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The main computational task of Scientific Machine Learning (SciML) is function regression, required both for inputs as well as outputs of a simulation. Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) and neural operators (such as DeepONet) have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Adar Kahana , Qian Zhang , Leonard Gleyzer , George Em Karniadakis

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are bio-inspired neural networks with asynchronous discrete and sparse characteristics, which have increasingly manifested their superiority in low energy consumption. Recent research is devoted to utilizing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Lang Feng , Qianhui Liu , Huajin Tang , De Ma , Gang Pan

Neural network hardware is considered an essential part of future edge devices. In this paper, we propose a binary-weight spiking neural network (BW-SNN) hardware architecture for low-power real-time object classification on edge platforms.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-16 Pai-Yu Tan , Po-Yao Chuang , Yen-Ting Lin , Cheng-Wen Wu , Juin-Ming Lu

Recent advancements in legged robots using deep reinforcement learning have led to significant progress. Quadruped robots can perform complex tasks in challenging environments, while bipedal and humanoid robots have also achieved…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Xiaoyang Jiang , Qiang Zhang , Jingkai Sun , Jiahang Cao , Jingtong Ma , Renjing Xu

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) employing unsupervised learning methods inspired by neural plasticity are expected to be a new framework for artificial intelligence. In this study, we investigated the effect of multiple types of neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Shinnosuke Touda , Hirotsugu Okuno

Research into optical spiking neural networks (SNNs) has primarily focused on spiking devices, networks of excitable lasers or numerical modelling of large architectures, often overlooking key constraints such as limited optical power,…

In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) models have achieved remarkable success across various domains, yet challenges persist in two critical areas: ensuring robustness against uncertain inputs and drastically increasing model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Erik B. Terres-Escudero , Javier Del Ser , Aitor Martínez-Seras , Pablo Garcia-Bringas

Deep spiking neural networks (SNNs) have emerged as a potential alternative to traditional deep learning frameworks, due to their promise to provide increased compute efficiency on event-driven neuromorphic hardware. However, to perform…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Souvik Kundu , Gourav Datta , Massoud Pedram , Peter A. Beerel

The prevailing of artificial intelligence-of-things calls for higher energy-efficient edge computing paradigms, such as neuromorphic agents leveraging brain-inspired spiking neural network (SNN) models based on spatiotemporally sparse…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Haoran Gao , Xichuan Zhou , Yingcheng Lin , Min Tian , Liyuan Liu , Cong Shi

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) can be used for implementing cost-efficient artificial intelligence computing or mechanistic modelling of experimentally observed neural data. In the latter, fitting neural data with recurrent SNNs (RSNNs)…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-26 Divyansh Sethi , Muhammad Faraz , KongFatt Wong-Lin

Physical neural networks using physical materials and devices to mimic synapses and neurons offer an energy-efficient way to implement artificial neural networks. Yet, training physical neural networks are difficult and heavily relies on…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-07 Chang Niu , Huanyu Zhang , Chuanlong Xu , Wenjie Hu , Yunzhuo Wu , Yu Wu , Yadi Wang , Tong Wu , Yi Zhu , Yinyan Zhu , Wenbin Wang , Yizheng Wu , Lifeng Yin , Jiang Xiao , Weichao Yu , Hangwen Guo , Jian Shen

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have attracted much attention for their high energy efficiency and recent advances in classification performance. However, unlike traditional deep learning approaches, the study of SNN robustness to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Nuo Xu , Kaleel Mahmood , Haowen Fang , Ethan Rathbun , Caiwen Ding , Wujie Wen

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) exhibit exceptional energy efficiency on neuromorphic hardware due to their sparse activation patterns. However, conventional training methods based on surrogate gradients and Backpropagation Through Time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Xiaochen Zhao , Chengting Yu , Kairong Yu , Lei Liu , Aili Wang

We present a spike-based unsupervised regenerative learning scheme to train Spiking Deep Networks (SpikeCNN) for object recognition problems using biologically realistic leaky integrate-and-fire neurons. The training methodology is based on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Priyadarshini Panda , Kaushik Roy

U-Net, known for its simple yet efficient architecture, is widely utilized for image processing tasks and is particularly suitable for deployment on neuromorphic chips. This paper introduces the novel concept of Spiking-UNet for image…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Hebei Li , Yueyi Zhang , Zhiwei Xiong , Xiaoyan Sun

Direct training of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) on neuromorphic hardware has the potential to significantly reduce the energy consumption of artificial neural network training. SNNs trained with Spike Timing-Dependent Plasticity (STDP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Gaspard Goupy , Pierre Tirilly , Ioan Marius Bilasco

Transformer has been adopted to image recognition tasks and shown to outperform CNNs and RNNs while it suffers from high training cost and computational complexity. To address these issues, a hybrid approach has become a recent research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Ikumi Okubo , Keisuke Sugiura , Hiroki Matsutani

Spiking Neural Networks are a recent and new neural network design approach that promises tremendous improvements in power efficiency, computation efficiency, and processing latency. They do so by using asynchronous spike-based data flow,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Sambit Mohapatra , Thomas Mesquida , Mona Hodaei , Senthil Yogamani , Heinrich Gotzig , Patrick Mader

Neural networks increasingly embed non-differentiable components (spiking neurons, quantized layers, discrete routing, blackbox simulators, etc.) where backpropagation is inapplicable and surrogate gradients introduce bias. We present…

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