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Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer an energy-efficient alternative to traditional neural networks due to their event-driven computing paradigm. However, recent advancements in spiking transformers have focused on improving accuracy with…
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are potential competitors to artificial neural networks (ANNs) due to their high energy-efficiency on neuromorphic hardware. However, SNNs are unfolded over simulation time steps during the training process.…
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) compute in an event-based matter to achieve a more efficient computation than standard Neural Networks. In SNNs, neuronal outputs (i.e. activations) are not encoded with real-valued activations but with…
In the past decade, advances in Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have allowed them to perform extremely well for a wide range of tasks. In fact, they have reached human parity when performing image recognition, for example. Unfortunately,…
We discuss a high-performance and high-throughput hardware accelerator for probabilistic Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) based on Generalized Linear Model (GLM) neurons, that uses binary STT-RAM devices as synapses and digital CMOS logic for…
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are increasingly recognized for their biological plausibility and energy efficiency, positioning them as strong alternatives to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in neuromorphic computing applications. SNNs…
With the sensor scaling of next-generation Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) systems, the massive A/D conversion and analog multiplexing at the neural frontend poses a challenge in terms of power and data rates for wireless and implantable…
Recent research has focused on accelerating stencil computations by exploiting emerging hardware like Tensor Cores. To leverage these accelerators, the stencil operation must be transformed to matrix multiplications. However, this…
Energy efficiency and low latency are crucial requirements for designing wearable AI-empowered human activity recognition systems, due to the hard constraints of battery operations and closed-loop feedback. While neural network models have…
With more and more event-based neuromorphic hardware systems being developed at universities and in industry, there is a growing need for assessing their performance with domain specific measures. In this work, we use the methodology of…
Deploying adaptive intelligence at the edge remains challenging due to the high computational and energy cost of training neural models. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a promising alternative, but enabling on-device learning requires…
One of today's main concerns is to bring Artificial Intelligence power to embedded systems for edge applications. The hardware resources and power consumption required by state-of-the-art models are incompatible with the constrained…
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer energy efficiency over artificial neural networks (ANNs) but suffer from high latency and computational overhead due to their multi-timestep operational nature. While various dynamic computation methods…
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer an attractive and energy-efficient alternative to conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) due to their sparse binary activation. When SNN meets Transformer, it shows great potential in 2D image…
Spike-based encoders represent information as sequences of spikes or pulses, which are transmitted between neurons. A prevailing consensus suggests that spike-based approaches demonstrate exceptional capabilities in capturing the temporal…
This short note regards a comparison of instantaneous power, total energy consumption, execution time and energetic cost per synaptic event of a spiking neural network simulator (DPSNN-STDP) distributed on MPI processes when executed either…
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have garnered attention over recent years due to their increased energy efficiency and advantages in terms of operational complexity compared to traditional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Two important…
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have made great progress on both performance and efficiency over the last few years,but their unique working pattern makes it hard to train a high-performance low-latency SNN.Thus the development of SNNs still…
Graph Transformers (GTs) with powerful representation learning ability make a huge success in wide range of graph tasks. However, the costs behind outstanding performances of GTs are higher energy consumption and computational overhead. The…
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…