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As the demand for compute power in traditional neural networks has increased significantly, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have emerged as a potential solution to increasingly power-hungry neural networks. By operating on 0/1 spikes emitted…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Andrew Fan , Simon D. Levy

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

In this paper, we demonstrate the design of efficient and high-performance AI/Deep Learning accelerators with customized STT-MRAM and a reconfigurable core. Based on model-driven detailed design space exploration, we present the design…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Kaniz Mishty , Mehdi Sadi

The demand for high-speed, low-latency, and energy-efficient object detection in autonomous systems -- such as advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and Industry 4.0 robotics -- has exposed the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Daniel Gutierrez , Ruben Martinez , Leyre Arnedo , Antonio Cuesta , Soukaina El Hamry

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have achieved orders of magnitude improvement in terms of energy consumption and latency when performing inference with deep learning workloads. Error backpropagation is presently regarded as the most…

Time-series forecasting in domains like traffic management and industrial monitoring often requires real-time, energy-efficient processing on edge devices with limited resources. Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer event-driven computation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Kaiwen Tang , Jiaqi Zheng , Yuze Jin , Yupeng Qiu , Guangda Sun , Zhanglu Yan , Weng-Fai Wong

The emergence of brain-inspired neuromorphic computing as a paradigm for edge AI is motivating the search for high-performance and efficient spiking neural networks to run on this hardware. However, compared to classical neural networks in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Bojian Yin , Federico Corradi , Sander M. Bohté

There is an increasing interest in emulating Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) on neuromorphic computing devices due to their low energy consumption. Recent advances have allowed training SNNs to a point where they start to compete with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Nicolas Perez-Nieves , Dan F. M. Goodman

Brain-inspired spiking neuron networks (SNNs) have attracted widespread research interest due to their low power features, high biological plausibility, and strong spatiotemporal information processing capability. Although adopting a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Changqing Xu , Yi Liu , Yintang Yang

In this paper authors have presented a power efficient scheme for implementing a spike sorting module. Spike sorting is an important application in the field of neural signal acquisition for implantable biomedical systems whose function is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Anand Kumar Mukhopadhyay , Indrajit Chakrabarti , Arindam Basu , Mrigank Sharad

Triangle counting (TC) is a fundamental problem in graph analysis and has found numerous applications, which motivates many TC acceleration solutions in the traditional computing platforms like GPU and FPGA. However, these approaches suffer…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Xueyan Wang , Jianlei Yang , Yinglin Zhao , Yingjie Qi , Meichen Liu , Xingzhou Cheng , Xiaotao Jia , Xiaoming Chen , Gang Qu , Weisheng Zhao

Neuromorphic Computing is a nascent research field in which models and devices are designed to process information by emulating biological neural systems. Thanks to their superior energy efficiency, analog neuromorphic systems are highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Tianlin Liu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) represent the forefront of neuromorphic computing, promising energy-efficient and biologically plausible models for complex tasks. This paper weaves together three groundbreaking studies that revolutionize SNN…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Biswadeep Chakraborty , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are well suited for resource-constrained applications as they do not need expensive multipliers. In a typical rate-encoded SNN, a series of binary spikes within a globally fixed time window is used to fire the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Zhanglu Yan , Jun Zhou , Weng-Fai Wong

In recent years, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have achieved remarkable progress, with Spiking Transformers emerging as a promising architecture for energy-efficient sequence modeling. However, existing Spiking Transformers still lack a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Sicheng Shen , Mingyang Lv , Bing Han , Dongcheng Zhao , Guobin Shen , Feifei Zhao , Yi Zeng

This work introduces a spike-based wearable analytics system utilizing Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) deployed on an In-memory Computing engine based on RRAM crossbars, which are known for their compactness and energy-efficiency. Given the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Abhiroop Bhattacharjee , Jinquan Shi , Wei-Chen Chen , Xinxin Wang , Priyadarshini Panda

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

While classical neural networks take a position of a leading method in the machine learning community, spiking neuromorphic systems bring attention and large projects in neuroscience. Spiking neural networks were shown to be able to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Sergei Dytckov , Masoud Daneshtalab

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) based on Transformers have garnered significant attention due to their superior performance and high energy efficiency. However, the spiking attention modules of most existing Transformer-based SNNs are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Zeqi Zheng , Yanchen Huang , Yingchao Yu , Zizheng Zhu , Junfeng Tang , Zhaofei Yu , Yaochu Jin

Neuromorphic computing and, in particular, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have become an attractive alternative to deep neural networks for a broad range of signal processing applications, processing static and/or temporal inputs from…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Souvik Kundu , Rui-Jie Zhu , Akhilesh Jaiswal , Peter A. Beerel