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Inspired by more detailed modeling of biological neurons, Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have been investigated both as more biologically plausible and potentially more powerful models of neural computation, and also with the aim of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Bojian Yin , Federico Corradi , Sander M. Bohte

A Spiking Neural Network (SNN) can be trained indirectly by first training an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) with the conventional backpropagation algorithm, then converting it into an SNN. The conventional rate-coding method for SNNs uses…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Ming Zhang , Nenggan Zheng , De Ma , Gang Pan , Zonghua Gu

Recently, brain-inspired spiking neuron networks (SNNs) have attracted widespread research interest because of their event-driven and energy-efficient characteristics. Still, it is difficult to efficiently train deep SNNs due to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Shikuang Deng , Yuhang Li , Shanghang Zhang , Shi Gu

Previous studies have shown that spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) can be used in spiking neural networks (SNN) to extract visual features of low or intermediate complexity in an unsupervised manner. These studies, however, used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Saeed Reza Kheradpisheh , Mohammad Ganjtabesh , Simon J Thorpe , Timothée Masquelier

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

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are emerging as a promising alternative to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) due to their inherent energy efficiency. Owing to the inherent sparsity in spike generation within SNNs, the in-depth analysis and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Kairong Yu , Tianqing Zhang , Hongwei Wang , Qi Xu

Spiking Neural Networks, as a third-generation neural network, are well-suited for edge AI applications due to their binary spike nature. However, when it comes to complex tasks like object detection, SNNs often require a substantial number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Nemin Qiu , Chuang Zhu

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have shown clear advantages over traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs) for low latency and high computational efficiency, due to their event-driven nature and sparse communication. However, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Jibin Wu , Chenglin Xu , Daquan Zhou , Haizhou Li , Kay Chen Tan

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) compute using sparse communication and are attracting increased attention as a more energy-efficient alternative to traditional Artificial Neural Networks~(ANNs). While standard ANNs are stateless, spiking…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Balázs Mészáros , James C. Knight , Thomas Nowotny

Reinforcement learning agents based on Transformer architectures have achieved impressive performance on sequential decision-making tasks, but their reliance on dense matrix operations makes them ill-suited for energy-constrained,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Vishal Pandey , Debasmita Biswas

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have emerged as a promising direction in both computational neuroscience and artificial intelligence, offering advantages such as strong biological plausibility and low energy consumption on neuromorphic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Luu Trong Nhan , Luu Trung Duong , Pham Ngoc Nam , Truong Cong Thang

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

Modern deep learning enabled artificial neural networks, such as Deep Neural Network (DNN) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), have achieved a series of breaking records on a broad spectrum of recognition applications. However, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Tao Liu , Zihao Liu , Fuhong Lin , Yier Jin , Gang Quan , Wujie Wen

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a promising alternative to traditional deep learning frameworks, since they provide higher computational efficiency due to event-driven information processing. SNNs distribute the analog values of pixel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Isha Garg , Sayeed Shafayet Chowdhury , Kaushik Roy

Despite the recent success of reconciling spike-based coding with the error backpropagation algorithm, spiking neural networks are still mostly applied to tasks stemming from sensory processing, operating on traditional data structures like…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Dominik Dold , Josep Soler Garrido

Temporal processing is fundamental for both biological and artificial intelligence systems, as it enables the comprehension of dynamic environments and facilitates timely responses. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) excel in handling such data…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Chenxiang Ma , Xinyi Chen , Yanchen Li , Qu Yang , Yujie Wu , Guoqi Li , Gang Pan , Huajin Tang , Kay Chen Tan , Jibin Wu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a biologically inspired computational paradigm, enabling energy-efficient data processing through spike-based information transmission. Despite notable advancements in hardware for SNNs, spike encoding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 MHD Anas Alsakkal , Runze Wang , Piotr Dudek , Jayawan Wijekoon

Spiking neural networks (SNNs), that operate via binary spikes distributed over time, have emerged as a promising energy efficient ML paradigm for resource-constrained devices. However, the current state-of-the-art (SOTA) SNNs require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Gourav Datta , Peter A. Beerel

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are widely regarded as an energy-efficient paradigm for modeling and processing temporal and event-driven information. Incorporating delays in SNNs has been proven to be an effective mechanism for improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Dewei Bai , Hongxiang Peng , Yunyun Zeng , Ziyu Zhang , Hong Qu

Spiking neural networks have gained significant attention due to their brain-like information processing capabilities. The use of surrogate gradients has made it possible to train spiking neural networks with backpropagation, leading to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Dongcheng Zhao , Guobin Shen , Yiting Dong , Yang Li , Yi Zeng