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Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful machine learning models and have succeeded in various artificial intelligence tasks. Although various architectures and modules for the DNNs have been proposed, selecting and designing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Shinichi Shirakawa , Yasushi Iwata , Youhei Akimoto

Nonlinear system identification (NL-SI) has proven to be effective in obtaining accurate models for highly complex systems. Recent encoder-based methods for artificial neural network state-space (ANN-SS) models have shown state-of-the-art…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 J. H. Hoekstra , B. Györök , R. Töth , M. Schoukens

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) achieve human level performance in many image analytics tasks but DNNs are mostly deployed to GPU platforms that consume a considerable amount of power. New hardware platforms using lower precision arithmetic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Antonio Jimeno Yepes , Jianbin Tang , Benjamin Scott Mashford

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

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have garnered significant attention as a central paradigm in neuromorphic computing, owing to their energy efficiency and biological plausibility. However, training deep SNNs has critically depended on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Peiyu Liu , Jianhao Ding , Zhaofei Yu

Recently, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have demonstrated substantial potential in computer vision tasks. In this paper, we present an Efficient Spiking Deraining Network, called ESDNet. Our work is motivated by the observation that rain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Tianyu Song , Guiyue Jin , Pengpeng Li , Kui Jiang , Xiang Chen , Jiyu Jin

In Deep Neural Networks (DNN) and Spiking Neural Networks (SNN), the information of a neuron is computed based on the sum of the amplitudes (weights) of the electrical potentials received in input from other neurons. We propose here a new…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Alban Gattepaille , Alexandre Muzy

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are powerful models of spatiotemporal computation and are well suited for deployment on resource-constrained edge devices and neuromorphic hardware due to their low power consumption. Leveraging attention…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Boxun Xu , Junyoung Hwang , Pruek Vanna-iampikul , Sung Kyu Lim , Peng Li

There is extensive evidence that biological neural networks encode information in the precise timing of the spikes generated and transmitted by neurons, which offers several advantages over rate-based codes. Here we adopt a vector space…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-16 Dorian Florescu , Daniel Coca

U-Net, known for its simple yet efficient architecture, is widely utilized for image processing tasks and is particularly suitable for deployment on neuromorphic chips. This paper introduces the novel concept of Spiking-UNet for image…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Hebei Li , Yueyi Zhang , Zhiwei Xiong , Xiaoyan Sun

We propose a Spiking Neural Network (SNN)-based explicit numerical scheme for long time integration of time-dependent Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations (ODEs, PDEs). The core element of the method is a SNN, trained to use…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Qian Zhang , Adar Kahana , George Em Karniadakis , Panos Stinis

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are brain-inspired models that enable energy-efficient implementation on neuromorphic hardware. However, the supervised training of SNNs remains a hard problem due to the discontinuity of the spiking neuron…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Mingqing Xiao , Qingyan Meng , Zongpeng Zhang , Yisen Wang , Zhouchen Lin

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have been attached great importance due to the distinctive properties of low power consumption, biological plausibility, and adversarial robustness. The most effective way to train deep SNNs is through…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Tong Bu , Jianhao Ding , Zhaofei Yu , Tiejun Huang

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have shown advantages in computation and energy efficiency over traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs) thanks to their event-driven representations. SNNs also replace weight multiplications in ANNs with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Yangfan Hu , Qian Zheng , Xudong Jiang , Gang Pan

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have attracted recent interest due to their energy efficiency and biological plausibility. However, the performance of SNNs still lags behind traditional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), as there is no…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Henrique Branquinho , Nuno Lourenço , Ernesto Costa

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

Neuromorphic computing systems emulate the electrophysiological behavior of the biological nervous system using mixed-mode analog or digital VLSI circuits. These systems show superior accuracy and power efficiency in carrying out cognitive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Aadhitiya VS , Jani Babu Shaik , Sonal Singhal , Siona Menezes Picardo , Nilesh Goel

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) equipped with latency coding and spike-timing dependent plasticity rules offer an alternative to solve the data and energy bottlenecks of standard computer vision approaches: they can learn visual features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Pierre Falez , Pierre Tirilly , Ioan Marius Bilasco , Philippe Devienne , Pierre Boulet

Current Large Language Models (LLMs) are primarily based on large-scale dense matrix multiplications. Inspired by the brain's information processing mechanism, we explore the fundamental question: how to effectively integrate the brain's…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Han Xu , Xuerui Qiu , Baiyu Chen , Xinhao Luo , Xingrun Xing , Jiahong Zhang , Bo Lei , Tiejun Huang , Bo Xu , Guoqi Li

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer a promising energy-efficient alternative to artificial neural networks (ANNs), in virtue of their high biological plausibility, rich spatial-temporal dynamics, and event-driven computation. The direct…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Chenlin Zhou , Han Zhang , Liutao Yu , Yumin Ye , Zhaokun Zhou , Liwei Huang , Zhengyu Ma , Xiaopeng Fan , Huihui Zhou , Yonghong Tian