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Spiking neural networks play an important role in brain-like neuromorphic computations and in studying working mechanisms of neural circuits. One drawback of training a large scale spiking neural network is that updating all weights is…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-15 Zhanghan Lin , Haiping Huang

There has been significant research over the past two decades in developing new platforms for spiking neural computation. Current neural computers are primarily developed to mimick biology. They use neural networks which can be trained to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-07-23 Xavier Lagorce , Ryad Benosman

Understanding neural networks is challenging due to their high-dimensional, interacting components. Inspired by human cognition, which processes complex sensory data by chunking it into recurring entities, we propose leveraging this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Shuchen Wu , Stephan Alaniz , Eric Schulz , Zeynep Akata

Graph representation learning is a fundamental research issue and benefits a wide range of applications on graph-structured data. Conventional artificial neural network-based methods such as graph neural networks (GNNs) and variational…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Hanxuan Yang , Ruike Zhang , Qingchao Kong , Wenji Mao

Providing the neurobiological basis of information processing in higher animals, spiking neural networks must be able to learn a variety of complicated computations, including the generation of appropriate, possibly delayed reactions to…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-06-30 Dominik Thalmeier , Marvin Uhlmann , Hilbert J. Kappen , Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer

A vast majority of spiking neural networks (SNNs) are trained based on inductive biases that are not necessarily a good fit for several critical tasks that require low-latency and power efficiency. Inferring brain behavior based on the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Xi Chen , Siwei Mai , Konstantinos Michmizos

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have delivered remarkable results in various fields. However, the rapid increase in the scale of graph data has introduced significant performance bottlenecks for GNN inference. Both computational complexity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xiabao Wu , Yongchao Liu , Wei Qin , Chuntao Hong

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained significant attention as a potentially energy-efficient alternative for standard neural networks with their sparse binary activation. However, SNNs suffer from memory and computation overhead due…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Donghyun Lee , Ruokai Yin , Youngeun Kim , Abhishek Moitra , Yuhang Li , Priyadarshini Panda

Graph Prompt Feature (GPF) learning has been widely used in adapting pre-trained GNN model on the downstream task. GPFs first introduce some prompt atoms and then learns the optimal prompt vector for each graph node using the linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Bo Jiang , Weijun Zhao , Beibei Wang , Jin Tang

Spiking activity of neurons engaged in learning and performing a task show complex spatiotemporal dynamics. While the output of recurrent network models can learn to perform various tasks, the possible range of recurrent dynamics that…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-08-21 Christopher Kim , Carson Chow

Real-world graphs or networks are usually heterogeneous, involving multiple types of nodes and relationships. Heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) can effectively handle these diverse nodes and edges, capturing heterogeneous…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Buqing Cao , Qian Peng , Xiang Xie , Liang Chen , Min Shi , Jianxun Liu

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

The brain is the perfect place to look for inspiration to develop more efficient neural networks. The inner workings of our synapses and neurons provide a glimpse at what the future of deep learning might look like. This paper serves as a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Jason K. Eshraghian , Max Ward , Emre Neftci , Xinxin Wang , Gregor Lenz , Girish Dwivedi , Mohammed Bennamoun , Doo Seok Jeong , Wei D. Lu

The synergy between spiking neural networks and neuromorphic hardware holds promise for the development of energy-efficient AI applications. Inspired by this potential, we revisit the foundational aspects to study the capabilities of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Manjot Singh , Adalbert Fono , Gitta Kutyniok

The human brain utilizes spikes for information transmission and dynamically reorganizes its network structure to boost energy efficiency and cognitive capabilities throughout its lifespan. Drawing inspiration from this spike-based…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Jiangrong Shen , Qi Xu , Gang Pan , Badong Chen

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been demonstrated to be a powerful algorithmic model in broad application fields for their effectiveness in learning over graphs. To scale GNN training up for large-scale and ever-growing graphs, the most…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Haiyang Lin , Mingyu Yan , Xiaochun Ye , Dongrui Fan , Shirui Pan , Wenguang Chen , Yuan Xie

Recurrent spiking neural networks (RSNNs) are notoriously difficult to train because of the vanishing gradient problem that is enhanced by the binary nature of the spikes. In this paper, we review the ability of the current state-of-the-art…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Ismael Balafrej , Fabien Alibart , Jean Rouat

Network of neurons in the brain apply - unlike processors in our current generation of computer hardware - an event-based processing strategy, where short pulses (spikes) are emitted sparsely by neurons to signal the occurrence of an event…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Zeno Jonke , Stefan Habenschuss , Wolfgang Maass

In the field of image recognition, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have achieved performance comparable to conventional artificial neural networks (ANNs). In such applications, SNNs essentially function as traditional neural networks with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Enqi Zhang

In this paper we present a novel approach to automatically infer parameters of spiking neural networks. Neurons are modelled as timed automata waiting for inputs on a number of different channels (synapses), for a given amount of time (the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-08-07 Elisabetta De Maria , Cinzia Di Giusto , Laetitia Laversa