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Spiking neural network (SNN), as the next generation of artificial neural network (ANN), offer a closer mimicry of natural neural networks and hold promise for significant improvements in computational efficiency. However, the current SNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Dengyu Wu , Gaojie Jin , Han Yu , Xinping Yi , Xiaowei Huang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a promising alternative to traditional Deep Neural Networks for low-power computing. However, the effectiveness of SNNs is not solely determined by their performance but also by their energy…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Florian Bacho , Dominique Chu

In the past years, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have become the de-facto standard to solve tasks in communications engineering that are difficult to solve with traditional methods. In parallel, the artificial intelligence community…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-19 Eike-Manuel Bansbach , Alexander von Bank , Laurent Schmalen

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

In the recent quest for trustworthy neural networks, we present Spiking Neural Network (SNN) as a potential candidate for inherent robustness against adversarial attacks. In this work, we demonstrate that adversarial accuracy of SNNs under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Saima Sharmin , Nitin Rathi , Priyadarshini Panda , Kaushik Roy

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer an inherent ability to process spatial-temporal data, or in other words, realworld sensory data, but suffer from the difficulty of training high accuracy models. A major thread of research on SNNs is on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Dengyu Wu , Xinping Yi , Xiaowei Huang

Spiking neural networks have shown much promise as an energy-efficient alternative to artificial neural networks. However, understanding the impacts of sensor noises and input encodings on the network activity and performance remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Sami Barchid , José Mennesson , Jason Eshraghian , Chaabane Djéraba , Mohammed Bennamoun

This paper proposes a two-step spike encoding scheme, which consists of the source encoding and the process encoding for a high energy-efficient spiking-neural-network (SNN) acceleration. The eigen-train generation and its superposition…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Sangyeob Kim , Sangjin Kim , Soyeon Um , Soyeon Kim , Hoi-Jun Yoo

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) operating with asynchronous discrete events show higher energy efficiency with sparse computation. A popular approach for implementing deep SNNs is ANN-SNN conversion combining both efficient training of ANNs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Ziming Wang , Shuang Lian , Yuhao Zhang , Xiaoxin Cui , Rui Yan , Huajin Tang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have gained immense success in cognitive applications and greatly pushed today's artificial intelligence forward. The biggest challenge in executing DNNs is their extremely data-extensive computations. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Fuqiang Liu , C. Liu

Spiking transformers are emerging as a promising architecture that combines the energy efficiency of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) with the powerful attention mechanisms of transformers. However, existing hardware accelerators lack support…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Tenglong Li , Jindong Li , Guobin Shen , Dongcheng Zhao , Qian Zhang , Yi Zeng

Bayesian neural networks offer better estimates of model uncertainty compared to frequentist networks. However, inference involving Bayesian models requires multiple instantiations or sampling of the network parameters, requiring…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Prabodh Katti , Anagha Nimbekar , Chen Li , Amit Acharyya , Bashir M. Al-Hashimi , Bipin Rajendran

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

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained huge attention as a potential energy-efficient alternative to conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) due to their inherent high-sparsity activation. Recently, SNNs with backpropagation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Ruokai Yin , Abhishek Moitra , Abhiroop Bhattacharjee , Youngeun Kim , Priyadarshini Panda

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

Brain-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) leverage sparse spikes to represent information and process them in an asynchronous event-driven manner, offering an energy-efficient paradigm for the next generation of machine intelligence.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Wenjie Wei , Yu Liang , Ammar Belatreche , Yichen Xiao , Honglin Cao , Zhenbang Ren , Guoqing Wang , Malu Zhang , Yang Yang

Deep learning-based point cloud processing plays an important role in various vision tasks, such as autonomous driving, virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR). The submanifold sparse convolutional network (SSCN) has been widely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-17 Zilun Wang , Wendong Mao , Peixiang Yang , Zhongfeng Wang , Jun Lin

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are more biologically plausible and computationally efficient. Therefore, SNNs have the natural advantage of drawing the sparse structural plasticity of brain development to alleviate the energy problems of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Bing Han , Feifei Zhao , Yi Zeng , Wenxuan Pan

Deep learning has driven significant technological advancements, but its high energy consumption limits its use on battery-operated edge devices. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer promising reductions in inference-time energy…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zhanglu Yan , Zhenyu Bai , Tulika Mitra , Weng-Fai Wong

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained huge attention as a potential energy-efficient alternative to conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) due to their inherent high-sparsity activation. However, most prior SNN methods use…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Youngeun Kim , Yuhang Li , Hyoungseob Park , Yeshwanth Venkatesha , Priyadarshini Panda