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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained attention for their energy-efficient machine learning capabilities, utilizing bio-inspired activation functions and sparse binary spike-data representations. While recent SNN algorithmic advances…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Abhiroop Bhattacharjee , Ruokai Yin , Abhishek Moitra , Priyadarshini Panda

The spiking neural network (SNN) computes and communicates information through discrete binary events. It is considered more biologically plausible and more energy-efficient than artificial neural networks (ANN) in emerging neuromorphic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Yang Li , Yi Zeng , Dongcheng Zhao

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have become an interesting alternative to conventional artificial neural networks (ANN) thanks to their temporal processing capabilities and energy efficient implementations in neuromorphic hardware. However…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Alex Vicente-Sola , Davide L. Manna , Paul Kirkland , Gaetano Di Caterina , Trevor Bihl

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a promising alternative to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) for deep learning applications, particularly in resource-constrained systems. This is largely due to their inherent sparsity, influenced by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Ilkin Aliyev. Kama Svoboda , Tosiron Adegbija

Recent advances in Voice Activity Detection (VAD) are driven by artificial and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), however, using a VAD system in battery-operated devices requires further power efficiency. This can be achieved by neuromorphic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-01 Flavio Martinelli , Giorgia Dellaferrera , Pablo Mainar , Milos Cernak

We propose Stochastic Neural Architecture Search (SNAS), an economical end-to-end solution to Neural Architecture Search (NAS) that trains neural operation parameters and architecture distribution parameters in same round of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Sirui Xie , Hehui Zheng , Chunxiao Liu , Liang Lin

Despite the remarkable progress in the synthesis speed and fidelity of neural vocoders, their high energy consumption remains a critical barrier to practical deployment on computationally restricted edge devices. Spiking Neural Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yukun Chen , Zhaoxi Mu , Andong Li , Peilin Li , Xinyu Yang

Recently spiking neural networks (SNNs), the third-generation of neural networks has shown remarkable capabilities of energy-efficient computing, which is a promising alternative for deep neural networks (DNNs) with high energy consumption.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Yihao Luo , Min Xu , Caihong Yuan , Xiang Cao , Liangqi Zhang , Yan Xu , Tianjiang Wang , Qi Feng

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) promise orders-of-magnitude lower power consumption and low-latency inference on neuromorphic hardware for a wide range of robotic tasks. In this work, we present an energy-efficient implementation of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Sirine Arfa , Bernhard Vogginger , Christian Mayr

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are bio-plausible models that hold great potential for realizing energy-efficient implementations of sequential tasks on resource-constrained edge devices. However, commercial edge platforms based on standard…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Marco Paul E. Apolinario , Adarsh Kumar Kosta , Utkarsh Saxena , Kaushik Roy

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are the third generation of neural networks. They have gained widespread attention in object detection due to their low energy consumption and biological interpretability. However, existing SNN-based object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yimeng Fan , Changsong Liu , Mingyang Li , Dongze Liu , Yuting Su , Yanyan Liu , Wei Zhang

Event-based cameras have recently shown great potential for high-speed motion estimation owing to their ability to capture temporally rich information asynchronously. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), with their neuro-inspired event-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Adarsh Kumar Kosta , Kaushik Roy

Intracortical brain-machine interfaces demand low-latency, energy-efficient solutions for neural decoding. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) deployed on neuromorphic hardware have demonstrated remarkable efficiency in neural decoding by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Francesca Rivelli , Martin Popov , Charalampos S. Kouzinopoulos , Guangzhi Tang

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have emerged as a class of bio -inspired networks that leverage sparse, event-driven signaling to achieve low-power computation while inherently modeling temporal dynamics. Such characteristics align closely…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Hemanth Sabbella , Archit Mukherjee , Thivya Kandappu , Sounak Dey , Arpan Pal , Archan Misra , Dong Ma

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer a promising energy-efficient alternative to artificial neural networks, due to their event-driven spiking computation. However, some foundation SNN backbones (including Spikformer and SEW ResNet) suffer…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Chenlin Zhou , Liutao Yu , Zhaokun Zhou , Han Zhang , Jiaqi Wang , Huihui Zhou , Zhengyu Ma , Yonghong Tian

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are increasingly studied as energy-efficient alternatives to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), particularly for edge intelligence. However, prior work has largely emphasized large-scale models, leaving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Radib Bin Kabir , Tawsif Tashwar Dipto , Mehedi Ahamed , Sabbir Ahmed , Md Hasanul Kabir

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are bio-inspired models of neural computation that have proven highly effective. Still, ANNs lack a natural notion of time, and neural units in ANNs exchange analog values in a frame-based manner, a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Davide Zambrano , Roeland Nusselder , H. Steven Scholte , Sander Bohte

Automotive embedded algorithms have very high constraints in terms of latency, accuracy and power consumption. In this work, we propose to train spiking neural networks (SNNs) directly on data coming from event cameras to design fast and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Loïc Cordone , Benoît Miramond , Philippe Thierion

We consider two biologically plausible structures, the Spiking Neural Network (SNN) and the self-attention mechanism. The former offers an energy-efficient and event-driven paradigm for deep learning, while the latter has the ability to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Zhaokun Zhou , Yuesheng Zhu , Chao He , Yaowei Wang , Shuicheng Yan , Yonghong Tian , Li Yuan

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) recently gained momentum due to their low-power multiplication-free computing and the closer resemblance of biological processes in the nervous system of humans. However, SNNs require very long spike trains…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Daniel Gerlinghoff , Zhehui Wang , Xiaozhe Gu , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Tao Luo