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The biological neurons use precise spike times, in addition to the spike firing rate, to communicate with each other. The time-to-first-spike (TTFS) coding is inspired by such biological observation. However, there is a lack of effective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Qu Yang , Malu Zhang , Jibin Wu , Kay Chen Tan , Haizhou Li

Spiking neural networks (SNN) are artificial computational models that have been inspired by the brain's ability to naturally encode and process information in the time domain. The added temporal dimension is believed to render them more…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-05-29 S. R. Nandakumar , Irem Boybat , Manuel Le Gallo , Evangelos Eleftheriou , Abu Sebastian , Bipin Rajendran

Bio-inspired Address Event Representation (AER) sensors have attracted significant popularity owing to their low power consumption, high sparsity, and high temporal resolution. Spiking Neural Network (SNN) has become the inherent choice for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Lakshmi Annamalai , Chetan Singh Thakur

Spike-based neuromorphic hardware has demonstrated substantial potential in low energy consumption and efficient inference. However, the direct training of deep spiking neural networks is challenging, and conversion-based methods still…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yang Li , Xiang He , Qingqun Kong , Yi Zeng

In this paper, we infer remote measurements such as remote voltages and currents online with change in AC power flows using spiking neural network (SNN) as grid-edge technology for efficient coordination of power electronic converters. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-13 Xiaoguang Diao , Yubo Song , Subham Sahoo

Spiking artificial neurons emulate the voltage spikes of biological neurons, and constitute the building blocks of a new class of energy efficient, neuromorphic computing systems. Antiferromagnetic materials can, in theory, be used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-19 Hannah Bradley , Steven Louis , Cody Trevillian , Lily Quach , Elena Bankowski , Andrei Slavin , Vasyl Tyberkevych

This work provides a first report of ultrafast and compact photonic-electronic neuromorphic temporal leaky integrate-and-fire neuronal circuits built with Resonant Tunnelling Diodes (RTDs). We demonstrate experimentally that multiple fast…

Spintronics is an important emerging technology for data storage and computation. In this field, magnetic skyrmion-based devices are attractive due to their small size and energy consumption. However, controlling the creation, deletion and…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-31 Aijaz H. Lone , Selma Amara , Fernando Aguirre , Mario Lanza , H. Fariborzi

Neuromorphic computing promises to transform AI systems by enabling them to perceive, respond to, and adapt swiftly and accurately to dynamic data and user interactions. However, traditional silicon-based and hybrid electronic technologies…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-09 Robert Otupiri , Ripalta Stabile

Despite recent progress in training spiking neural networks (SNNs) for classification, their application to continuous motor control remains limited. Here, we demonstrate that fully spiking architectures can be trained end-to-end to control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Justus Huebotter , Pablo Lanillos , Marcel van Gerven , Serge Thill

How spiking networks are able to perform probabilistic inference is an intriguing question, not only for understanding information processing in the brain, but also for transferring these computational principles to neuromorphic silicon…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-07-12 Mihai A. Petrovici , Anna Schroeder , Oliver Breitwieser , Andreas Grübl , Johannes Schemmel , Karlheinz Meier

The demand for edge artificial intelligence to process event-based, complex data calls for hardware beyond conventional digital, von-Neumann architectures. Neuromorphic computing, using spiking neural networks (SNNs) with emerging…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Zhu Wang , Song Wang , Zhiyuan Du , Ruibin Mao , Yu Xiao , Hayden Kwok-Hay So , Peng Lin , Can Li

Integrate-and-Fire (IF) is an idealized model of the spike-triggering mechanism of a biological neuron. It is used to realize the bio-inspired event-based principle of information processing in neuromorphic computing. We show that IF is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Bernhard A. Moser , Anna Werzi , Michael Lunglmayr

In spiking neural networks (SNN), at each node, an incoming sequence of weighted Dirac pulses is converted into an output sequence of weighted Dirac pulses by a leaky-integrate-and-fire (LIF) neuron model based on spike aggregation and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Bernhard A. Moser , Michael Lunglmayr

An analytical description of the response properties of simple but realistic neuron models in the presence of noise is still lacking. We determine completely up to the second order the firing statistics of a single and a pair of leaky…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Ruben Moreno-Bote , Nestor Parga

Embedded systems acquire information about the real world from sensors and process it to make decisions and/or for transmission. In some situations, the relationship between the data and the decision is complex and/or the amount of data to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Florian Bacho , Dominique Chu

A good understanding of how neurons use electrical pulses (i.e, spikes) to encode the signal information remains elusive. Analyzing spike sequences generated by individual neurons and by two coupled neurons (using the stochastic…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-10-23 Maria Masoliver , Cristina Masoller

Information encoding in the nervous system is supported through the precise spike-timings of neurons; however, an understanding of the underlying processes by which such representations are formed in the first place remains unclear. Here we…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Brian Gardner , Ioana Sporea , André Grüning

The timing of individual neuronal spikes is essential for biological brains to make fast responses to sensory stimuli. However, conventional artificial neural networks lack the intrinsic temporal coding ability present in biological…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Iulia M. Comsa , Krzysztof Potempa , Luca Versari , Thomas Fischbacher , Andrea Gesmundo , Jyrki Alakuijala

A neuron transforms its input into output spikes, and this transformation is the basic unit of computation in the nervous system. The spiking response of the neuron to a complex, time-varying input can be predicted from the detailed…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2011-12-19 Michael Famulare , Adrienne Fairhall