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In spiking neural networks (SNNs), the main unit of information processing is the neuron with an internal state. The internal state generates an output spike based on its component associated with the membrane potential. This spike is then…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Sanja Karilanova , Subhrakanti Dey , Ayça Özçelikkale

End user AI is trained on large server farms with data collected from the users. With ever increasing demand for IOT devices, there is a need for deep learning approaches that can be implemented (at the edge) in an energy efficient manner.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Ruthvik Vaila , John Chiasson , Vishal Saxena

A semi-supervised learning method for spiking neural networks is proposed. The proposed method consists of supervised learning by backpropagation and subsequent unsupervised learning by spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP), which is a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Kotaro Furuya , Jun Ohkubo

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are distributed trainable systems whose computing elements, or neurons, are characterized by internal analog dynamics and by digital and sparse synaptic communications. The sparsity of the synaptic spiking…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-22 Hyeryung Jang , Osvaldo Simeone , Brian Gardner , André Grüning

By recording multiple cells simultaneously, electrophysiologists have found evidence for repeating spatiotemporal spike patterns, which can carry information. How this information is extracted by downstream neurons is unclear. In this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Timothée Masquelier

With the continued innovations of deep neural networks, spiking neural networks (SNNs) that more closely resemble biological brain synapses have attracted attention owing to their low power consumption.However, for continuous data values,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Naoya Muramatsu , Hai-Tao Yu

A Spiking Neural Network (SNN) is trained with Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity (STDP), which is a neuro-inspired unsupervised learning method for various machine learning applications. This paper studies the generalizability properties of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Biswadeep Chakraborty , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

In this paper, we propose a system for file classification in large data sets based on spiking neural networks (SNNs). File information contained in key-value metadata pairs is mapped by a novel correlative temporal encoding scheme to spike…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Ana Stanojevic , Giovanni Cherubini , Timoleon Moraitis , Abu Sebastian

Recent research in the field of spiking neural networks (SNNs) has shown that recurrent variants of SNNs, namely long short-term SNNs (LSNNs), can be trained via error gradients just as effective as LSTMs. The underlying learning method…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Manuel Traub , Martin V. Butz , R. Harald Baayen , Sebastian Otte

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have garnered a great amount of interest for supervised and unsupervised learning applications. This paper deals with the problem of training multi-layer feedforward SNNs. The non-linear integrate-and-fire…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Navin Anwani , Bipin Rajendran

Humans perform remarkably well in many cognitive tasks including pattern recognition. However, the neuronal mechanisms underlying this process are not well understood. Nevertheless, artificial neural networks, inspired in brain circuits,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-28 Gianluca Susi , Luis Anton Toro , Leonides Canuet , Maria Eugenia Lopez , Fernando Maestu , Claudio R. Mirasso , Ernesto Pereda

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are one of the most promising bio-inspired neural networks models and have drawn increasing attention in recent years. The event-driven communication mechanism of SNNs allows for sparse and theoretically…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Andrea Castagnetti , Alain Pegatoquet , Benoît Miramond

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) with a large number of weights and varied weight distribution can be difficult to implement in emerging in-memory computing hardware due to the limitations on crossbar size (implementing dot product), the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Nitin Rathi , Priyadarshini Panda , Kaushik Roy

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a promising solution to the problem of increasing computational and energy requirements for modern Machine Learning (ML) applications. Due to their unique data representation choice of using spikes and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Daniel Windhager , Lothar Ratschbacher , Bernhard A. Moser , Michael Lunglmayr

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) could play a key role in unsupervised machine learning applications, by virtue of strengths related to learning from the fine temporal structure of event-based signals. However, some spike-timing-related…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Timoleon Moraitis , Abu Sebastian , Irem Boybat , Manuel Le Gallo , Tomas Tuma , Evangelos Eleftheriou

Neuromorphic architectures, which incorporate parallel and in-memory processing, are crucial for accelerating artificial neural network (ANN) computations. This work presents a novel memristor-based multi-layer neural network (memristive…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Santlal Prajapat , Manobendra Nath Mondal , Susmita Sur-Kolay

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) exhibit superior energy efficiency but suffer from limited performance. In this paper, we consider SNNs as ensembles of temporal subnetworks that share architectures and weights, and highlight a crucial issue…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Yongqi Ding , Lin Zuo , Mengmeng Jing , Pei He , Hanpu Deng

Spiking neural networks (SNN) provide a new computational paradigm capable of highly parallelized, real-time processing. Photonic devices are ideal for the design of high-bandwidth, parallel architectures matching the SNN computational…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Luis El Srouji , Yun-Jhu Lee , Mehmet Berkay On , Li Zhang , S. J. Ben Yoo

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a nonlinear-optics approach to pattern recognition with single-pixel imaging and deep neural network. It employs mode selective image up-conversion to project a raw image onto a set of coherent…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-03 Ting Bu , Santosh Kumar , He Zhang , Irwin Huang , Yuping Huang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) provide biological plausibility and energy efficiency, yet systematic investigations of memory augmentation strategies remain limited. We conduct a five-model ablation study integrating Leaky…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Effiong Blessing , Chiung-Yi Tseng , Isaac Nkrumah , Junaid Rehman