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Spiking neural networks (SNN) are a biologically inspired model of neural networks with certain brain-like properties. In the past few decades, this model has received increasing attention in computer science community, owing also to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Prithwineel Paul , Petr Sosik , Lucie Ciencialova

We ask whether a pure spiking backbone can learn large-scale language modeling from random initialization, without Transformer distillation. We introduce NeuronSpark, a 0.9B-parameter SNN language model trained with next-token prediction…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Zhengzheng Tang

Brain-inspired neuromorphic computing is a promising path towards next generation analogue computers that are fundamentally different compared to the conventional von Neumann architecture. One model for neuromorphic computing that can mimic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-08-22 Verena Brehm , Johannes W. Austefjord , Serban Lepadatu , Alireza Qaiumzadeh

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) possess energy-efficient potential due to event-based computation. However, supervised training of SNNs remains a challenge as spike activities are non-differentiable. Previous SNNs training methods can be…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Yunzhe Hao , Xuhui Huang , Meng Dong , Bo Xu

Binary spike coding enables sparse and event-driven computation in spiking neural networks (SNNs), yet its 1-bit-per-timestep representation fundamentally limits information throughput. This bottleneck becomes increasingly restrictive in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Dewei Bai , Hongxiang Peng , Jiajun Mei , Yang Ren , Hong Qu , Dawen Xia , Zhang Yi

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are gaining popularity in the computational simulation and artificial intelligence fields owing to their biological plausibility and computational efficiency. This paper explores the historical development of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Tianyu Zheng , Liyuan Han , Tielin Zhang

Nonlinear Noisy Leaky Integrate and Fire (NNLIF) models for neurons networks can be written as Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equations on the probability density of neurons, the main parameters in the model being the connectivity of the network…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2010-10-25 María J. Cáceres , José A. Carrillo , Benoît Perthame

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are a promising research direction for building power-efficient information processing systems, especially for temporal tasks such as speech recognition. In SNNs, delays refer to the time needed for one spike…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Ilyass Hammouamri , Ismail Khalfaoui-Hassani , Timothée Masquelier

The main computational task of Scientific Machine Learning (SciML) is function regression, required both for inputs as well as outputs of a simulation. Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) and neural operators (such as DeepONet) have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Adar Kahana , Qian Zhang , Leonard Gleyzer , George Em Karniadakis

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have demonstrated excellent capabilities in various intelligent scenarios. Most existing methods for training SNNs are based on the concept of synaptic plasticity; however, learning in the realistic brain also…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Hongze Sun , Wuque Cai , Baoxin Yang , Yan Cui , Yang Xia , Dezhong Yao , Daqing Guo

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have attracted enormous research interest due to temporal information processing capability, low power consumption, and high biological plausibility. However, the formulation of efficient and high-performance…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Wei Fang , Zhaofei Yu , Yanqi Chen , Timothee Masquelier , Tiejun Huang , Yonghong Tian

Children possess the ability to learn multiple cognitive tasks sequentially, which is a major challenge toward the long-term goal of artificial general intelligence. Existing continual learning frameworks are usually applicable to Deep…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Bing Han , Feifei Zhao , Yi Zeng , Wenxuan Pan , Guobin Shen

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have attracted the attention of the deep learning community for use in low-latency, low-power neuromorphic hardware, as well as models for understanding neuroscience. In this paper, we introduce Spiking Phasor…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Connor Bybee , E. Paxon Frady , Friedrich T. Sommer

A fundamental problem in neuroscience is to characterize the dynamics of spiking from the neurons in a circuit that is involved in learning about a stimulus or a contingency. A key limitation of current methods to analyze neural spiking…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-09-29 Yingzhuo Zhang , Noa Malem-Shinitski , Stephen A Allsop , Kay Tye , Demba Ba

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

Hierarchical feature discovery using non-spiking convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has attracted much recent interest in machine learning and computer vision. However, it is still not well understood how to create a biologically…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Amirhossein Tavanaei , Anthony S. Maida

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a biologically plausible and energy-efficient framework for temporal information processing. However, existing studies overlook a fundamental property widely observed in biological neurons-synaptic…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-19 Zhichao Deng , Zhikun Liu , Junxue Wang , Shengqian Chen , Xiang Wei , Qiang Yu

Contemporary modeling approaches to the dynamics of neural networks consider two main classes of models: biologically grounded spiking neurons and functionally inspired rate-based units. The unified simulation framework presented here…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-27 Jan Hahne , David Dahmen , Jannis Schuecker , Andreas Frommer , Matthias Bolten , Moritz Helias , Markus Diesmann

Edge computing scenarios necessitate the development of hardware-efficient online continual learning algorithms to be adaptive to dynamic environment. However, existing algorithms always suffer from high memory overhead and bias towards…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Erliang Lin , Wenbin Luo , Wei Jia , Yu Chen , Shaofu Yang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance across tasks but remain energy-intensive due to dense matrix operations. Spiking neural networks (SNNs) improve energy efficiency by replacing dense matrix multiplications…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yulong Huang , Jianxiong Tang , Chao Wang , Ziyi Wang , Jianguo Zhang , Zhichao Lu , Bojun Cheng , Luziwei Leng