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Spiking neural networks (SNNs) promise orders-of-magnitude efficiency gains by communicating with sparse, event-driven spikes rather than dense numerical activations. However, most training pipelines either rely on surrogate-gradient…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Arman Ferdowsi , Atakan Aral

The practical applications based on recurrent spiking neurons are limited due to their non-trivial learning algorithms. The temporal nature of spiking neurons is more favorable for hardware implementation where signals can be represented in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2008-07-16 Arfan Ghani , Martin McGinnity , Liam Maguire , Jim Harkin

We present a neuromorphic Analogue-to-Digital Converter (ADC), which uses integrate-and-fire (I&F) neurons as the encoders of the analogue signal, with modulated inhibitions to decohere the neuronal spikes trains. The architecture consists…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-09-04 Ying Xu , Chetan Singh Thakur , Tara Julia Hamilton , Jonathan Tapson , Runchun Wang , Andre van Schaik

Developing asynchronous neuromorphic hardware to meet the demands of diverse real-life edge scenarios remains significant challenges. These challenges include constraints on hardware resources and power budgets while satisfying the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jian Zhang , Xiang Zhang , Jingchen Huang , Jilin Zhang , Hong Chen

We present first experimental results on the novel BrainScaleS-2 neuromorphic architecture based on an analog neuro-synaptic core and augmented by embedded microprocessors for complex plasticity and experiment control. The high acceleration…

In this paper, we review recent work published over the last 3 years under the umbrella of Neuromorphic engineering to analyze what are the common features among such systems. We see that there is no clear consensus but each system has one…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Sumon Kumar Bose , Jyotibdha Acharya , Arindam Basu

With the success of self-supervised learning, multimodal foundation models have rapidly adapted a wide range of downstream tasks driven by vision and language (VL) pretraining. State-of-the-art methods achieve impressive performance by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Yeming Chen , Siyu Zhang , Yaoru Sun , Weijian Liang , Haoran Wang

In this work, we propose a novel energy-efficient spiking neural network (SNN)-based receiver for 5G-NR OFDM system, called neuromorphic receiver (NeuromorphicRx), replacing the channel estimation, equalization and symbol demapping blocks.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Ankit Gupta , Onur Dizdar , Yun Chen , Fehmi Emre Kadan , Ata Sattarzadeh , Stephen Wang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are distinguished from Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) for their complex neuronal dynamics and sparse binary activations (spikes) inspired by the biological neural system. Traditional neuron models use…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Peng Xue , Wei Fang , Zhengyu Ma , Zihan Huang , Zhaokun Zhou , Yonghong Tian , Timothée Masquelier , Huihui Zhou

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a biologically inspired alternative to conventional artificial neural networks, with potential advantages in power efficiency due to their event-driven computation. Despite their promise, SNNs have yet…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Wangdan Liao , Weidong Wang

Biological neurons communicate with a sparing exchange of pulses - spikes. It is an open question how real spiking neurons produce the kind of powerful neural computation that is possible with deep artificial neural networks, using only so…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Davide Zambrano , Sander M. Bohte

Inspired by the connectivity mechanisms in the brain, neuromorphic computing architectures model Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) in silicon. As such, neuromorphic architectures are designed and developed with the goal of having small, low…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Mihaela Dimovska , Travis Johnston , Catherine D. Schuman , J. Parker Mitchell , Thomas E. Potok

Different from developing neural networks (NNs) for general-purpose processors, the development for NN chips usually faces with some hardware-specific restrictions, such as limited precision of network signals and parameters, constrained…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Yu Ji , YouHui Zhang , WenGuang Chen , Yuan Xie

Analog computing at the edge is an emerging strategy to limit data storage and transmission requirements, as well as energy consumption, and its practical implementation is in its initial stages of development. Translating properties of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Giuseppe Leo , Paolo Gibertini , Irem Ilter , Erika Covi , Ole Richter , Elisabetta Chicca

Future developments in artificial intelligence will profit from the existence of novel, non-traditional substrates for brain-inspired computing. Neuromorphic computers aim to provide such a substrate that reproduces the brain's capabilities…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Timo C. Wunderlich , Akos F. Kungl , Eric Müller , Johannes Schemmel , Mihai Petrovici

On-chip edge intelligence has necessitated the exploration of algorithmic techniques to reduce the compute requirements of current machine learning frameworks. This work aims to bridge the recent algorithmic progress in training Binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Sen Lu , Abhronil Sengupta

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have garnered interest due to their energy efficiency and superior effectiveness on neuromorphic chips compared with traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs). One of the mainstream approaches to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Zhipeng Huang , Jianhao Ding , Zhiyu Pan , Haoran Li , Ying Fang , Zhaofei Yu , Jian K. Liu

A neuromorphic chip that combines CMOS analog spiking neurons and memristive synapses offers a promising solution to brain-inspired computing, as it can provide massive neural network parallelism and density. Previous hybrid analog…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Xinyu Wu , Vishal Saxena , Kehan Zhu

Mixed-signal artificial neural networks (ANNs) that employ analog matrix-multiplication accelerators can achieve higher speed and improved power efficiency. Though analog computing is known to be susceptible to noise and device…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-01 Joseph Ulseth , Zheyuan Zhu , Guifang Li , Shuo Pang

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have emerged as a promising alternative to artificial neural networks (ANNs), offering improved energy efficiency by leveraging sparse and event-driven computation. However, existing hardware implementations…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yuehai Chen , Farhad Merchant