausible mechanism for generating low-dimensional spike-based text representation. First, we demonstrate how to transform documents into series of spikes spike trains which are subsequently used as…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Marcin Białas , Marcin Michał Mirończuk , Jacek Mańdziuk

Current AI systems based on probabilistic neural networks, such as large language models (LLMs), have demonstrated remarkable generative capabilities yet face critical challenges including hallucination, unpredictability, and misalignment…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Pengcheng Zhou , Zhiqiang Nie , Haochen Li

Experimental studies support the notion of spike-based neuronal information processing in the brain, with neural circuits exhibiting a wide range of temporally-based coding strategies to rapidly and efficiently represent sensory stimuli.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Brian Gardner , André Grüning

Spike-timing dependent plasticity (STDP) which observed in the brain has proven to be important in biological learning. On the other hand, artificial neural networks use a different way to learn, such as Back-Propagation or Contrastive…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Shiyuan Li

For a long time, biology and neuroscience fields have been a great source of inspiration for computer scientists, towards the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. This survey aims at providing a comprehensive review of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Gabriele Lagani , Fabrizio Falchi , Claudio Gennaro , Giuseppe Amato